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Yup.

If someone manages success, in the face of all opposition - be happy.

Instead of angry because they did it in spite of your threats, curses and claims to the contrary.

Just saying.

(Success is wonderful. Success is also the best revenge. If they actually MEANT all that stuff, of course.)

(And no, schaudenfreude pie is NOT for throwing. Also just saying.)

Going to check out a church this next weekend - http://www.seasidecommunitychurch.org/index.html Something tells me it'll be good for kid to have a church home, I could use the time to zone out if nothing else and I like the political climate. Let's see how long it is before they get the pitchforks and torches out. ;)

One of the NEJM studies also showed that many older Americans as well as recipients of the 1976 swine flu vaccine may already be protected against the new virus. In that study, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that tests of serum taken from 1976 swine flu vaccine recipients showed a strong protective immune response against today's pandemic virus. Hoookay. It's entirely possible I might have been in that group - Mom was a nurse, remember - so. I'm almost certain we had the flu itself - again, Mom was a nurse and I recall the number of little old people who were hospitalized for it. I wonder how hard the titer is to get done. Worth the trouble, you ask me.

A 3D remake of The Beatles' 1968 film Yellow Submarine has been confirmed, Disney Studios has announced.

I'm old enough to have been one of the target audience for the original film, and YES - we did leave the theater singing. LOUDLY. This is my favorite movie of all time, hands down. I've also made it very clear I really would prefer to have new stories instead of the infernal 'remakes' that I keep getting handed. (And asked to pay money to see. No, thanks.)

I'm telling the powers that be in the only language I have to QUIT IT. By not spending a single cent towards their support. No book adaptations, no merchandising, and definitely NO ticket sales at the box office.

I'll be playing my DVD over here in the corner if you want to find me.

Going to check out a church this next weekend - http://www.seasidecommunitychurch.org/index.html Something tells me it'll be good for kid to have a church home, I could use the time to zone out if nothing else and I like the political climate. Let's see how long it is before they get the pitchforks and torches out. ;)

One of the NEJM studies also showed that many older Americans as well as recipients of the 1976 swine flu vaccine may already be protected against the new virus. In that study, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that tests of serum taken from 1976 swine flu vaccine recipients showed a strong protective immune response against today's pandemic virus. Hoookay. It's entirely possible I might have been in that group - Mom was a nurse, remember - so. I'm almost certain we had the flu itself - again, Mom was a nurse and I recall the number of little old people who were hospitalized for it. I wonder how hard the titer is to get done. Worth the trouble, you ask me.

A 3D remake of The Beatles' 1968 film Yellow Submarine has been confirmed, Disney Studios has announced.

I'm old enough to have been one of the target audience for the original film, and YES - we did leave the theater singing. LOUDLY. This is my favorite movie of all time, hands down. I've also made it very clear I really would prefer to have new stories instead of the infernal 'remakes' that I keep getting handed. (And asked to pay money to see. No, thanks.)

I'm telling the powers that be in the only language I have to QUIT IT. By not spending a single cent towards their support. No book adaptations, no merchandising, and definitely NO ticket sales at the box office.

I'll be playing my DVD over here in the corner if you want to find me.

Ah, mixes. Yay. It all started with needing to have the Christmas Mix done, then motorbike dared me to do one...and then she posted one that was nothing but covers of 'Everybody Hurts' - so I got wicked and retaliated.

I apologize up front for the lack of format consistency. You're gonna get what I got...mp3, cda, etc. Apologies. You need a password, you're 'welcome' -

The Christmas Mix - guaranteed to have stuff in it you won't find anywhere else for good reason....

