Sunday, January 27, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Canx apointment
Dang them folks...
Had my magnesium infusion consultation cancelled on me this morning. The reason? Doctor on call for the infusion center was uncomfortable in his knowledge level and felt he would be able to benefit me. HuH? That's a first! ! So, anyway, I will be rescheduled when a particular doctor is available for the west side/High Resort center. I guess I could have gone into Albuquerque but since I am not in imminent danger of my electrolytes going crazily out of whack I can wait. Oh well.
Pause here while I check something out......... Ok back. I thought I had talked about my Delta faucet prior to today but I guess not.
The story. Our kitchen sink started to leak at the base of the spout.
Had my magnesium infusion consultation cancelled on me this morning. The reason? Doctor on call for the infusion center was uncomfortable in his knowledge level and felt he would be able to benefit me. HuH? That's a first! ! So, anyway, I will be rescheduled when a particular doctor is available for the west side/High Resort center. I guess I could have gone into Albuquerque but since I am not in imminent danger of my electrolytes going crazily out of whack I can wait. Oh well.
Pause here while I check something out......... Ok back. I thought I had talked about my Delta faucet prior to today but I guess not.
The story. Our kitchen sink started to leak at the base of the spout.
Come to find out, even though I bought them when we remodeled the kitchen in June of 2003 they were still under the lifetime owner warranty. Contacted customer service 2 weeks ago told them the story and they were going to send a new replacement spout .
plus o-rings and plastic retainer.
On the 22nd I received a small package that container the following:
They had been shipped via UPS to the ABQ post office and then delivered to the house. The tracking number on the items did not match up to the tracking number I had been given by Delta so I waited for the spout but it never came. I called Delta today gave them the case # and asked what had really been sent. They looked into the case and said only the spout retainer and the o-rings had been sent.
Anyway when done I had to take several pictures and send to them and I did. See below:
Hopefully they will be sending the spout this time.
The spout alone, since the series has been discontinued, will cost $140.00 by itself. Be a shame to have to buy a whole new faucet system.
We will see what will happen later today and tomorrow.
One more UFO story.
UFO may have been military plane
AMHERST, Mass. (UPI) -- Authorities said a military plane was flying
over Massachusetts during reported UFO sightings, but a military
spokesman said the descriptions don't match.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman James Peters said agency officials at Bradley International Airport reviewed radar data from Jan. 8 when residents in the Amherst and Pelhem area reported a mysterious aircraft traveling slowly and unusually low over the area from 5:45 to 6:15 p.m., the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported Wednesday.
"The only aircraft that was operating in the area was a military aircraft doing practice approaches to Westover [Air Reserve Base]," Peters wrote in an email to the Northampton newspaper.
Lt. Col. James Bishop, Westover's chief of public affairs, said the aircraft was a C5 cargo plane. However, he said the C5, one of the world's largest aircraft, does not match the description of the craft reported by residents. The residents said the object appeared to be triangular or diamond shaped and about the size of two or three cars. They said it appeared to travel silently at a low altitude.
"There's just no mistaking that," Bishop said. It's quite a loud sound and quite a big aircraft, he said of the cargo plane.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman James Peters said agency officials at Bradley International Airport reviewed radar data from Jan. 8 when residents in the Amherst and Pelhem area reported a mysterious aircraft traveling slowly and unusually low over the area from 5:45 to 6:15 p.m., the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported Wednesday.
"The only aircraft that was operating in the area was a military aircraft doing practice approaches to Westover [Air Reserve Base]," Peters wrote in an email to the Northampton newspaper.
Lt. Col. James Bishop, Westover's chief of public affairs, said the aircraft was a C5 cargo plane. However, he said the C5, one of the world's largest aircraft, does not match the description of the craft reported by residents. The residents said the object appeared to be triangular or diamond shaped and about the size of two or three cars. They said it appeared to travel silently at a low altitude.
"There's just no mistaking that," Bishop said. It's quite a loud sound and quite a big aircraft, he said of the cargo plane.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
B-12 today
Getting a B-12 shot today. I have to admit that getting the shot every few weeks really does improve how I feel. The last few days I have been super tired so am looking forward to the rejuvenation the B-12 will bring.
Mystery as Coast Guardsman who was presumed dead at sea turns up 'incoherent' at his wife's house THREE MONTHS later
A man who has served for more than 15 years in the Coast Guard has miraculously reappeared after being declared missing more than three months ago, Honolulu police and the Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
Petty Officer First Class Russell Matthews returned home on Sunday night, police said.
