If anyone is on twitter, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more users at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians' access to the internet down. Cut & paste and please pass it on.

It was my public school reunion on the weekend, the first one ever, and boy, was that fun! and weird ( Read more... )

and two steps back. Check this out. It's unbelievable ( Read more... )

Making the kids' lunches I ran out of becel; I have to buy some after I drop ds off. Dropped ds off @ school & went into loblaws. Wondered what to make for dinner. Cool, rainy day...beef stew! lovely chunks of juicy beef (I think I've got some in the freezer) bubbling in a thick broth (check) with carrots (buy a bag), pototoes (get some yukon gold ( Read more... )

My dear brother is an honest to god hero ( Read more... )

If you get BBCC (channel 275 on Rogers) - there's an excellent show, Afterlife, starting Monday with the first two episodes showing @ 8 & 9pm. I saw it last summer and really liked it. It's fairly quiet, no gore, no aliens, no car chases or explosions, but it's worth watching out for ( Read more... )

I can't get this certain movie out of my head - saw it on Sunday and I'm still laughing ( Read more... )

gacked from yellow_freshia (oh, you guys in purgatory think you're so good! :P)

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)HighLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)HighLevel 2 (Lustful)ModerateLevel 3 (Gluttonous)LowLevel 4 (Prodigal and ( Read more... )

Enzo gets hysterical when I try and carry him upstairs now to do the fluid treatment. It takes 3 of us to hold him down long enough to get the needle in, we all getting scratched and it's like a medieval torture chamber. Really upsetting. I'm not getting the amount of fluids into him that he needs so I took him to the vet ( Read more... )

dd#1, dd#2 & ds had their next belt test in Karate and everyone passed. the girls are now advanced blue belts and ds is now a brown belt.

he's chuffed because with the brown belt comes the classic black gi (uniform) which, as everyone knows, is a total chick magnet.

lol