- 10:08 RT @ChinaGlaze: I want 2 win the C&Gs @ChinaGlaze! #
- 12:03 We'll be there! RT @tiannahall: playing tonight at sambuca jazz cafe 7-11 w/ my boyz richard cruz & steve brown schmap.it/eRmtlH #
- 18:13 We've got nowhere to go / We've got nothing to prove. Instead of dancing alone / I should be dancing with you. ♫ blip.fm/~if73a #
- 18:23 You're a lucky girl if you have someone in your life that ALWAYS says the right thing. In my case it's @cachanchan. I <3 you, cupcake! #
- 20:23 I just became the mayor of Sambuca Jazz Cafe on @foursq uare! 4sq.com/8Lc1gN #
- 20:23 Talking with Carson and @cachanchan while waiting for @TiannaHall to sing. (@ Sambuca Jazz Cafe) 4sq.com/8Lc1gN #
- 21:03 Awww! A couple just got engaged. I sent them drinks. So adorable! bit.ly/6Q41zr #
- 22:20 Listening to @cachanchan explain the concept of ghetto to a trio of Frenchmen. bit.ly/6Q41zr #
- 23:39 With @cachanchan and the French. (@ Shay Mc Elroy's Irish Pub) 4sq.com/6maBrZ #
- 01:56 Slumber party with @cachanchan after a late night CVS stop. #
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14:10 Why do I feel so blah today? My intestines are mad at me or something.
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I just adore these two books about being a Girl Scout in the early 1900s - what appears to me to be one of the first Girl Scout manuals called How Girls Can Help Their Country (1916, and it wasn't sexist at all!) and Scouting For Girls: The Official Handbook (1920). You can take a peek here with these neat little embeddable book-readers and if they're interesting enough you can visit the Internet Archive and read them full screen via the above links.
-As I watched the ice and snow build up on my car today,
I realized that things ARE able to suck and blow at the same time!!!
ha ha ha
-Safely home now, I'm trying to think of what else can be done with "Twilight"...
The first thing I think this needs is for me to fire a cannon a few times, near the end, just before the song turns into the small wind-up music box. -AND tighten up the lead snare drummers' part, in a couple of spots...
"Fire!!!"
;-)
Twilight
(current version)
Lydia does not have many marvellous things to write about in comparison with other countries, except for the gold dust that is carried down from Mount Tmolus.
- Herodotus, The History, 1.93
http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/articles/oldestcoin.asp
As I recline, hopefully recuperating, my mind has turned to indulgences, and my selling therein of. For those of you late to St Flamingo Dancer flock, my New Year’s intention is to bestow upon myself sainthood. I am so wonderful, already a goddess, that it is a natural extension of my fabulosity.
I am also in it for the money. I shall sell indulgences. Not the kind of indulgence that gets you a good after life, or anything of that nature, for that side of the market is already taken. No, I shall sell indulgences that perpetuates happiness in this world, and revenge upon those who wrong against my “clients”.
I thought about what currency I should use, and thought about the Electrum Stater Of Miletos or the tripodes", "axes" or "skewers" of the pre-Numismatic Age, but eventually I arrived at the conclusion that Herodotus, sometimes, was right and so I shall use gold dust as my currency of exchange.
So I am thinking of setting the base rate of 14 grams of gold dust per smiting of employers, mothers in law and generally anyone who gets in your way in the supermarket. I set a lower price for smiting as I gain a certain large degree of pleasure from it myself!
28 grams of gold dust for the general sending of plagues and boils upon the person who annoys from the neighboring work cubicle, former university friends who now have 1. better jobs, 2. more money, 3. beautiful partners, or 4. has had cosmetic surgery though pretends otherwise.
32 grams will get you traffic free highways on the commute to work, no waiting in line for doctors, at banks, government departments, or checkouts, and wait, there’s more - no grey hair. In the case of the gentleman, you will be granted hair that remains on your head and never on your ears, but it may be grey. 32 grams of gold dust only goes so far!
The big stuff, a gold bar, will get you three wishes, as long as you remember your place and don’t expect to rise above me, as my fabulosity will not be undone!
Other indulgences upon request. Price non negotiable, no guarantees or warranties. Non returnable. Responsibility and risk upon the requester.
An indulgence, in Catholic Theology, is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the church after the sinner has confessed and received absolution. The belief is that indulgences draw on the Treasure House of Merit accumulated by Jesus' sacrifice and the virtues and penances of the saints. They are granted for specific good works and prayers.
Indulgences replaced the severe penances of the early Church. More exactly, they replaced the shortening of those penances that was allowed at the intercession of those imprisoned and those awaiting martyrdom for the faith.