Officials said he was incoherent and taken to a military hospital for observation.
Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Gene Maestas said the service doesn't know where Matthews, a Hawaii-based rescue swimmer, has been and what he's been doing since his wife reported him missing on October 9.
According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Matthews was being investigated for marijuana use at the time of his disappearance.
Coast Guard investigators dispatched to see him confirmed his identity after he called his command from Castle Medical Center in the Honolulu suburb of Kailua, Maestas said.
He's now being evaluated at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
Coast Guard investigators looking into his disappearance won't question him until he's released by doctors, Maestas said. But the service will probe the incident.
Police found the 36-year-old guardsman's car abandoned at Kaena Point, a remote area of Oahu, when Matthews was reported missing in October.
Crews from the Coast Guard, Navy, state, county lifeguards and Honolulu fire and police departments together searched more than 10,000 nautical square miles - on land and at sea - for Matthews. The search was called off on December 13.
Honolulu Police Sgt. Kim Buffett of Crimestoppers said Matthews isn't giving the police a statement because he's in the hospital. Detectives have no reason to pursue the case as it's not against the law to be missing, she said.
The police case is closed now that Matthews has been found, she said.
It's unusual for a Guardsman to go missing for months and then reappear, Maestas said.
'This is not the norm for the Coast Guard. In my 28 year career in the Coast Guard, I have never come across a case like this,' he said.
Matthews, an aviation survival technician, has been in the Coast Guard for 15 years. He's been assigned to Hawaii since 2007.
On the same theme as yesterday a few stories but none about the gun violence of the last few days.
- Petty Officer First Class Russell Matthews reappeared Sunday night after going missing three months before
- Was at the center of an investigation at the time of his disappearance
Mystery: Russell Matthews reappeared after vanishing and being declared a missing person more than three months ago
Petty Officer First Class Russell Matthews returned home on Sunday night, police said.
Officials said he was incoherent and taken to a military hospital for observation.
Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Gene Maestas said the service doesn't know where Matthews, a Hawaii-based rescue swimmer, has been and what he's been doing since his wife reported him missing on October 9.
According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Matthews was being investigated for marijuana use at the time of his disappearance.
Coast Guard investigators dispatched to see him confirmed his identity after he called his command from Castle Medical Center in the Honolulu suburb of Kailua, Maestas said.
He's now being evaluated at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
Coast Guard investigators looking into his disappearance won't question him until he's released by doctors, Maestas said. But the service will probe the incident.
Without a trace: Matthews' car was left at the remote Kaena Point in Oahu three months ago
Treatment: The petty officer is now being evaluated at Tripler Army Medical Center
'We'll try to find out why he disappeared and all the details surrounding his case,' he said.
Under investigation: Matthews, pictured before his disappearance, was under investigation for alleged marijuana use.
Crews from the Coast Guard, Navy, state, county lifeguards and Honolulu fire and police departments together searched more than 10,000 nautical square miles - on land and at sea - for Matthews. The search was called off on December 13.
Honolulu Police Sgt. Kim Buffett of Crimestoppers said Matthews isn't giving the police a statement because he's in the hospital. Detectives have no reason to pursue the case as it's not against the law to be missing, she said.
The police case is closed now that Matthews has been found, she said.
It's unusual for a Guardsman to go missing for months and then reappear, Maestas said.
'This is not the norm for the Coast Guard. In my 28 year career in the Coast Guard, I have never come across a case like this,' he said.
Matthews, an aviation survival technician, has been in the Coast Guard for 15 years. He's been assigned to Hawaii since 2007.
Last seen: Police found the 36-year-old guardsman's car abandoned at Kaena Point, a remote area of Oahu, when the man was reported missing in October
"Cleaning Fairy" indicted again for burglary
Cleaning fairy arrested while shoveling driveways without permission
ELYRIA, OH (WOIO) -
Susan Warren also known as "The Cleaning Fairy" was back in police custody today but this time it wasn't for breaking into homes to clean them; this time she was shoveling driveways without permission.
A local maid will be doing more cleaning up, for free, but this time it's part of her sentence. Susan Warren was sentenced to one year, 20 hours of community work service, and slapped with $150 fine.
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Elyria Police went to a home on Brandtson Avenue today for a report of a "suspicious female" shoveling a driveway without the homeowner's consent.
During questioning, the officer discovered that 53-year-old Susan Warren had a warrant through Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office for probation violation.
