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August, 2006
August 31st, 2006
We all have these movies. You know what they are. You’re flipping through the channels or the tv guide and there it is. It’s not an Emmy winner. It wasn’t even that great the first (hundred) time(s) you saw it. But you can’t help yourself. You’re drawn to it. Your fingers automatically work the remote control and the next thing you know, you’re sitting mesmerized on the futon with a Big Gulp in one hand and another hand stuffed in a half empty bag of Baked Doritos and the credits are rolling and you can’t remember how you got there…
These are thirteen of mine…
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Tags: movies, Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, bloghopping
August 31st, 2006
So, I saw my GP yesterday afternoon. We went over the concerns of the Rheumy with the blood in the urine; plus I got a copy of the results of some of my lab work that the Rheumy did at his office. I don’t understand much of it, but I have a copy of it now. (By the way, it says I have 16 of 18 of the trigger points for myalgia but my alarming Sed rate is what keeps me from the fibromyalgia diagnosis…that’s what’s written on the paperwork.)
Anyway, one of the things that the Rheumy
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Tags: wellness, Takayasu's Arteritis, fibromyalgia, autoimmune kidney disease, IgA Nephropathy, chest cold
August 31st, 2006
“Dont assume they are right just because they are in authority or because they are experts.. Think things out for yourself. Come to your own judgement.”
– Larry Ellison
Tags: Quote of the Day
August 30th, 2006
Do you know how hard it is to find a pet carrier that meets the criteria of a specific airline’s in-cabin restrictions?
First, you have to really hunt around their website for the actual restrictions because they don’t actually want you to know what they are because really they don’t want you to fly with your beloved furry family member. Then once you find it, there’s a bunch of unrealistic stuff to read through — by the way, did you know that if you want to bring a four inch aquarium fish with you on an airplane, it will cost
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Tags: U.S. Airways, pet carrier, Pug, the puppy
August 30th, 2006
I would rather someone was wrapped in the Constitution burning the flag than wrapped in the flag burning the Constitution.
– Moxiegrrl
Tags: Quote of the Day
August 29th, 2006
Those lab tests I did yesterday came back funny so my CTs for tomorrow are cancelled while I have some more lab tests scheduled. I think I’m going to cry.
The real irony is that they are finding blood where they aren’t supposed to find any — something my GP’s office should have followed up with last week when I was there doing labwork with them.
Meanwhile, is it possible to get a cold from your dog?
Tags: CT Scan, wellness
August 29th, 2006
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing”
– Edmund Burke
Tags: Quote of the Day
August 28th, 2006
After a terribly stressful day involving about 100 phone calls concerning an incorrect Radiology order, an out of town doctor, and some necessary emergency blood work and other lab work (re: pee in cup), I actually have some good news.
While I am still having an angiogram, they are going to be doing a CT angiogram as opposed to a catheter angiogram; the CT angiogram is less invasive and is less likely to have complications. In fact, they don’t even put you “under” for the CT angiogram and you can even drive yourself home. Whole thing should take like 20
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Tags: Takayasu's Arteritis, CT angiogram
August 28th, 2006
- Moral relativity and the “war on terrorism” — Kevin @ Preemptive Karma wrote an excellent post about the double standard of the this administration and the expectations of the Right that expect Rep. Cynthia McKinney to apologize to the police officer she had an altercation with earlier this year but accepts the fact that the U.S. has imprisoned and tortured innocent people in Gitmo and elsewhere without apology or explanation and that is just fine.
Apparently in the twisted world of rightwing freaks slapping someone requires an apology but busting out the teeth of a perfectly innocent Lebanese or torturing an innocent Turk, not to mention their imprisonment, is something that those particular victims ought to just suck it up over, be glad that they eventually regained their freedom and to hell with apologizing to them.
- Republicans: Making the world safe for bigots and racists — Jill @ Brilliant at Breakfast writes about recent incidents in the South where black children have been segregated to the back of the school bus and a church has voted not to accept black members and she wonders what has made this sort of thing acceptable as we approach the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, “leaving tens of thousands of black New Orleans residents stranded or dying, while the President of the United States was yukking it up with 2008 Presidential hopeful John McCain over birthday cake.”
You can trot Condoleeza Rice out there till the cows come home, it doesn’t change the fact that when it comes to black Americans who do not serve the Republican party, as far as that party is concerned, they might as well drown.
- Have Some Foil — chicago dyke @ CorrenteWire has a nice piece up about two whistleblowers, who uncovered secret wiretapping in cell phones around the world. They’ve been murdered, of course. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: terrorism, Cynthia McKinney, Guantanamo Bay, torture, detainees, rightwingers, Republicans, racism, George W. Bush, Condi Rice, John McCain, Hurricane Katrina, whistleblowers, wiretapping, American Society of Civil Engineers, JonBenet Ramsey, pedophiles, relationships
August 28th, 2006
Think back over your life.
What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever did?
