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Friday, January 10, 2003

 
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Scotto the Livejournalist is the last of the great eccentrics. The funny thing is, he doesn't know it. He thinks his behavior is perfectly normal. He sees himself as a pillar of propriety and a paragon of protocol. Scotto has strong views about every topic under the sun. There's not a subject he doesn't know about or a moral point he can't pontificate on. Scotto is entitled to be a little arrogant. He knows an awful lot about an awful lot of things. He is well versed, well rehearsed, and deeply immersed in the kind of knowledge that we lesser mortals can only dream of attaining. Thankfully, he is there to shed the light and show the way. This, he does generously and patiently, as befits a person of superior intellect. Scotto the Livejournalist is wise, intelligent and (thankfully) oblivious to irony.

Or, at least, that's how Scotto the Livejournalist is, at his worst. He can't help it. He's an Aquarian and Aquarians are infamous for their occasional outbursts of pomposity. Happily there is another truly delightful side to him. Scotto is as honest as the day is long, as generous as the ocean is deep. This is partly where the eccentricity comes from, for a person with such strong opinions Scotto is surprisingly willing to please. He is keen to win friends and influence people. He loves to feel that he belongs. He always wants to be in on the action, part of the scene and one of the gang. Rather like Groucho Marx though, he is never sure that he would want to be part of any club that would a member. He is always on the lookout for some new cause to support, or enterprise to sign up to. You might think that this would make him fickle but actually Scotto is exceedingly loyal. He may be forever expanding his horizons but he never forgets his friends and he never reneges on his commitments. This is why, despite the highly idiosyncratic nature of Scotto's personality, so many people think the world of him.

Nice Tits (worksafe)

Cool Strap-on (worksafe)

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U.N. probing reports of cannibalism of Pygmies in Congo by rebel troops

By RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya - U.N. investigators have found credible evidence to support reports that Congolese rebel troops have killed and eaten Pygmies in northeastern Congo, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

During the past week, U.N. human rights investigators have been looking into reports of cannibalism in Congo's northeastern Ituri province, where forces of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement, or MLC, and its allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-National, or RCD-N, are accused of killing and eating Pygmies living in its dense tropical forests, said Manodje Mounoubai, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo.

"The U.N. is taking these accusations very seriously and has sent a team of six officials to investigate the accusations and other human rights abuses in the region," Mounoubai said in a telephone interview from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. He said he preferred to wait until the investigators had left the area before providing further information.

However, other U.N. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said investigators have established that the charges are credible.

MLC and RCD-N troops often hire Pygmies to hunt food for them in the forests as they concentrate on fighting to oust the rival rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation, or RCD-ML, from mineral-rich areas of Ituri province, a U.N. official familiar with the investigation said on condition of anonymity.

But if the expert hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said.

Sudi Alimasi, an official with the rebel RCD-ML, said the group began receiving reports of cannibalism more than a week ago from people displaced by fighting.

"We hear reports of MLC and RCD-N commanders feeding on sexual organs of Pygmies, apparently believing this would give them strength," Alimasi said by telephone from Kinshasa. "We also have reports of Pygmies being forced to feed on cooked remains of their colleagues."

The Program for Aid to Pygmies in Beni, a Congolese advocacy group, called on the international community not to abandon the Pygmies — "a minority race already threatened with extinction."

"It is unacceptable that the international community focuses on protecting endangered animals like the okapi, the mountain gorilla and the rhinoceros and pays no attention to the fate of human beings like ... the Pygmies, who are nevertheless every bit as much in danger of extinction," the group said in a statement.

Nearly all the foreign troops involved in the war in Congo that broke out in August 1998 have withdrawn, but fighting has intensified among the country's main rebel factions, splinter groups and tribal fighters after the pullout in the east.

Being a pulp era fan, I like any article with cannibalism in the Congo. Adding pygmies to the mix just makes it all that much more proper.

The sad part is that articles about rebel troops (and govt troops as well) eating people have become so common as to be old hat. Maybe it's something in the water.

Pictures of the local pyramid mausoleum (via penguinboi)-

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Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens South, in Davie, Fla. was completed in 1974. It is 109 feet tall, 85 percent of its 4200 crypts are sold, and is primarily used for whole-body entombment.