Although Warren was arrested on the warrant, no charges were brought up for shoveling the snow.
In November of 2012, Warren was sentenced to one year of probation for breaking into a Westlake home, cleaning it and leaving a $75 bill for the homeowner on a napkin.
She said that it wasn't uncommon for her to go into homes and clean them and that she never had a problem before that.
A local maid will be doing more cleaning up, for free, but this time it's part of her sentence. Susan Warren was sentenced to one year, 20 hours of community work service, and slapped with $150 fine.
Susan Warren was sentenced to one year, 20 hours of community work service, and slapped with $150 fine.
She's accused of breaking into a house, cleaning it and then leaving a bill. The self-styled cleaning fairy doesn't believe she was committing a crime, but doing a good deed.
During questioning, the officer discovered that 53-year-old Susan Warren had a warrant through Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office for probation violation.
Although Warren was arrested on the warrant, no charges were brought up for shoveling the snow.
In November of 2012, Warren was sentenced to one year of probation for breaking into a Westlake home, cleaning it and leaving a $75 bill for the homeowner on a napkin.
She said that it wasn't uncommon for her to go into homes and clean them and that she never had a problem before that.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Excellent article
and it hits home with me. Read the below ! !
http://occupyhealthcare.net/2013/01/a-request-to-my-doctor-listen-answer-explain/
Written by Ralph Warren (see end of post)
After a recent less-than-satisfactory appointment with my cardiologist, I was troubled by how common poor relationships between doctors and patients are. When did doctor and patient relationships, so necessary to the successful treatment of long-term illnesses, become adversarial?
After rearranging an appointment twice to accommodate my cardiologist’s schedule, I was disappointed that he had not allocated adequate time to discuss my medical issues. He did listen as I detailed my symptoms, but I am not sure he heard me. My complaints were brushed aside as if not worthy of attention, and I was rushed out the door without solutions. It was clear my cardiologist was in a hurry to see his next patient. I departed feeling as though I was an imposition rather than a partner in my medical treatment.
I recognize that there are deficiencies on both ends of the stethoscope. It is not the medical profession that bears the full blame for the disruption between us. I share some responsibility for the breakdown. I should have voiced my concern and confusion immediately before leaving the office. That is a shortcoming I must work on improving.
In years’ past, patients did not actively participate in their treatment. However, in today’s world, “respect, but question” is a beneficial and often expected model of care.
No one would accept a medical professional ignoring critical warning signs without a cursory inspection, nor arbitrarily dismissing symptoms. Imagine my confusion when the very symptoms my doctor ignored were those on his watch list as danger signals? Imagine that.
I am your patient, and the very reason for your profession’s existence is care and treatment of me and other patients. Without us, what would the point be?
Some doctors rightly complain that patients use the Internet as a diagnostic and treatment tool. However, has it ever occurred to these critics that is so because patients can’t get answers? Many doctors just don’t have the time and won’t take time for patients. I would much rather prefer to rely on your training and expertise than the vagaries of online resources.
Most doctors are exemplary caregivers, and yet, very few physicians comprehensively use the skills they have spent so much time to perfect. Does anyone really believe a 5-minute office visit for a patient with significant health issues adequately achieves a proper diagnosis and treatment? Assembly-line practices only work when the individual parts and procedures are identical. Unfortunately, no two humans are alike.
Patients understand that there is a shortage of medical professionals, but shortchanging us all to compensate doesn't solve the problem. Quality of service is what we are looking for, not necessarily time. Listen, answer, and explain. Those three words sum up what we would all like to receive. When a patient identifies a symptom, take the time to explain why, in spite of it being a red flag, you feel that it is nothing to worry about.
The study and practice of medicine is your passion, not mine. My interests lie elsewhere, so I would prefer to relinquish my care to your expertise rather than chase all the anecdotal leads on the Internet. Let’s work together as a team to resolve my medical issues and develop a collaborative, long-term relationship. Let’s open a dialog to understand how we both can best achieve this goal and get back on track.
I’m glad I got that off my chest. As a heart patient, I’ve already got far too much to deal with in that region.
Ralph Warren lives in Tucson AZ with his wife and herd of assorted animals. Since a significant cardiac episode forced him into retirement in 2007, he divides his time between volunteer work with cardiac patients, and creative endeavors.
http://occupyhealthcare.net/2013/01/a-request-to-my-doctor-listen-answer-explain/
Written by Ralph Warren (see end of post)
After a recent less-than-satisfactory appointment with my cardiologist, I was troubled by how common poor relationships between doctors and patients are. When did doctor and patient relationships, so necessary to the successful treatment of long-term illnesses, become adversarial?
