Give a Gift of King

For the second installment of our special event Holiday Gifts for the Horror Writer we’re going to look at two gifts by King . . . Stephen King, that is. Probably the most successful horror writer to date, Stephen King has written a few nonfiction books in that same breezy style of his that just sweeps the reader up and carries him or her away [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 19:36:53

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Doing great

When is the last time you stood in a room full of recovering drug addicts? While you were there, did you have to try and make them laugh? Back in the summer of ’07, that was me, at the Columbian Center in Severna Park, MD. I was performing stand-up comedy at a Narcotics Anonymous fundraiser [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 16:22:39

The Joys of Parenting

Ah the joys of parenting. No one ever gave you an instruction manual with the baby on your way out of the hospital ... . But no, You thought you were different. You were going to get your baby on a schedule and you'd read ... . I don't know what's worse, changing a nasty poo diaper, or cleaning up a kid who's decided to make [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 15:28:46

Arson investigators probe attempt to burn down the United Blood Services office

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff’s investigators are trying to figure out who may have tried to burn down the offices of United Blood Services on East Winnie Lane sometimes Sunday afternoon. A cleaning person found the doors unlocked and the acrid smell of burned paper filled the air. The janitor found a partially burned roll [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 05:58:21

Job Openings For Filipino Waitresses, Residential Cleaner In Canada

POSITION: WAITRESSNO. OF VACANCIES: 20EMPLOYER: Nick TorresQUALIFICATIONS: Female, 18 - 25 yrs old, with or without experienceREQUIREMENTS: ... years old. - Applicants needs to have some cleaning, janitorial experience and MUST be able ... Driving License. - Applicants must have at least 12 months of cleaning experience working [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 07:27:00

Brooke Hogan Sells Her Family Out - Says She Doesn’t Speak to Her Mom

With all the drama going on in the Hogan family at the moment you wouldn’t think any of them would be intersted in dishing family secrets to the gossip rags. Oh wait, this is the Hogans we are talking about. Brooke on her mother dating a teenager: “Honestly, I don’t know what to say because I can’t relate to her right now [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 22:32:53

Mad Money (2008) DVDR

Mad Money (2008) DVDRInformation:The film begins close to the end of the story, when the suspects get caught and are interrogated ... Bridget and suggests she take a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.On ... Holmes), who takes bill carts from the Secret Service room to the shredding room. It takes some work [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:32:00

WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction - It happened in Church - Chapter Ninety Five - Deaths, Decades, and the Tontine

It happened in Church - October 19, 1962 Chapter Ninety Five - Deaths, Decades, and the Tontine October 19, 2002 Forty year mark ... . But what about himself? The TomT production facility was a block building with no windows a little away ... . It had five floors of below ground lab space. There were Disneyland-like below-ground service tunnels [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 13:53:46

He won!

It’s great. It’s historic. Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey teared up on national TV. The first black American president. He was my candidate ... post entitled “the Janitor-in-Chief” (based on John Mauldin’s column, “Electing the Janitor [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 08:15:44

Anything Else We Chumps Can Pay For?

Anything Else We Chumps Can Pay For? Posted by thebaldchick Wait. I was just kidding. Can I take that back? ... jobs in landscaping, cleaning and the like. The past two years have been tough in terms of finding jobs, but the past month has been toughest. His most recent job was as a $9-an-hour school janitor [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 13:58:29

Known mostly for his AMAZING fu manchu and a gut that flips a big middle finger in the face of traditional atheletic physiques, Sal Fasano is a man’s man and a fan’s player.  Why?  Because he is one of us, a fan, moreso than he is a professional athelite [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 22:10:21

What Are Responsible Purchasing Guides?

