Possibly the best use ever of ITLAP Day (Which I keep calling ISLAP* Day): from the Arkansas Times' Arkansas Blog.

Way to go, matie!
Posted by Leslie Newell Peacock on September 19, 2008 09:36 AM
www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/ 2008/ 09/ way_to_go_matie.aspx"What do you do to make a bunch of soulless nutcases abandon their post at the ( Read more... )

My pirate name is:

Mad Mez Rackham

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I always liked saying that little tongue-twister, whether or not I agreed with the man's policies. Won't apply from today.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma resigns
"Alexandra Smith and Brian Robins
September 5, 2008 - 11:45AM
www.smh.com.au/ articles/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ 1220121483704.htmlMorris Iemma has resigned as NSW Premier ( Read more... )

I'm baaack. Was admitted to the Hospice associated with the hospital for respite/palliative care. Community nurse and others who came around to check out the situation referred me there because they could see I was going downhill trying to cope, even with the help of my friends. Originally they said about a week, but it was at least two weeks ( Read more... )

Not good news. I went downhill physically quite a bit last week. By the end of the week I virtually couldn't walk ( Read more... )

Haven't been able to do much of anything at all in the last week. Really badly affected. I've tried to at least get up & out of the flat - up on the roof is only 2 flights of steps, not 6 down to the ground - but just a walk down, across the road & 30-50 metres along to shop for milk/bread/etc, then back will leave me exhausted, sleeping for a ( Read more... )

I'm in the third cycle of the Xeloda treatment - the one they changed to when the tests showed the first treatment protocol they tried wasn't working. Next week, at the end of this cycle they'll do another round of tests to see if this one has been doing better. I've been mostly able to control the nausea/diarrhoea, and it's nice to be getting ( Read more... )

Pharyngula The Darwin year begins…NOW!: It was on 1 July 1858, 150 years ago today, that the idea of natural selection was first presented to the public in a joint reading of Darwin's and Wallace's papers at the Linnean Society of London
Some Darwin-related Links

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online; free, includes items not in public domain
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Monday, June 30, 2008 - One hundred years ago today, something exploded over SiberiaAt a little after seven in the morning, settlers near the north end of Lake Baikal saw something bright appear in the sky, crossing to the northwest leaving a trail behind it. As it touched the horizon, it was transformed into a column of black smoke in which flames ( Read more... )

Have been thinking again - dangerous, that - Chris and I were together some 6 years (after knowing each other about a year); he's been dead a bit more than 6 years now. (I'll be coming up to being 'widowed' longer than knowing him pretty soon.) He's been one of the most important things in much of my life for coming up to 13 years. It seems a long ( Read more... )