After rearranging an appointment twice to accommodate my cardiologist’s schedule, I was disappointed that he had not allocated adequate time to discuss my medical issues. He did listen as I detailed my symptoms, but I am not sure he heard me. My complaints were brushed aside as if not worthy of attention, and I was rushed out the door without solutions. It was clear my cardiologist was in a hurry to see his next patient. I departed feeling as though I was an imposition rather than a partner in my medical treatment.
I recognize that there are deficiencies on both ends of the stethoscope. It is not the medical profession that bears the full blame for the disruption between us. I share some responsibility for the breakdown. I should have voiced my concern and confusion immediately before leaving the office. That is a shortcoming I must work on improving.
In years’ past, patients did not actively participate in their treatment. However, in today’s world, “respect, but question” is a beneficial and often expected model of care.
No one would accept a medical professional ignoring critical warning signs without a cursory inspection, nor arbitrarily dismissing symptoms. Imagine my confusion when the very symptoms my doctor ignored were those on his watch list as danger signals? Imagine that.
I am your patient, and the very reason for your profession’s existence is care and treatment of me and other patients. Without us, what would the point be?
Some doctors rightly complain that patients use the Internet as a diagnostic and treatment tool. However, has it ever occurred to these critics that is so because patients can’t get answers? Many doctors just don’t have the time and won’t take time for patients. I would much rather prefer to rely on your training and expertise than the vagaries of online resources.
Most doctors are exemplary caregivers, and yet, very few physicians comprehensively use the skills they have spent so much time to perfect. Does anyone really believe a 5-minute office visit for a patient with significant health issues adequately achieves a proper diagnosis and treatment? Assembly-line practices only work when the individual parts and procedures are identical. Unfortunately, no two humans are alike.
Patients understand that there is a shortage of medical professionals, but shortchanging us all to compensate doesn't solve the problem. Quality of service is what we are looking for, not necessarily time. Listen, answer, and explain. Those three words sum up what we would all like to receive. When a patient identifies a symptom, take the time to explain why, in spite of it being a red flag, you feel that it is nothing to worry about.
The study and practice of medicine is your passion, not mine. My interests lie elsewhere, so I would prefer to relinquish my care to your expertise rather than chase all the anecdotal leads on the Internet. Let’s work together as a team to resolve my medical issues and develop a collaborative, long-term relationship. Let’s open a dialog to understand how we both can best achieve this goal and get back on track.
I’m glad I got that off my chest. As a heart patient, I’ve already got far too much to deal with in that region.
Ralph Warren lives in Tucson AZ with his wife and herd of assorted animals. Since a significant cardiac episode forced him into retirement in 2007, he divides his time between volunteer work with cardiac patients, and creative endeavors.
Hell in a handbasket
Not to be filled with doom and gloom and be one of those end of the world types BUT after reading some of these stories one must wonder what in the hell is wrong with us a species. These are not even the genocide, war making, killing each other types of stories either.
Chicken adopters grab wrong birds
DENVER (UPI) -- A number of people looking to adopt chickens from a
farm in Colorado accidentally ended up stealing birds from the wrong
farm, officials said.
The three-day Hen Again adoption drive at Grant Family Farms was aimed at helping save the bankrupt farm and saving thousands of chickens from slaughter by finding them new homes, The Denver Post reported.
However, an advertisement for the event in an area newspaper printed the wrong address and a number of people showed up Saturday at the wrong end of the farm and began taking chickens that were not actually up for adoption.
"They saw a bunch of chickens, so they started taking them," said Teresa Redmond-Ott, who heads the Hen Again adoption program. There were carloads of people just taking chickens.
Hen Again realized the problem and reached out to people via social media, asking them to return the birds on Sunday.
"I know people are good, and I'm pretty sure people will return them," Redmond-Ott said.
Of the hens that were actually up for adoption, about 1,000 were taken on Friday and Saturday, Redmond-Ott said. About 200 hens were still available for adoption on Sunday.
The three-day Hen Again adoption drive at Grant Family Farms was aimed at helping save the bankrupt farm and saving thousands of chickens from slaughter by finding them new homes, The Denver Post reported.
However, an advertisement for the event in an area newspaper printed the wrong address and a number of people showed up Saturday at the wrong end of the farm and began taking chickens that were not actually up for adoption.
