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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hobbitblue | |
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Today was Not A Good Day, mainly because last night was Not a Good Night. I was fine, chatted to Forest online to find out how his trip to Erotica went (many sexy ladies, yum), had my snack, read a book before bed, got changed, snuggled up, read a couple of pages of Walden, turned off the light, shut my eyes... and tossed and turned and felt ill and strange and had to get up again around 5am and go down and get mum to feed me. I'd somehow mucked up my sugar, plus had a chill so unhappy tum, shivers and nausea, and while trying to get toast into me fast enough to sort the sugars without upsetting said tum too much I ended up having a small seizure in the chair. Ack. Not fun. I'm due a full seizure at some point, I suspect, but the middle of the night is *not* the time to be having them. Luckily curling up in bed with a heated pad helped the chill eventually, and staying put in a warm place lying down distracted the seizure enough to wander away somewhere, but for some strange reason I've felt lousy all day. Still, did manage to get lunch, and watched James May building a huge Scalextric track at Brooklands which was all kind of groovy (and no, I'm not now going to get hooked on Scalextric, its not my cup of tea and I could never get the hang of controlling the cars on my little next door neighbour's set years ago), laid down for a bit waiting for the seizure - which buggered off again, grr - and I also played the ukulele. Yep, the hobbit actually laid paws on a musical instrument - I did quite well too, best session I've ever managed with uke which is amazing considering the state I'm in today.. we can blame zahryn for mentioning a uke club with a songbook to download. Extremely good songbook, I was happily strumming my way through various classics, House of the Rising Sun, Hallelujah, Dream Dream Dream, Daydream Believer and picking up the chord shapes pretty quickly so I wasn't needing to check the boxed diagrams each time. And singing along, obviously. Favourites for playing and singing fairly proficiently were Hit the Road Jack and Here Comes the Sun which I *adore*.. Each time I've tried the guitar of late its seemed heavy and complicated but a little bitty four-stringed thing with a range of cool tunes to work through? Perfect. Now I just need to get a decent night's sleep... Tone of babble:  drained
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thnidu | |
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The video (YouTube, 1m32s):The rumor as I received it, slightly redacted:Our daughter-in-law, _____, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. This was all her idea to help promote their new pink gloves. I don't know how she got so many employees, doctors and patients to participate, but it started to really catch on and they all had a lot of fun doing it.
When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms for the community. Please check it out. It's an easy and great way to donate to a wonderful cause, and who hasn't been touched by breast cancer? As soon as saw "When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge contribution", my BS alarm started sounding and I went to Snopes. They didn't have anything on it, so I went to the hospital website mentioned in the YouTube info. They didn't have anything either. I finally went to the manufacturer's site. I know "Medline" as a medical information source run by the NIH, so I was suspicious, but this really is a manufacturer of medical gloves. The verifiable facts: the letter I sent in reply to the rumor, quoting (first) parts of the letter as I received it, and then from the manufacturer's site:This much of the rumor is certainly true:The video itself is very entertaining and inspirational, and does confirm that this was made at a hospital to promote breast cancer awareness. At least, I can't figure out where they got the hospital and all that staff if it isn't real.
But this is NOT:
When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms for the community. Please check it out.
The Medline website has a press release about the dance video. It says in part (underline added): The pink gloves featured in the video were provided by Medline Industries, Inc., which recently introduced its new “Generation Pink” gloves. A portion of the sales from the gloves is going to fund mammograms for the underserved population. Based in Mundelein, Illinois, Medline is a manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies and the leading provider of exam gloves in the U.S. It also has a press release about the gloves themselves, which says in part: To aide [sic] the awareness effort, Medline will donate $1.00 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for each case of the new pink glove purchased during the month of October, national Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ... This year, the company is also donating $100,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to help fund mammograms for women in need. Nothing about 1 million hits. CIRCULATING THIS VIDEO IS GOOD BUT WILL NOT AFFECT THE FUNDRAISING. I've sent this rumor and the links and quotes to Snopes. Tags: health, rumors
Source of babble:: home
Tone of babble:  hungry
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Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there. Sunday is generally housework and errands day here. That includes maintaining the technology. Where other people might clean the car, we work on the electronics. So today we have been to the Toy Shop (otherwise known as Frys) and spent lots of money on gleaming technological goodies, including a 1 Tb drive with a RAID mirror for serious backup of my work-related data. More on not-so-superfluous technology later, but this post is actually about food.
On long shopping trips (which we still haven’t finished, we just came back to dump some stuff and collect something we had forgotten) we tend to end up eating out. Inspired by this chart, and by the enthusiastic recommendations of Damien G. Walter, we headed for In-n-Out Burger. As burger bars go they actually are quite good. To start with they are, as far as I know, the only burger chain in the USA that does not try to force you to eat Evil Dill Pickle. Everything is cooked to order, including the fries which are actually chopped up from real potatoes in the restaurant rather than being extruded and frozen in a factory. The fries have been cooked in 100% vegetable oil (trans-fat and cholesterol free) since 1948, and you get a packet of salt rather than having them come pre-salted. So all-in-all I would say that Damien is right to be enthusiastic about them, even if they are burgers.