 
1/9/03
Good morning, good morning, good morning...And what a lovely day it is. Rise and shine, rise and shine !
Before our program of early morning music, here are two announcements: the long range weather forecast is that the fine spell will continue for at least another month; your local council, and remember it is your local council democratically elected by you, have decided to organize a great new competition.

Can you paint? Can you draw? Can you model in clay? If you can, then your day is just six weeks today. All about it later, but now music...

name generators found via

My Elf name - Glorfindel Oronar
Newt's Elf Name - Findecáno Oronar

My Hobbit Name - Bungo Burrows (heh.. sounds like a gay bar in Fort Lauderdale)
Newt's Hobbit Name - Dimple Burrows (A stripper in that same bar?)

Life in Antarctica... interesting observations to me.

Who didn't know that all the giant wiener spam was a pack of lies?

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From lj_maintenance:

We're going to be taking the Chef Cluster (Where am I?) offline while we rebuild the indices from its database. This should take care of the "Duplicate entry xxxxx-xxx for key 1" errors a lot of people have received today.

Estimated time to fix is about an hour right now, if there are no other problems along the way.

 
1/8/03
Happy Birthday Elvis!

Online collection of '60s lesbian-themed pulp fiction book jackets. Priceless kitsch titles include: "Killer Dyke," "Twincest," "Bedroom a Go Go," Abnormals Anonymous," "The Torrid Wench," "Wall Street Wantons," and "Art Colony Perverts." -via boing^2

Scrapple. Oh the humanity.

Start clock - 9:24am

Random word - smoke

So many people in my life are / have been smokers. Even if they don't smoke now, it seems that they all carry the craving with them, waiting to be let out again. I've tried it a couple of times, but I don't like it as a delivery system. Tobacco or Pot, both are unpalatable to me when burned and inhaled.

People in my heart who smoke / smoked - Sweetheart. Brother. Father.

My Sweetheart burning Champa, the lights low, our voices soft murmurs as we drift to sleep in one another's arms. I want her to feel security, comfort and love there...I know I'm happiest with her in my life.

My Brother catching himself on fire early in the morning, and the smell of the burnt flesh of a six year old. A real life example of not playing with matches. He suffered many months of changing medicated bandages for treating third degree burns.

My Dad's cherry pipe tobacco. Smelled great raw and unsmoked. The scent still is one of him nearby.

Remembering smoke as an altar boy. the incense waving, as opposed to the tapering line coming off of sticks of Nag Champa, first a perfect lipped line, like a track for hot wheels cars, then after a certain distance, rolls, ripples and waves breaking into a near invisible haze as the tiny burned bits of ash and oil carry a calming scent throughout the room.

Observation aside - I was a boy scout, went to summer camp, and was an altar boy. There was not even a hint of adults in positions of authority hurting kids or anyone else. I had genuinely good experiences at all of them.

I wonder about the monastic life. There's a certain appeal to a day filled with prayer, work, music, writing, study and contemplation. It's something I'd like to have in my past, though...like fresh out of school. A more appealing life to me now would include my beloved and a good does of laughter, as well as many elements of the above, especially the more secular ones.

Stop clock - 9:30am (a little over 5...wasn't counting seconds)

Typos – burned-buned experiences-experiances

The Young Man's Book of Amusement is just the sort of archaic, dangerous book I used to prowl libraries for as a kid. It's crammed with highly inadvisable science projects such as an artificial volcano that's arguably not artificial at all. It is amusingly described by the father of a young man who received this book as a gift from Michael Faraday.

Yesterday, Oolong the famous waffle-balancing rabbit, died.Rest in peace, our pastry-laden friend. (via memepool)

Al Sharpton: 'I am running for president' Oh yeah... Like he has a snowball's chance. There's some wasted money that'd be better spent on charity elsewhere.

Another difficult HMO nonsense day, though not as rough as earlier. Neurologist on Friday. Light's getting brighter.

