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  • For the Love of Oil

    From: Theresa Largusa
    Date: June 17, 2010 3:37:45 PM CDT
    To: "Largusa, Ron"
    Subject: RE: Is this guy your congressional representative?

    He's nobody to me. He just likes the taste of sludge-y
    slush money.

    From: Largusa, Ron 
    Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010
    3:31 PM
    To: Theresa Largusa
    Subject: Is this guy your
    congressional representative?

    WTF?! I mean, for
    real…

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008020-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

    Ron M. Largusa
    MSPH
    Epidemiologist
    County of Humboldt–Dept. of Health and Human
    Services
    Public Health
    Branch

  • Today’s Random Computer Screenshot

    Alt Prt Sc of CH Blog Entry - C drive removed at top of screen
     
      
      

  • Off the Shelf

    Featured on Tor.com

    Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.

     

    I’m certainly not one to pass on that. How about you?

     

     

     

     

     

  • Being There

    Forming connections with those around us is important business. Being available and present in someone’s life is the biggest responsibility we all face. For some, the crafting of relationships is mysterious and difficult. For others, it is the stuff of life, like oxygen, and the bonds of community are easily forged. Friendship provides definition to our character. We are, after all, the company we seek.

     

    So…you want to know a secret? Building a relationship is the only work we do, day in and day out, that ever really matters. Make sure this is always at the top of your task list. Everything else will fall into place precisely as it should.

     http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/satellite/satelliteEmbedPlayer.swf

  • Sunday’s Garden

    Flowers ~ 3 Ways

    Pink in a tree 
    Floating magnolia 

    Windy flowers

     

     

  • Thoughts. Images. Ideas.

    Sleep is rarely a restorative endeavour. For me, the slightest sound rattles and disrupts. When I do enter the realm of REM, brain and nervous system kick into hyperdrive. I often have flight dreams where fleeing the scene of some impending peril sets my heart to racing. I am also regularly visited by those who have passed on. The dead always have much to say, but it’s a damn tricky thing to decipher their riddle-speak. I scramble upon awakening to write down the images that were etched into my (sub)consciousness. Needless to mention that if my brain could retain actual dialogue from these encounters, I’d be sitting on a stack of completed manuscripts. As it stands, I have half-formed thoughts and embrionic ideas handwritten and typed all over the place. Ah, my restless soul and wandering mind. If I could just inject some discipline into my idle bones, well…then I’d have a story to tell. I owe it to the dead that take the time to talk to me.

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  • VEVO – FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert

    VEVO – FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert.


    Game On!


    Here’s a little warm-up to get you loose, limber, and ready to play.

  • Wednesday Woof

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    On any given Wednesday

    By the by

    A dog’s greatest dream is

    Kibble pouring from the sky

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  • Life’s Not Always Nice The 2nd Time Around

    I’ll need to steal away some time to read The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. I’ve always thought the character, which makes a brief but memorable appearance in Eclipse, was a storyteller’s gem that needed its moment to shine. One could tell Bree was living in her own world somewhere between the pages of a worn out notebook (or more likely a computer file.) Sketches of a backstory that couldn’t quite compete with the Cullens and Quileutes, but a tale nonetheless of lost humanity, helping to put all of the supernatural derring-do of the Twilight Saga into perspective. The novella will bring a new dimension to the story, just in time for “Eclipse” to hit theatres at the end of this month.

     

     

    Have you read Bree? Did you think it a worthy addition to the Twilightverse?

  • Here’s Looking at You

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    Wine is never wrong on a sweltering Sunday evening. May this glass be a toast to any and all who’ve put a trying week behind him/her. The new week on the horizon can only get better, no? Happy to report all is well at this hour, with no complaints other than that familiar puzzler of wherever did the weekend go? Choosing to look on the bright side, I’m going to top off my tumbler with a bit more red and enjoy the night air filled with hums, buzzing (but no biting), warbling, and chirps.

     

    Cheers!