Abuses in granting indulgences were a major point of contention when Martin Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation (1517).
Finished Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb.
This is set in 1964, from October up through what is quite possibly the best (read: outrageously funny) school Christmas pageant ever.
Felix Funicello (Annette's distant cousin) is in fifth grade and is trying to deal with scary nun teachers (he's in a Catholic school), two older sisters and the odds that the new girl in school is a Communist spy (she's from Russia).
There are no words for how fantastic this book is. It's very funny and sweet (in a weird way) and all around wonderful.
And how can you not love a book that has this for its first two sentences: "The year I was a fifth-grade student at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School, our teacher, Sister Dymphna, had a nervous breakdown in front of our class. To this day, I can hear Sister's screams and see her flailing attempts to shoo away the circling Prince of Darkness."
(The rest of the book is awesome, too.)
Definitions of colonoscopy on the Web:
- visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - colonoscope - an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - colonoscope - a flexible fibreoptic endoscope used to examine the colon and obtain tissue samples
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colonoscope - Examination of the entire colon with an optic fiber tube inserted through the anus and rectum.
aspirus.org/aboutAspirus/index.cfm - a test that uses a long, flexible tube with a light and camera lens at the end (colonoscope) to examine inside the large intestine.
www.childrenscentralcal.org/HealthE/P03012/Pages/P03011.aspx - A procedure in which a long flexible viewing tube (a colonoscope) is threaded up through the rectum for the purpose of inspecting the entire colon and rectum and, if there is an abnormality, taking a biopsy of it or removing it. ...
www.medicinenet.com/virtual_colonoscopy/glossary.htm - Examination of the interior of the colon using a flexible viewing instrument.
www.everydayhealth.com/gerd/understanding/glossary.aspx - a diagnostic procedure in which a flexible tube with a light source in inserted into the colon (large intestine or large bowel) through the anus to view all sections of the colon for abnormalities.
www.womenshealthzone.net/glossary/c/ - colonoscope - A thin, lighted tube used to examine the inside of the colon.
www.pbs.org/secondopinion/episodes/coloncancer/medicalglossary/story283.html - colonoscope - The long flexible lighted instrument used for performing Colonoscopy.
www.ostomy.evansville.net/terms.htm - colonoscope - Flexible, elongated tube that can be inserted through the anus allowing the inside of the colon to be seen.
www.hollister.com/anz/ostomy/resource/glossary.html - (col-un-AH-skuh-pee) examination of the colon with a long, flexible, lighted tube called a colonoscope. The doctor can look for polyps during the exam and even remove them using a wire loop passed through the colonoscope.
www.mesothelioma-line.com/articles/glossary/ - An examination of the large intestine utilizing a long lighted fiberoptic or video scope.
www.ostomy.evansville.net/terms.htm - Visualization of the lining of the anus, rectum and colon through a rigid proctosigmoidoscope or a flexible fiber optic endoscope (types of viewing tubes). This procedure allows diagnosis of tumors and inflammatory diseases.
www.abbottdiagnostics.com/Glossary/index.cfm - Procedure that allows inspection and tissue sampling of the rectum and large intestine by inserting a flexible tube with an attached camera through the rectum.
www.barrx.com/Patients_and_Families/index.cfm/55
HAPPY NEW YEAR - I think not! I was gong to say that I am really pissed off, but under the circumstances that might not be qute the right descripton!
We had fairly good flights in spite of the new airline security arrangements and arrived back in Washington DC late Saturday night. I went to bed pretending that I had just had a big social night hoping that would help me get back into the time zone quicker. I'm not sure it worked as I still needed a big nana-nap yesterday afternoon.
First day back at work today and by 3pm I was wishing for a little lie down. It's a three and a half day week this week as we close early on Thursday - a nice re-introduction to a full week. I was not so thrilled at the bitterly cold winds this morning and I've come home tonight to find that our heater is not working!!!!!!! I'm going to have to go to bed now to stay warm.
Last images of Sydney taken from the plane - a cloudy take-off: (I wanted to also take photos of our arrival in Los Angeles but we were not allowed to have any items in our laps for the last hour)......
While we were in Australia, Washington had a 17" snow fall ...... this was all that was left on our top deck yesterday, one week later:
Here's a fun little site that will tell you where you rank as a taxpayer [1] Kiplinger's Tax Burden. You don't get any cool graphics or nifty badges for yoru blog, but you do get some interesting information [2].
Enjoy!
John
[1] As opposed to the IRS, which will tell you how you rank as a taxpayer: as their love monkey, and don't you forget it!
[2] For example, in the ten years since getting that sheepskin, my income has trotted from "too poor to eat" to "Kids! my purse exploded!" [a]
[a] Geek points for the reference!
