HI, welcome to my LJ.  Most of my posts are Friends-locked.  I am open to adding new friends, but I tend to only automatically friend back people who I can connect to someone in real life or who are close to people I am close to.  So if I don't friend you back and you would like me to, just post a comment here or send me an email.  Oh and if your ( Read more... )

Today I went through my friend's list and did some adding and subtracting.  If you think I might have removed you inadvertently comment here so I can add you back.  I may have gone too mouse click crazy and accidentally deleted someone.  And if I didn't add you and you want me to, as always comment and give me some idea of who you are.  I tend not ( Read more... )

I posted a long time ago about the Commerce Department losing a bunch of laptops.  Since then I read about purchase orders being passed through for outrageous sums of money for nuts and bolts and that kind of thing -  not sure where that article was but two sisters put through orders with 6 figures for shipping fees.  They found a loophole in a ( Read more... )

It isn't like natural disasters aren't a bad thing anywhere they happen, but I think it is natural to be more concerned when a hurricane or earthquake or any natural disaster affects a place you have a personal connection with.  The current path of Hurricane Dean has it impacting every place we visited on our cruise last December. I have good ( Read more... )

Just have to say I find it amusing and fitting that they did the $25K color up too soon at the Final Table of the WSOP.

UPDATE: that link will soon be stale and there doesn't seem to be a way to link to one entry so here it is:

The 25,000 Chips Disappear and Reappear During the Break

During the last break, there was a race off of the peach (25,000 ( Read more... )

It is still Memorial Day in California, and I hope we have all taken a little bit of our day to honor our troops.  No matter what you think of our wars or occupations or military missions, our soldiers serve our country and risk their lives.  My friend,
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I've totally rediscovered the Moulin Rouge soundtrack :-).  Yay!!!

One of the best posts I have ever read discussing the problems with linking correlation to causation:

Beware of Bread

As a sidenote, I am a huge fan of the blog Junkfood Science.  She does a lot of research and her posts are quite eye-opening.

Wow!  Tonight was the most amazing sunset ever!!  I love our view!!


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This was on a friend's LJ and was too good not to share. . .