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8346 – Tuesday? It feels like Friday. Or Saturday.

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Ok, so it turns out form my blood test that I’m allergic to a number of foods that I’m pretty partial to, and I have to do another sleep study to see what’s up with my snoozles.

Allergist tomorrow. Sleep study Friday or Saturday, whenever they can fit me in. See what my options are.

Meanwhile I’m cutting into my bedtime even earlier than usual, and charging my batteries as best I can.

More to Follow later, of course.

Moment of Lyric- mp3

I don’t mind you comin’ here
And wastin’ all my time
’cause when you’re standin’ oh so near
I kinda lose my mind
It’s not the perfume that you wear
It’s not the ribbons in your hair
I don’t mind you comin’ here
And wastin’ all my time

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8345 – My brain feels the size and disposition of 5th century Mongolia.

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Sleep brings colors to my mind that mean nothing to the human eye.

Minor confession – When I log into multi-player shooters, If I wish to be the antagonist of the other players, I have an ID known as “Chapeau Noir”, and I type messages in a pseudo-French accent.

“AW-haw haw! Zee worm has turn-ed, has it not, monsieur?” Otherwise, If I’m playing but not looking to antagonize anti-frenchies, I’m just plain ol’ Scotto or Scottobear.

Woke up from sleep, and had a weird feeling that I was isolated…and that there was a hurricane coming. I was feeling a bit more panic that I do when a Hurricane is *really* coming. It passed a short time after I started the shower… very little trepidation now, though if I didn’t have the doc’s appointment later in the day, I probably would’ve called in sick to work. Since the office is right up the street, I’ll see how I do this morning. Still having some hot flashes, but no stuffy nose/cough or whatnot sort of symptoms.

I wonder if it’s a side effect of reading – Sketches of a catastrophe – Miami Herald’s Hurricane info.

  • Your best bet: Plan for the worst
  • When will we see the next Andrew? Data can confuse
  • Electricity and other utilities
  • Storm surge
  • Wind damage
  • Inland flooding

    • My biggest concern is a lack of clean water and electricity for *months* should a bad one hit. I can stock up on food, and I feel that my building is pretty sturdy.

    Battle of the Beasts seems quite poignant, but maybe that’s the fever talking. (hosted by sa – may be some not-so-friendly to work links)

    1 year ago – Mother’s Day, Bro, heath, hugs, a sticker, walkies pics – graffiti, mission field, vehicles, bernie dexter, hitler’s ghost

    2 years ago – Laser belt, mental health supporter, quiz of Doooooom, busy bee, nice night out, Disney tour, naked mole rap, duality issues, Newt pic

    3 years ago – PT gig jkg, mr rogers asteroid, x2 good reviews, mh about half what it is today (997 vs 2196)

    4 years ago – Neuro appt, my magnetic head theory, original thoughts, MRI

    5 years ago – weird news, slow wake, old paranoia, bad food from my childhood, ljer herd pollGeotarget

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    8344 – Sunday, a day of rest?

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    I may be getting a touch sick… serious fatigue yesterday – 4×45 minute naps, and was still beat… mild hot flashes. I couldn’t be bothered to leave the house at all, so no free comic books, Morikami or air show memories for me.

    Still a bit weary this morning.

    Did you know that if you have a picture on flickr, make it private and then public again, all the favorites attached to it fall off?

    I found the security video feed to a store up the street from me. (It only seems to go live outside of business hours)

    Kids in the Hall – Dawn of the Dead.

    Yup, this sums it up pretty well. “We’re safe, but for how long?”

    70 free Streaming video channels,all on one page.(warning for folks with kiddies, there are some 18+ only channels on there, too)

    Nice cluster of channels from 18-22 when I tuned in, I hit – vintage superman cartoons, Gamera, an episode of Gunsmoke, some Italian horror and a Lou Costello bit.

