Happy birthday !! Hope it's a good one! :)

I am 63% ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET.I am pretty addicted, but there is hope. I think I'm just well connected to the internet and technology, but it's really a start of a drug-like addiction. I must act now! Unplug this computer! Take the INTERNET-ADDICT Test at Fuali.com! I'm surprised – I expected my score to be higher. But a lot of the questions were slanted towards young whippersnappers and I'm an old fart.

Ya know, I'm gonna have to try a turducken one of these days – it sounds incredibly decadent and yummy. But not this year. It's way too much work and way too expensive.

ABC Sci-Tech – 18/11/01 : Drugs stings may soon be down to wasps Dutch scientists say they have found a way of using wasps to detect drugs and bombs more cheaply and effectively than sniffer dogs can – and even dream of using them to hunt chemical and biological weapons. Wasps have been conditioned in laboratory tests to give a specific response after smelling substances ranging from marijuana to explosives, Netherlands Institute of Ecology biologist Felix Waeckers said. Jen sez: As long as they KEEP THEM IN THE BOX!!!

The closed-door presidency REDEFINING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE Although the Bush White House claims that the new executive order merely implements the existing law, this is not true. It significantly modifies the 1978 Presidential Records Act, and revokes the 1989 executive order issued by President Ronald Reagan to implement the law. For example, under Bush's order, his father's vice presidential papers would be covered, and Papa Bush would be empowered to block the release of these papers by invoking executive privilege. However, under the Constitution, executive privilege is unique to the president — not a power of a vice president. Bush's order…

I told Rob that I'd spent more than enough money on The Sims. I told him that with each expansion pack the cost of a full bloody game that I was done, finito, no more. My sims were as advanced as they were going to get. I told him this, ok? But no. He's sent me probably half a dozen reviews, this being the latest. So it is not my fault that I now have to get this game. It's his fault, I tell you!

I'm just messing around trying to sort and/or organize my pictures and a ran across this one from a miniature golf course around here. It's just too cute so I had to post it. :)

My demon cat – the one who bit through a thick pair of leather gloves, the one who has to be muzzled and sedated at the vet SAT STILL for his subQ fluids tonight. He growled, but he didn't squirm. I didn't use a towel over his head. Rob wasn't holding him. He simply lay on his towel and accepted the fluids with not much fuss. It was our fifth session. For those that don't know, subQ means that fluids are given subcutaneously – under the skin. This is done with an IV bag and a big ass needle that…

I just found out about VAST – thanks ! That is some serious shit – love it! Here are the albums I want from my Amazon wish list: Visual Audio Sensory Theater ~ VAST O Brother, Where Art Thou? ~ Various Artists – Soundtrack Mcmxc A.D. ~ Enigma The Sign ~ Ace of Base Rascal Flatts ~ Rascal Flatts Skin ~ Melissa Etheridge Ghost of a Dog ~ Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Picture Perfect Morning ~ Edie Brickell Billy Pilgrim ~ Billy Pilgrim

Apparently my Hobbit name is Gem Black from Haysend Hobbit Name Generator