the state fair is cautioning all visitors to teh fair to frequently wash their hands both prevent the spread of ecoli from the animals in the petting zoo as has happened with recent fairs, and also (get this) to prevent the spread of swine flue to the pigs on exhibit! seems a little backwards to me...

OK, it took a whole week, but now I am back online at my house. I have a DSL modem from a company that doesn't hate me and that means I can surf to my heart's content. I wonder if my heart is contented already? hmmmm....

after reading about them this morning, I've just spent about an hour viewing you tube videos of Mr B and his PS22 grade school chorus from staten island. wonderful shit, really, you should check it out!

The Gunuh has just signed the smoking ban in bars and restaurants into law. Feel free to now always have to go outside your favorite bar to catch a smoke. yes, guv Bev has screwed you all.

first obama says he will release the rest of the torture pics, then 3 weeks later goes along with the bush plans for them. today comes news that the military tribunals at gitmo that he deplored during the campaign and issued an executive order on his 1st day of office to end those, that he's going to go ahead with those, too. WTF?

I just heard from my brother and we're going to see star trek this afternoon. Every review I've read about this picture has been effusive with praise. I'm hoping they're right.

when I was 8 everyone had to line up to be vaccinated against what they were all calling "the asian flu", since it was spreading from asia. and, given the fact that folks around the world are doing stupid shit like egypt having all it's hogs slaughtered, and americans not buying pork for a false fear that you can get the "swine flu" from pork ( Read more... )

so, it appears that my facebook account was hacked, as it sent spam to corey3rd. I suspect this mainly because I got a message from another facebook friend that directed me to a page at fbstart.com, which turned out to be a login page for fb. upon logging in a message appeared saying the page that directted me to my fb is a hack and that it would ( Read more... )

I just read that one of my favorite shows will probably not be coming back in the fall. yes, I am talking about Reaper. it's funny, has great casting and the stories just keep getting better. but the duo who created and run the show signed new deals at a rival network, so....
oh well.

Getting up at the crack of noon has it's advantages. there was apparently a large rainstorm this morning while I lay in bed. It washed away almost all of the thick green blanket of pine tree pollen that covers everything around here every april. it cleaned the pollen off the now nearly at their peak dogwood flowers blooming on the 3 dogwoods behind ( Read more... )