I don't really know what to do with this ( Read more... )

The last few days have been not quite a haze of jet lag, but I certainly know I've hopped time zones ( Read more... )

Yeah. For the last few days my Groupon emails have had very strange subject lines. Today's offering?

"Father's Day deals for the man who felt you kick inside him for nine months"

A few days ago it was

"Father's Day deals for the man who gave birth to you"

... ... ... Uh... really?

I've lived in my house for eleven years. For eleven years this has been my address. For eleven years I've had the same land line phone number ( Read more... )

What IS it with five year old girls? Back in 2008 when my youngest niece was turning five in a couple of months she and I had a serious/funny conversation where she informed me I could "get" a baby - like it was as simple as picking one up at the corner store ( Read more... )

And this is what fell out ( Read more... )

Gorgeous little city (from what I've seen of it). We went to the international fireworks competition show last night. Spain's entry was very colorful. Also loud. Next Wednesday night is Russia's entry into the festival and then a new entry each Saturday and Wednesday night until August 10. We were amused at the announcements before the show ( Read more... )

Every time we go somewhere with the entire team at work we try to do something as a team. Today's meeting they were seriously discussing, while we are in Prague, going ZORBING. I had no idea what the hell ZORBING was, but I was assured that the Czech Republic has an official ZORBING site (go ahead and Google it - there are some youtube vids of ( Read more... )

So all the kids have been either picked up from school or delivered home after their extended locked down day. The mail has been delivered. But according to the news, the guy with the knife is still out there (seven hours after it began late this morning ( Read more... )

I've posted before on the town phone alert system, I think. So my town can take segments of the population of the town and call them with a pre-recorded message. It is usually a notification of mosquito-spraying, coyotes seen in the area, alzheimer's patient wandered away, road detours, blizzard (or any violent weather) warnings, that sort of ( Read more... )