Despite the mild weather, just under a hundred kids tonight. 25% were teens, nearly all boys, who didn’t bother to even try to have a semblance of costume.
No one costume stood out in the others. In fact, probably less than ten total bought costumes. Lots of masks, but few complete store-bought costumes.
A couple of adorable toddlers, having fun but not at all sure what this trick or treat thing was all about.
MNF Iraq
Coalition Forces foiled an anti-Iraqi forces ambush around 9 p.m. Oct. 29 northwest of Baghdad.
The coordinated combat operation against the terrorist forces involved U.S. Army ground and aviation forces and close-air support from a U.S. Air Force F-15E which dropped a 500-pound precision-guided bomb on the enemy position. The area was known for multiple ambushes with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenades against local Iraqi citizens, Iraqi security forces and Coalition Forces.
As ground forces from 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division secured the area around site, attack helicopters arrived at the scene and confirmed the individuals hiding in the bushes were enemy forces. AH-64 Apache helicopters returned fire after being engaged from the ground. The Apaches continued to engage the anti-Iraqi forces as they scattered and tried to hide in vegetation. When multiple terrorists converged in one location, ground forces called in the F-15E air strike.
At least six terrorists were killed and five others were wounded and detained by Coalition Forces. No U.S. or civilian casualties were reported in the incident.
MNF Iraq
Task Force Baghdad Soldiers stopped a terrorist Oct. 29 as he tried to emplace an improvised explosive device in an Abu Ghraib neighborhood. This individual is suspected to have emplaced and detonated other IEDs against Iraqi Army units in eastern Abu Ghraib.
The terrorist was observed by Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment as he rode up on a bicycle and emplaced what looked like a bag having suspicious wires coming out of it. The Soldiers, determining the suspicious bag was an IED, shot and killed the individual. The IED exploded moments after the terrorist was shot, but no damage or injuries were reported.
After sweeping the area, the Soldiers found another IED on the terrorist’s bicycle. An explosives disposal team later destroyed the bomb through a controlled detonation.
MNF Iraq
A Saudi-born member of al Qaeda involved in smuggling foreign fighters into Iraq was killed Oct. 29 as he attempted to flee Coalition Forces.
Multiple intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens led Coalition Forces to a location near Ubaydi where a senior Saudi al Qaeda foreign fighter facilitator known as Sa’ud (aka Abu Sa’ud) would be located. Upon arrival at the location, Coalition Forces attempted to secure the vehicle containing Sa’ud and other terrorists when the driver tried to escape. Coalition Forces shot at the vehicle, killing Abu Sa’ud and three unknown terrorists.
Abu Sa’ud, a Saudi extremist, was a senior al Qaeda terrorist who funneled foreign fighters and suicide bombers into Iraq. Intelligence sources believe that Sa’ud recently arrived from Saudi Arabia to shore up the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq foreign fighter and terrorists cells whose previous leaders have been captured or killed in recent months.
Coalition Forces were informed that an alleged meeting was being arranged in the coming days in which Sa’ud was to take control of foreign fighter facilitation in the al Qaim and Husaybah region. It was also believed that Sa’ud would take on a more active role in the planning and execution of operations against Coalition Forces.
Many states are imposing additional restrictions on registered sex offenders for Halloween. Most involve not answering the door, not appearing in costume, and staying home for the night.
Not to be a noodge, but is there any evidence that children are more at risk on Halloween from registered sex offenders than they are on any other day of the year? The states are spending lots of money on printing, parole officer overtime, and other stuff. Why just Halloween?
Or is this just another way for our politicians to keep us dumb and happy?
Hey, my little bro just advised me that in IE only the sidebar scrolls. WTF? More playing with templates tonight? I think not, it’s the lovely wife’s biggest holiday. I’ll get to it when I can, M’kay?
Just got word that a real good guy, member of our ambulance corps, had a heart attack last night. We had a crew, he coded, they used the defib three times and he came back. He’s at the level one trauma center in guarded condition. Prayers, please, for him and his family.
Read the entire post. He, and the author he quotes, say it better than I ever have. If there is a pension problem, and there may not be, it is clearly the fault of the government and the Congress attempting to do the equivalent of making pi equal 3.0.
