Thinking in vain...

So I bought this at Moda Di Magno's Etsy shop this morning. I'm excited because I've always wanted one of Moda's gorgeous pieces and I decided to just go ahead and do it.

Isn't it pretty? OK.

If you have girlfriends / wives / friends I suggest getting some of her jewelry for them. I think my sister would love the Partial Fare necklace. And I'm going through my list of people who have birthdays coming up.

I stayed up too late last night. Baking took A LOT longer than I thought. And that second largest zucchini, made 3 batches of zucchini bread. I ran out of time (and sugar) before I ran out of zucchini. Looks like I'll be making more tonight.

I had one of my zucchini muffins this morning for breakfast, it was delicious. I also made chocolate zucchini bread, which according to the crumbs I tasted is fantastic.

I'm also going to try my hand at some zucchini & spinach soup. And maybe some zucchini fritters. And I've got to pick more tonight. Perhaps 5 zucchini plants was too much to plant this year.

Also, there was a copperhead in the middle of the street. DOWNTOWN. The car in front of me ran over him, but just barely though and "he" kinda flew up in the air and some gook came out of him. Then I watched him in my side view mirror as I sat at the red light. Needless to say, I was a little freaked out walking the several blocks from my parking lot to my building.

This story isn't helping! It's giving me the willies here at my desk.

A teenager spoke of her shock today after finding a bat curled up in the bra she had been wearing for five hours.

Abbie Hawkins, 19, of Norwich, initially thought it was her mobile phone causing movement in her clothing.

But when she investigated, she found the stowaway creature, hidden in the padding pocket of her 34FF black bra.

Article via blather.net.

I kinda forgot to check the zucchini this week. Therefore, I have one over 2 feet long. Oops.

I love the summer Olympics. I'll be doing nothing now that NBC is showing the qualifying rounds.

And I just seriously cried at this commercial. These are my new favorite set of commercials, because I'm sappy and I love this stuff.

That redesign I was telling you about? Swear it's coming this weekend. Of course, many of you probably read this through an RSS reader, so it doesn't matter - but I'm still going to do it.

Via FFFFound >> Flickr. Yeah, that shirt irritates me too.

Via Frostfirezoo.com

Why do twin/twin-like people have to be so freaky? We're not scary.

I'm warning you now, if you've got a weak stomach, don't watch this. I watched it before I realized what was happening. Just.... OH MY GOD.




Via Hecklerspray.

This is apparently the most complex crop circle in Britain.

I'm not an aficionado on crop circles but do they even appear anywhere else but the UK? So isn't this the most complex crop circle period?

Best for me not to ponder such issues I think...

Article here.

Those aren't flowers and feathers manipulated in photoshop and illustrator, it's an x-ray.

So cool.

X-Ray Photography as Art: Hidden Faces of The Inner Space

Via Geekologie

Via ohnotheydidnt, via BWE.

Look a great image that is NOT porn.

Via WeHeartIt.

Dear WeHeartIt,

I never wanted to see Amputee porn*. Now I can't continue to make that life choice.


-Me


*I'm not trying to be discrimanitory towards amputees especially since it's not just the amputee porn, but that was especially shocking on my work monitor. The regular porn is getting old too. Don't you people have better things to do in the middle of the night than heart still shots of porn? And yes, I realize that I can mark things unsafe, but weird people mark things like this unsafe and then I don't see cool images.

Baby pandas, baby polar bears and kittens... that's what we like here.

Via FFFFound.

Via FFFFound.

Yeah, my last post made no sense. I dunno. I think my brain is over this week already.

Anyways - Fred, time to get out the tinfoil hat. ;) Cracked.com has the 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future.

Personally, I like grilled cheese sandwiches, with pepper jack. We have a restauraunt around here that specialized in all manner of grilled cheese sandwiches - and sadly, I haven't gone yet. I may need to remedy that this weekend.

