On Friday I was involved in an accident at work. I was picking wares in the narrow aisle storage and I arranged with the narrow aisle turret truck driver to be in the same aisle. It was even her idea that I go down in the aisle she was working in, I had originally meant to wait for her to finish. But I went down there on her suggestion, she'd wait ( Read more... )

I lifted this from one of the blogs I frequent, who had lifted it from a friend. I am frankly quite concerned, so help us spread the word:

"This concerns YOUR health, and YOUR life, not to mention your (future) children...

Ok, put your hand up anyone who's heard of the Codex Alimentarius?

No one?

Neither had I. But it's going to have a huge impact on ( Read more... )

Sitting here watching the New Year's Concert from Vienna I suddenly had the urge to write about the year we've left behind ( Read more... )

Since I'm having the fam over for New Years, I'm preparing tonight's dinner already. I figured it'd be smarter to have the bread out of the oven in good time so it won't clash with the two other things I need the oven for tonight ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28pakistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sloginRead more... )

If I've talked politics or religion with people for a while it's likely that I've let them know I'm a feminist. Some have found that fact surprising, and they usually proced to ask me why. Indeed, why am I a feminist? Simple. I believe women ought to have equal rights and equal standing in our society. Then they usually roll their eyes and say what ( Read more... )

I was just watching a news report on the telly and they were briefly mentioning the fire in the building where Bush and Cheney have their offices. The journalist reported that "...Cheney was not in his office when the fire broke out, but the building was evacuated nonetheless ( Read more... )

Genesis 28. The story of Esau and Jacob. One thing is how Isaac favours one son over the other and would one with everything and the other with nothing. Ye ancient customs aside Jacob gets Isaac's blessing and his promises of the entire inheritance on a pretense of being Esau, that is apparently acceptable. In the Bible a contract/promise is not ( Read more... )

No, I'm not going into the issue of whether the Bible is true or not. I wouldn't dream of it. But I've decided to sit down and read the Bible from one end to the other. And I just read the story of Abram and Sarai in Egypt. How Abram tells Sarai to join in on the deception that she is his sister rather than his wife, as he suspects the Egyptians ( Read more... )

I have a habit of watching tv with half an eye while browsing the web. I have no  idea what's going on on the screen most of the time, but once in a while a line or a few sentences, maybe even a complete exchange will filter through to register in my brain. This was one of them ( Read more... )