    Moment of lyric – mp3

    Cut the fat off the back of a baboon
    Boil it down to a pound into the spoon
    Scoop the eye from a fly flying backwards
    Take the jaws and the paws off a ‘coon
    Take your time, I ain’t lyin’ for good cookin’
    Cause the rest of this mess ain’t good lookin’
    Take the fleas from the knees of a demon
    Tell your pals and gals and come screamin’
    To the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus
    They make wine from the spine of their bulldogs
    They dance and romance for 90 days
    It’s a test for the best for who stays
    at the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus

    Brush your teeth with a piece of a goose toenail
    After death steal a breath of a drunk in jail
    Pull the skin off your friend with a razor blade
    And tonight change tomorrow and bring back yesterday
    Shake your hip, bite your lip, and shoot your mother-in-law
    Put on your gorilla suit, drink some elbow soup and have a ball
    Get it straight, don’t be late, it’s time for mad fun
    Take off your shoes, and cook onion stew
    They have really begun!

    Feast of the Mau Maus has begun
    At the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus
    They make wine from the spine of their bulldogs
    they dance and romance for 90 days
    It’s a best of a test for who stays
    And a feast with the beast of the Mau Maus
    Yes, we’ll have a good time.
    C’mon and have a good time. *snort-laugh*

    Most Recent Listened Tracks on my winamp player (and ID-able by last.fm)

    Star Trek Cribs – The Director’s Cut

    1 year ago – bro search, strongman stunts, blood, mark of beast=50 less, monsters inc, day in the life, fishstories born (long since made dormant), unique id, Chlamydia Outbreak Kills Penguins, tv cars, voice post,

    2 years ago – quorn, sunset, mean newt face, pet stroller, entertainment pondering, jail hubbub

    3 years ago – There pirate quest (still no beards, but eye patches!), first PT, Being D’s spokesmodel, orange cat fan club

    4 years ago – Slept in, Star Wars Field trip, getting into php/MySQL, brush your cat’s teeth, pix of me working on bro’s computer, haiku, classic tv

    5 years ago – embedding is verboten, apartment desc, Mateo’s Josie is born!, good stuff, all around
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    8343 –

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    Ze’s anti-intellectualism song is quite catchy. His Daily videocasts are the bees knees, even if Newt’s not allowed in the League of Awesomeness. (last 8th of the cast)

    It’s Free Comic Book Day! Go get some!

    Cleaning lady Day, so I’d best hustle up and get the porch ready. While thee, I’ll be plotting out my plan for the day.

    Nice kinda-compliment of yesterday – i always get about a third of the way through your meme’s when i stop thinking “i’m gunna have to marry this guy.” and start thinking “what a goof ball, he’d drive me nuts.”

    Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – MP3

    Well, if you want lyrics, listen to the Sammy Davis, Jr. Version.

    On the way home, I saw the blue angels practicing for today’s air and sea show.

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    1 year ago – no bro, pervy on lj arrested, phillykat back!, local public service net-casts, users deleting, rainy 5/5, woman jailed for faking her death

    2 years ago – RIP Rod Roddy, Black magic death, 4F, a friend suffers

    3 years ago – poser5, South Florida vodou, python, song lyric

    4 years ago – good smells, bro-doc, great books and classics, monsters, I wrote thepuppyfrog poem, long ol’ survey from a while ago (the same one I did the other day), e-prime mentioned

    5 years ago – movies, newt’s middle name, Architect. hot air, lcd drops, writing exercise, quotes, newt-happies(tmi?)Geotarget

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    8342 – Q has the lowdown on what happened to LJ recently –

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    The dishonor of Blue Security

    There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background.

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    8340 – Friday 5

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    1. Have you ever been to Mexico?

    Yup! Mostly for Ruins and Diving…. I’ve never been to TJ. Climbing a pyramid is hard work when you’re used to being at sea level, by the way.

    2. Do you know anyone who is currently in the military?

    Sure, tons of ’em, some in my family. Though the majority are retired, there are plenty of active folks. Best known I’d say is Cousin Kelly – Marine.

    3. What is the last party you attended?

    hm. Good question. Birthday, I think? J Peters had one at the club a month or three ago.