Asymmetrical Information: Dreck’s Annuity
Corporations have been gaming the system by using the highest rates allowable, which shrinks their reported liabilities, and thus their funding requirements. The P.B.G.C., when calculating the system’s deficit, uses what is in effect a market rate; whatever it would cost to buy annuities for everyone covered in a pension plan is, it argues, the plan’s true “liability.” The difference between these measures can be extreme. Depending on whom you talk to, General Motors’ mammoth pension fund is either fully funded or, as the P.B.G.C. maintains, it is $31 billion in the hole.
Art of getting paid to drink - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au
A JAPANESE artist has been paid £5000 ($11,800) of taxpayers’ money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam.
The “performance”, which took place at an arts centre in Cardiff, has outraged members of the local council and caused bafflement among the public, many of whom do exactly that every Friday and Saturday night, without getting paid.However, an arts centre spokesman said: “This wasn’t just about a woman drinking a lot of beer. This was a powerful piece of art.”
Tomoko Takahashi, 39, who performs under the name Anti-Cool, was once nominated for the Turner Prize for her installations of rubbish.
She says her performance “comments on the availability and use of mass-produced products”.
But she is now being accused of encouraging binge drinking.
Takahashi put on the performance art show at the Chapter arts centre in the Canton area of Cardiff.
The 50 people watching the show, part of a month-long Experimentica 05 season, saw Takahashi dressed in a smart black business suit and high heels, drinking beer from a large bag suspended from the ceiling.
They then watched as she tried to walk across a narrow beam 60cm above the floor.
The three-hour act consisted of Takahashi drinking more and more beer and trying to see how far she could walk across the beam before she fell off.
David Davies, a Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, not to be confused with the Tory leadership candidate, said: “If anyone is daft enough to want to see a young woman getting plastered and tottering around in high heels, they can do it in just about every city centre most nights of the week.
“The worrying thing is that people are making decisions to hand out taxpayers’ money like this when they are sober.”
Michelle Malkin has the comprehensive roundup of blogosphere opinion. Well, rightwing opinion.
I just hope that this overwhelming desire for a fight on the part of many on the right doesn’t backfire. Remember the Mafia philosophy. Only go to the matteresses over business, not personal. War is not good for business and should be avoided.
Removing a source of friction between the United States and Japan:
AFIS
Some 7,000 Marines of the headquarters of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force will relocate from Okinawa, Japan, to Guam over the next six years as part of recommendations accepted by the United States and Japan today.
The recommendations come out of the “2 plus 2″ meeting hosted by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and including the Japanese defense minister, Yoshinori Ohno; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; and Japanese foreign minister Nobutaka Machimura.
The 2 plus 2 charts the course of the U.S.-Japanese Alliance. The recommendations address the roles, missions and capabilities the United States provides in defense of Japan and also those of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. The recommendations recognize Japan’s increasing influence in the world and call for the Japanese to shoulder a greater role in global security.
“Like all alliances, this relationship must and is, in fact, evolving to remain strong and relevant,” Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference today. “It’s our joint responsibility to manage the alliance’s evolution, and we are getting that job done.”
Japan’s global involvement includes troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and being a member of the Six-Party Talks to counter North Korea’s nuclear program. It is also a player in the ballistic-missile-defense field and is a valued ally in the fight against global terrorism. All these demonstrate “Japan’s place as an important contributor to global, as well as regional, security in these still-early years of the 21st century,” Rumsfeld said.
Overall recommendations from the meeting call for much closer Japanese-U.S. military ties, including close and continuous policy and operational coordination. Senior officials speaking on background said this is a major step forward.
Another step comes when Japanese forces institute joint commands in March 2006. This will allow Japanese ground-, air- and sea-defense forces to work more closely together, officials said. The Japanese step comes at a perfect time to build closer ties between Japan and the United States. Today’s recommendations call for strengthened bilateral contingency planning, locating U.S. and Japanese together, enhancing information sharing, and improving interoperability.
They also call for expanded Japanese training in the United States. Currently, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force travels to Alaska for training, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force exercises often with U.S. counterparts. The Ground Self-Defense Force does not currently exercise often with the United States, but senior officials see opportunities for that in Guam, Alaska, Hawaii and the continental United States.
The recommendations also call for more bilateral and multilateral exercises, especially to improve capabilities in air defense, counterterrorism, humanitarian-relief, peacekeeping and search-and-rescue operations, and in countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Force posture realignment is also a large part of the recommendations the leaders agreed upon in the talks. Just over 50,000 U.S. servicemembers are in Japan. The 7,000 Marines moving to Guam will bring that number down somewhat, but more U.S. forces will move within Japan than transfer elsewhere. The plan calls for U.S. and Japanese headquarters and capabilities to be located together. For example, Japan’s Air Defense Command headquarters will move to Yokota Air Base, home of the U.S. 5th Air Force.
