I’m running a test to see who’s reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don’t just post a word and not copy - that’s not as much fun!

What's hilarious is that we haven't actually had much of a winter here, so the prediction for an early spring could have come a month ago.  I think we had one week in January during which the temperatures were somewhere around seasonal average, but otherwise it's been ridiculously warm for Manitoba.  I mean, good lord...the forecast high for today ( Read more... )

No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to view my friends page.  Is anyone else having this problem?  It's been going on for me for about a week or so.

http://new.ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/132331/ricky-martin-i-am-a-fortunate-homosexual-man/

I can almost feel his giant sigh of relief.  I remember that relief.  Nobody's reaction matters that much, because it's all about being free from hiding information.

I've just been reading a couple of articles about what some prominent conservatives in the US have been saying about the disaster in Haiti.  Their stupidity is awe-inspiring:

Pat Robertson: Haitians were originally "under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil," said the ( Read more... )

Alissa's Dewey Decimal Section:

997 Atlantic Ocean islands

Alissa's birthday: 10/25/1972 = 1025+1972 = 2997

Class:
900 History & Geography

Contains:
Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents.

What it says about you:
You're connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You've had some conflicted times in ( Read more... )

I read an article this morning that tells the tale of the demise of the local TV station in Brandon.  CKX-TV has been in operation in my old hometown throughout my entire life, and it's gone down the tubes because CTV can't find someone to buy the station, for which no digital cable service will carry its signal.

There's a huge debate about the ( Read more... )