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Hooray!

I been busy!

And not necessarily in a GOOD way. We HAD planned on a nice Memorial Weekend party. Unfortunately, when I jumped into the pool, I landed exactly wrong, for the first time EVER, and broke my ankle, but good. THAT was a rude and abrupt party welcome to Pastor, Lora and their kids!
Fortunately for me, Lora had the presence of mind to grab Kev's camera and take a couple pictures. Here's me getting loaded into the ambulance. Thanks, Lora! :D

Kev's got scans of my ankle X-ray's on his blog That first one is notated "14.5mm". The bone was over 1/2 inch out of location. Ewg. That explains why it hurt so bad!

Our friends have absolutely been great. Everyone took the abrupt end of the party graciously, and apparently they decided to take care of the food for us and put it away so it didn't go bad. Other friends rode in the ambulance with me and drove Kev down to the hospital, waited with us till my surgery was over, and then came back first thing the next day and sat with me in the room till I could leave.
We've had offers of food, errand-running, and any kind of help we might need. Thanks. We really appreciate it.

I'll probably post a pic of my foot later. It's all wrapped up in about forty miles of ACE bandages and plaster. Mentioning wrapping up, I'm watching a rerun of the Mummy Roadshow we taped earlier. Very cool. :)

What do they have in common?

What do blockbuster author Stephen King and politician Mike Huckabee have in common? They both have discovered the power of the "Blogosphere". Both have made ill-advised, and perhaps ill-thought-out comments that a blogger noticed, seized on, and blogged about. And oh, the fallout.

Stephen King commented that if you can't read, you wind up in the Army, in Iraq. Mike Huckabee made a bad joke about Obama being shot at.

The big difference? When King was called onto the carpet for his words, he lashed out,tried to backpedal furiously, and then said that his words were "construed as a knock on the US Military". (statement on his website, under "a message from Stephen".) When Mike Huckabee was lambasted for HIS comments, he apologized, took full responsibility for saying what he did, and called it "ill-advised". HE agreed he shouldn't have said it, and said he'd try to do better in the future.
No backpedaling, no trying to blame SOMEONE ELSE for his words, no trying to paint it as a "well, the conservatives (or liberals) made it out to be something it's not."

I know who, of the two of them, I still have respect for.
Guess what, Mr. King. It ain't you.

Message to CS and WS...

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Weight Watchers

OK, I need to start a weight-loss blog or something and make this a prominent part of it:


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Happy Mothers' Day!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm 2 days late. I was Otherwise Occupied on Sunday. I'll post about that later today or tomorrow or something.

Anyway, I wanted to take the opportunity to say thanks to my mom for...well...being my mom. I know I wasn't the easiest kid to get along with (and I'm probably still not), and I'm sure there were some days when you just wanted to chuck it all. Thanks for putting up with us, thanks for providing us a great example to follow, and thanks for loving us through everything.

And, because I promised you I'd find this for you, and of course I forgot...

The Mom Song.



Love you, mom.

Dear Amazon,

While I do understand that you are a multimillion dollar company, and you have large amounts of product on your website, and therefore obviously you can't necessarily police every single listing as you'd like, I do request that you require whoever puts your reviews together to be intelligent. At least make them capable of realizing that product descriptions that make no sense whatsoever need to be changed, and then act accordingly.

Sincerely,
Me

Backstory: I was searching for a book, "Turn Around and Run Like Hell", that was recommended to me by a friend. It's a book about unconventional - yet successful - military strategies. My local library doesn't have it, so I thought I'd check Amazon and see if I could look for the author, at least.
I clicked on the first result, and here's the entire product description. All typos, spelling errors, and errors in logic are theirs, not mine.

Product Description
The great global conflicts of the twentieth century from the seige of ancient Babylon to Caesar's campaign.

What? The siege of ancient Babylon and Caesar's campaign were....global conflicts of the twentieth century? Really? O....kay.....

Awww, I still loves you!

In reply to Strawberry's latest post...

I Still loveses you. And your wedding will be lovely. It has to be; you're in it.

Careful Enunciation in Ads

OK, people, listen up. If you're going to advertise your product, enunciate the name of the product very clearly. Especially if the name of your product could easily be confused with an expletive. I heard an ad this morning on the radio that took me completely by surprise. I couldn't believe that the guy on the radio just got away with saying Tough....{something}. We'll leave it at that for a minute.
He repeated it three or four times during the ad. This isn't the first time I've heard this ad, by the way, but it is the first time I finally figured out what the heck he was saying.

Apparently Tough Shed is all you ever need for your small-building sheltery needs.

Which has nothing to do with what I thought he said.

Tough Shed really needs to get someone that doesn't say their name so fast, so the words don't run together and it doesn't sound like something it really shouldn't. *snicker*