Bro's getting tired of me bellowing, "Don't let Newt get out!" every time he comes over. He finally told me that he knows to guard, and that my eternal reminders are unneeded. Fair enough. I'm glad of it...I've had nightmares about the little orange boy making an escape into the wild and then getting lost or endangered in some way. Let's see...I moved in July, he's been over about 2x a week, give or take...so that's 50 times or so.

Tonight was Manicotti night. Yumitty yum yum. Nice to have a full belly and a nice moment of rest.

Tony Bennett in profile has some striking similarities to Ricardo Montalban.

Most recent compliment received- "I wish the very best for you. You are one of those rare people who are kind and gentle. You deserve life to be as wonderful as possible!" - Rachel via email.

 
1/7/03
Tick tock, tick tock...another hour until I visit the doc.

All the two-leggeds I care most about is having a stinky time of it lately. All I can do is hope that the pendulum starts swinging in the other direction soon.

satellite photo of an airplane graveyard... I'd dig roaming around there and snooping though them all...it's freaky how symmetrical it all is.

Here's my neighborhood, too. The push pin is two houses too far to the south, though.

For tarpo... There's No Kasugi like Sho Kasugi

Apparently, my insurance changed over at the top of the month, and so I get to go to a new primary care physician tomorrow in order to get a referral to go to my specialist again. I found this out at my specialist's... who would not see me until that got done. Plus, they would like to bill me for the last month rather than the insurance company.

Um, no. I told them to send the bill to my old insurance company, as the referrals were still valid at the time. I don't think that there will be too much trouble

So, tomorrow, I get to see my new Primary Doc at 1pm. (It's for 1:30, but they'll need me a bit early to do all that paperwork (that I feel they could get from the insurance company, too... but whatever. Standards and procedures, and all that.) The HMO insurance industry has a rectally inserted thumb...at least as far as customer service is concerned.

100 se 15 ave

brwd e past fed 2nd traffic light

There's a light at the end of the tunnel... and it's not a train.

Benefit - My new doctor's office is *really close*.
1: Start out going East on E BROWARD BLVD toward NE 13TH AVE. 0.16 miles
2: Turn RIGHT onto SE 15TH AVE. 0.06 miles

Total Estimated Time:1 minute
Total Distance: 0.22 miles

stream of thought from a random word. and the word I found is...

Timestamp Start - 07:00:00 pm

Autopsy.

What a cool word. I got lucky. It means, literally "seeing for yourself". (Auto-opsis)

I'm really big on seeing things for myself. Taking a broken wind-up toy apart, learning what goes where and how things function, seeing what doesn't work anymore and ideally being able to fix it... a double treat. I’m happy to obtain fresh knowledge and a Non-busted walking duck (at least until it takes a few more horrible impacts from his giant orange predator's clawless, but nonetheless powerful forepaws). Side ramble note... My Dad once fixed my "Incredible Hulk" doll (they weren't called action figures yet) with a metal screw and nut. He offered to paint it green, but I thought it looked neater as a robot part. I wanted to swap out all the joints with metal, but Dad didn't go for that and made a point of telling me that if another joint was to break anytime soon, he'd fix it and give the toy to a kid who could play more gently with his toys. My friends, brother and I already regularly pulled off the heads and swapped them out with others...they popped right back on again, so you could have a Spidey-head on the Hulk and vice versa. We were also allowed to use 20 lb test tied to their hands as "webbing" so they could swing (read dangle) from the trees and lower them to fight crime. Since we had mostly only hero dolls, Hulk got relegated to bad guy status much of the most of the time...though sometimes Evel Knievel or The $6 mil man got to be thugs, too. GI Joe was *NEVER* the bad guy, though he had all the guns. (Evel and $6 mil's hands could hold the bazooka just as well anyhow.) Also...only GI Joe got to use the pistol and big knife. Oh! I forgot that we had a Black Lagoon Gill-Man, too. Cheaply made, he had the advantage of glowing in the dark.

I really enjoy living in the "information age". Most any reference can be found online, for free. When I was a pre-Internet kid, I had to hit the library on most of my fact-finding missions, and that promoted my fondness for books. One of the niftiest presents I've ever bought myself was a old set of World Book Encyclopedias from a yard sale for $10. They'd just bought a new set for the house, so I got a decade's worth of yearbooks with it, too. It was 1981, and with the yearbooks, the set was up to date to 1980. That’s very cool to a little yeti trivia-sponge. The Yearbooks were especially fun, as they had student science projects inside. These days, I can fit that same set in my palmtop and have room for All of Shakespeare's works, the Bible, and Bejeweled, too, without even looking online for stuff. My backpack would've been a heck of a lot lighter in the day.

