Well, I’m running a temperature, so it looks like I’ll be in the basement for the duration of the weekend. (See previous post)

Only good thing is I get o make Michael run up and down the stairs to bring me water and aspirin and anything else I need. (Right now he’s making me decaf lemon lift tea, with honey.)

So please, entertain me. I am surrounded by books, but I wouldn’t mind some mindless staring at the computer either.

Well, I don’t think it was just that yesterday was a long day. I think I’m coming down with the same flu my boss was out with.

I’ve got a Dr appointment at 1:00 so I can see what’s going on and determine if Grandmom needs to go stay with my parents for a few days until I’m no longer sick/contagious.

I’m at work now, because I just have a sore throat and am a bit achey, and because I can sequester myself in my office here (well, except for having to teach Photoshop this morning, but I did warn my students to stay away from me), as opposed to increasing the chances of my grandmother getting sick if I am at home.

So off to the doctor at 1:00, and then I guess I’ll pull the bed out of the love seat and try and relax in the basement (there is no air intake in the rooms in the basement) until Grandmom heads out to my parent’s house.

For now, I just drank a bottle of orange juice and am starting on a bottle of water. Gotta keep hydrated. And I’m going to hope this passes quickly, so my grandmother can return quickly from her exile at my parent’s house.

Unless of course this is all just allergies and I’m worried for nothing.

OK. Go here then.

It’s summer driving music. Yay!

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Me: Michael! Can you come down here? PLEASE?!
Michael: (coming down the stairs) What is it?
Me: (pointing towards very small brown spider on bathroom wall) Can you please take care of it? I think it’s a brown recluse and it will bite me and I’ll die.
Me: I don’t want to die.
Michael: I don’t want you to die.
Michael: I thought brown recluses were big.
Me: I though they were small. Very small. If it bites me my flesh will turn all necrotic and rot off. (hands Michael a Dixie cup)
Michael: (catches spider in cup against wall)
(both stare at cup held up against wall)
Michael: I don’t have a piece of paper or anything to trap it in the cup.
Michelle: (runs and fetches a piece of cardboard)
Michelle: Thank you.

Why did he have to catch the spider? Why that would be my fault! I can’t stand for things to be killed, so the few insects and arachnids that escape the attention of the cats must be caught and released outside.

For those of you who don’t read Whateveresque…

If I worked in space I’d be a biodome gardener.

Try and restrain your shock.

What job would you do in space?

It’s not paranoia if they reallly are out to get you, right?

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While I’m sitting at the front desk, here’s a little something from Tanya.

Beware the beavers in Anchorage lake

First, there really needs to be an exclaimation point at the end of that headline.

Second, for those in the surrounding areas in Beaver, WV and Beaver Falls, PA: Beware! As if having to live somewhere with the name Beaver isn’t bad enough, now you can be attacked by your namesakes.

Either that or the beavers are tired of having their name stand for female naughty bits and are standing up for beaver pride.

I got nothing. Have some visitor stats:

i hate microsoft
Who doesn’t?

where did japanese folk tales originate?
Wild ass guess? Japan.

acting in an unethical manner
See: Bush, President.

michelle 41
Good grief not YET! I’ve got 3 more years!

instructions chopsticks wrapper
I’d totally forgotten I had this on my website.

when washington admitted the union
Heh. And here we all thought our founding father was all straightlaced.

popbo
Now that is odd. Popbo was my name for my grandfather.

explain slime
Is there an explanation? If so, I’d like to know.

web standards microsoft
They don’t follow them. Any other questions?

pig hooey

frr gung f jul v ybir lbh.
Gung’f fb fjrrg! Gunax lbh!

dead squirrel poses
Come on, vogue!

men with red hair
Try “The Redheaded League”

rare football
Mars maybe. But between American football and the rest of the world football, it’s pretty much everyone on this planet.

erqrrz
Sbe inyhnoyr cevmrf!

I’m in training all day, for that software I was complaining about a couple weeks ago.

First session is over. We’ll see how the first half of the next session goes.

I may need to go get chocolate for lunch.

Memorial Day, 26 May 2008

As you enjoy your three day weekend, and the start of summer, please take a moment to reflect upon why we celebrate Memorial Day.

World War I 116,516 killed, 204,002 wounded.¹
World War II 407,316 killed, 670,846 wounded.¹
Korea 33,651 killed 103,284 wounded.¹
Vietnam 58,168 killed, 153,303 wounded.¹
Gulf War 382 killed, 486 wounded.¹
Iraq War 4,079 killed so far, at least 30,112 wounded.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
~Robert E. Lee

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
~Thomas Jefferson

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~H.L. Mencken

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
~William Faulkner

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
~Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
~Georges Clemenceau

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~Mahatma Gandhi

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
~Mao Tse-Tung

It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
~Robert E. Lee

We make war that we may live in peace.
~Aristotle

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Vietnam War Memorial
Korean War Memorial
WWII Memorial
The Great War

¹ from here.

Written by Michelle at 8:00 am    

Spent a good deal of time gardening this long weekend.

Biggest bloomers right now are the broom and the irises.

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Don’t forget your towel.

I’m still feeling moderately crappy, so I decided it was time to pull out the big guns.

I picked up fresh organic strawberries today, I have whipping cream, and I just prepared (minus the baking) molten lava chocolate cakes.
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