Founded in 2005 by the Center for a New American Dream, the Responsible Purchasing Network (RPN) ... the effects of the toxic ingredients found in traditional cleaners. Every year the industrial cleaning ... by the chemicals in the cleaners they use. The general perception is that green cleaning products cost [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 10:39:15

10 simple secrets of fivestar luxury decorating

10 Simple Secrets Of Five-Star Luxury Decorating By Terri Emmett What is it about a hotel room that is so appealing when you first open the door and step inside? The “initial impact” a hotel room has upon its customers is one of the most vitally important factors in the hotel business [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:43:23

My Life Without Me (2003)

The young Ann has a simple, but happy life with her husband Don and her two daughters, Penny and Petsy. Ann works as a janitor in the night-shift, cleaning the rooms of a university, Don builds swimming pools and they live in a trailer in the backyard of Ann's mother. When Ann goes to the doctor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 08:32:58

Missing Chair

I had two back-to-back clients yesterday afternoon, and is my norm when this happens, ... , the nerve.  So, I called the security desk down in the lobby and asked her to page the janitor ... , the janitor assigned to the seventh floor, about the chair, and they didn’t know what had happened, although [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:20:32

The One With the Little Science Lesson

I used to have a housekeeper. My house was cleaner then. You're thinking, "Well, yeah... duh." But it's not what you think (unless you have had a housekeeper... then it is probably exactly what you are thinking). When I had a housekeeper, I used to spend hours every week cleaning so the house would be clean before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 03:05:17

Missing Chair

I had two back-to-back clients yesterday afternoon, and is my norm when this happens, ... , the nerve. So, I called the security desk down in the lobby and asked her to page the janitor supervisor to see if anyone on his staff had removed the chair. Jose said, and we asked Romelio, the janitor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:20:35

Once Almost Invisible in California’s High Rise Buildings, Janitors Make Visible Progress for Service Workers

What the Justice for Janitors Campaign Means in a State Where Blue Collar Wages are Stagnant and Costs are High ... coverage for the first time. We also united janitorial contracts within regions, which will help [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 15:55:05

Why I cannot meet the janitor

Be Yourself by Detlef Hey, the janitor is there! And I really have to talk to him, because there is something wrong with our heating . He is cleaning the staircase and the doormat in front of our apartment. I have to be very quiet ... Tags: apartment, janitor, messy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 11:34:45

The return of the black voter

The line at the North Dade Regional Library in Miami Gardens stretched onto the sidewalk and around three corners, almost surrounding the building. I wish I could have gotten an aerial shot. Stage two of the line, after the first bend, is pictured above [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 03:01:45

Was I wrong about global warming?

Contrary to popular belief, I am not a scientist. I'm really not even that smart. So when it comes to the debate on man-made global warming, I'm not exactly an expert. I'm not even the janitor cleaning up for the expert's trophy wife. I'm not about to attempt to argue the ins [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 17:33:00

Sri Lankan Government Refuses to Accept LTTE’s Renewed Cease Fire Proposal

The Manhinda Rajapakse Government has once again revealed its GENOCIDICAL™ Agenda when asked by India to Settle the Ethnic Issue with the LTTE who are the Legitimate and SOLE REPRESENTATIVES® of all the Tamil and Tamil Speaking People of Sri Lanka using Diplomatic means [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 17:04:29

"The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death" by Charlie Huston

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death Charlie Huston 336 pp. Ballantine Books. $25.00 Pub ... are born. And someone has to mop it all up. A blood and brains janitor armed with a smile, squeegee ... ? You get the idea. And who better to give you all the nitty-gritty about trauma cleaning than [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 08:01:00

Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor, Rich Weese

Its been a while since we did one of our Meet the Investor interviews . . . I hope we’ll get to post these more regularly! ... Beta Markets in their kitchen cleaning ovens and cheese conveyor belts from 3 until midnight [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 19:35:48

VI. CRACK XXXMAS

.GIVE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: ADDICTIONIN WHICH OUR HEROINE GIVES IT UP FOR THE MA'AAnother Dysfunctional Xmas Ruined( ... by the window, facing the bathrooms. A tired Filipina lady brought menus and asked how many. He told her two [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 10:05:00

Solis for Labor: SEIU Gets Pay Off, Blago Under Arrest

SEIU Official (but not apparently that SEIU Official) Andy Stern is "thrilled" at the appointment of Cong. Hilda Solis of LA for Sec'y of Labor ... the shift in their industry from highly skilled service workers at apartment and office buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 22:01:00