"They saw a bunch of chickens, so they started taking them," said Teresa Redmond-Ott, who heads the Hen Again adoption program. There were carloads of people just taking chickens.
Hen Again realized the problem and reached out to people via social media, asking them to return the birds on Sunday.
"I know people are good, and I'm pretty sure people will return them," Redmond-Ott said.
Of the hens that were actually up for adoption, about 1,000 were taken on Friday and Saturday, Redmond-Ott said. About 200 hens were still available for adoption on Sunday.
Girl in trouble for talking about toy gun
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (UPI) -- A 5-year-old got in trouble at a
Pennsylvania elementary school for talking with a friend about a pink
toy bubble gun, officials said.
The incident occurred Jan. 10 while the girl and her friends were waiting in line for a school bus, PennLive.com reported.
"I'm going to shoot you and I will shoot myself" the girl allegedly said in reference to the device that shoots out bubbles, said Robin Ficker, a Maryland lawyer representing the girl's family.
The girl was labeled a "terrorist threat" by the school and suspended for 10 days, Ficker said.
"This little girl is the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania," he said.
School district solicitor Edward Greco said Friday that the incident is being investigated, but neither he nor school officials could discuss disciplinary actions that may be taken against the girl.
Ficker and the girl's parents have requested the girl's record be expunged and she be offered an apology.
The incident occurred Jan. 10 while the girl and her friends were waiting in line for a school bus, PennLive.com reported.
"I'm going to shoot you and I will shoot myself" the girl allegedly said in reference to the device that shoots out bubbles, said Robin Ficker, a Maryland lawyer representing the girl's family.
The girl was labeled a "terrorist threat" by the school and suspended for 10 days, Ficker said.
"This little girl is the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania," he said.
School district solicitor Edward Greco said Friday that the incident is being investigated, but neither he nor school officials could discuss disciplinary actions that may be taken against the girl.
Ficker and the girl's parents have requested the girl's record be expunged and she be offered an apology.
Grandma allegedly cooperated with burglars
MEDFORD, N.J. (UPI) -- A New Jersey woman has been charged with
allowing two of her grandchildren and their 20-something friends to
use her home as a base for burglary.
Lorraine Bleckley, 78, of Medford, N.J., was arrested with Kenneth Bleckley Jr., 24, and Cynthia Bleckley, 21, WCAU-TV in Philadelphia reported. She faces one count of maintaining a nuisance.
The younger Bleckleys are charged with conspiracy to commit burglary. Kristina McLeod and Jeffery Simpkins, both 23, are charged with burglary and other crimes.
Investigators say the group stole more than $26,000 in cash and jewelry in a series of break-ins in two Medford developments in October and November.
Bleckley allegedly allowed her grandchildren and the others to stay at her house, using it as a "home base."
Lorraine Bleckley, 78, of Medford, N.J., was arrested with Kenneth Bleckley Jr., 24, and Cynthia Bleckley, 21, WCAU-TV in Philadelphia reported. She faces one count of maintaining a nuisance.
The younger Bleckleys are charged with conspiracy to commit burglary. Kristina McLeod and Jeffery Simpkins, both 23, are charged with burglary and other crimes.
Investigators say the group stole more than $26,000 in cash and jewelry in a series of break-ins in two Medford developments in October and November.
Bleckley allegedly allowed her grandchildren and the others to stay at her house, using it as a "home base."
Subway: 'Footlong' just a name, not a size
NEW YORK (UPI) -- The U.S. restaurant chain Subway said this week its
Footlong brand is the name of a sandwich line, not a guarantee each
sandwich is a foot long.
The chain said on its Australian Facebook page there is no guarantee each footlong sub would measure 12 inches.
"Subway Footlong is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length," the statement said.
ABC News said a tempest started brewing when an Australian teenager went online to state he had measured a sandwich he had purchased at Subway and found it to be 11 inches in length.
The revelation led the New York Post to confirm not-quite foot-longs were being sold in the Big Apple.
Subway told ABC it strives for a 12-inch bun but the vagaries of commercial baking make it difficult to guarantee the results 100 percent of the time.
The chain said on its Australian Facebook page there is no guarantee each footlong sub would measure 12 inches.
"Subway Footlong is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length," the statement said.
ABC News said a tempest started brewing when an Australian teenager went online to state he had measured a sandwich he had purchased at Subway and found it to be 11 inches in length.
The revelation led the New York Post to confirm not-quite foot-longs were being sold in the Big Apple.