Anyways - scientists have partnered with a cheese company to create the Cheddarometer so that you can find your perfect cheese sandwich. However, grilling doesn't enter the equation. And I have no idea about the cheeses they're listing. Pity.

I need cheese slices 4.71mm thick though...

Tell me you don't love Tracy Morgan's face at the end of this. Makes me laugh.

The song is in my head. And Bear Grylls is in the Scottish Highlands and distracting me from working.

I have been overwhelmed with work. Then a company debited my bank account a week early and both the bank and the company are just like sorry.

Now I have a flat tire.

Go look at how this image was actually made. Would you believe I know how to do that... I just lost the patience... and the dark room.

Via My Blog Can Beat Up Your Blog.

ETA: Which I just discovered I originally found from Brankflakes For Breakfast. That's what happens when you see something in your RSS reader and just keep the linked item up. Oops.

I'd like to be right... there.

Via FFFFound.

Cinders (the pig) is afraid of mud. So he wears boots.

All together: AW!

Found via Jezebel. Original article on the BBC (there's video).

Kinda.

This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer - nicknamed “Unicorn'’ - was born in captivity in the research center’s park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences, said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns. (AP Photo/Center of Natural Sciences)

Via Cryptomundo.

My (identical twin) sister and I don't really dress alike. We never buy the same shirts in the same color. It keeps us from looking like identical twin freaks.

But a week ago I liked a shirt she bought so much that I bought it too... in the same color.

And it bit my ass today.

In my defense, she left this morning before I saw her. This is not allowed because when we don't check we will unconsciously pick out the same color combinations. But before, at least they weren't the same clothes.

Not today, I see her come walking up the street to meet me for lunch and we both stopped in disbelief. Thank G-d I can wear jeans to work so we weren't in the same damn pants too.

Of course, it's not some neutral color. It's bright magenta. It calls attention to the wearer with out needing duplication.

And really, do people NOT think that we can see them staring? One girl had the nerve to actually ask us if it was on purpose and then shouted "really?!" when we told her it wasn't. And then my sister's tries to explain that we're twins and it should be OK.

We totally walked two feet apart back to our respective offices.

It's ma blog as a graph. And it's pretty. :p


Found via Make The Logo Bigger.

I actually dreamed about working in Photoshop last night. Among other weird things but the only thing I can remember is trying to make buttons for this website and I kept messing up.

It already feels like Friday...

This was one of those images that you come upon when you're sitting quietly in your office and it causes you to let out one of those little "HA" before you even realize it.

I hope it makes you laugh out loud in your office by yourself too.

Via FFFFound.

Via We Heart It, which got it from FFFFound, who snatched it from Digg.

I hate that question. And it's going to be about 100˚ today. So, yes. Yes, it is hot enough for me. Too hot.

I want to be here:Via We Heart It. Originally here, there some more cool images there...

Today is going to be a good day.

As I was sleeping peacefully this morning at 6:40 - my phone went off. It was the senior AD. I didn't want to answer. Calls at almost quarter till 7 can't be good calls. She left a message. Then she called again.

I guess it's important. So this time I answer.

Not bad news AT ALL. Turns out they are giving away gas cards on the radio on Friday and they called my name and I had 9 minutes to call back and claim the card.

So I totally won free gas this morning. I think I'll use it on a trip to the beach. I'm going to take the stance that today will only keep getting better. :D

The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.

Yes. This a wonderful invention. But as I sit here eating way too many Barbecue flavored Pringles I realize that this wonderful invention is too small in diameter. I can not effeciently remove the Pringles from their packaging... of course maybe that's the point. You HAVE to pour them out and eat all of them.

Pringles guy is buried in can.

Ha ha. I'm slightly guilty of this - but I will not tell you why! :p

The word: “Nerdgassing”

Definition: The venting nerds emit when some (often minor) detail of a book/movie/TV show/comic book/etc either conflicts with canon and/or handwaves through some some suspect science.