The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force will establish a headquarters at the U.S. headquarters at Camp Zama, strengthening the ties between the two commands. The Japanese will also base a new X-band radar, used for ballistic missile defense, somewhere in the country and will share all data from that radar with U.S. forces.
The recommendations urge speeding up relocation of the U.S. Marines’ Futenma Air Base in Okinawa. Local Japanese have requested the return of the base, which hosts helicopters and C-130 cargo aircraft. The allies agreed to relocate the base to the shoreline area of Camp Schwab, elsewhere on the island of Okinawa. The Futenma decision has been hanging fire since 1996 and has been a flash point for Okinawans’ displeasure with hosting U.S. forces on their island.
Also on Okinawa, the United States agreed to consolidate U.S. Marine forces on the island and return significant chunks of land on the island’s densely populated southern portion to Japan.
The recommendations also call for shifting portions of the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Air Wing 5 from Atsugi Air Facility to Iwakuni Air Station. Essentially, jets will operate from Iwakuni and helicopters from Atsugi.
The Japanese government will fund the greater portion of recommended relocations, officials said. Minister Ohno said through a translator that when he was the Japanese finance minister he was known as “Mr. Oh, no.” But for this, he said, he wants to be known as “Mr. Oh, yes.”
Both the foreign minister and defense minister accepted the idea that Japan must do more to promote security in the world. They both said the recommendations from the 2 plus 2 are a good start.
U.S. officials said the recommendations are the most far-reaching change in the alliance since the United States returned Okinawa to the Japanese in 1972.
The recommendations recognize that the relationship and the world have changed. “The specific roles that we would expect of Japan are those roles that Japan feels comfortable performing,” Rumsfeld said. “Japan has the second-largest economy on the face of the Earth. The people of Japan benefit greatly from the international system. Clearly Japan has an interest in the success of the international system, and with an interest in that success … it seems to me it’s appropriate for Japan to find ways in the 21st century that they can contribute to making the system successful.”
The photo gallery is up. I have to do some organizing with the pics, and move mine to one central location, excluding those not mine. The template is imperfect, but so is life.
Well, it appears that if you edit a post and change the date, the former post remains in the database. Real suckage.
UPDATE: In reality, I am a moron. I tried to import Blogger several times and it seems to have produced some duplicates because I failed to complete the process.
If I could generate a list of posts in alpha order by title, that would be great.
OK, the two columns seem to be back and working. I’m working on the posts that all have the same date, some 1400 of them [GAAAA!!!!!!!]
As I can, I’m fixing internal URL’s to photos, and taking the align=center tag out of tables. Still would like to implement a photo gallery, but none of the ones at Hosting Matters make it easy. I’ll keep trying.
Keepa you fingers crossed.
Well, it worked, style was fine in Netscape yesterday morning.
Then, when I checked last evening, the sidebar was hosed. I had not made any changes, just some posts.
Drat!
Many hours last night and today. No joy, yet. Still working.
President Bush had previously asked Congress to appropriate $30 million for construction upgrades at the Center for Disease Control facilities in Atlanta, including the Japanese gardens. There was already $240 million in previously authorized but not yet spent funds for the construction program.
The House approved the $30 million sought by Bush but when the bill came to the Senate, Coburn noted that it had increased the appropriation to $225 million, which meant there would be half a billion dollars available if the Senate version of the bill became law.
Coburn, who is a physician, offered the amendment to move $60 million from the CDC construction program to the AIDS effort. Doing so would mean “we will have enough funding to make sure everybody with HIV in this country has the medicine they need to stay alive,” Coburn told the Senate, according to the Congressional Record for Oct. 26, 2005. [snip]
Sen. Specter then responded to Coburn by first claiming there was not Japanese garden spending at the CDC facility in Atlanta, but then upon being corrected by a staffer, acknowledging that “maybe there could be a less expensive exotic garden than a Japanese garden.”
The Senate then defeated the Coburn amendment on a 85-14 vote, with Specter among the Nays.