School security, janitor's efforts stop fire from spreading

Pocono PA Dec 30 2008A fire broke out in the ceiling of a small classroom at Pleasant Valley Middle School at 11:45 a.m. on Sunday ... " with smoke to the room. "There's some cleaning up to do," Snyder said."Thank God the kids weren't [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:29:00

Internet Based Business and Delegation

Internet Based Business and Delegation By Pavel Becker Delegation has always been a problem for a lot of entrepreneurs ... ? Was it the sheer joy of providing fresh bread or superior toilet cleaning services to customers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 11:39:23

Now we can see where MPS is spending OUR money

Now we can see where MPS is spending OUR money Posted on Wed, Nov 19th 2008 at 07:11 PM by Patrick Dorwin Citizens for Responsible Government has added the Milwaukee Public School system to its growing Government Accountability in Spending Project (GASP). They have $2,220,442,958 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 00:27:34

Hoover Vacuums Are More Than Your Basic Cleaner

Hoover Vacuums Are More Than Your Basic Cleaner Posted by Online Jobs on Jan 3rd, ... . This early feature made the Hoover vacuum cleaners far better than anything else that was on the market. It also raised the bar for the other vacuum companies to follow. Hoover vacuum cleaners are still [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 18:25:04

THE THEOLOGICAL JOURNEY

A picture of Tim and Jorris, which must have been taken by Eavan since he was the only other one there, ... been that of a parent, holding and cleaning his own child as she grew up, and now doing the same for the sons [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:38:00

How to Find Motivation for the Things You Hate Doing

Everyone has things they hate to do, but need to do anyway. Sometimes it is doing basic chores that need to be done ... I once hated. I normally hate cleaning, but if I invest 100% of my attention towards it, the chore [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 09:00:13

“Healthy-n-Green is…Healthy Air” Educational ecoloring book launches

April 28, 2008  National Healthy Schools Day Did you ever think we would NEED to designate a National Healthy Schools Day? ... in U.S. children are caused by toxic chemicals and other environmental factors, 25% due [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 10:59:50

A New Year’s Eve laugh

A New Year’s Eve laugh No Gravatar I was doing some file cleaning and came across this, which was written in 1994.  My, how time flies.  Or is it “The more things change, the more they stay [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 02:27:08

Oliver Hardy (18th January 1892)

406. Atoll K (1951) .... Oliver Hardy 405. Riding High (1950) (uncredited) .... Horse player 404. The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) .... Willie Paine 403. The Bullfighters (1945) .... Oliver Hardy 402. Nothing But Trouble (1944) .... Oliver 401. The Big Noise (1944) .... Oliver Hardy 400. The Dancing Masters (1943) .... Oliver Hardy 399. Jitterbugs ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:37:00

Cosmic Tales Adventures In Sol System - Toni Weisskopf

An anthology of SF stories set in the local area. The highlights and Charles Sheffield, ... - James P. HoganCosmic Tales 1 : Windows - Jack McDevittCosmic Tales 1 : Cleaning Lady - Travis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:09:00

Down and Dirty: Ten Most Germy Jobs

Down and Dirty: Ten Most Germy Jobs If you feel guilty the next time you pick up the phone to take a sick day, ... it may also be difficult to find the least germy job, Gerba has one suggestion for those who really want [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:28:48

Scenes From Election Day

Scenes From Election Day By New York Times GREENWICH, Conn.| 4:23 p.m ... business owner who supports Mr. McCain, agreed with Mr. Merlo. He added, however, that if Mr. McCain [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:53:57

'The Goot' Is on the Comeback Trail

Every once in a while, a brave man (or woman!) ... So be nice to the meek. The old man spitting on the corner. The janitor cleaning up. The man behind [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 17:26:25

This Week’s Master-of-Disguise Jobs

Sometimes job posters try to play up the pleasantries of the jobs they’re advertising ... Service is #1 for us. We are looking for energetic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 16:09:49

Deployment v 3.0 backstory

Deployment X 3... hows that happen for a national guard soldier? ... back to the office after my "work" shift, and cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:22:00

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