My old schoolbag in 6th grade generally had at least three non-school pieces of literature in it. A softcover copy of D&D and a game module, copy of Mad or Cracked Magazine, and one of those yearbooks above, or an almanac of some sort.

Timestamp stop 07:05:00 pm (Not counting spellchecker)

Typos - Increedable Hulk, I didn’t know how to spell Knievel (thought it was Kinevel)

 
1/6/03
I had a very difficult day today. I'd call it a 2.5 out of 10. A lot of unpleasant things getting in my way... I need to focus on the positive and minimize those stumbling blocks.

There's a little orange cat that I know who likes to get all up in my face when I have a ricola going. So, things Newt likes to sniff while I eat are - Toothpaste, ricola, orange tofu, and rosemary bread. Sometimes soup. Surprisingly, *not* mint chocolate chip ice cream.

To fend him off, an ice cube is often required. I need to post some new piccies of the Newtster.

I've done a lot of notebook writing, but I'm not terribly happy with the results. More practice is required.

The "local neighbor" I mentioned earlier dropped me from his reading list. I wonder if it was because I didn't reciprocate (actually trying to trim my current list a bit...) or if he actually recognized my brother or me. It's fun to track who comes and goes from linking. As of Sept 1, 30 have added and 29 have removed me. Some deleted their journals and then reinstated them, some just deleted and never came back. More than one deleted and then created a new journal when creepy-weirdies were simpler to run away from than to deal with. I can understand "burning your journal", but I think that more can be gained by saving it to look back on later...make it all private if you don't want anyone to read it. The flipside of that is the weirdness of folks that write purely for other people to read it, with no personal elements at all.

Nation states has been sluggish for the last few days now.

Got a cool Castle Keep and bunch of Star Wars Pez as a belated Christmas Gift from Dave & Cathi

Museum of Foreign Grocery Products - mmm..poppadums and curry pringles

A good idea: Pennsylvania takes DNA samples from people convicted of sexual offenses. As those samples hit the database, some old crimes are being solved. By last year, the October 1998 stabbing death of 21-year-old Liane Evans in McKeesport had become a "cold case" -- a long-unsolved crime with few if any viable leads.

That all changed in late April, when Allegheny County detectives submitted genetic evidence from the crime scene to state police scientists at the DNA laboratory in Greensburg.

The cold case suddenly got very hot when the state's computerized DNA database matched the crime-scene evidence with a DNA sample from an inmate in a state penitentiary in Schuylkill County.

The suspect, Kevin E. Worlds of Morningside, was serving a 20- to 40-year sentence there for a 1999 assault. Like others convicted in Pennsylvania for certain crimes enumerated in the 1995 DNA Detection Act, Worlds had been required to submit a blood sample for inclusion in the DNA database.

Armed with the new, virtually irrefutable evidence, detectives confronted Worlds, who police say confessed to the slaying. He is awaiting trial for the killing.

"We would not have been able to solve this crime without the technology we have," county police Superintendent Kenneth Fulton said at the time.

The Evans case marked the first time Allegheny County police had made an arrest using the state's DNA database, but it is unlikely to be the last.

Last year the Legislature passed a law that more than doubles the number of crimes for which convicts must submit DNA samples, and as the pool of potential suspects grows, the more likely it becomes that a "hit," or match to crime-scene evidence, will occur.

Up until now, the only people required to submit DNA samples were those convicted of homicide, rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, and harassment and stalking.

Now included are burglary, robbery, kidnapping, incest, sexual abuse of children, prostitution and related offenses, possessing obscene and other sexual materials, unlawful contact or communication with a minor, sexual exploitation of children, luring a child into a motor vehicle and indecent assault.

The crimes cited in the law, most have a sexual component, are ones in which body fluids and blood samples can be found at the scene. The burglary and robbery categories were added partly because people who commit those crimes also are frequently involved in assaults, homicides and sex crimes.

