As if I need more stress in my life ( Read more... )

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1882):
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life--no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."When I saw that quote today, I was reminded of this post I did a couple of months ago: http ( Read more... )

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I dislike being sick - but the ?fun? part of this job is when one person gets sick, they leave their germs in their squad and the next lucky person catches what the first person had, and then leaves more germs in that squad and in the next squad they take. Thus we spread the wonderful sickness to each other. I swear one bad cold never dies, it ( Read more... )

Old Navy tv commercials irritate me.

So, the easiest drunk driver I've ever had ( Read more... )

Finally decided that I really should upgrade to the new Internet Explorer 7... So I did. But can I just go on the record and say that there are some features that I just want to slap somebody and ask them what the hell they were thinking ( Read more... )

Supervisory Special Agent Gregory J. Rahoi was a former Madison Police Officer as well - his family still resides in Wisconsin. Though he is no longer directly one of ours, he is one of us.

( FBI Agent Killed in Training )

Fitting that today I wake up to a couple of inches of snow covering the ground, covering everything that this year has brought to this point. It's a new start outside today too ( Read more... )

Photo taken on October 15, 2006. This was the last photo that was taken of Natalie Faith. A week later she would be in the hospital with an infection that would eventually prove too much for even this amazingly brave fighter to defeat.


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