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No!! Not Steve Irwin!! :-(

My boys loved watching him, as much as he loved what he was doing. Their love of nature and knowledge of animals was first inspired by the Kratt brothers, but it stayed alive because of Steve.

My heart goes out to Terri and their kids. What a loss for all of us.

I'm with all of you, who will dearly miss the lovely planet Pluto as it is demoted to a dwarf planet.

This even screws up my favorite mnemonic.

"My very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas." will now become "My very excellent mother just served us nothing!". Great ( Read more... )

Big Birthday shout-out to connielaine!!


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I went for a run again this morning! New shoes with extra support plus a gel sports insert, and it felt OK. Let's hope this lasts ( Read more... )

Hey everyone!! I finally made it home today at about 3:00 P.M ( Read more... )

Glad to see that all of you are doing well, providing lots of on line entertainment for me. Great ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone who commented on my last entry. I actually went for a long hike, uphill while we were camping yesterday and it got me huffing and puffing well. In fact, I may try to do the Grouse Grind after work twice a week while I'm waiting for this shin splint to heal. There's plenty of hiking trails in my sub-urb as well. Thankfully, I haven't ( Read more... )

I am so ticked off right now.

For the last six weeks I've been making another attempt at the Couch to 5k running plan. Slowly! I increased my intervals by thirty seconds every two weeks, instead of one and I spend almost $200 on a proper set of shoes from a specialty running store. Everything was going great, I was enjoying it, the dog was ( Read more... )

Thank-you all for the PotC spoiler cuts. Last night it sold out for three showings at the local theatre. I even floored it to the next county, over the Fraser River, through a cow pasture, to a giant space-ship (nightfalltwen knows of where I speak) only to find it was sold out there too ( Read more... )