Couple's Sleeping Positions

I went through my email archives awhile ago and found this particular email from a friend about these various sleeping positions for couples and their meanings. I'm not sure if these are true but looking through them I ended up laughing on the last picture.
Which of these positions fits you and your partner currently? Does these apply to homosexual couples?
Dont forget to click on the picture to have a larger view.

Some Benefits I Get For Being A Homebody

Maybe because of the heat brought about by the American summer, especially that I'm located in Southern Nevada and particularly in Las Vegas, I always felt lazy. I'm lazy to go out to do anything. I usually did that before, bringing along my camera and just take pictures wherever and whatever I want to capture. I always go out alone if I plan to bring my camera along because this way I can go wherever I want and I don't have to take into consideration what my companions would like to go and do. It's been a couple of weekends now that I just stayed home and trying to be away from the searing heat of the sun outside. We are already on triple digits in terms of temperatures and even during the evenings, the temperatures are still on the 90s level and that's on Fahrenheit scale. So far I tried to get busy and make myself productive but I still felt I don't have enough energy to do anything. Aside from going to the gym, I ended up watching DVD movies on marathon and I realized I still have movies that I haven't watched before or have forgotten all about it. Staying home all day also gave me the opportunity to bond more with my folks as we can have breakfast, lunch and dinner together. Bonding together means watching DVD movies or TV shows with me. This also gave me another opportunity to appreciate and enjoy more of my favorite Bose home theater which I bought last Christmas shopping spree together with a new Panasonic blue ray DVD player. It's been 6 months or so that I got these pieces of technology that I normally took for granted after the first few days of excitement when I bought them. It's nice to rekindle that excitement feeling and a certain high when you are immersed into the sea of clear fidelity of sound and the clarity of vision brought by this entertainment system. Catching on my sleep is also another good thing that I've been doing. I never had enough sleep needed for a healthy body specially that I'm working on the evenings and working out with weights in the gym, I need enough recovery time that sleep can provide. One more thing, I got to save some dough and that's practical as it can be. I usually watch movies, clubbing, dining and shopping with my friends during my days off. With the state of the economy gripping the world today, saving money is one of the first steps one can do. Another best thing that happened when I just stayed indoors is my spending valuable time with my special one back in the Philippines. We just chatted for hours since I have all the time in my hands to spare.

So far these are the things that I consider the benefits I got while staying home.

New Week

My 3 days off is over and now I'm on the start of a new workweek. There was nothing much happening during my free time except my regular video chat sessions with my "special one". This is the only way that we can still maintain our communications since we are far from each other. My friends were not convinced that this "long distance" relationship could work but both of us agreed that communication and trust for each other is the key to make this a long term deal. Even if one of us is away from our computers we see to it that we can still get in touch using other means like text messaging.

I actually didn't have any plans at all to go out because it's already summer time and it would be burning hot outside. Watching the weather news this morning, Southern Nevada where Las Vegas is located had only 0.003 inches of average rainfall since the start of 2009, much less than an inch of rainfall! We indeed have a long way to go. Temperature is 103degF and since it would be breezy for the next 2 days it would feel the same, but if it's not windy at all, you add 10 to 15 deg to the current temperature and that is what you would feel under the searing sun. We expect more rain to come in a few days or weeks to come as we are also on monsoon season. Flash flood warnings are all over the city billboards and infomercials on TV. By the way, today is the 10^th year anniversary of that major flash flood that happened in the valley last 1999. From that time until now, much has been done in the improvement of the city's flood control systems. So much of the weather talk, but this is the main reason why I really didn't want to go out especially during the daytime. The only time I went out of the house was to go to the gym for my much needed exercise.

I was also able to watch on TV the memorial for Michael Jackson. For me, it was fitting for the King of Pop and it was a celebration of his life. People talk about how their lives were touched by MJ and I also agree that MJ has made a mark of himself to the world. He was a worldwide phenomenon and his legacy would live forever. His memorial would linger in the minds of all the people in the world for a long time.

At last I was able to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is quite a disappointment for me. It was quite long for such a genre of the movie. I love the animation and the graphics although during the fight sequences, it would appear a little blurry and made me a little dizzy. My friend and I actually planned to watch it on IMAX but we were late for the schedule so we ended up watching it on the regular screen although the sound effect of the theater is still superior. I thought it was a blessing in disguise that we missed the IMAX show because I probably would be very dizzy watching the fight scenes on an IMAX screen. One Facebook friend made a comment on me that maybe it was already a sign of old age when I mentioned this dizzy comments. At least I still enjoyed the movie because my two favorite autobots, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are still there. I just have to be a kid at heart again in order to enjoy the movie and I did. I love the first Transformers movie better though than this one.

So that's how I spent my last 3 days off, and now getting ready to go back to work for the next 4 days.

A Time Capsule

Today is Wednesday and my first day of work for the week. I think I started the day right by waking up early and went to the gym. While in the gym I had a "virtual gym buddy" with me who kept on sending text messages and in return I sent my replies in-between sets. My real gym buddy is nowhere to be found, actually he was tired from working the previous night and he just arrived from his 3-day trip to San Francisco. That "virtual gym buddy" was a welcome treat for me.