Baladiyat Camp Under Siege, Again. at Alive in Baghdad
Our morning interview was cancelled when we received a call from the Baladiyat camp. Baladiyat is a refugee camp for Palestinians living in Iraq. Palestinians are an overlooked group that has somewhere between 10 and 20,000 people still living in Iraq, many of them in Baghdad, most of the rest in Mosul and elsewhere in the North.
The source in the camp, who currently remains anonymous, reported, “Today at approximately 7:50 AM three SUVs of Iraqi Police showed up to raid the camp. They surrounded the camp and began firing their guns in the air, seemingly without provocation.”
He also explained that this type of situation is a regular occurrence in the lives of Palestinians living in Iraq. Palestinian refugees in Iraq have no nationally guaranteed rights, are not considered citizens, and were not allowed to vote in the recent Constitutional Referendum.
News Release: Gross Domestic Product
Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 3.8 percent in the third quarter of 2005, according to advance estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.3 percent.
They’re making a movie about the day that Bobby Kennedy was murdered. I wonder if they’ll mention that his killer was a Moslem radical?
Fact Sheet: Plots, Casings, and Infiltrations Referenced in President Bush’s Remarks on the War on Terror
Overall, the United States and our partners have disrupted at least ten serious al-Qaida terrorist plots since September 11-including three al-Qaida plots to attack inside the United States. We have stopped at least five more al-Qaida efforts to case targets in the United States or infiltrate operatives into our country.
10 Plots
1. The West Coast Airliner Plot: In mid-2002 the U.S. disrupted a plot to attack targets on the West Coast of the United States using hijacked airplanes. The plotters included at least one major operational planner involved in planning the events of 9/11.
2. The East Coast Airliner Plot: In mid-2003 the U.S. and a partner disrupted a plot to attack targets on the East Coast of the United States using hijacked commercial airplanes.
3. The Jose Padilla Plot: In May 2002 the U.S. disrupted a plot that involved blowing up apartment buildings in the United States. One of the plotters, Jose Padilla, also discussed the possibility of using a “dirty bomb” in the U.S.
4. The 2004 UK Urban Targets Plot: In mid-2004 the U.S. and partners disrupted a plot that involved urban targets in the United Kingdom. These plots involved using explosives against a variety of sites.
5. The 2003 Karachi Plot: In the Spring of 2003 the U.S. and a partner disrupted a plot to attack Westerners at several targets in Karachi, Pakistan.
6. The Heathrow Airport Plot: In 2003 the U.S. and several partners disrupted a plot to attack Heathrow Airport using hijacked commercial airliners. The planning for this attack was undertaken by a major 9/11 operational figure.
7. The 2004 UK Plot: In the Spring of 2004 the U.S. and partners, using a combination of law enforcement and intelligence resources, disrupted a plot to conduct large-scale bombings in the UK.
8. The 2002 Arabian Gulf Shipping Plot: In late 2002 and 2003 the U.S. and a partner nation disrupted a plot by al-Qa’ida operatives to attack ships in the Arabian Gulf.
9. The 2002 Straits of Hormuz Plot: In 2002 the U.S. and partners disrupted a plot to attack ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz.
10. The 2003 Tourist Site Plot: In 2003 the U.S. and a partner nation disrupted a plot to attack a tourist site outside the United States.5 Casings and Infiltrations
1. The U.S. Government & Tourist Sites Tasking: In 2003 and 2004, an individual was tasked by al-Qa’ida to case important U.S. Government and tourist targets within the United States.
2. The Gas Station Tasking: In approximately 2003, an individual was tasked to collect targeting information on U.S. gas stations and their support mechanisms on behalf of a senior al-Qa’ida planner.
3. Iyman Faris & the Brooklyn Bridge: In 2003, and in conjunction with a partner nation, the U.S. government arrested and prosecuted Iyman Faris, who was exploring the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Faris ultimately pleaded guilty to providing material support to al-Qa’ida and is now in a federal correctional institution.
4. 2001 Tasking: In 2001, al-Qa’ida sent an individual to facilitate post-September 11 attacks in the U.S. U.S. law enforcement authorities arrested the individual.
5. 2003 Tasking: In 2003, an individual was tasked by an al-Qa’ida leader to conduct reconnaissance on populated areas in the U.S.
Multi-National Force-Iraq
Coalition Forces killed terrorists in Ramadi Oct. 27 while conducting a cordon and search operation at the Malaab Soccer Stadium in the eastern part of the city.