Example One: “In the third show of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data clearly says that the Glorithian flagship was constructed in orbit around that planet Norgar, but then in the fifteenth show of the sixth season, it’s said it was constructed in the Buterian space docks! How do you explain that, hmmm?”*

Found via Whatever

That doesn't even look real... Sub-Studio Design Blog

Between this post about Double Chocolate Cookies and this story about why we eat them... I just want some cookies.

It's Friday. I can have cookies for lunch. That's totally fine.

I bet that'll make the afternoon go by great. Ha.



(Image found on the delicious site The Kitchen Sink. Not only good recipes but she takes awesome photos of what she cooks.)

I think I could stare at this photo ALL DAY. Makes me want a thunderstorm.

Found originally via We Heart It, but the original site with more is here.

I am looking for the new Scare Tactics commercials that are running on the Sci-Fi Channel.

Tracy Morgan is the new host and they are hysterical. If only for the Most Awesome™ look that Tracy Morgan makes at the end of the spot.

Will post when I find.

I am *ALMOST* finished editing photographs.

When I'm done they'll all be up on MySpace and Facebook. So if you're not my friend, what is wrong with you? ;) Come find me. :D

And I'll write everything up after that.

For the record. I smiled at the son-of-a-bitch before I could help myself. (Name the movie.) Really. We were walking down the street from the subway to the conference center Tuesday morning. The shoe-shine guy was sitting there (like he was the other mornings) and he was staring at me. So I looked at him and smiled. He then growled at me. This caught me and the co-worker I went with off-guard, she looked back and he then growled at her.

At lunch we passed him again as he walking down the street. He then started muttering at us that we were "chump broads." And walked off.

He was not a nice man.

Back to editing and watching The Andromeda Strain...

I am very, very, very tired.

And there is a lot of work piled up on my desk.

I am very sore. We stood and walked and carried a lot of paper samples.

But I had a wonderful time. I really didn't want to leave Boston.

I even got yelled at by a man that shined shoes.

And I have a battle-scar from a fight with one of those subway gate things.

More later. I promise.

I feel like this post should contain some sort of starburst, large type and lots of exclamations points. ;)

I think I'm over this look. I promise something new shortly. Perhaps today. Perhaps next week after I get back and catch up on my sleep.

Awwww, I just want to hug him! It's so sad.



Via AdRants

This so made me smile. :)

Via FFFFound, but it's by Christopher David Ryan, I just bought some of his prints and I love them!

How fantastically fun. There are more here. Originally found via We Heart It.

So for those that don't know – which is all of you – I'm flying to Boston Saturday for the HOW Design Conference. I'm hoping I can leave early Friday and go ahead and drive the 3 hours to the airport.

So I need places to go in my spare time. :)

It also means posting may be sporadic until I get up there (because I'm busy) and maybe while I'm up there as the laptop I own is like from 1999.


Update: Oh, I do need glasses. I get to pick them up on Wednesday or Thursday - they're only kind square. And I got a prescription for migraine medicine... :D

LONGVIEW (Wash.), April 10.—(INS)—Reports of three motorized birdmen soaring over Longview had the lower Columbia River area agog today.

Two laundry employes said they saw the human airplanes or animated comic strip characters fly over the city without the help of parachutes. In January a similar birdman, singular then, had been reported at Chehalis, Wash.

I was hoping it was a jetpack. ;) It wasn't....

Via Cryptomundo.

Via FFFFound.

to go with my glasses. ;) Click pic for site.

Via Jezebel.

We're having a thunderstorm, which I love... and a tornado watch. So in honor of that:

—Photograph by Carlos Gutierrez/UPI/Landov


Via OhGizmo and National Geographic.

But I have to show you this.



Is that not the most RIDICULOUS thing you've ever seen? The caption won't even tell you what museum - I'm guessing because they are embarrassed that they have this on display.

You can read the article I saw it with, but it's about Neanderthals being in a completely different species... once again I feel I already knew this, so I don't know why it's news.

