Texas Smoldering

It’s not sweltering because it’s not Michigan.  I hear there is a fire going on somewhere in the state but it is not here. But it was 105 today. Yeah, but it’s a dry heat. I got up, threw on my jeans and a t-shirt, jumped in the jeep and tore out of the driveway. [...]

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Yes, Yes It Has Sucketh.

taobmaetS ooGcM rightly guessed that not all has been well recently. I’ve been working like a horse to make a project work for months and finally two scientists I work with flew out to make it work – plus a third scientist who we are collaborating with.  I felt some relief that surely with their [...]

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Then Tragedy Struck.

A lady from our church e:mailed me tonight.   Her story has touched my heart. I’m writing this with tears in my eyes.I made a quick trip to Madrid Spain on a short vacation unfortunately i got mugged at the park of hotel where i stayed,worse of it was that my bags, cash, mobile phone and [...]

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That Burning Sensation.

Russian supply rocket blows up after launch. NASA is counting on Russia as well as Japan and Europe to keep the orbiting outpost stocked, now that the space shuttles are no longer flying. The shuttle program ended in July with the Atlantis mission; a year’s worth of food and other provisions were delivered. That burning [...]

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A Beautiful Beautiful… Thing.

Oh, and I ordered Deus Ex: Human Revolution, juuuuust coming in under the wire as a pre-order and getting the tactical pack (nifty weapons and in-game credits unlocks).   So in two days, it will be here.  Yay!  Talk about waiting till the last moment. May it be a damn sight better than Duke Pukem: Never. [...]

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Steampunk… spuds… naturally.

The Dude sent me a link to a Steampunk Mr. Potato Head.  Found by him over at Instructables.com I don’t have a lot to say.  One good thing is that the injection in one of the arthritic joints was…  cautiously, because I don’t want to jinx it… a success.  It just doesn’t hurt like it [...]

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Could it be there is still hope?

A photographer saw several high school girls being incredibly abusive to some classmates on FaceBook.  Then… She took screenshots, sent them to the girl’s parents, said she was not going to take their pictures, and refunded the $200 deposit. Oh. My.  GOD. Ms. McKendrick (Jennifer McKendrick), I am willing to drive to Indiana to pay [...]

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The Update.

Did a half day at work today.  Hadn’t felt abysmally bad when I got up.  I opened my eyes and said “Whelp, I don’t want tuh get up, but I think I can.” And so I did.  But after four awful hours I said “Whelp, I guess I is gonna go home.” Whispering as I [...]

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In my neck of the woods…

Last night was just the diagnostic, really. After lots of sweaty broken sleep and trying to stay in bed, I really did try, I got up around 10AM.  Half-crap dozing until 4am but not sleep as we normally know it, and then solid sleep until 7:30 or so, and then full-crap sleep until 10AM. You [...]

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Yay me.

Update #2: Holy f***.   11:39pm… gonna be a long night. **** Update: Ok, so for a brief while there I was feeling pretty ok, able to move my head all around.  By the time we got to the car I was feeling kind of cruddy.  Still am. The deal, talking with the doc before the [...]

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Mollycoddling Madness.

Hey, everyone’s got problems, right? As of Tuesday at 6 p.m. Sturdivant has been on the tower for 128 hours.  – Oklahoma, newson6.com Why, when a guy climbs up a 300 foot tower and refuses to come down… why do you keep bringing him tasty food? Note:  Link from last night was bad, and this is [...]

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Secondborn Children.

Update:  Coworker Black Lab on Meth got this at a local fair.   Here it is shown in my office about ready to take a crap on my desk.  A few nuts, bolts, and washers per crapload, which no one is going to notice amongst all the nuts, bolts, and washers on my desk already. ***** [...]

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And we wouldn’t want *that*, would we?

An environmental watchdog group [Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)] that is defending a suspended government biologist who claims polar bears are drowning has blasted the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed scientific integrity rules, saying they will make it easier for scientists to be punished for misconduct. Can you imagine the chaos if scientists who knowingly [...]

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