    4. What do you think about President Bush saying that the United States’ National Anthem should only be sung in English?

    Heck, I don’t care. If someone’s heart is in the right place, knock yourself out in the format. Spanish, English, Esperanto, ASL, Klingon, while dropping acid like Jimi or grabbing your crotch like Roseanne. That’s sort of what the USA is supposed to be about.. that whole Melting Pot thing. If it were another country besides this one, I’d say stick to the native tongue.

    Bush isn’t the first to try to remove native loyalties – Woodrow Wilson’s greatest fear was the 15 million immigrants that flooded into the United States between 1900 and 1915. The single largest ethnic group in the United States was German-American. Then there were the Irish-Americans — with the Irish Republican Army launching an uprising against British rule on Easter, 1916. Wilson feared that these two groups would not be willing to take up the fight for the USA. In fact, Wilson proclaimed, “Any man who caries a hyphen around with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of the republic.”

    5. French fries or freedom fries?

    French Fries. And it’s Sauerkraut, not Victory Cabbage. Kee-ripes.

    (Funny that Cinco De Mayo is about defeating the French.)

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    8339 – Cinco de Mayo. Friday. Fleet Week. There’s got to be a party somewhere.

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    Why You Should Care About Network Neutrality

    Via bhk – Kitty and rooster are friends!

    Happy Birthday, Buddha!!

    Just heard a commercial for Mega-M&M’s.

    I thought I heard “maggot M&M’s” Ugh. Not at 6am, please. Ack. Ptui.

    Nice to see that there are a few alternatives to fighting the masses of humanity that are going to be at Sunfest and the Air & Sea Show this weekend.

    I might do #10 – Try to get my head around the fact that the Ancient Spanish Monastery and St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church in North Miami Beach is the oldest building in the western hemisphere. It was built in Spain in the 10th century, purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and finally reassembled in Florida in the 1950s. Cistercian monks lived in the building for its first 700 years of life. 16711 W. Dixie Highway. North Miami Beach, 305-945-1461. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, but call ahead because it closes for the many weddings and receptions that are held on its grounds. Admission: $5 adults, $2.50 students and seniors, $2 children 12 and younger.

    Who knew that a 1000 year old building is right up the street?

    Moment of Lyric – REM by way of the Cardigans – MP3

    Oh, life is bigger
    It’s bigger than you
    And you are not me
    The lengths that I will go to
    The distance in your eyes
    Oh no, I’ve said too much
    I set it up

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    8337 – Only Thursday… or is it Thursday Already?

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    I remember back when you could go to Pizza Hut to have a nice sit-down meal with a friend or three. Are any of them still like that anymore?

    That’s one of the things I sort of miss about PamM.I’ve got about a decade’s worth of memories of High School world and times after… and all of my real cohorts are either dead or gone. Steve Jacoby vanished into obscurity, Brent died, and Pam and I probably will never speak again. I don’t have anyone left to really reminisce with about those times anymore. Kev’s about as close as it gets, but he was at a different school… and the memories are of a different sort.. Kev was one of my “Computer Pals” (like JimG, who I still hear from every year or so.), Those mentioned before that were my gaming/school friends. It’s kind of funny… Pam lives less than four miles from me, and we share some common friends, but I don’t know if I could communicate with her on a reasonable level if I ever saw her again. We were good friends, and unfortunate foes – for the same personality reasons. Maybe someday we’ll talk again, but I’d put odds in the slim to none range. A shame I can’t just reconnect with the good parts of that friendship… I don’t really care to see what happens to social politics when we mix, but some of the in-jokes and “good old days” sort of stuff.

    That’s the funny thing about compartmentalizing friends… if you lose a smaller amount, that chunk fades totally into the past. Old Computer buds from back when I had a 110 character per sec modem… ran fidonet and BBS systems is pretty fun to talk about… but similar memories of going to the complete strategist and gaming in the living room form that time are gone. Watching TV while talking on the phone and chatting… Matt Frewer on Doctor Doctor caused us to laugh our heads off. Trip to Disney was probably one of the first signals of how we were bringing out the less than stellar sides of one another. Halloween costumes. Watching Zardoz and comiserating about our folks, when we were both still living at home with parents.