Back in the house, I wasn't sleepy at all, you're supposed to be energized after exercise but I've got to catch some sleep in preparation for my work tonight. To keep my eyes tired I browsed through the archive of my old blog, Lemuel Jon Online, a blog service of Friendster, an online social network which I was a member for as long as I can remember. I started my blog last July 2005…wow that long? At that time I was just blogging for myself since nobody cared to visit and leave a comment on my entries there. My postings there were about my day-to-day life's activities, my job, my friends, my trips, my own opinion on what was happening at that time and I realized that I've created a time capsule of my own. Reading through the archive was like reminiscing the events from July 2005 up to the present. I actually enjoyed what I wrote in there. Those entries may not be my best literary achievement but I have kept tab of what was happening to me and the world. Sometime in September 2007, I decided to start another blog with another provider and this blog, The Daily Grind came about. I did not delete or discard my old blog because I have used it to link and guide visitors to my new blog. So from then on, you can only read teasers of my main entries in The Daily Grind.

If you want to browse my old blog, just follow this link. Be sure to read from the oldest entry up to the present and you will know what I've gone through.

December 21, 2012 - Doomsday??

Surfing the internet recently, I found myself reading old and unopened emails in my eGroup of former employees of the semiconductor company where I worked back in the Philippines. One email talked about the doomsday, the end of the world. What's strange about it was it has a specific date, a date where everything in this world ends. That fateful event will happen (according to the predictions) on December 21, 2012. These predictions were based on the Mayan calendar developed by the ancient Mayan civilization. According to the Mayan calendar the world will end on 12/21/2012. It would be hard to explain the details here but you can go online and search for these predictions as they are readily available. It becomes more interesting when I stumbled upon another article that scientifically explained these predictions. According to the article, we could be in for a huge firework display in 2012. The Sun will be approaching the peak of its 11-year cycle, called "solar maximum", so we can expect a lot of solar activity. Some predictions put the solar maximum of Solar Cycle 24 even more energetic than the last solar maximum in 2002-2003. According to one of the many Doomsday scenarios we have been presented with in the run-up to the Mayan Prophecy-fuelled "end of the world" in the year 2012, this scenario is actually based on some science. What's more, there may be some correlation between the 11-year solar cycle and the time cycles seen in the Mayan calendar, perhaps this ancient civilization understood how the Sun's magnetism undergoes polarity changes every decade or so? Plus, religious texts (such as the Bible) say that we are due for a day of judgment, involving a lot of fire and brimstone. So it looks like we are going to get roasted alive by our closest star on December 21st, 2012!

Out from these doomsday scenario, Hollywood came up with a new movie aptly entitled "2012". Checkout the teaser embeded in this post.



Additionally, a video/study from History channel tried to scientifically explain the theory behind the coincidentally accurate doomsday dates between the Mayan calendar and the old Chinese method of predicting the future, the I Ching (pronounced E-Ching). Here is the video.

The Hazards Of Tweeting

Oh my God!!! Can you believe this news? There are just some people..........!!!!

Anyway, I got this blog entry from The Working Guy by Cristopher Null about this girl who died in the the bathtub while tweeting. She allegedly couldn't stop updating her twitter even having a soak in the tub. I wonder what she was tweeting about...it was not clear though and the blogger was hoping that it was more meaningful than the soap she was using.

How did this 17 year old girl actually died? Well, she was discovered dead over the weekend, electrocuted after dropping her laptop in the bathtub.

Fellow tweeters....YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!!






Note: Picture courtesy of Christopher Null of The Working Guy

Twitter, Fun! But Is It Safe?

Who among us these days doesn't have a Twitter account? Everybody is using this service, be it politicians, celebrities and most of our friends and neighbors. It is fun using Twitter as I also have an account. It's fun to read updates from our Twitter friends on what they are currently doing. It has indeed become an open book for everybody to read. What is basically my purpose of having a Twitter? It all boils down to communication. The need to keep in touch with friends and in short bursts of updates; you will know what's going on with them. But Twitter is beyond just communicating with friends, you can actually stalk celebrities and politicians. Some companies used this service to promote their products because they know the wide range of its reach to the public. As an ego boost, I also want a lot of "followers" and see myself as a celebrity just like the celebrities I've been following. I happen to check on some twitter applications where you can gain a lot, even hundreds of followers but in exchange of adding more and more people to follow on your list. It occurred to me that I actually don't have the time to read all the updates and it was already difficult for me to read what my real friends are now doing. Some of my friends that I cared about are also on Twitter and these are the most important updates that I needed to read and not updates of some strangers. Eventually I blocked and stopped following these "strangers" and maintained a steady list of people that I cared about and or interested to be friends with.

It is fun to follow the daily routines of Ryan Seacrest, Larry King or my favorite American Idol contestants but I think I should also have to consider my own safety and privacy before I start twittering about myself. First, Twitter accounts have little in the way of security settings that let you control who can see your posts. You can block specific users, but that will only prevent them from being listed as "followers" of your account. They can still see everything you post. Because of this, if you don't want particular people to know what you're up to, don't write about it at all.
People have a way of finding out these things, especially if you're writing about them on a publicly viewable site. Recent hacking incidents also showed how easy it is for some people to gather information associated with your Twitter user account. They may be able to get your cell phone numbers or email addresses if you chose to divulge them. Most likely email harvesters are using Twitter to gather email addresses from posts and updates.

Twitter is a fun service that can be great for posting quick thoughts, recommendations, and updates on everything from what book you're reading to how you're spending your weekend. Just make sure you're not writing about anything too personal. If you can, use an email account which you only use for registering online for free newsletters, online promotions and other free offers and one that you don't mind to be flooded with spam.

That all said…you can follow me @jaypeelo….