Now that the kids are back in school (2 out of 4 anyway), I have some (stress on the some, not a lot of) extra time to sit and blog again – something that wasn’t made a priority over our busy summer. Among our summertime fun and adventures were many trips to the Redbox. Surely […]
America’s Most Stressful Cities Few enjoy their commute. Just ask Stephen Dinwiddie, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago. “I think anybody who, like I do, commutes on the Kennedy on a daily basis knows exactly what stress is,” he says, of his daily home-to-work commute on Chicago’s expressway that extends from the Chicago
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Here’s probably a very unique and unusual way of preventing people from committing suicide by jumping off of bridges. Apparently this is somewhat common in China, so some workers decided to do something about it. The source is the same as the last article, WPTV.com: Slippery when buttered Last Update: 10:12 am Chinese workers have
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Okay, not that kind of sucks. It is very unusual though, that’s for sure. While other 10-year-olds collect the latest trading cards, one Illinois boy collects vacuum cleaners. Yes, you read that right. I know some don’t want to collect old-fashioned things like coins and stamps, but vacuum cleaners?? Here’s the WPTV article: Unique hobby
Under the concerns of my eye doctor, my fifty+ year old eyes are now under constant supervision for the possibility of glaucoma. Now it seems that it there are new tests that help determine if a person has glaucoma. Under tests done just 5 years ago, any eye doctor would never have noticed a problem
From the Financial Pages today – business news is not something I usually write about, but you’ll see why the following story would interest me: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment Our family frequents the Orlando Florida area, home of Disney World and also their major competitor – Universal Studios. For those of you who don’t
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I don’t know where it comes from but maybe it is one of my talents that have been hidden within myself for the past 3.5 decades. Within the last few months, I have scared the heck out of two of my favorite people. A few months ago on the way to what can only be
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I have always admired the work of Michael J. Fox. Although I usually had to find another tv in the house to watch his fabulous role as Uber-conservative Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties, the family did enjoy the Back to the Future trilogy and the original Teen Wolf. Another of my favorite Fox movies
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See if you enjoy this as much as I did – a group of female gorillas is given posters of their prospective mate. How did they react to it? Read: From cnn.com: by Nick Hunt So when three female gorillas at London Zoo heard that they would soon be visited by a brooding French hunk
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My youngest is settled in to her new apartment with her new roommates. I’m settled in to my new routine with the dog and chinchillas. Ok, not really settled in. We both are in our new places. Her apartment is a nice place. I was thinking a bit small for 4, but it shouldn’t be
