Questions from ms_anastasie and answers from me. This is another of those 'post this and ask others to follow along' type things, but I'm lazy and won't guarantee I'll supply questions.

( questions and answers )

So back in mid-April, I was involved in a seven car collision on GA400 on my way to work. A passenger van slammed into the back of stopped traffic waiting to exit at Windward Pkwy, causing a domino accident and pushing one of them into my car as I moved lanes to avoid it (I'd been behind the van). I was given a subpoena to show up in court on 6/8 ( Read more... )

I found out tonight that one of my best friends from high school, Mark Stokes, died this weekend. Mark died in Panama City while saving two other people who had gotten into trouble in the water. From what I've read, he didn't think twice about going in after them. How he died was a hi-liting of the type of person he was ( Read more... )

After receiving a question via email from zja2 this morning asking a question about how I got the point I needed to drop the weight I did, I opted to set up a blog on blogspot to start detailing these posts (starting with answering the question she asked me). This gives me one place to keep track of it where people can read it, subscribe via RSS, etc ( Read more... )

So reading through rfmaestro's LJ this morning, I gave some thought to the idea of positive reinforcement for his latest round of kicking the cancer stick habit, and I came up with an idea. The idea is fairly simple:

1) I get some business cards printed up with 'Thank you for kicking the cancer stick habit!' with a place on it for a date and a name. ( Read more... )

While watching the Next Food Network Star marathon today, I ended up on the wikipedia page for Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. One of the links there was this ( Read more... )

This was posted in Neal Boortz's program notes, and it's an amazing arrangement of Africa:

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I realized I left out a heading item from my update post that I'd meant to put in there ( Read more... )

( Cut to spare you my twittery. )

( Cut to spare you my twittery. )