    Ah well.. the nice thing now is that I can make new memories with old friends, new ones, and those that fall in between. Learn from my mistakes, profit from my successes.

    Carrageenan is awesome stuff. I first learned about it on a cartoon segment (Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo – about a pod of whales and a seaweed farm) in an episode of Captain Kangaroo.

    Does impersonating W’s voice and Goober from Andy Griffith show sound the same to anyone but me? IQ 85 southerner sort of vibe?

    Moment of Lyric – MP3

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    8335 – many questions.

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    50 questions via Eryx and Kat

    1. How tall are you barefoot?
    6’5/6’6″

    2. Have you ever smoked heroin?
    Nope, been in a room while it was happening, though.

    3. Do you own a gun?
    Not currently.

    4. Rehab?
    Nope.

    5. Do you get nervous before “meeting the parents”?
    Depends. Usually, yes, if I wasn’t a casual friend prior to dating … I didn’t with RG for some reason.

    6. What do you think of hot dogs?
    I love me some veggie corn dogs. Not like there’s any meat of value in animal-based ones, anyhow. Lips and Bung.

    7. What’s your favorite Christmas song?
    O Tannenbaum

    8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
    Water.

    9. Do you do push-ups?
    Not regularly. I prefer to punch a heavy bag.

    10. Have you ever done ecstasy?
    Not that I know of.

    11. Are you a vegetarian?
    Mostly, but I do eggs and dairy

    12. Do you like painkillers?
    If they work, and I’m in pain, yes. Not recreationally.

    13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
    If I told, it wouldn’t be a secret! Newton has helped on more than one occasion… Also, I’m friendly, can reach things on the top shelf, and will defend beauties from spider zombies.

    14. Do you own a knife?
    An assortment! However, tend to only use ’em for food prep.

    15. Do you have A.D.D.?
    I doubt it. Never been diagnosed..more likely to be obsessive compulsive, If I had to pick a thing like that.  I was recently considered to be a megalomaniac by a dear friend.

    16. Date Of Birth
    Feb 02, 1969

    17. Top 3 thoughts at this exact moment:

    I’m older than Eryx, but younger than Kat! (Though I think Kat looks the most youthful of the lot of us)
    I like the following terms: tizzy and twitterpated
    [redacted due to nc-17 rating]

    18. Name the last 3 things you have bought:

    Burger King Garden Salad
    A blood test / doctor visit
    diet berries and cream dr pepper

    19. Name five drinks you regularly drink:

    water
    orange juice
    cranberry juice
    ibc diet tangerine cream soda
    diet cherry vanilla coke

    20. What time did you wake up?
    5:20am

    21. Current hair?
    brown with hidden blonde, red and gray.

    22. Current worry?
    Work

    23. Current hate?
    Hate’s pretty strong, though I am disgusted by some folks waving stupidity like a rallying flag.

    24. Favorite place to be?
    Curled up in bed with Newt and a good book

    25. Least favorite place to be?
    a pitful of rabid electric eels while dressed as eel food. I think. I’ve never tried it.

    26. Where would you like to go?
    the blue area of the moon

    27. Do you own slippers?
    yup, but I haven’t worn them in ages. Brown stuffed animal bear feet, complete with plushie toenails.

    28. Where do you think you’ll be in 10 yrs?
    Not sure…I suspect better off than I am today!

    29. Do you burn or tan ?
    burn a smidgen, and then turns to tan.

    30. Last thing you ate?
    blueberry yogurt and grape nuts

    31. Would you be a pirate?
    I’ve been known to share files now and again! Yarr!

    32. Last time you had an alcoholic drink?
    I forget! I tihnk I had a Cider when I got together with Danny about 3 weeks ago.

    33. What songs do you sing in the shower?
    whatever comes to mind. This morning it was the Snowmobile Driver song (MP3)

    34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a kid?
    Not a lot, really. I had a slightly unreasonable fear of vampires in the toilet that could come up when you flushed. I solved that problem but flushing in the morning.

