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Illness still blowing through family
I realize it's been almost a month since I posted but amazingly enough, there is still illness in the family. What I thought was a cold turned out to be a lung flu that is the gift that keeps on giving. Two people that we are close to have developed pneumonia and Ron and I have gotten pretty much over it ( Read more... ) -
Hey Happy New Year's Day to Everybody. Some thoughts…
If you haven't seen it already, rent the movie
Temple Grandin.
See it. So see it now because even if you do not have an autistic child, chances are you know somebody who knows somebody who has one. This movie is succinct in describing what autism is like for the people who are autistic. Temple is a brilliant scientist who came of age when people's ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas! Boy what would Charles Dickens think today?
Today I stayed home with Ron and Alex. The only presents we opened today were a small package of gifts from our friends Raychyl and John Stewart.
We didn't put up a tree.
Our turkey dinner consisted of a small package that we threw in the microwave.
It's okay.
Today I rewatched A Christmas Carol-the one with George C. Scott playing Scrooge. Man, what ( Read more... ) -
The Tsunami is coming…
Wikileaks Solidarity!!!
Fuck Amazon
Fuck Mastercard/Visa
Fuck Paypal/E-bay!
Vote with your feet! Protect Free Speech!! -
Happy Black Friday!
I hope that you were able to catch great savings today. Preferably online ( Read more... ) -
I'm not leaving either
I know some people are leaving LJ for Facebook and Twitter but now with the awesome ability to cross post, made so easy an e-clueless person like me can do it, why not do it all?
I'm staying!!
Anybody else deciding to stay too? -
A very wise blog post by Seth Godin
Intolerance and xenophobia as a (short-term) marketing strategy
Possibly the oldest human worldview is fear of strangers. And right next to that is anger as a byproduct of fear.
If a candidate wants to gain attention and possibly votes, then, it makes short-term sense to stir up fear of strangers and turn it into anger. It might even work (once). But ( Read more... )
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