Subway told ABC it strives for a 12-inch bun but the vagaries of commercial baking make it difficult to guarantee the results 100 percent of the time.
SALISBURY, Md. (UPI) -- A Maryland man who broke down the door of a
house, took off his pants and ate a chicken pot pie was spared jail
when he agreed to enter drug treatment.
Russell Neff, 23, pleaded guilty to first degree burglary and was sentenced to 10 years in jail with all but time served suspended when he agreed to enter a drug treatment court program Jan. 11, The Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., reported Thursday.
Police said Neff broke down the door to a stranger's Salisbury home in August and cooked and ate a chicken pot pie from the home's kitchen, The Washington Post reported.
Officers arrived to find Neff clad in only his underwear and licking a television remote control, police said.
Russell Neff, 23, pleaded guilty to first degree burglary and was sentenced to 10 years in jail with all but time served suspended when he agreed to enter a drug treatment court program Jan. 11, The Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., reported Thursday.
Police said Neff broke down the door to a stranger's Salisbury home in August and cooked and ate a chicken pot pie from the home's kitchen, The Washington Post reported.
Officers arrived to find Neff clad in only his underwear and licking a television remote control, police said.
One more idiotic story for the road:
Pa. prison offers 'love' tours
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- A former prison in Philadelphia is offering
special Valentine's Day tours themed around "love stories throughout
the prison's history."
Officials said Eastern State Penitentiary, which operated as a prison from 1829 until 1971, will offer romantic Winter Adventure Tours Feb. 14-17 with a focus on the love stories from the years of the prison's operation.
"During these four days, visitors can experience the history of Eastern State with an added focus on love stories throughout the prison's history," the attraction's website said.
The love stories detailed on the tour will include the stories of Elizabeth Velora Elwell and Albert Green Jackson, inmates who exchanged letters and met secretly in the prison's cellar, and inmate Sydney Ware, who married socialite Ella Hershey before she secured his pardon.
Tickets for the tours are being sold as buy one, get one free to encourage visitors to bring their significant others.
Officials said Eastern State Penitentiary, which operated as a prison from 1829 until 1971, will offer romantic Winter Adventure Tours Feb. 14-17 with a focus on the love stories from the years of the prison's operation.
"During these four days, visitors can experience the history of Eastern State with an added focus on love stories throughout the prison's history," the attraction's website said.
The love stories detailed on the tour will include the stories of Elizabeth Velora Elwell and Albert Green Jackson, inmates who exchanged letters and met secretly in the prison's cellar, and inmate Sydney Ware, who married socialite Ella Hershey before she secured his pardon.
Tickets for the tours are being sold as buy one, get one free to encourage visitors to bring their significant others.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
UFOs - real?
Going to see my Primary Care Doc today. Not going to have much to talk about. Just going to let her know about the experiment on not taking the Loperamide
and Lomotil and finding out after 2 weeks of non-use I will restart taking them. In other words the experiment failed.
The next experiment to be to stop taking the Codeine Sulphate.
Side note look them up on www.webmd.com
Doubt it but just for the heck of it:
and Lomotil and finding out after 2 weeks of non-use I will restart taking them. In other words the experiment failed.
The next experiment to be to stop taking the Codeine Sulphate.
Side note look them up on www.webmd.com
Doubt it but just for the heck of it:
MUFON investigating flying saucer in Texas
EAGLE FORD, Texas (UPI) -- A photograph of an alleged flying saucer
hovering over a Texas oil field that surfaced on the Internet may be
authentic, a UFO investigator says.
The photo, which has a July 5 time stamp, appeared on the Mutual UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) Network website last week and was allegedly taken by a security camera at an oil drilling site in Eagle Ford, the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News reported.
Charles Stansburge, a veteran MUFON investigator, said the photo has passed two authenticity tests.
"If it's a prank," Stansburge said, someone spent a lot of money to stage it. It's not a doctored photo. It's a 60-foot-diameter saucer that's hovering.
Other unexplainable sights have been seen in the Eagle Ford-area, including a number of oil workers and nearby residents seeing unidentified lights in the night sky on consecutive days in October.
Stansburge said he is sure what his investigation into the photograph and other sightings in Eagle Ford will uncover.
"All we can do," he said, is document what we find.
The photo, which has a July 5 time stamp, appeared on the Mutual UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) Network website last week and was allegedly taken by a security camera at an oil drilling site in Eagle Ford, the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News reported.
Charles Stansburge, a veteran MUFON investigator, said the photo has passed two authenticity tests.
