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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: anam-moon
upcoming birthdays: Happy Birthday to:
johno, auroradawn_21, mikz, tamouse, & neural_girl --- Have a great day!
and Happy Belated Birthdays to: mikesama & karenthecroccy
--- Hope it was a good birthday, have a good year! -
Bionic Regrown Rabbit Knees
deyo & mactavish ...this article made me think of DJ's knees.
Rabbits grow bionic knees
Researchers have used bioengineering to help repair torn knee ligaments, a common type of sports injury, according to a US study ( Read more... ) -
Belated & Upcoming Happy Birthdays
Belated Happy Birthdays to:
sossity, kshandra, rosefox, starjack,
avalix, plaidbrat, gridlore, helix90, brian1789, & zeldajean
Hope you had a good birthday & the rest of the year treats you well. :)
Upcoming Happy Birthdays to:
jemstone, monkeysminion, windsea, winneganfake, lydicefire & eeyore74, & mira_kitty
Have fun on your birthday & best wishes for the rest of the year. :) -
US Post Office: Star Wars Stamps
USPS: Jedi Shipping and Mailing Master (Honest, that's the title of the US Post Office web page for the new Star Wars / Jedi stamp collection they are releasing!)
Go to the site if you wish to vote for your favorite Star Wars stamp, see the (brief) animations of tie fighters flying by, or take a quiz and enter the sweepstakes to become a "Jedi ( Read more... ) -
Pet Food Recall! + Hills M/D (update)
One more to add to the menufoods recall of 80+ brands pet food recall.
Hill's is voluntarily recalling it's Prescription M/D dry cat food. "Hill's is taking this precautionary action because during a two-month period in early 2007, wheat gluten for this product was provided by a company that also supplied wheat gluten to Menu Foods. U.S. Food and ( Read more... ) -
Set clocks forward tonight (or Sunday at 2am)
Time Change Alert: Switch to Daylight Savings Time (in most of USA) happens tonight.
Set clocks forward, lose an hour of sleep, & theoretically gain an hour of light & "save energy" (or at least swap energy use from an hour at night to an hour in the new morning dark).
For more info, see: www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html -
California combination: snow & green
SFGate photo of oak woodland blanketed in snow with green grass in the foreground
It brought a smile to my face to see sights like this one when I was driving around on Tuesday. This combination of snow & green may also happen elsewhere, but to me it feels almost uniquely Californian. -
Pool or no pool... playing what if?
My mother's swimming pool has developed another leak. We suspect it is in the piping. I suspect the pipe that runs to the circulation nozzle near the deep end step since the water stopped leaking out of the pool just below that point & the concrete has been slipping away from the pool at that location. (It's about an inch away from where it was ( Read more... )