A song today for the SHoF is... "I Just Want to Have Something to Do" by the Ramones ( Read more... )

For my Song Hall of Fame... "We Shall Be Free" by Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry ( Read more... )

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10 years ago this month...  age:   33      job:   Manufacturing Engineer      home:   Natick, living back with my parents

June 5:  "It was F and my 8th wedding anniversary a couple days ago.  We didn't celebrate it."

June 12:  " Counting the days until I go back to Scotland.  Two weeks from today, actually.  I have a few good job leads but not as ( Read more... )

My job prospects are looking up lately.... if you like meat or fish ( Read more... )

 
We've been right off the diet over the holiday season...  eaten like pigs.  Tonight the chickens come home to roost as it's weight watchers weigh-in night.  Need to get back on the bandwagon. 

Got another interview tomorrow for a job I am spectacularly over qualified for.  I'd take the job, tho, probably...  I'm getting tired of this unemployed life.  Not so much the not working but the uncertainty that goes with it.

Still need to hear either way from three interviews I had in the past week or so.  Waiting... waiting... waiting for that ( Read more... )

Read in Wikipedia about Chicken, Alaska:

History

Chicken was settled by gold miners in the late 1800s and in 1902 the local post office was established requiring a community name. Due to the prevalence of ptarmigan in the area that name was suggested as the official name for the new community, however, the spelling could not be agreed on and Chicken ( Read more... )

Blair in plea for calm on bird flu

"TONY Blair today urged the public not to panic following the case of bird flu in Scotland."

But how can we believe Blair after the lies he told to get us into Iraq ?  I'm going to panic anyway !!  AAAaaaaaah !!!!

Luckily, tho, some dead swans found in a Glasgow Park yesterday tested negative.  So the Scotland bird ( Read more... )

Bird flu confirmed in dead swan found in Scotland

near Cellardyke in Fife

Poultry movements have been restricted in the Fife area following the discovery of the bird.

The H5N1 virus does not at present pose a large-scale threat to humans, as it cannot pass easily from one person to another.

But experts fear the virus could mutate to gain this ( Read more... )