"If it's a prank," Stansburge said, someone spent a lot of money to stage it. It's not a doctored photo. It's a 60-foot-diameter saucer that's hovering.
Other unexplainable sights have been seen in the Eagle Ford-area, including a number of oil workers and nearby residents seeing unidentified lights in the night sky on consecutive days in October.
Stansburge said he is sure what his investigation into the photograph and other sightings in Eagle Ford will uncover.
"All we can do," he said, is document what we find.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Cute picture
Saw and posted this one on Facebook today:
and found this one on Facebook which, for some reason, resonated with me:
Monday, January 7, 2013
Monday is the blahs
Forgot to mention the other day but my Coumadin level was 2.9 which is within range. So instead of weekly checks it has now been extended to 2 week intervals. Good deal.
Ate too much yesterday afternoon and paid for it last night. Woke up at 4 AM sicker than a dog (or something along those lines). Basically stayed semi-awake until morning.
Cleaned bathroom floor in master bath used Clorox to help disinfect. Ran hot water via tub drain to help keep it open.
AND watched "Iron Sky" via Netflix (www.ironsky.net/site/film/crew/) and nearly peed in my depends. Considering my - sometimes - lack of humor it was funny ! ! ! ! Made my laugh.
Ate too much yesterday afternoon and paid for it last night. Woke up at 4 AM sicker than a dog (or something along those lines). Basically stayed semi-awake until morning.
Cleaned bathroom floor in master bath used Clorox to help disinfect. Ran hot water via tub drain to help keep it open.
AND watched "Iron Sky" via Netflix (www.ironsky.net/site/film/crew/) and nearly peed in my depends. Considering my - sometimes - lack of humor it was funny ! ! ! ! Made my laugh.
And one last thing for today - probably - was this news story. Yeah Post Office ya dummies
Package delivered after 63 years
SCRANTON, Pa. (UPI) -- Employees of a Pennsylvania newspaper said
they were baffled when a calendar ordered by a former general manager
showed up 63 years after his death.
Bobby Lynett, a publisher of The Scranton Times-Tribune and chief executive officer of Times-Shamrock Communications, said the 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar was rolled in a long tube and addressed to James Flanagan, general manager of The Scranton Times, who died in December 1949, the Times-Tribune reported Thursday.
Lynett said the package, which bore two 4-cent stamps and a much newer sticker dated from a distribution center last week, was delivered without explanation Friday to the newspaper's front desk.
Ray Daiutolo, a spokesman for the Postal Service, said the calendar's whereabouts for the past 63 years are a mystery. He said lost mail sometimes makes its way back into circulation when a machine is dismantled or a post office is renovated. He said stamped but unmailed objects are also sometimes discovered after many years by people who then drop the items in the mail.
Lynett said the calendar will be offered to officials at the Steamtown National Historic Site to see if they want to display it. He said it will otherwise be displayed in The Scranton Times-Tribune building.
"We'll find a good home for it. That's for sure," he said.
Bobby Lynett, a publisher of The Scranton Times-Tribune and chief executive officer of Times-Shamrock Communications, said the 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar was rolled in a long tube and addressed to James Flanagan, general manager of The Scranton Times, who died in December 1949, the Times-Tribune reported Thursday.
Lynett said the package, which bore two 4-cent stamps and a much newer sticker dated from a distribution center last week, was delivered without explanation Friday to the newspaper's front desk.
Ray Daiutolo, a spokesman for the Postal Service, said the calendar's whereabouts for the past 63 years are a mystery. He said lost mail sometimes makes its way back into circulation when a machine is dismantled or a post office is renovated. He said stamped but unmailed objects are also sometimes discovered after many years by people who then drop the items in the mail.
Lynett said the calendar will be offered to officials at the Steamtown National Historic Site to see if they want to display it. He said it will otherwise be displayed in The Scranton Times-Tribune building.
"We'll find a good home for it. That's for sure," he said.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Friday and coumadin test
Have to go to the Coumadin clinic again. Last weeks results were 2.7. Hopefully within range this week also. Maybe I will be able to have a longer in-between time before tests.
Hit another weight milestone this morning. I weighed in at 156.6 lbs. Am now starting to worry that I might put on too much weight. Wife said her and our daughter figured I would never reach or exceed the 160 pound mark. Hopefully that is true. I have no logic behind my reasoning but maybe with the extra weight my vitamin deficiencies will lessen.