    35. What’s in your pockets right now?
    the usual loot – digicam, pda, cell phone, billfold, keys, newton whisker, bus pass, loose change

    36. Last thing that made you laugh?
    GP’s rhyining of Kojak and kayak.

    37. Best bed sheets you had as a child?
    I actually had a few keeno sets… I think my Hot Wheels Sheets were my fave, but the most valuable would be the star wars ones, I suspect.

    38. Worst injury you’ve ever had?
    Back disabled me the worst, I think. a series of herniated disks.

    39. How do you stand on movies?
    I’m in favor of them!

    40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
    2

    41. Who is your best friend?
    Newt

    42. How do you feel about cooking?
    I prefer to cook for someone else… left to my own devices, I keep it simple.

    43. Does someone have a crush on you?
    It’s a possibility.

    45. What is your favorite book?
    Dandilion Wine – Ray Bradbury (my default answer, I also like a lot of mark twain’s stuff)

    46. What is your favorite candy?
    tough call.. I like chocolate bars quite a bit… take 5, milk way, etc..

    47. What songs do/did you want played at your wedding?
    O Fortuna, perhaps?

    48. What songs do you want played at your funeral?
    Big Rock Candy Mountain

    49. What were you doing 12 AM last night?
    Snoozin’

    50. Do you love the pain a tattoo brings?
    Only to my enemies… I long to tattoo mexican wrestling masks to the faces of those who do evil to me or mineGeotarget

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    8334 – Humpty-hump

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    Difficulty logging in – this may not post in a timely manner. Originally written at 5:55am 5/3/06

    from status –

    Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack.This has affected all of Six Apart’s sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, sixapart.com,movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.

    Update, 11:36 pm PDT: Access and availability to our sites has improved. We continue to work closely with our Internet access providers and will monitor the situation through the night.

    Hooray for mail!

    Yesterday I got two lovely bits of mail…. a postcard from Bubbles, and two bookmarks from ilene! The postcard was a pleasant surprise… Bubs has the best handwriting… able to fit a lovely amount of content onto a mailer. The Bookmarks are even nicer than I’d hoped they would be. A monkey on one, and Newton on the other.. what more could I ask for?

    ABC adds full streaming episodes of Lost ( and other shows) legally and for free! They need to do this with other shows/networks.

    New Superman Returns Trailer is looking pretty keen! – I’m fairly enthused, but I don’t think that I like the new Lois Element.

    Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – MP3

    Speaking of Which, nice collection of ad-free lyrics – LyricWIKI

    Wooden PC Case Mods. I really, really like these. Beautiful.

    Archives on Hold Due to LJ being spotty – will update later.

    1 year ago – no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song,

    2 years ago – teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos

    3 years ago – words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties

    4 years ago – entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such

    5 years ago – diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin pollGeotarget

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    8333 – Only 1777 more posts until I hit 10000!

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    Upon yesterday’s weighing, I’ve gained all the weight I lost on WW point plan back. no good. I’ve been eating poorly since October, and it was building up for a while before then. Time to go back to the plan, account for everything, and lose it again. This time, no going off plan.

    Starting Today, I’m back to using the palmtop to monitor everything. This time, no sloughing off once the holidays roll by… Rather pesky that I’m starting from Square one again, but at least I know of a system that works for me.

    catagoriz – a nice guide to web 2.0 apps.

    I’m especially digging Alkemis.

    Meanface is an ongoing experiment in which you draw and submit a face. Each face submitted counts towards the ever-evolving meanface.

    Bro called again (at 11:30pm), to do an arrest lookup for him. Some guy on coke charges – looked rough in the mug shot. Bro first told me it was some girlfriend’s dad, but then I saw the guy was born in ’65. I asked how old his GF was, and he said 28… caught him in a lie there. He changed his story afterward – Next call I get from him after 10, I’m just going ot ask him to call me during more civil hours.

