-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I heard a news item on National Public Radio today about a woman who woke up to find a burglar asleep on the bed, next to her and her husband. The burglar was sound enough asleep that she was able to climb out of bed, flee the house, and call the...

Turn your speakers on and enjoy :-) http://media.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/2461/flyin_egg_fight.swf -- Shirley

Good luck to everyone around the Gulf of Mexico, that Hurricane Dennis stays out of your way! (last I heard it was up to category 4, and deemed a "significant threat") According to The Weather Channel, Dennis is forecast to move across Cuba and into the Gulf Saturday. The forecast track has it...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My sister, Mary, lives in Richmond, Virginia. When Hurricane Isabel went through there last week, her power was off for five days. She sent me a link to someone else's web page showing how bad the fallen trees were in the Richmond neighborhood known...

Its federal election night here and 3 of the 5 free-to-air TV channels are not coincidentally, are showing election coverage. Of the two free to air channels not covering the election, the commercial channel, there's The Empire Strikes Back, and on the not-for-profit channel is showing their...

Has anyone here had experience with a hypnotist? I'm trying to talk DH into going to one in order to help him quit smoking without gaining weight. I'd like to be able to relate some success stories to him to help him make the decision to spend the bucks it takes ($1,600 for 14 session - once a...

He is *such* a gem. I told you about my trojan virus / ad bombardment on my computer at home. Yesterday the dear man reformatted my "C" drive and had all my programs reloaded and my mail folders in place by the time I got home from work - *AND* had the lawn cut - on his day off from work. I think...

It's Thanksgiving and I wanted a nice peaceful day to enjoy my family, friends, and good food. Background.... DH, Ben, has been going out 3 or 4 times every evening to "take a walk". I was suspicious, because this is a man who is far, far,*FAR* from slim, likes to eat chocolate éclairs and...

Last week, I had a CT scan of my abdomen; they were thinking I may have gallstones. They did the scan of my entire abdominal area, including pelvis. I have an ovarian cyst. And I am scared. Anybody here have experience with this? Ginger-lyn

There's going to be a Barbara Walters special tonight about "heaven". She will talk to people ranging from the Dahli Lama to a Muslim suicide bomber about what they believe in regards to religion and heaven. I don't know that what I believe has ever been found in any one formalized religion, but...

CBS, at 5:30PM CDT, is showing footage of half-rotted, dead bodies floating in the flood waters of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. People like me, missing relatives, might have seen their loved ones in that footage! I'm outraged that the networks news could be that insensitive to...

....so I went to a Vietnamese restaurant after work and got a bean drink!! It was just as yummy as I remember it. It was made of coconut milk, red beans, and these translucent green squiggly things that might have been some kind of noodle, or was what some folks on the web have called "jelly" or...

Call me a troll but I am crying my heart out right now in sorrow. I had heard and read some facts about mass production of meat but the knowledge was purely conceptual until today. Before you post any recipe, I dare you to watch this to the...

Just hand me that award for Klutz of a Lifetime. You know I deserve it ;-) This time, it's almost funny (sure wasn't at the time, though). I had an appointment with an ortho about my fractured pelvis. He said it will heal on its own eventually, but there could be pain for up to a year (ugh!)....

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html Scroll down a bit once you get to the site, because there are a few ads and links at the top. This place has the most amazing vegetation I've ever seen, plus beautiful buildings on a cliffside, weird and forbidding...

My arm is *still* swollen (after 9 weeks and 2 weeks out of the cast!!!), and still hurts a lot, so I still haven't been doing any non-essential-to-making-a-living typing, but I've been trying to at least skim posts. I not have exactly 10,000 unread posts to read (how long do you guys think...

We just got back from H&R Block. We owe *FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS* to the IRS! thud -- Hugs, CatNipped http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/

Most of you know I have a business website up, that has been in the same location since August 1998 or so. A dear man who goes by Spirit (a friend of a friend) has been kind enough to allow me space on his site without even charging me anything. Unfortunately, he can no longer support myself and...

Wish I'd done this earlier. Finally got sick of waiting for YouTube clips to download before watching them, and decided to contact my ISP. Apparently, according to them, I was maxed out on speed, but I could always buy more data (which is not the point - I don't use much data because I can't...

I went to the bike shop to get my clipless-cleat shoes and pedals today. But my stupid PeeWee Herman bike has a different sized axle and the pedal won't fit!!!! So for now, until I can get a *REAL* bike, I'm going to have to find the clips that will fit - if I can. I did get a good camelbak and...