With all the hysteria around us regarding gun ownership, that idiot from California, Senator I'm not too Bright Feinsten received a letter from an Marine veteran. He wrote:
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime.
You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you. (my emphasis added)
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012
I firmly believe EVERY veteran should also write her and every other liberal/progressive elected member of the Senate and the House of Representatives a letter basically stating the same thing. Keep it logical, calm, and only a little derision/disgust thrown in for emphasis to ensure they understand ! ! ! !
Congress has a total of 535 voting members: 435 members in the House of Representatives and 100 members in the Senate.
Hit another weight milestone this morning. I weighed in at 156.6 lbs. Am now starting to worry that I might put on too much weight. Wife said her and our daughter figured I would never reach or exceed the 160 pound mark. Hopefully that is true. I have no logic behind my reasoning but maybe with the extra weight my vitamin deficiencies will lessen.
With all the hysteria around us regarding gun ownership, that idiot from California, Senator I'm not too Bright Feinsten received a letter from an Marine veteran. He wrote:
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime.
You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you. (my emphasis added)
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012
I firmly believe EVERY veteran should also write her and every other liberal/progressive elected member of the Senate and the House of Representatives a letter basically stating the same thing. Keep it logical, calm, and only a little derision/disgust thrown in for emphasis to ensure they understand ! ! ! !
Congress has a total of 535 voting members: 435 members in the House of Representatives and 100 members in the Senate.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
December weight stats
December info but then check out how the states changed once I added the first 3 days of January 2013 ! ! I changed the goal so that the chart would reflect the stats. The Goal is an arbitrary figure any way.
BUT now am worried that I will gain too much weight and the thoughts of eating less kind of bothers me... Going to try and figure something out regarding the curbing of my appetite.
Of further note, and maybe my logic is tenuous, the drinking the Mexican coke (has real sugar instead of high fructose) helps in creating normal bowel movements. I know it sounds strange but it happens every time I have more than 2 bottles a day. And this is consistent time after time. BUT..maybe it also has to do with the amount of starches (potatoes) and meat I have been eating in the last two months.
BUT... maybe it also has to do with some of the apple pie and Powdered sugar donuts I've eaten in the last few months ...
With the January 2013 data added - remember just 3 days of weight data...
Stats and weight
Weighed in this AM, after morning movement, at 155.4 pounds. Highest since 9 July 2010. Gonna get fat at this rate.
Will do monthly statistics later.
Now for a stupid news story on over reactions..
Will do monthly statistics later.
Now for a stupid news story on over reactions..
Boy, 6, suspended over finger gun
SILVER SPRING, Md. (UPI) -- A Maryland 6-year-old was suspended from
school for forming the shape of a gun with his hands and saying "pow,"
a lawyer for his family said.
Robin Ficker said a boy, a student at Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, was given a one-day suspension from school with a conference planned for when students returned from winter break for the pretend shooting a week after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., The (Springfield, Va.) Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
"What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive 6-year-old," Ficker said. This is a little child who can't form the intent to do anything like that.
Assistant Principal Renee Garraway sent a letter to the boy's parents saying the child had been warned.
"Your son ... was involved in a serious incident," Garraway wrote. (He) threatened to shoot a student. He was spoken to earlier today about a similar incident.
Ficker said the school has not told the parents what the "similar incident" entailed.
"It just shows the overreaction," the lawyer said.
He said the school should have discussed the issue with the parents before handing down the suspension.
"They could have called the mother in. They didn't do that. They just said, 'You're suspended,'" he said. Five years from now, when someone in to Montgomery County looks at his permanent record, they're going to see that he threatened to shoot another student.
Robin Ficker said a boy, a student at Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, was given a one-day suspension from school with a conference planned for when students returned from winter break for the pretend shooting a week after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., The (Springfield, Va.) Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
"What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive 6-year-old," Ficker said. This is a little child who can't form the intent to do anything like that.
Assistant Principal Renee Garraway sent a letter to the boy's parents saying the child had been warned.
"Your son ... was involved in a serious incident," Garraway wrote. (He) threatened to shoot a student. He was spoken to earlier today about a similar incident.
Ficker said the school has not told the parents what the "similar incident" entailed.
"It just shows the overreaction," the lawyer said.
He said the school should have discussed the issue with the parents before handing down the suspension.
"They could have called the mother in. They didn't do that. They just said, 'You're suspended,'" he said. Five years from now, when someone in to Montgomery County looks at his permanent record, they're going to see that he threatened to shoot another student.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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