You know what's awesome to hear? "We really can't make a bad decision."

YAY!

Another logo meeting at 1 about revisions to previous logos. And this time, I mainly on my own.

Here, laugh - well, I did: Gay Bigfoot & the 7 Weirdest Mythical Creatures in the World

I have so much to tell you and no time! Later. I promise. I thought I better write something before jetpacks removes me from his blogroll. ;)

But as of now, I'm trying to figure out all these logos - but I did plant a garden. And the meeting on Friday went well.

Also, per an IM conversation with Fred - I have tired, trashy eyes. Hopefully I will get them fixed on Friday. And if I need glasses, I think I'm required to get rectangular ones... but it's only because they'll fit my face shape the best. ;)

Oh, and so I'm not leaving people out - I gotta go take a quiz. :p


(See, I'm still reading, I'm just not posting!)

On my way to NOVA this morning for a client meeting. Hopefully the drive will clear my head.

Wish me luck!! :)

Via I Watch Stuff

Seems appropriate since I am neck-deep in logos lately.

Bottle stops used five millennia ago in ancient Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), the birthplace of cities and writing, carried symbols that marked them out as the earliest evidence of branded goods.

A London based archaeologist believes that they were promotional logos, along the lines of those used by Microsoft and Nike.

Modern ad executives would be pleased to learn that such images have long been regarded as works of art by historians but he believes their use was much more practical.

Full article.

I don't know about you... but quit messing with the protons. If there's even the slightest risk of destroying the universe, how about we not do it?!

More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar.

None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth - and maybe the universe.

Full article, via Geekologie

While I'm sure maybe one day they'll be able to bite your arm off, much like the animal in my last post, they're so cute now! ;)

After being shot at twice, but apparently unhit, the croc dropped the arm. After seven hours of surgery, doctors successfully reattached the appendage, shown at bottom on a smiling Chang on April 12.

Croc Bites Off Hand

Via FFFFound

I took my mother to the neuropsychologist yesterday for her follow-up evaluation after her testing. Good news is that most of her skills are still average to above-average. However, because they assessed her at being highly above average (if that makes sense) in the 87% range before all her accidents, there are some marked differences. Most noticeably the fact that she's gotten like an ADD 12-year old, but luckily no dementia that can come with brain trauma.

We've been referred to a brain injury group here and they can help us start to "re-train" the way she does things. Next week is our adventure to the neurosurgeon. The MRI of her neck came back abnormal and all her PCP said was that it was bad.

In other news, it's my 5-year reunion this weekend. So I will most likely be harming my liver some.

Happy Friday. :)

Artist website.

That thing on my plate - the purple thing - is a red onion I roasted last night.

I just noticed it look like a slug.

Kinda feels like a slug.

I'm not hungry anymore.

At Belk last night...

I don't know what the captions say but these are great.... I have no idea what she made them with - it looks like Play-Doh.

Flickr user: Patifa.
(The photo stream has more...)

Every McDonald's within the listening area of a local radio station is giving away free breakfast and coffee to all first responders who come in in their uniforms.

And there's way too much argument going on about whether or not to light the damn star. BTW - they're turning it off. They turned it off for September 11th too.

I also don't think some people realize how much of their tax money it wastes to change the bulbs on that thing....

http://www.remembrance.vt.edu/

Go ahead, tell me that image isn't creepy. I love it though.

Artist's website here, but I think I found it on FFFFound. But I found a better website - We heart it, basically because I can have an account. :)

I forgot what blog I found We heart it on, but when I figure it out, I'll give you credit...

The client sent the ad back, designed, for me to tweak = If it looks like crap, not my fault.

Me feeling under the weather = I'll probably lose a couple of pounds.

My Mom being told to take it easy = I got to spend the whole weekend with her.