If this seems horribly un-American, well this is California. Also their cheeseburgers are infinitely extensible. The menu includes a single and a double, but the cash registers are programmed to allow you to add as many extra patties and cheese slices as you like. Naturally this has tempted some college students to try to set records that would daunt even Mike Gatting. Tags: computers, food
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Last night I had a fever and headache and no appetite, felt like I was starting to catch something, so at about 8 I took some ibuprofen, which didn't help, so at 9 I took some acetaminophen, and curled up in bed with a book, which helped a lot. I also fired up the Eee PC, since I didn't feel like sitting in front of the big PC in the computer room. Woke up this morning feeling fine. Go figure. Today I went for a massage, a woman who works in her home, a very nice apartment complex just of 101 and Lawrence. Looking online at the floor plans, it's only about $100 a month more than what I'm paying, and they have washer/fryer in the units, so I think I'm going to call them next week and ask what their cats policy is, and look into moving there early next year if the prices & policies are right. The massage was adequate - a mix of all the Asian forms - good enough for me, not good enough to recommend to a friend. Tried to go to Pet Club in the Costco shopping plaza, but the entire population of north Santa Clara and south San Mateo counties decided to do their Thanksgiving shopping at Costco, and it was a total mess, so I wove my way to an exit and went home. I don't know who designs the Costco parking lots, but all the ones I've been in are engineered for maximum chaos and frustration, with no thought to how pedestrians with shopping carts will get safely to their cars. The el cheapo camp chair which I bought on my way to Pinnacles this summer for $12 is starting to shred, so I went online and bought a hevy duty replacement, and since all the camping stuff is on sale now I also ordered a replacement for my moldy queen sized air mattress and two basic summer weight zip-together sleeping bags. Thanks to water damage and squirrels, I am down to one slightly nibbled bedroll. I suppose I should go to OSH and buy a garden trunk or something to store the camping stuff in out on the patio. One of my favorite web sites has been hijacked. They have two DNS addresses, one is their full name and the other is an acronym which redirects to the first one. The acronym gives a "server not found" error and the full name gives a 404 for a bogus site name. No plans for the rest of the day except my 9 pm phone call to the folks. Probably will watch some football. Definitely will have some lobster thermidor for dinner, and baggy/freeze the rest for later. Last night's is untouched and there are at least 4 servings. Which reminds me: Fannie Farmer Cookbook total FAIL: Their lobster thermidor recipe starts by slicing 2 cups of mushrooms and sautéing them in 5 tbsp of butter. And that's the only time the mushrooms are mentioned. At the end of the recipe you're left with an oven pan filled with beautiful golden brown baked meal, and a side of cooked mushooms. I added them to the mix after pouring the thermidor into the pan. Tone of babble:  satisfied
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Vancouver police are looking into alleged improper use of funds gathered from fundraisers that were held after a popular teacher was killed in a hit-and-run incident in September.
According to a story Friday in The Columbian newspaper, some of the money may have been used to bail the suspect in the case out of jail.
Gordon Patterson, 50, died Sept. 15 when police say 18-year-old Antonio Eugene Cellestine hit Patterson from behind in his car. Patterson was traveling by bike south of St. Johns on 41st Street. After the collision, police said Cellestine left Patterson dying near his mangled bicycle.
Patterson was a popular teacher at Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver. He often rode his bicycle to the school.
Now, investigators think Mallory Ewart used money raised for Patterson's family to bail Cellestine out of jail. Ewart is reportedly Cellestine's girlfriend.
She reportedly organized fundraisers for Patterson's family after his death, including car washes. However, when she gave the money to the family, some of it was apparently missing. This prompted the investigation.
Court records said jail tape recordings revealed Cellestine and Ewart talked about diverting the money from the car wash to pay Cellestine's bail. Investigators also said Ewart talked about the plan on her MySpace page.
The revelation that money was diverted came as a blow to members of First Evangelical Church, which is where Patterson worshipped. It is also across the street from the restaurant where the fundraiser was held.
Twenty-eight people made donations that totaled about $400. But only $190 came back.
"It takes some gall – gall," said Joy Kersteter, a member of the church. "It's very unbelievable that somebody would prey on people that way – to use the situation to help somebody who was the cause of the situation."
Cellestine faces hit-and-run charges in Patterson's death. More recently, he has been charged with marijuana possession and as a minor in possession of alcohol while out on bail.
He is currently back in jail and is being held without bail. His brother also has been arrested in the hit-and-run investigation.
Ewart is scheduled to appear in court next week. She is charged with third degree theft, which carries a maximum of one year in jail. She and Cellestine both had been students at Hudson's Bay. All emphasis added.Tags: i can't make this stuff up, people suck
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A great, if exceptionally tiring weekend. 3 events going on around me. mevennen ran her inaugural Writing Workshop over the entire weekend, leaving me to marshal the troops in the shops. Then a very successful book launch at the Cat & Cauldron for the lovely Vikki Bramshaw - a review of her book The Craft of the Wise - an exceptional addition to the Wiccan canon by a young and diligent author. We wish her every success with it. And finally, Anne Sudworth has been in town to launch a major exhibition of her artwork at a new Gallery in Glastonbury - everyone got to it except me, because i was working and dog-minding, but I will have the pleasure of a private view on Thursday. We are all quite exhausted, and I'm afraid I probably showed that a bit yesterday evening when trying to make sure we got fed after the festivities - restaurants in town close stop serving early, and I get really irritated trying to herd cats (aka organizing pagans). Be that as it may, we did get food, and although I was probably a bit too tired to join in the festivities too much tonight, it was great to see such a large group of people having fun in the G&P, where one of the staff kindly informed me that 'some of your weird mates are in'. (The Goths crowd - about 40 of them). Young man, for the record - just remember they were paying your wages and be grateful. I've sat myself down watching the Jets get trounced by the Patriots, with a glass of wine, because I know if I try to go to sleep when I am this tired I will just toss and turn. That plus the fact that I LIKE American Football.....
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Last babble 
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