At approximately 11:00 a.m. a sniper team that was conducting security for the operation observed a military age male surveying the stadium with binoculars shortly after Coalition Forces were attacked with a rocket propelled grenade. The sniper team determined hostile intent and engaged the terrorist with one round, resulting in the death of the insurgent.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., Coalition Forces were attacked with small arms fire from multiple positions on rooftops surrounding the stadium. Coalition Forces returned fire, but were not able to confirm damage to the enemy. At 11:45 a.m., a sniper team at the stadium observed two insurgents armed with AK-47s southwest of their location moving into position on the roof of a building. The sniper team engaged the terrorists and were able to confirm both enemy killed in action.
No Coalition Forces were injured in today’s attacks.
The cordon and search resulted in the seizure of 30 lbs. of plastic explosives, typically found to be used in Improvised Explosive Devices and vehicle car bombs. The contents of the cache will be destroyed. A few weeks ago, Coalition Forces uncovered a significant weapons cache on the Soccer Stadium premises.
Multi-National Force-Iraq
Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers detained 20 terror suspects and confiscated bomb-making materials during an early morning cordon and search in the Dora neighborhood Oct. 27.
While responding to an unexploded improvised explosive device found in the area, Soldiers from 1st Battalion,184th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team heard an explosion about 200 meters from their location shortly before midnight Oct. 26.
The Soldiers moved in to investigate the cause of the blast and found 19 men along with assorted IED-making materials in a house. Iraqi security forces from 1st Battalion, 4th Public Order Brigade assisted 1-184 Inf. during the operation and detained the men for further questioning.
The IED-making materials consisted of a voltage regulator along with battery packs. An explosives ordnance disposal team conducting the post-blast analysis determined that 60 pounds of explosives were used during the explosion which destroyed one quarter of the house.
The owner of the house was later detained as a suspect involved in the explosion.
Multi-National Force-Iraq
Task Force Baghdad Soldiers continued to engage enemy terrorist forces during combat operations Oct. 24-26 in various neighborhoods of the capitol city.
While on patrol, the U.S. Soldiers found and destroyed several improvised explosive devices before they could be detonated. Other Coalition forces successes included discovering several weapons caches and detaining suspected terrorists who were often caught fleeing the scene of their attacks.
One team of terrorists attempting to place an IED along a road west of Baghdad was spotted by U.S. forces who then engaged them with gunfire. Some of the would-be bombers fled in a truck, while other terrorists fired back at the Soldiers pursuing them. Within the hour, two of the terrorists had been detained by Task Force Baghdad Soldiers.
Another U.S. patrol operating southwest of Baghdad Oct. 24 found an IED consisting of three 155 mm rounds. The patrol detained one individual in the area who was in possession of an AK-47 assault rifle, a shotgun and a trigger device. A U.S. explosives ordnance disposal team was called in to destroy the IED.
On Oct. 26, a U.S. patrol in the al-Doura district in southeast Baghdad found and destroyed an IED which consisted of four 122 mm rounds, a 130 mm round and a land mine.
Another Task Force Baghdad patrol struck an IED Oct. 25 southwest of Baghdad. There were no injuries or damage from the blast. As Soldiers were securing the site, they noticed two individuals fleeing the scene. The U.S. Soldiers detained the two terror suspects for further questioning.
Task Force Baghdad Soldiers continued to aggressively hunt down stockpiles of weapons and bomb-making materials in order to deny terrorists the opportunity to use them against Iraqi security forces, Iraqi civilians or Coalition forces.
On Oct. 24, one unit north of Baghdad excavated more than 120 mortar rounds, 49 tank and artillery rounds, eight cases of small-arms ammunition, dozens of rockets, three boxes of mortar fuses, a rocket-propelled grenade warhead and two anti-aircraft gun barrels. An EOD team destroyed the cache while Task Force Baghdad Soldiers detained 12 individuals for further questioning about the weapons cache.
Earlier that same day, another unit revisiting the site of an earlier weapons cache west of Baghdad found more munitions piled at the same site, including 12 hand grenades, three 125 mm rounds and one 115 mm round. That cache was also destroyed by an EOD team.
Tomorrow is the big day for the grand jury. As far as I can tell, there have been no leaks from the jury or the prosecutor’s office. Everything else is either speculation, or a crime, since people are not supposed to discuss their testimony.
Recall that a large number of people have testified. The grand jury is not limited to considering charges against karl Rove and Scooter Libby. Take, oh, for example, Lying Joe Wilson.