I still have my fingers crossed for all those people that I told I would. Hopefully your searches and new jobs are going great. :)

Now, it's my blog and I'm going to have a release. So if you're not interested just skip this. I'll see if I can find something more interesting to post later.

Monday morning started off with a phone call at about 6:00am. My mother's head and right arm were numb, the room was spinning and she felt like she was going to pass out. And she just wanted to let someone know in case something happened. I told her I was taking her to the ER. I then decided to call 9-1-1 instead just in case she did in fact pass out. The last thing I wanted was to be half way there and she need something that I can't give her – like CPR.

We got to the ER around 6:45. Around 7:30ish a resident came into talk to us and get all the information and past history. So we told them that she's had repeated head injuries for the last 3 years, she's had a spinal leak, that she's got a moderate to severe narrowing of the ephemeral nerve and everything else. All the while my mom is still having the waves of numbness. It's not until about 11 that the resident comes back, tells us that she's consulted with the attending and tells us my mother has an inner ear problem and they're going to give her medication for vertigo and send us home.

Oh hell no.

My mother has been a nurse for 40+ years, everyone in my family is practically in the medical field – my sister and I don't take someone to the ER because of vertigo. Yes, she was dizzy, but I'm pretty sure an inner ear problem doesn't cause your head and arm to go numb. Even if it did, with all the problems my mother has with her head and neck, that's the dumbest diagnosis. And we told them that. I also realize all the tests are normal - but not everything comes up on a CT Scan.

Also, I realize that you, as the attending ER physician, are very busy. I realize you have people coding and having problems that seem a lot more dire than my mother's... but if YOU SHUT UP for 5 seconds and stop talking over my mother like she's an idiot maybe you could actually listen to her tell you that what she's having is not vertigo.

We then told her that we weren't going anywhere until her PCP gave his opinion. So we got a "we're waiting on him to call us back." Then they left us there for 2 hours. We finally asked if he'd called back and the nurse tells us that he's coming. She said she didn't know why no one had thought to tell us. An hour after that the attending comes back and tells us the same thing and that she would have told us sooner but she was a little busy. Whatever.

Skip ahead to 6:00 that night and he finally gets there. Which is fine, he's seeing patients all day in his practice. He didn't get to the ER last time until around 6, we were figuring on that.

He tells us that it probably has to do with her cervical nerves and that he needs to get an MRI of her neck and nerve conduction tests. We can go home but she's not to do anything strenuous and to see him Tuesday.

Funnily enough, the nurse comes in like 15 minutes later and says our PCP is on his way. We're like he's already been here and gone. He was a little angry with them. And turns out that they kept the vertigo diagnosis and coded it like that even after he told us that wasn't the problem. Which we're also mad about because that messes with her medical records.

Anyways. She's taking it easy. She's got a cervical MRI and a Cerebral MRA tomorrow and hopefully we'll get the results back soon. Unfortunately, the doctor thinks that there are really only two options: a steroid injection into her spine - which is what gave her the spinal leak the last time or surgery. Neither of which may actually fix the problem or help with symptoms.

Worst part is she's horribly upset that she's being a burden to us and is terrified of both the surgery and the injection.

*sigh* So there.

Now back to work. Concentrating has been hard this week....

I've been informed that I'm too high strung and that I need to relax or I may give myself a stroke.


btw - I was a little worried about mercury poisoning yesterday...


***Title refers to Fred's shirt that I can't find anymore...

No April Fools Jokes here. (I always thought it had to do with the calendar as well, but maybe I was wrong... )

A coworker mentioned that today was only for people that weren't funny the other 364 days of the year... ha ha. Although I think mild pranks could be funny. I fell for another coworker's prank even though I was fully aware of what today was.

Any way, here are the Top 100 April Fool Hoaxes of all time... enjoy.

Via Rag and Bone.

*Title refers to the one and only time I tried to pull an April Fools Day joke on my mother...

So I finally got with the times and started using a RSS reader... I'm procrastinating efficiently now. :)

Doctors said the woman should not complain as the best way to tighten the skin and remove the wrinkles was to make her breasts bigger.

