The crazy lady strikes again

I'm at that stage of this cold which is absolutely miserable - I'm just healthy enough to be bored with all that rest, yet I still feel the need to take it easy and not be as active. You should have seen me try to lift all that Halloween candy we bought and didn't use (because we had so few trick-or-treaters). That points out the need I have to take it easy and not overdo it with my history of lung disease. My husband is extremely worried that I will come down with another life-threatening... Sign in to see full entry.

On 11/1/2006, CNBC aired a special called Big Brother, Big Business (or something similar), about all the privacy invasions common in today's world. I can quote you one fairly common example, which came up in the course of the special. Most of us use Google to search for things on the Internet. In fact, usage of this search engine is so common that it has become a verb - "to google" means "to use Google to look things up on the Internet." What I didn't know until I saw promotional material for... Sign in to see full entry.

In this blog, SuccessWarrior has been talking about the use of microchip technology. Although he and I differ with regard to our religious beliefs, we're on the same page when it comes to the use of this technology. Personally, I don't mind the use of microchips for pets, because it's been used responsibly, just for identifying pets in the event that they get lost. My two cats refuse to wear collars, which means that if they get out, microchips would come in handy - they'd be the only way to... Sign in to see full entry.

This is one I heard in June, during my last stint in rehab: Did you know that Pope Benedict XVI recently recovered from the bird flu? As far as can be determined, he was infected by a cardinal. (Just a joke, folks, not reality.) Sign in to see full entry.

Q. Why did the witch divorce the warlock? A. Because he had a hollow weenie. Sign in to see full entry.

On yesterday's show (aired 10/30/2006 in Chicago), Oprah ended her show by giving each individual in the audience a $1,000 debit card. There were two conditions: 1. Audience members had to spend the money on someone other than family members, preferably giving what they bought to charity; 2. Audience members also had to have someone else follow them around with some sort of video recording device, documenting that they'd fulfilled condition #1. The documentation would be aired on a future Oprah... Sign in to see full entry.

I know that this is a fairly generic title, but this head cold is fogging my brain this fine morning. (I'm feeling just well enough to be more than a bit grumpy.) I've noticed something over the months that I've been watching Oprah Winfrey (at least every once in a while). Oprah very rarely refers readers out to outside sources of assistance, especially for shows when it would be appropriate. Allow me to use a recent show of hers as an example. She did a show on the aftereffects of bariatric... Sign in to see full entry.

I noticed that I hadn't updated this blog all day, so I thought I'd better write something in here just to keep it active. One of my chores tomorrow is to try to call Illinois' Department of Revenue to figure out just what is going on with a back-tax debt we owe the state. I want to pay them, and I thought I'd made arrangements with the law firm they hired to pay them off, but we got a dunning notice from the state recently in the mail. I plan on calling them at the start of normal business... Sign in to see full entry.

In a way, it's a good thing this is merely a head cold (as opposed to a third case of pneumonia in two years, or that nasty case of bacterial meningitis I had in February). But I am just sick enough to feel miserable, and I'm at the stage we all get to, at which we all become thoroughly sick of being sick and wish the danged bug would just go do something obscene with itself. In addition, some of the same issues which have plagued me for years keep coming back like bad pennies or unwanted house... Sign in to see full entry.

Recently, Michael J. Fox taped a public-service announcement in favor of an amendment to the Missouri state constitution, permitting the use of cloned embryos in research. If one has already watched it (or the snippets of it shown on network news), one can see for oneself the obvious deterioration of Fox's condition. (He had to scale back his acting career considerably due to Parkinson's disease.) When Rush Limbaugh saw this spot, as soon as he could get on the air, he accused Fox either of... Sign in to see full entry.