Be ready to have another second in 2008. It seems that the Earth’s rotation is continually slowing and to make up for it, a leap second is being added on December 31 at 6:59:59 p.m EST. This is not the first time the phenomenon has occurred. Leap seconds have been inserted on numerous occasions since […]
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In my previous post about Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, I forgot to include a funny clip from the Daily Show featuring Mr. Blag…. Mr. Blavo, um Governor Smith. And if you have trouble pronouncing his Serbian surname, here is a pronounciation guide from wikipedia.com: Milorad “Rod” R. Blagojevich (pronounced /bləˈɡɔɪəvɪtʃ, born December 10, 1956)
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I took the tv away from the kids today (not that they watch it that much anyway) so I can watch the events in Illinois unfold as their governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested on corruption charges. No surprise there, just an interesting story being followed by a former resident of that state. In fact, we left
One thing I was excited about doing in my blog was writing board game reviews. Since my husband and I have a game collecting hobby and thereby an extensive amassment of games, we can find a new game to play on any given night. But the kids keep us really busy, and so I forgot all about reviewing
You may have noticed (or not) that this site now has a new Theme. I found the old one just a bit restrictive on what I wanted to do now. Since I started adding additional pages, I wanted an easy way to get to all of them. And I noticed the two column design was
For those interested in Dungeons and Dragons, or Role Playing games in General, I started a new page to detail the adventures of a character I have in a game run by one of my son-in-laws. It has been a lot of fun getting back into role playing again. I did it years ago when
Tonight, the family and I went to the Junior high and high school chorus Christmas concert. The band concert was last Monday night… was not informed of that until 6 o’clock that night. My 13 year-old niece is in the 7th grade and is in the chorus. I was pretty impressed with the younger group.
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Tonight while watching the first snow of the season continue to fall, I checked the tv listings and discovered two movies that piqued my interest: Santa Claus The Movie and the 1973 made-for-television version of Miracle on 34th Street. Since I have seen Santa Claus (the rather disappointing movie made by Alexander Salkind, producer of
I have been doing a lot of catching up on TV shows lately. This has eaten into my available time to write in this blog. That, and my interest is sort of lagging right now. I now have several DVDs I checked out of the library in addition to several hours of TV shows I
Our first ground-sticking, hill-sledding, angel-making, sidewalk-shoveling snow of the year is here. And why not – it’s already December 6th! I slept in this morning, which is more than I can say for my poor husband. Ironically, last night, he was all gung-ho about staying up late. He’s like, “And we can stay up late
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