Our interest rates are going up, so we're in the process of re-shuffling our finances so our credit cards won't kill us. We've also factored in some omney so we can finally finish the home renovations we started last year and were planning to finish earlier this year when my anual bonus came...

I finally downloaded these from my camera. http://www.possibleplaces.com/Thanksgiving/ Hugs, CatNipped

** Author Pratchett has Alzheimer's ** Best-selling author Terry Pratchett reveals he has a rare form of early Alzheimer's disease. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/7141458.stm Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Yowie -- If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls...

Anyone know much about telescopes? I was given a Tasco 66TE one with some extra eyepieces. I am clueless as to the purpose of the extra eyepieces, and the long tube with a glass in in about 1/3 of the way up (is this an extension peice or something else)? Naturally, it didn't come with a manual...

I lost the thread in which we were discussing how easy the male cyclist anatomy is on the eye ... well ... for those who are interested, feast your eyes on these! (work...

It's one thing to allow the point-blank shooting of defenseless animals in fenced enclosures, but it's quite another to get a tax cut for doing so. As reported in a front-page exposé in The Washington Post, wealthy hunters have been killing a few "extra" animals, donating the trophies...

My former boss unexpectedly ended up taking care of a friend's Doberman/who knows what puppy, after the friend ended up having to be out of town for five weeks at a client site. My former boss has an elderly cocker-spaniel mix, Dixie, who is diabetic, blind, and not happy about having her house...

Let me preface this by saying that I love my mother. She is a good person, she's kind-hearted, and she doesn't mean to hurt anyone. It's just that she seems to have no filter between her brain and her mouth. So yesterday, I'm on the phone with my parents. I tell them I was going to get a few...

Can people please purr pray or send good thoughts to Sydney, Australia. We're in the middle of race riots. I am appalled and disgusted, I am saddened and dissapointed. Mosly I just feel sick. Australia, the Australia I knew, the Australia I emigrated to when i was 4, the Australia I grew up...

The first day on the new job went okay. Cats didn't appear to have panicked at my absence (grin). Hugs and Purrs, Mark -- Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request

I found this in an old email and thought folks here might have some fun with it. Feel free to embellish answers, avoid questions, and make up outright lies if it entertains you. :) Oh, and I'll post my answers soon, too, but I thought it would be easier for folks to respond if they didn't have to...

I saw my oncologist on Friday, and he agreed with the other two doctors that I need surgery for the precancerous condition. The whole day was a horrible mess, and the office visit was a nightmare, but I'll spare you the details. Suffice to say I am scheduled for surgery on May 21st, although...

Simple, but always good, New Orleans red beans and rice. 2 bags kidney beans 2 pounds pork & venison sausage 1 *very* large onion salt, pepper, ground cayenne pepper to taste 1/2 tsp. sugar Rinse beans, cut up sausage, cut up onion and just throw it all in a big pot and let it simmer for 4 hours,...

Wasn't there someone here (Winnie maybe) who was going to try taking the sublingual b-vitamins on my recommendation? I was wondering how they were working. I know I have about 100 times as much energy as I used to, but I've also lost a lot of weight and some of it could be attributed to that. I...

My photos of my home town and surrounds, although plentiful, hardly do the natural beauty of the place any justice. This professional photographer, though, has captured the beauty of the Illawarra region (and a few other places) beautifully: http://www.deekramer.com/ The gallery is less than a...

Called the surgeon's office again... he still hasn't called me back. Called my PCP's office and asked them to get the test results... haven't heard from them either. My upper stomach is getting more distended, I can't eat, I'm still not going to the potty (after *8* Ducolax in the past 24...

I just got back from the doctors and I still don't have any definitive answers. The good news... the cyst on the kidney they were talking about was one we already knew about, on the *left* kidney, not the right. The stones have moved from the kidney to the bladder and there was some swelling...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1732439.htm Steve Irwin dead The naturalist and television star Steve Irwin has died in a diving accident in far north Queensland. He was 44. Police say he was stung through the heart by a stingray while diving off Port Douglas. He was filming a...

The Grey Ghost escaped from my work computer. After much pain (much much pain) things are up and running again, although I lost everything that I hadn't backed up on the network drive. The good news is that I didn't lose anything critical because I had backed it up, the bad news is that I lost...

I'm asking for suggestions to deal with an age old problem - how do you keep squirrels out of your bird feeder? My bird feeder hangs from a shepherd's crook, several feet off the ground. It has a compartment where you pour the bird seed and holes in the bottom where the seed goes out into a...