I’ll try to put up a post later on this weekend with my thoughts on what’s unfolded since both VP candidates were announced, but in the meantime, I thought this was kinda interesting…
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check
This cheered me up:
http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?id=225
Schoolgirl Smashes the World Record as She Lets 25 Snails Slither Across Her Face
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050667/Schoolgirl-smashes-world-record-lets-25-snails-slither-face.html
“Her previous personal best was just nine.”
Me thinks they need to strive a little higher over in the UK…
Swedish Magazine Recalled After Faulty Recipe Poisons 4
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=c12e1890-3b2b-4ca5-add7-001ce38a413b&k=96800
Remind me never to go over to Sweden for dessert…
I was going through photos and found an old set from 2006 that apparently I forgot to add to my galleries. These were from a trip that Sara and I took with my Mom, Lori and her husband (at the time) when we came up to celebrate my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary that summer. Mackinac is sort of an iffy place for me – I love a lot of the scenery (see below) and whatnot, but the town itself is odd – like, “We’re an old-time town that doesn’t have motorized vehicles and does everything the old fashioned way, but don’t forget to pick up lots of souveniers before you leave!”
Of course, now I live in the tourism capital of the world and frequent one of the top destinations to boot, so I guess that doesn’t mean much coming from me anymore! Still, I hadn’t been to the Island for probably five or six years at that point, and even then the trip was a quick one for a wedding, so I thought it would be fun just because it would give us all something to do! Anyways, I don’t really know where I’m going with this, so just click on the photo if you want to see the rest of the gallery…
Commuter Flights Grounded Thanks To Bumbling TSA Inspector
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=340a79d6-839a-470d-b662-944325cea23d
“The brilliant employees used an instrument located just belowthe cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers,” one pilot wrote on an American Eagle internet forum.”They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder.”
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TSA conducts routine spot inspections of aircraft parkedat commercial airports, according to agency spokesman Elio Montenegro. “Our inspector was following routine procedure for securing the aircraft that were on the tarmac,” Montenegro said, adding the inspector was attempting to determine whether someone could break into the parked planes.
I regret to inform you that after both being visited by the Ghost of Village Inn Meals Past either last night or this morning, Sara and I have been forced to change our collective rating from “Eh, not bad…” to “Avoid unless you enjoy the taste of your own stomach acid.” Consider yourselves warned.
Today was kind of a weird day.
I was actually going along pretty good, despite being fairly tired because I was up late again last night working on a website … and then the phone rang. Early afternoon, Sara managed to get herself a flat tire out in the middle of nowhere and didn’t have a spare (don’t ask me where it went!), so I left work for lunch to go wait with her until the tow truck guy showed up to get her to a tire place. Well, many, many hours later, we finally took back the keys to her car in exchange for $160 (they ended up replacing two tires) and several hours of our time. Sadly, by that point it wasn’t really worthwhile for either of us to go back to work, so we called it a day and went home.
Also, we’ve both been battling indigestion all night – thanks, Village Inn! If you ever find yourself hungerin’ for the Mexican Breakfast Quaesidilla, just say no.
Also also, apparently there’s some tropical storm alive and kicking down south of us in the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, we’re really not all that worried about it, even though they’re talking about mandatory evacuations for some of the lowest flood zones tomorrow morning if she veers back in our direction. Maybe it’s just because we really haven’t had a bad storm in so long, maybe it’s because we live far enough from the coast that we don’t really have to think about coastal flooding from this thing, but we’ll see what happens tomorrow. The latest projection that I saw had Fay horizontal with the Tampa Bay Area tomorrow evening, but going more up the middle of the state (bad day to be at the Magic Kingdom!). Ain’t Florida fun?!