    Stupid Math tricks

    Can you count in ding-bong? Here’s how:

    1 one

    2 two

    3 three

    4 four

    5 ding

    6 six

    7 bong

    8 eight

    9 nine

    10 ding-ding

    11 eleven

    12 ding-bong

    13 thirteen

    14 bong-bong

    15 ding-ding-ding

    16 sixteen

    17 ding-ding-bong

    18 eighteen

    19 ding-bong-bong

    20 d-d-d-d

    21 b-b-b

    22 d-d-d-b

    23 twenty-three

    24 d-d-b-b

    25 d-d-d-d-d

    26 d–b-b-b

    27 d-d-d-d-b

    28 b-b-b-b

    29 d-d-d-b-b

    30 d-d-d-d-d-d
    From number 24 and over, all numbers
    are combinations of     dings and/or bongs.

    Tales to Astonish! (the streaming radio alone is worth the price of admission.)

    Bro called Sunday night too, by the way – claimed he was in Miami, but on researching his phone number, it originated out of Hollywood. it may just be his local phone, payable by the minute.. I’ll hope for the best with him.

    1 year ago – Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme

    2 years ago – nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes

    3 years ago – highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues

    4 years ago – lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving

    5 years ago – misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUPGeotarget

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    8332 – MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MONDAY! ARGH!

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    The Sarah Jane episode of Dr. Who didn’t disappoint, and it was delightful to see both her and K9 again. I do think that if the Doctor had been a little less “devil may care”, a lot fewer innocents would’ve been killed.

    In other TV news, I was enjoying Charmed, until they added the blond “cousin oliver”. See also the addition of the kid on Gilmore Girls. They’re just counting down to the end.

    Bob Ross Inc. has announced in March 2006 that they have filed a letter of intent to license to Joseph Hatcher’s AGFRAG Entertainment Group to develop exclusively worldwide video/computer games based on Bob Ross’ creative, unique and easy to learn painting techniques and TV show properties.

    Right on. Happy Little Trees! “We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.” I love that guy.

    Is it true that 1 human being out of 5 is a Chinese farmer? There are a lot of 20% breakdowns on google.

    A few –

    1. one in every five Americans are currently infected with a sexually transmitted viral disease.
    2. One in every five Americans, experiences some type of mental disorder each year
    3. The bacteria that cause meningococcal disease are carried by about one in every five people.
    4. One in every five people in Nairobi is HIV positive
    5. About one in every five people have genital herpes
    6. one in every five people in Jordan have made pledges to UNICEF
    7. One in every five people lack access to safe drinking water.
    8. one in every five people on the planet is a Muslim.
    9. One in every five people in Seoul owns dogs or other pets.
    10. Mild side effects of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Vaccine occur in about one in every five people who receive it.
    11. one in every five people has a reading problem
    12. One in every five people in the developing world is chronically undernourished
    13. By 2030, one in every five people is likely to be 65 or older
    14. one in every five people who work for the State of California works for the Department of Corrections
    15. one in every five people in the world is surviving on less than $1 a day
    16. One in every five people with sight problems has another disability
    17. One in every five people with HIV is a prison inmate or a former inmate
    18. In Michigan, nearly one in every five people is out of work

    To the best of my knowledge, I don’t fall into any of those groups.

    I’d say I know folks that fall into group #1, #2, #4 (but not from Nairobi), #5, #6, #8, #9 (in Seoul), #11, #13 (I think GP falls into that group… I’ll be 61), #14, #15, #16, #17

    It’s really hard to find a house painted green in my neighborhood. I have yellow, many shades of blue, pink, white, and gray… but no green. Also, I’ve found no stray kitties in my walkabout… Seester Kelliebellie gave me a challenge! I like it, but it may take me longer than I had anticipated.

    I had a little tummy-ache this weekend…feeling a bit better now.

    Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey.

    – John Lennon

    I like monkeys – mp3

    I was walking through town one day and I noticed that the pet store was selling monkeys for five cents apiece. I thought that was odd since they were normally a couple thousand dollars or something, but I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. You know why? I like monkeys.

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