Article....

Most. Distrubing. Teddy Bear. Ever.

Found via FFFFound.

On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.

This site is not about saving Polaroid, the company, rather the remarkable invention of Edwin Land, the instant film that made Polaroid a household name.

What We’ve Done So Far
Since this announcement, we’ve been assembling articles, links, stories and planning out the best way to create a joint effort to save instant film. We’ve contacted Polaroid, Fuji and Ilford about licensing. We have more in the works and will update this site regularly.

http://www.savepolaroid.com/

But I think it's creepy and I would get rid of cable. Save me money.

Comcast is experimenting with camera technology. More specifically, it trying out technology that turns cable boxes into camera-equipped devices that would utilize body-form-recognition as a means to provide custom-tailored service, and, of course, custom tailored advertising. The boxes would be able to tell who is in the room based on the shape of their body, thus tailoring programming to fit their specific desires and security settings (when children are involved). Facial recognition is not in the works as of yet.

Comcast Wants to Put Cameras in Your Home.

A New York auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography.

Article.

Click for article about cameras being attached to elephants.

Tapeworm Diet

That's just amazingly gross.... and I will gladly go away like he said to.



(Found because of a link on Cracked)

And Calling President Washington "G-Money" Is Just Wrong

American history professor: Whoever is writing 'vah-jay-jay' instead of 'Virginia' in the notes they are submitting, please stop.



eavesdropdc.blogspot.com
via Overheard Everywhere

Bono = Evil

Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts? Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds...

You know, my the man that taught me art when I was younger was a Cherokee medicine man - if I'm not mistaken (or mixing up my stories) he regrew his little finger.

Also, a good family friend - his grandmother put his uncle's finger back on. Apparently he lost it in some sort of farm accident. They brought him and his finger to her and she reconnected it by saying a bible verse. I'm just saying.... The family is from deep Appalachia - his stories are sort of mind-blowing.

How cool... you can look at more on both those sites.

Desiree Palmen

Via Rag and Bone

Shroud of Turin Debate Rekindled

Skeptics have attempted to reproduce the image by various means. Advanced analysis showed that the image had three-dimensional qualities, which many feel has eliminated the idea that it is a clever painting. The forgery theory most often cited comes from a 2005 experiment by a French magazine, which said it reproduced the image by laying a wet strip of linen on a bas-relief and daubing at it with a red, ferric oxide pigment mixed with gelatin. The image produced was three-dimensional and permanently fixed in the fabric.

But other questions remain. One scientist who examined evidence collected during the 1978 examination reported that he found grains of pollen on the shroud that could only have come from the Middle East. A DNA test was conducted in 1995 on a sample of the pigment.

“That was not an authorized test, but it was done from an actual sample of the shroud’s blood,” Schwortz told Lauer. “They determined that it was very degraded, but they were able to determine that it was male and human. Whether or not newer types of DNA analysis could tell us more really would depend on the Turin authorities giving permission for this type of testing to be done.”

After viewing the new Snapple commercial for Vitamin Water where the whole world is wrapped in bubble wrap:

"That's dumb."

"Bubble wrap will not save you from an 80-floor fall."

"That's dumb."

This was pointed out to me when I posted that M&Ms commercial by Joshua Shaner.

OMG - weird... and ridiculous.

To get that out of your head, I give you something actually funny dealing with Hot Pockets.

All I see is Cheetos commercials now. Perhaps it's because I'm trying to be good and eat right while I'm trying to train for a 5K - even though I totally killed way too many pieces of pizza last night.

But anyways - these don't make me gag. But - YOU ARE SO WASTING VALUABLE CHEETOS. I don't even like to share when I know someone else will be enjoying them as well.

But the Cheetos in the dryer is deliciously evil. I'm so glad I don't have to go to the laundry mat anymore.

