Happy 125th Birthday!

Indeed this fabulous structure is now 125 years old.  To think it was meant to be up for just a year or so when originally built.  It seems there are several iconic structures around the globe that get built for a particular event and in the end, they become part of a city's history.  I have had the joy of visiting the Eiffel Tower several times both during the day and at night.  It is such a symbol of Paris.

125 years ago today, the Eiffel Tower was officially completed in Paris after 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days of construction.  It stood as the gateway for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in honor of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, and continues to make an impact on the world’s conscious today.

Spring Pause On A Lazy Sunday

It's Sunday and I am feeling especially lazy this day so here is a picture of some lovely flowers and we are going to call this one good for the day.  Enjoy your Sunday however you choose to do so.  I do think a ferry ride might be in order, we shall see.

No Post Saturday XII Has Arrived

There is really nothing else to be said!

A Craft Project For The Weekend

When I saw this it just made complete sense.  What a great use for an old rake.  They sure do not make them like this anymore!  I can't help but notice the box of corks below the glasses.  Kind of a themed look.  So just go out to the garage and hunt down a rake and you too can be Martha Stewart this weekend.

Speaking of the weekend, it is going to be a real quiet one for me.  I do not plan to be very social this weekend with the outside world.  Some groceries delivered and a few phones calls and that is it.  Whatever you do, enjoy!

In Two Weeks...

Indeed, "It's A Small World" will mark it's 50th anniversary of its' opening at The New York World's Fair in 1964.  The current ride is getting a clean up for it's big day.  ABC has a special planned to mark the occasion.  I share the following from Wikipedia:

 

It's a Small World was created by WED Enterprises as the 1964 New York World's Fair's UNICEF pavilion sponsored by Pepsi. It featured a kinetic sculpture, The Tower of the Four Winds, a 120-foot perpetually spinning mobile created by WED designer Rolly Crump, at its entrance. It was one of four attractions (Magic Skyway [Ford], Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln [Illinois], and The Carousel of Progress [GE]) which were used by Disney to test concepts and ride systems, then moved and re-built at Disneyland after the World's Fair closed in 1966.

 

Legend has it that the Pepsi Board of Directors took so long to agree on what type of attraction to sponsor, then board member and widow of past company president Alfred Steele, the one and only Joan Crawford prevailed upon her longtime Hollywood friend Walt Disney to design such an attraction as would be suitable for Pepsi. Because of the short lead time to design, create and construct such an attraction she insisted that the Board of Directors accept his proposal seeing as he was already designing attractions for the state of Illinois, Ford and General Electric and knew Walt was the only one who could accomplish such a feat in the short time left until the fair was scheduled to open. The company was given only 11 months time to create and build the ride.

Hump Day Is More Like Let Me Hide Day

Tell me when it is over!  This has been a week of insanity and it seems that it goes from bad to worse and I am suppose to just grin and pretend nothing is wrong.  As mentioned yesterday we have been having issues in events this week and trying to figure out staffing issues is not an easy task.  The owner has been in Chicago this week and that has not helped things at all.  Sometimes he just likes to pretend life and not deal with the reality of things.  What a challenge.

Then there is the whole media circus of the mudslide going on.  It has reached the point where I feel the need to mute the TV or even change the channel on the local coverage.  It has become a non-stop review of the same material over and over.  Granted, it does seem that at least once a day something new is shared, but then it gets repeated over and over again.  The new tidbit appears that back in 1999 the county was presented with a study showing this very thing could happen if a development was allowed to be built there.  Well, it was and indeed the mudslide happened.  So sad that greed of the $ overshadows the reality of safety.  And this is hardly the first time. 

I feel I do a pretty good job of keeping things in check and moving forward through the land mines of life, but boy, some weeks it is just a bit overpowering.  I'll get through, but it does bring up the question of just how many more times will I be successful in getting through.  The land mines seem to be getting more and more frequent.

Not Quite The Week Planned

Craziness is the word that comes to mind in trying to define what is happening.  Arrived at the office yesterday to find that 6 offices had major problems going on.  Not a good thing.  Mark wants to fire the event coordinator in one office while in another we had the event coordinator resign without notice.  Oh wait, the email he sent he claimed was his notice.  Then you have event problems in 4 cities with each of the staff in that city saying how it is not their fault.  Excuses, excuses, excuses.  Which way do I turn.  Not really sure.  It was a big mess.  Trying to handle one situation at a time.  Do not need all this drama.  And so goes a Tuesday of what looks to be a very long week.