So, hubby has been asked to come to California to give a speech to schoolchildren about World Wind. The people who invited him are paying to fly all of us to go with him!

This is where they're putting us up.

Why yes, I am bragging. I get to do it so rarely, so deal with it!

Ganked from another board, posted by medjaibabe:

Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter ( Read more... )

Summed up perfectly by Marumae over on JournalFen:

I eventually realized that you know, all the suspense and the mini sort of not even really at all "payments" they gave us aren't really worth the wait and that I honestly didn't care anymore.

Not that anyone probably cares why I quit watching Lost, but - there you go.

My laptop has died. My laptop with all my stories and images on it. Yeah, I'm ready to scream. I'd just finished the first chapter of a new story and now I'll have to rewrite it unless by some miracle hubby can salvage my stuff off the hard drive ( Read more... )

In a debate about whether children should be forced to say the pledge of allegiance in school, one commenter stated that anybody who doesn't say it shouldn't call themselves a real American, because unless they pledge their allegiance to this country they are merely sponging off of the freedoms America allows and don't really belong here ( Read more... )

Ok, so some of you Oded-philes know that Oded was at one time in talks to star in the Iron Man movie. That fell through. So guess who they signed on for the role?

Robert Downey Jr.

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Yeah, I don't get it either.

Wednesday night I watched 20/20, where Barbara Walters spent the hour at Australia Zoo interviewing Terri Irwin. I cried. I guess it's weird but until I watched that I hadn't truly realized just how deeply Terri loved Steve. She referred to Steve as 'her prince' and watching her fighting back tears as she talked about how her prince was gone was ( Read more... )

I just checked Zack Ward's IMDB listing - he's in the Transformers movie!!

SQUEE!!

The girls had soccer games today; Danna's team lost 2-1, the game was tied at 0 until the last quarter so things were kind of exciting at least. Jessica's team - well I think they lost by a little, at her level they don't really bother keeping score. They just basically try to kick the ball into the net at that age. Danna's team also had their ( Read more... )

Why i read booju_mooju. Some of the people on there absolutely sicken me.

Case in point, under this post, we have these two threads here and here. What really sickens me is that those two think emotionally manipulating an already frightened child is a-ok and all the kid will need is a little therapy, they won't be scarred for life or anything ( Read more... )