Even though everyone probably celebrated over the weekend (if you're going to celebrate it) - here are some drinking rules from last year and Russell Crowe singing Molly Malone with Great Big Sea and Carbon Leaf at Saturday's ShamrockFest in D.C.

Article...


UPDATE: OMG - YouTube

Totally won a free lunch today because I knew an answer to a trivia question.

Irish Saint Brendan the Voyager was supposed to have discovered the Americas a thousand years before Columbus.

So having to read The Voyage of St. Brendan in college won me a free lunch. The only other thing I really remember on cue from that class is about Irish heroes and how they calculate Easter.

Kinda awesome.

It's also my boss's birthday on Monday (what a kick-ass birthday) and I'm trying to figure out something to get him.

More later...

I got a raise today and a good 6 month review.


Also: I bought "Supernatural Superserious" from R.E.M.'s new album on iTunes yesterday – I hearts it.

I nearly had a panic attack and passed out yesterday.

I'll update more later since now I'm retouching some photos from that shoot, but let's just say - I'm not terrified (necessarily) of heights just the steps that are so steep they're like ladders. Yeah, I HATE those. I have dreams of being stuck on floors and ledges where those are the only way down (and of course some steps are missing).

Anyways. Oh hell, I'll just tell you now. So I was taking shots of a new factory that was being opened and I noticed there was a platform about 2-stories up where I could get a great shot of the entire factory. First off I didn't think they'd allow me up there and then I noticed the stairs which were almost vertical, so I decided against it.

About 3 minutes later one of the managers of the factory came over (he must've seen me looking at the platform) and told me I could get some great shots of the factory up there.

And that's when I don't know what the in the world possessed me - but I decided that I'd go up there. So about half-way up I realize I'm getting REALLY high, but I was actually too scared to turn around and I didn't want to look dumb by only going half-way up.

So I took some great shots, I was a little shaky but okay. Then I realized that I had to get down. And that's when I had a panic attack. I had to go back down that ladder.

It took me about 5 minutes to get down the ladder because I was so shaky and I was terrified of falling backwards.

So I get down and then, the guy looks at me and says - there's an easier platform at the back but I wanted to see if you'd go up there.

If I hadn't be so wobbly and light-headed I might have hit him. Because that's when I look back and see a smaller but same height platform that has 2 levels of wrap-around (and less steep) steps that I didn't even notice before.

Good news is that I didn't pass out, because not only do I have no idea how they would've gotten me down, but I most certainly would've ruined the ribbon-cutting and made the nightly news.

If you didn't know that I was a bit of a hypochondriac or maybe with this I would be paranoid - either way, now you do.

I have sufficiently freaked myself the hell out this morning: 4.1 Million American's Drinking Water Contaminated. The comments are making me feel mildly better....


Another thing: funniest comment so far though is from youbastid

Now I can get my drugs in more places, like Losangebostonyorkicago.

I am not a fan of Daylight Saving Time.

It's too dark. And it will only confuse the birds for a little while.


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The photo shoot went well. More later.


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I learned that Fed-Ex drivers need their own lane. This would be in addition to a lane for just truckers.


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The 5K training is going "meh." If any of you are runners/walkers and can tell me why my right knee is now popping and hurting at the back of my knee, I'd appreciate it. Oh, and also the side of my knee seems to be swollen. This is in fact, not the knee of the knee cap I broke, but the other one.


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Interestingly enough - this blog turned 1 year-old over the weekend. Thank you, Jetpacks :)

I really never thought I'd have people who check my blog daily, so thanks. :)












[Image from Pink Cake Box's Flickr Stream - I wish I could make cakes that looked like that.]

I was going to write about my day (the drive up here was awesome) - but I am officially on the slowest laptop in the world. It's mine. I keep meaning to update and fix it and then don't and then end up in some hotel room very far away cursing myself for not doing it.

I can't get through a sentence without it giving me the beachball. Anyways. Smile, the week's half over. :)