Dakota thinks the hi-intensity lamp is her private sun/warming lamp. She loves to sit under it when I'm writing. It's OK as long as she doesn't jump on the computer mouse. If she wants the light on she'll attack my hand with her "I'm biting you" moves. She would be a little more annoying if she had front teeth.
A few years ago she started drooling like a bulldog and it scared the Hell out of me. After talking with our Vet I got the carrier out of the garage. My cat insertion method works fairly well. I set the carrier upright, open the gate, and put them in back legs first so they can't see it happening. Of course Dakota still splayed her back legs and I had to stuff her in the thing.
She screamed all the way to the office. The Vet said her four front "big teeth" somehow shifted and she couldn't close her mouth. They don't do orthodontics on cats so they were extracted. Now when she grabs my hand with her mouth she's got no biting teeth, although she still tries. Rebecca's Roxanne is odd and she's Calico, are they all nuts? Or is it just our family cats?
Is it just me or do you find something very odd about this headline? Nike suspends contract with Oscar Pistorius.
Yesterday I forgot to tell you the value of those gift bags for the stars, $45,000.
I saw this yesterday, headline: "104-year-old Woman Forced To Lie On Facebook."
Wow, pretty bad, I wonder what she did? Is she a hoarder living with 49 cats? Did she belong to Al Capons gang in Chicago, a gun moll that now has millions stashed under her mattress? Is she really a man? Turns out her granddaughter set her up with a Facebook page and couldn't enter her birth year. F.B. changed 1908 to 1928, making her 20 years younger. Facebook acknowledges a problem with pre-1910 birth years and is working on a fix.
Sex and sensationalism rules. The attention grabbing headline....Old Lady Lies...they need to get the hook in anyway they can.
I try to do my part for PBS. Wanda and I have made a few donations and we enjoy a lot of the programming. I watched Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and the gang with now 17-year-old Nicholas and years before with 33-year-old Rebecca. My favorites were Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster. Back then I also liked Elmo but he got a little conceited with that whole "Tickle Me" thing.
I subscribe to the PBS newsletter. Yesterday I received an e-mail telling me I was chosen for a very important survey group. No, that's not right, I was pre-selected for a survey group. I had to answer a few questions to see if I qualified. If so, I would be a program consultant. I filled in my information and began to answer questions, and questions, and more questions.
One confused me. How many televisions do you have in your home, 0 to 6? I thought it was rather odd to have a 0 option but you can watch television broadcasts on a computer. Do we have one television, or do I count the computers? Should I count the tablet? I settled on one TV and continued. The next question: How many days a week do you watch the following networks? They were all there, hundreds. At that point I quit, PBS will have to get along without me.
I am getting very upset and impatient with my 10" Acer. This morning it took three seconds for the shut down window to open. On this lap top it's instantaneous, that's what I am used to. I use the Acer every night and I'm waiting three seconds every morning. I'm wasting eighteen minutes and fifteen seconds a year. I could do a lot with that time.
I'm sure you know about Jessie Jackson Jr. He used campaign money to finance his extravagant life style. Last fall he was diagnosed bi-polar. His lawyer said. "It's not an excuse but a fact." Jessie Jr. diverted $750,000 over seven years so his medical condition can't be much of an excuse. He bought expensive items, a watch and a fur coat and he bought food and toilet paper. His political campaign fund was the family piggy bank.
The Jackson's bought items from Best Buy, Ticketmaster, Build-a-Bear (must have been for the kids) and Costco. They spent over $5,000 for fur capes and coats, and at least $50,000 for various memorabilia (Michael Jackson, Hendrix and others). Prosecutors list more than 3,100 personal purchases that include:
Restaurants, nightclubs, and lounges $60,857
Personal airfare $31,701
Gym membership and expenses $16,059
Tobacco shops $17,163
Dry Cleaning $14,513
Alcohol $5,814
And my favorite, a $45,350 Rolex watch... a freakin' $45,000 watch. (Hey, that goodie bag is worth 45 grand and it had condoms in it) Wanda and I bought TWO watches at Target for just under $20 and just like the Rolex, they tell time!
Jessie Jackson Jr. had the world by the ass, so the expression goes. He had a bright political future ahead of him. But like so many others in positions of power, he abused his. Money scandals, sex scandals, money AND sex scandals, we read about them damn near every day. Then one like this comes along.
Albert Lexie has been shining shoes at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh since the early 1980's. He has donated more than $200,000 in the tips he's collected over the last 30 years. He's donated more than a third of his lifetime salary to the Children's Hospital Free Care Fund which helps parents who can't afford to pay their sick kids medical costs.
A gesture like this can't atone for transgressions like Jackson's, but it's a start.
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