I’m sure the memory is still there hanging around in the shadows of your mind, waiting to jump forward to your memory forefront at an extremely inopportune moment. Your cheeks flush at the thought. You stomach flinchs. Maybe you even feel just a little bit queasy just at the mere hint of a flashback.
Maybe it’s something that happened 20 years ago in school and maybe no one but you remembers it. Maybe it’s something that happened last week in front of 15 strangers on a
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Tags: terrorism, iPod, WoW, Muslims, airport security
August 28th, 2006
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
– Ronald Reagan
Tags: Quote of the Day, Ronald Reagan
August 27th, 2006
Here’s a nice thing to wake up to…
Tags: Pug, the puppy
August 27th, 2006
“Nerds don’t just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.”
– Paul Graham
Tags: Quote of the Day
August 26th, 2006
- Former Iraq POW Jessica Lynch is pregnant. She and her boyfriend, Wes Robinson, are expecting their first child in January. (CNN.com)
- 43% of Americans believe the United States is now safer from terrorism than it was before September 11, 2001. 25% believe it is less safe. Over half believe that an act of terrorism will likely happen in the US in the next few weeks, over half believe that the federal government is unprepared for any terrorist attack targeting any U.S. town or city, and over half believe that the federal government is unprepared to deal with the damage from
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Tags: Jessica Lynch, 9/11, terrorism, Iraq, Ryanair, airport security, stupid laws
August 26th, 2006
Here are some photos I took from last Wednesday’s Pug Meetup on Portland’s Eastern Prom.
Here’s Pugly having a roll in the grass.
This little patriotic Pug is one of “The Twins”.
Here’s Pugly with his girlfriend, Aggie, getting a drink of water after playing hard.
He was even being a gentleman and waiting for her to finish — something he usually doesn’t have
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Tags: Pug, the puppy, meetup
August 26th, 2006
“The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.”
– Shakti Gawain
Tags: Quote of the Day
August 25th, 2006
So, it turns out that I’m going to be having an angiogram to see if I have Takayasu’s Arteritis. I just found out. There was some sort of miscommunication between the doctor and myself. He told me “CAT scan with injected dye”. I think I would have taken it a bit more seriously if he had said “angiogram.”
This comes a day after I got an email from my mother saying that she read that Takayasu requires an angiogram for the final diagnosis and that basically worries her or somesuch.
So now I’m a little freaked
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Tags: Takayasu's Arteritis, angiogram, CAT Scan
August 25th, 2006
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- ‘Liquid Bombers’ - The Impossible Bomb — A lot of websites have been linking to this explanation as to why the most recent terror plot from the UK could not have worked and why all of the fearmongering and passenger harrassment by the UK and American governments in the airports is unnecessary. I say, read it for yourself and decide for yourself.
- Homeland insecurity 2.0 — Pam @ Pam’s House Blend wrote one of the best reports of what travelling immediately after the latest terrorist plot scare was like that I’ve read.
Again, the PA came on, this time it was for another flight — on Continental — that was boarding. This announcer, I’m not kidding you, went on for about 2-3 minutes warning people about taking on liquids and gels (”liquid” chapstick is a no-no, solid is OK), no coffee or soda will make it on board. Random checks at the gate would be performed. If they find contraband on you, you will be asked to give it up. If you don’t give it up, you’ll not be able to board, he boomed, and you would have to go on a later flight. “Not later today,” he warned, “maybe not even this week…maybe not for a couple of weeks.” OK, at this point, people are laughing, including the two of us. This is ludicrous.
Our flight is finally called and we board. The plane is about to close up and a couple of late arrivals get on. This time we have a woman taking her sweet time, coming down the aisle with a steaming hot cup of Cinnabon coffee, which she proceeds to balance on an armrest as she casually loads her bag in the overhead bin, blocking the aisle as a couple of people wait behind her.
Clearly, my friends, US Airways has let on the Cinnabomber.
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Tags: liquid bombers, airport security, Continental, U.S. Airways, crime rate, terrorism, morning-after pill, women soldiers, American soldiers, pharmacists, JonBenet Ramsey, Abeer al-Janabi, Jessica Lynch, Jim Bensman, Army Corps of Engineers, FBI, Duarris Perez, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Cuba, Homeland Security, Bosnia, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Hamas, al-Qaeda, Hurricane Katrina, pink food coloring, food industry
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August 25th, 2006
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tags: Quote of the Day
August 24th, 2006
So…I saw this over at Danielle’s initially and I’m not entirely sure I “get” it (because I’m old and easily confused), but I’m going to try it out anyway…and I’m stealing her topic too.
Thirteen Things I Wanna Be When I Growd Up
- Drummer in a band - I so wanted to be Melody from Josie and the Pussycats.
- Book Store Owner - what better way to pass your time than having free access to every book you ever wanted to read?
- Journalist - This is what I really wanted to be but my parents pressured me into
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, bloghopping