What if he were indicted for perjury, or for violations of security agreements?
Valerie Plame… what if she were indicted for violation of the law about government employees campaigning for candidates?
I’m just saying…
The support staff at Hosting Matters have solved my e-mail problem, and the redirection problem with the subdomain. The best folks!!!
My name with each post now uses mailto , so that you can e-mail me.
Style.css got so bollixed up that I just replaced it with the original and made about four modifications. It seems to have stabilized the template. IE is less than perfect, as are the individual posts. Float seems to be the issue, but I’m going to live with it for now.
I’m going to concentrate on fixing the imported posts, url errors for images and adding categories.
OK, I’ve fixed some of the problems, I think.
Permalinks seem to work. Blank .htaccess file fixed that.
Archives appeared, finally.
RSS feed works.
List bullets still appear despite my best efforts.
Can’t change the size of the font for my blog title, or for the titles on the sidebar.
Still many, many posts dated 1969 to fix.
Removed categories from sidebar. They seem to work with the posts.
Technorati labels reappeared. Invisible tag isn’t working correctly.
Calendar removed, in favor of archives.
Next page links at bottom work.
Sidebar size overlaps content somehow.
Blogger Momma Bear has died.
I cannot add much. She was a stirring contributor to Kathy Kinsley’s On the Third Hand blog. I appreciate her encouragement as I was a new blogger, and her fine mind and clear writing.
God bless her.
OK, so far so good.
I cannot make the bullets for the lists in the right sidebar disappear. They were not there in the original template but I did something.
I cannot make my blog name any larger, though I can make the font bold.
Category links go nowhere.
Next page link goes nowhere.
Syndication feeds may not work.
Link to prior month caendar goes nowhere.
Still to do:
All comments on the old blog are lost.
UPDATE: Comments not working, either. Ufta!
Multi-National Force-Iraq
Coalition forces raided three suspected terrorist safe houses, detained six terrorists, and killed several others in the town of al Ushsh, northwest al Qaim Oct. 25.
Acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens, Coalition forces raided the safe houses suspected to be a terrorist stronghold used to conduct attacks against local Iraqi citizens, Iraqi security and Coalition forces.
Upon arriving at the suspected terrorist safe house, Coalition forces entered the safe house where armed terrorists were located with women and children. As a result of the ensuing exchange of gunfire between the terrorists and Coalition forces, the suicide vest of one of the terrorists was detonated, causing the building’s roof to collapse.
The women and children were rescued from the rubble and treated by medical personnel. The group was then moved to a safe area.
Coalition forces then moved to two additional suspected safe houses and secured and searched them, detaining six terrorists.
Upon departing the terrorist stronghold, Coalition forces called in close air support and destroyed the three buildings.
Ain’t this fun?
Found a template I liked, but fiddling with it is a BAD thing.
Imports from Blogger came in with the same date, 3 year’s worth.
Patience is a virgin, they say.
PG sent a short e-mail. She’s serving with a governmental agency in the West, and after Thanksgiving will be deployed on disaster relief duties, but is not sure where. Her normal day:
They don’t give us much time here. Right now it’s a lot of training (just classes that are sometimes common sense and sometimes of meaning). We have PT every morning at 5:25. We run, do lots of push-ups, crunches, stretches, and calistenics. Often times PT is the best part of my day. We also have presentations. We’ve done two service projects: clearing star thistle out of a bike path in Sacramento and clearing out brush at Camp Mendocino near San Francisco.She’s an exercise enthusiast, which is why she loves the 5:30 am cals. Oh, and she’s 21 not 50 like me. You want me to do what at 5:30?
Word Press is turning out to be both useful and useless. The process for importing my old posts will be long and painful, but I can do it.
I’m semi-officialy back in blogging business.
I took the plunge and paid Hosting Matters. This will be moving weekend. My hope is that by Monday I will no longer be relying upon Geocities and blogger. Pardon the dust. We’re under construction.
I’m beginning a twelve hour shift at the ambulance base. Also waiting to see if Hosting Matters transfers my domain. Everything’s at a standstill until then. Most of the site has been moved.
I have to comment on Weather Channel babe, Stephanie Abrams. They’ve had her out in the hurricanes, reporting live. And, she looks mighty fine, mighty fine!
THANK YOU!
"downright prescient"
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter
"stoical"
BBC
"squirreled away"
Reuters
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