One of Friday's Letters of the Day in the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN) StarTribune.  I think Ms. Coyle is awesome.

Dear Pat Robertson ( Read more... )

A little less Wanted a Pony, a little more action please.

Which song was this lyric from?

Yeah, this is distressingly appropriate. Random chance nails it....

(test snitched from wolfshark)....


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Author unknown; sighted on bipolypagangeek :

We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of ideals of democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4. Early tests of the newly installed ( Read more... )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

:: blink, blink ::  Oog.  Grble.

We hauled our sorry heinies to the hospital by 5:30 a.m. to discover that the surgeon had called in sick in the middle of the night.  (Which is a good thing-better he should be home oopin' & poopin' than trying to do bypass surgery!)  So L.'s surgery will be tomorrow, Wednesday, instead.  Same bat time, same bat ( Read more... )

Next Tuesday, June 3rd, my dear spouse is having open-heart surgery (a double bypass operation). I'm optimistic about the operation & we're fantastically lucky to have found out about the problem, have medical insurance, have a bit of savings to tide us over the loss of income, etc. ... but I'm still scared, from time to time. Later this month we ( Read more... )

... writes you a squishy sentimental wonderful McShep ficlet when you're cross & worried & bitchy & weepy.

Look what the splendiferous lisas_secret wrote for me! She has single-handedly extended my SO's life expectancy significantly. :-)

 Monday, March 31st, is the last day to suggestion a name for NASA's GLAST satellite. GLAST (the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) is scheduled to launch in May 2008.

NASA won't name a satellite or mission after a living person. Since that is, unfortunately, no longer an issue in Sir Clarke's case, I suggest that anyone who is interested ( Read more... )

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."   -Erica Jong, Fear of Flying