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Today, this journal is ten years old.

"Gotta start somewhere



Whoo-hoo, the first entry. Boy, won't some folks be shocked.

Note to self: this is a party line. No posting about anything that party of the first part will not know about party of the second part. And so on and so forth.

*ahem*

I'm so terribly behind, music-wise. Will I ever catch up?"

What a long, strange trip it's been.

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*whew*

I absolutely fucking ADORE the internet right now.

"People may wonder why I often spend my free moments making shoddily written, sarcastic, jokey, favorite-bait posts on MeFi. Now you all know.

Usually I get these cases weeks or months after they've stepped off that bus."

Metafilter just provided the means to rescue two people from human trafficking. Oh, you think people suck. Go read this. No, really.

"We're closed for the holidays beginning 12/21 until...oh, after the first."

This is me, finding out I don't have childcare - of any kind - the busiest two weeks of my year.

The busiest two weeks of EVERYONE'S year.

"What, didn't you know? It was in the signup paperwork...."

Lady, I did that paperwork in May of 2008. You have no earthly idea of what has had to be tossed out of my memory like so many temp files since then.

SO GLAD I ASKED NOW.

Boy, Fourth of July weekend is going to look like a bargain at this rate.

"We're closed for the holidays beginning 12/21 until...oh, after the first."

This is me, finding out I don't have childcare - of any kind - the busiest two weeks of my year.

The busiest two weeks of EVERYONE'S year.

"What, didn't you know? It was in the signup paperwork...."

Lady, I did that paperwork in May of 2008. You have no earthly idea of what has had to be tossed out of my memory like so many temp files since then.

SO GLAD I ASKED NOW.

Boy, Fourth of July weekend is going to look like a bargain at this rate.

You want to see the building our apartment was in, when Cliff and I lived in Zurich?

Quick, take a look at the street view. (Graffitti was not present when I was there. You might also see the lack of it on surrounding buildings. It was an understood thing that this was a building full of foreigners...and I don't think anything has changed in that regard.)

You'd better look quick because the Swiss ain't happy about the way Google built their street views.

Amazing. I can see the park we walked the dog at is still there. So are some of the businesses. Some. Buildings are there - but I don't see the phoneboxes I used anymore. Thai restaurants. *shakes head* Wow.

BY SCARING YOU WITLESS.

Tell me if this ever worked for you.

It worked DAMN well when I was in 4th grade and they used pictures and data culled from England to 'educate' us about LSD, pot and barbituates.

Uh. Like, dead bodies. I was oh - about 8 or 9. (BTW, withdrawl from barbituates? Those days, you frothed at the mouth and nose and died. Period. Full stop.)

I got so scared about anything getting in my stuff I ended up on the couch over it. Because 'tee hee' they could put LSD into ANYTHING and you'd never know. Well, and they did too. Ask n6vfp, you don't believe me.

Taking anything for recreational purposes just never sat right with me. I'm just at the point these days when I'll drink something to the point of feeling the effect - no, never had a hangover, not once. Ever.

So when this little video crossed my path this AM, I watched - was impressed - and decided to pass it on.

A new British PSA attempting to discourage teenagers from texting while driving is actually a four-minute, 15-second journey into YouTube hell. If the graphic, slo-mo head-on collision doesn’t have you covering your bleary eyes in horror, then perhaps the followup, side-impact crash will accomplish that task.

Oh, it's well done. Keep in mind my background working in hospitals - me, family and yeah.

And I'm reminded I need to update our kits in the cars.

EDIT: I'm tempted to tell you about one big boner as far as actual effect is concerned - dedoc would pick it up in a red hot second - then my self-restraint kicked in. No, you don't need to know what that actually would look like - it would break your heart - and I shouldn't know this much about it.)

EDIT EDIT: HAHA. 1:20, there's unclejimbo.

BY SCARING YOU WITLESS.

Tell me if this ever worked for you.

It worked DAMN well when I was in 4th grade and they used pictures and data culled from England to 'educate' us about LSD, pot and barbituates.

Uh. Like, dead bodies. I was oh - about 8 or 9. (BTW, withdrawl from barbituates? Those days, you frothed at the mouth and nose and died. Period. Full stop.)

I got so scared about anything getting in my stuff I ended up on the couch over it. Because 'tee hee' they could put LSD into ANYTHING and you'd never know. Well, and they did too. Ask n6vfp, you don't believe me.

Taking anything for recreational purposes just never sat right with me. I'm just at the point these days when I'll drink something to the point of feeling the effect - no, never had a hangover, not once. Ever.

So when this little video crossed my path this AM, I watched - was impressed - and decided to pass it on.

A new British PSA attempting to discourage teenagers from texting while driving is actually a four-minute, 15-second journey into YouTube hell. If the graphic, slo-mo head-on collision doesn’t have you covering your bleary eyes in horror, then perhaps the followup, side-impact crash will accomplish that task.

Oh, it's well done. Keep in mind my background working in hospitals - me, family and yeah.

And I'm reminded I need to update our kits in the cars.

EDIT: I'm tempted to tell you about one big boner as far as actual effect is concerned - dedoc would pick it up in a red hot second - then my self-restraint kicked in. No, you don't need to know what that actually would look like - it would break your heart - and I shouldn't know this much about it.)

EDIT EDIT: HAHA. 1:20, there's unclejimbo.

Yesterday, Larry King reported he was going to have Bill Cosby on his show. I tweeted Larry to tell Dr. Cosby he should tweet more often.

This morning, five tweets. (One wee tweet the first week of August, but essentially nothing all month.)

You don't have to run back and tell me you heard me, even to agree with me. If I wasn't full of tartar sauce - and you agreed with me - hey.

I'm a middle kid - I crave acknowledgement. I can live for two weeks on a compliment.

(And for the record, I completely agree with Bill Cosby. $5,000 for education is a pittance against what it takes to incarcerate someone - anywhere. Ditto long-term hospitalization for mental illness due to lack of early child intervention.)

Oh...damn. Five tweets out of a total of twenty-nine?

And Larry King has over a million people following him. I'm sure I wasn't the only one - but. Damn.

140 characters is all right with me.