The 'Kant Help You' Dare Mix - basis for this was a random Wiki pull - and after distilling it down to a few paragraphs, this is basically what Lawrence Stepelevich was all (mostly) about:

The conclusions were both simple and shocking: the Christ of the gospels was a myth generated out of the messianic longings of the Jews. Jesus actually existed, and his personality drew upon him the mantle of the Christ, but beyond that, little more can be said of Jesus. Finally, mankind is the actual Christ insofar as it is its own savior. It is this last optimistic, humanistic, and irreverent thesis which reveals Strauss as a Young Hegelian. The incarnation of the Logos, the Geist, was not restricted to the particularity of Jesus but was received into the total human race. The messianic ideal of a redemption of mankind

does not squander its fullness on one individual in order to be stingy lo everybody else. Its desire, rather, is to distribute its wealth among the multiplicity of individuals ... Is not the idea of the unity of divine and human natures a real one in a more lofty sense when I regard the entire human race as its realization than if I select one man as its realization? Is not the incarnation of God from eternity more true than an incarnation limited to one point in time?"[22]

In commenting upon this passage, William Brazill summarizes -- "as there could be no man without God, so there could be no God without man. Humanity was the Christ."[23]

Go fer it. Yes, that's 'Existential Blues' you hear, along with some vintage Toy Matinee.

And for the last? I retaliate against all those covers of 'Everybody Hurts' with more versions...of 'I've Got You Under My Skin' - which is Creepy As Hell

You want them all? Okay.

Ghad, there's a buttload of things to do.

Jim and I have often chatted redoing vows someday. Not a big wedding - well, nothing bigger than everyone come over for BBQ and taiko in our front yard, anyway - but just Doing It Again.

Weddings give me the willies. I'll get around to telling that story when I get a few more clock cycles to myself - but I will do it properly, or not at all. It's that important.

But - wouldn't it be fun if we took a few months some year, and went around the country getting remarried in every state - for example? A few countries around the world. Collect those marriage licenses like trading cards. That sort of thing.

He wanted to do the Elvis Chapel of Love in Vegas (does that even exist?) - weeeel.

They do weddings in Portland at Voodoo Donut - $175 to do the deed for you and 8 of your friends, family optional. If he gets the Elvis treatment, I wanna bacon maple bar. (It sounds like trouble. It likely is.)

What. Quit looking at me like that.

Jim and I have often chatted redoing vows someday. Not a big wedding - well, nothing bigger than everyone come over for BBQ and taiko in our front yard, anyway - but just Doing It Again.

Weddings give me the willies. I'll get around to telling that story when I get a few more clock cycles to myself - but I will do it properly, or not at all. It's that important.

But - wouldn't it be fun if we took a few months some year, and went around the country getting remarried in every state - for example? A few countries around the world. Collect those marriage licenses like trading cards. That sort of thing.

He wanted to do the Elvis Chapel of Love in Vegas (does that even exist?) - weeeel.

They do weddings in Portland at Voodoo Donut - $175 to do the deed for you and 8 of your friends, family optional. If he gets the Elvis treatment, I wanna bacon maple bar. (It sounds like trouble. It likely is.)

What. Quit looking at me like that.

I'm bushed. Quit looking at me like that. It's a good tired. Really.

This has been a fantastic holiday so far - I've gotten to do what I really really wanted to get done, got it done on time and so far, I haven't gotten grinched.

But lawd, the tank is empty. I knew I'd be worn out, so I took the day off - and while I've gotten to Stats, and Fry's and Sis' (to fetch my phone and drop off shoes) - the girl, she is sleepy like whoa. I've napped, I've lunched but I am now going to fetch myself a Fresca, look for all of my PC Sims2 disks and install them on my new laptop.

Uh yeah. Jim wrapped my Ghibli mouse in four boxes with a note - and presented me with a new HP Pavilion laptop. Pictures forthcoming.

I got even.

He got a Sidekick the next day.

I also have more calories than any sane person leftover - and I'm wondering if I could really work in all the chocolate I got into plan, if I gave it enough time, because well dayim there's a lot of it to just toss in the crapper - and I'm tapping my chin and thinking about New Years Day already.

But for now? I nap. And drink Fresca. And hopefully, Sim.

From filkerdave - because he doesn't know how, and neither do I.

We want a Heroes icon that says "we're in ur townz, savin ur cheerleaderz"

Not very much, just a trifle - ya understand.

Hmm. I should post this on holiday_wishes - I have plenty of room for more icons, and hey - they don't cost anything to ship!

From filkerdave - because he doesn't know how, and neither do I.

We want a Heroes icon that says "we're in ur townz, savin ur cheerleaderz"

Not very much, just a trifle - ya understand.

Hmm. I should post this on holiday_wishes - I have plenty of room for more icons, and hey - they don't cost anything to ship!