Currently, the state's DNA database includes nearly 23,000 samples, about 19,000 of them from inmates. The remainder are forensic samples from unsolved crimes that are stored until a match is made.

The pool will grow significantly under the new law. In the two weeks after it took effect Dec. 16, the Greensburg lab received about 2,500 samples, or about 2,000 more than it normally would receive during the same period.

"From what we've seen since the law took effect, at a minimum it will quadruple our work," said Christine Tomsey, manager of the DNA lab, which employs 19 people in Greensburg and five at a much smaller facility in Bethlehem.

Most importantly, Tomsey noted, if Pennsylvania has the kind of success with an enlarged DNA database that other states have experienced, it's possible there could be as much as a seven-fold increase in the number of police investigations that will be aided or solved here and elsewhere.

Many other states are also quickly expanding their DNA databases.

One tool that has caused the explosion in DNA profiling is PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, a chemical process that can multiply a sample of DNA found at a crime scene more than a billion times in about three hours. That made it possible to analyze thousands of samples that would have been too small to work with in the past. Also, advances in machines that can automatically read the DNA samples have speeded up the process.

Each profile costs between $50 and $100. Pennsylvania law says the inmates must bear that cost if they are able, but the bulk of the bill is picked up by the taxpayers.

"DNA is the jewel of the forensic science community," said State Police Maj. John Capriotti, who heads the state's Crime Lab Department, of which the DNA lab is a part. "Its the biggest advance I've seen in the 36 years I've been in police work."

Capriotti said the impact of DNA profiling has equaled or surpassed that made by fingerprinting. "And we think it's only in its infancy and we'll be able to do a lot more with DNA in the future," he said.

The number of hits from the state's database is likely to grow exponentially because all 50 states have DNA databases that are linked by computers. The genetic pool of potential suspects in the nationwide DNA database, known as CODIS, or Combined DNA Index System, grows as more people are incarcerated, but it's also growing because many states, like Pennsylvania, are increasing the number of crimes for which an inmate is mandated to provide a sample.

Indeed, some states, such as Virginia and Florida, mandate DNA samples from everyone convicted of a felony, making it nearly as routine as an arrested person having his fingerprints taken.

Even at its current level, the state system has had good success.

Last year, it garnered hits in 50 cases in which suspects were unknown. The matches were either with a convict's DNA sample or with an unknown person's sample from another crime, at least indicating to police that the same person committed more than one crime.

Since becoming operational in 1996, the state police DNA lab has had 14 national and 91 in-state hits, which aided more than 145 investigations without a solid suspect. The higher number of investigations is because, in some cases, a single suspect's DNA matched evidence from several crime scenes.

Tomsey said the state had been averaging about a hit a week over the past few years, ever since its database grew to more than 10,000 samples. She predicted that the average could rise to as many as one a day.

"We expect the number of hits to go up," Tomsey said. "Look at Virginia. They have over 100,000 samples and average almost a hit a day. It's the same for Florida."

It's not just law enforcement officials who will benefit from the DNA matches.

If convicts who have provided DNA samples become suspects in a crime after they are released from prison, the samples could rule them out as suspects, meaning police won't be knocking on their doors.

That's the way it should be, said Capriotti, who noted that many people forget that DNA is a great tool for excluding potential suspects.

"If the evidence does not point to that individual, that's fine as far as we're concerned," he said. "We're only interested in the truth.

"If it turns out a prime suspect is not the guilty party, that's fine, or that somebody who is found guilty is later found not to be the offender [by use of DNA], we feel good about that because it's serving justice."

A year ago - Telefutura, game show network, newt shenanigans, my first recorded post on the Usenet, meemee deleted, wonka

Two years ago - Pix quit, love for my sweetheart, Victorian love, spongebob, angry beavers, 's art, Chinese zodiac, Cold Mountain (Everyone I've talked to about it has loved the book, but hated the ending.), peanut butter and nanner sammiches, mother goose.

Lambada, the forbidden dance...or pretending to throw paint on those who wear fake fur.

