Yup... I have just been informed by my daughter, cheapcarnival, of my impending Grandparentization. Yup. You read right. I'm gonna be a Grandmother. Wow... is she really old enough to be a mom?  *counts* Yup... I was the same age when I made the same announcement to my own mom now that I think about it ( Read more... )

Dayton's own Barry Hobart, also known as Dr. Creep from the late night TV show Shock Theatre, and later Clubhouse 22 has passed away to day.  The sad thing about it is that as much as the Creeper gave to his community, in his last days, he and his family struggled horribly to keep up with his mounting medical bills and are still experiencing ( Read more... )

For the time being anyway. I've been weighing my options and reasons and the reasons to stop for now by so far outweigh the reasons to continue struggling forward that I can't even find a pro school reason right now. These are in no order of importance... in fact, the last things might weigh the heaviest right now because some of them are the ( Read more... )

So... When I heard the news, I was a little shocked to hear them reporting that he'd hanged himself. Then as I read the articles, I noticed that some of them were getting a little dodgy about the details, speaking in euphemisms... like the BBC saying he wsa found "naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body". Then ( Read more... )

I stole this story from composer99 and seriously just had to share it.

I was totally in West Carrollton 3 hours before this happened.

http://www.whiotv.com/news/19358956/detail.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/19/london.viking.reut/index.htmlHere's my take on this.. Erik the Viking buried this little sampling of the type of treasure his clan had got over the years... and planned for one of his descendants to dig it up in a few hundred years and have a laugh over how much they'd advanced... and marvel over their ( Read more... )