 
1/5/03
On January 1, 1983, ARPANET switched over to the TCP/IP protocol, and the Internet was born. Here's a more detailed story on the subject.
Happy 20th Birthday, Internet!

Strange, small world...discovered someone that links to me graduated the same year as my brother at Santaluces...I never attended that school (I went to Atlantic), but hit those grounds frequently, picking the bro up, and whatnot. He doesn't remember my bro, but it's still interesting to me that the lines overlap in that way.

I'm thinking of my sweetie, holding her in my heart and wishing her comfort and happiness.

Cool origami cameras. - pinhole cameras made out of photo paper which is then developed. Like a salad bowl made of lettuce leaf, and consumed with the meal, the camera doesn't exist after its utility is fulfilled. There is no machine. It is more of an arrangement than a thing.

Stupider is indeed a real word, usable and everything.

Man is unmanned by sword, remanned by needle

Indian man has penis reattached after attack by lover's husband

An Indian man has had his penis reattached after the angry husband of the woman he was allegedly having an affair with, chopped it off.

Jagdish Jeevan Baria from Rajkherwa village in Gujarat was returning home from a Hindu religious ceremony when the husband and his friends attacked him.

The attacker cut off the 18-year-old's penis with a sword before placing it in his pocket.

Doctors managed to reattach the organ after a nine-hour operation at the SSG Hospital in Vadodara.

It is thought less than 50 operations of its kind have been performed worldwide.

Dr Sandeep Sharma told The Times of India: "He came in 13 hours after the incident occurred.

"Luckily for him, his attacker put the severed penis in his pocket and the doctor he first went to in Sankheda advised his relatives to put the organ in a clean plastic bag. We are hoping for a favourable outcome to the surgery."

A year ago -a sweetheart only post, insomniac theme, My Lady by J. G. Whittier, tech trouble, newt in nightshirt, stupidfly abuse, dead image and flash links, deleted journals actually get deleted

Two years ago, vagg (dead link), internal server error (not much)

 
1/4/03
More private than public entries lately... that surprises me, but it shouldn't. This week's had its rough spots, but nothing that can't be remedied... added bonus, the week is about over.

I'd like shoes that leave custom footprints behind... maybe question marks?

I want to try out for the LSH, just so I can get a free flight-ring.

 
1/3/03
Slap the man and make music. (the number keys work better for me.)

Neato flying guy. I really like this.

one word sixty seconds to write about a given word, no thinking, just typing. A fun exercise.

Hmm... these folks in Belgium linked to me, and I don't recognize them... they do link to a lot of stuff though. I wonder how they found me? (Though there are a lot of von Bergs, and even more van den Bergs in the Netherlands.)

Didn't make it to the doctor today... Dave's clutch cable broke while we were en route, so I had to reschedule for Tuesday at 2:45. Hopefully it'll go well enough to get him to hook me up with a procedure immediately following.

A year ago - rumors, comparing haunted house stories, smudge sticks (note to self, get more stuff to make more), defleshing (another news article gone...from now on, I'm putting all my news articles behind lj-cuts for future ref) and naptime (naptime pix overwritten by other archive images)

Two years ago - dead phone, feeling love grow, Viet beer at the mall, lj & IM trouble

I miss the old days when I could post a poll and get a few dozen answers, but the trade off is that I don't have many loonies reading my journal, either. The LJ dynamic is much different now than it was a couple of years ago. I *really* don't miss the psychodrama that was rubbing me raw.

They're making a Cold Mountain Movie? I don't know how well that'll transfer to the screen... and I wonder if they'll fix the ending or not.

I want to get back into writing fiction and posting it in my journal... maybe the use of my laptop more frequently these days has done that.

Random Scotto-region factoid... Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) lives in nearby Miramar and owns a bike shop there...BMX primarily.

 
1/2/03
The Smoking Gun has posted a gallery of 2002's best mug-shots. I'd really like to know the alleged crime for each. What did Bambi do at K-mart? Take a machete to a blue light? What about the guy with the monitor pads who seems naked?

Here's the big collection of celeb mug shots from the same site.

Waiting for a return call from the doc.

have to call my primary care doc at 9am tomorrow in order to get a referral to see the back doc tomorrow at 2:30

that'll make for an interesting dance.





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