Prison guards forbidden to wear protective gear EDMONTON — Corrections Canada won’t let guards at maximum security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational “signal” to prisoners. “If you have that kind of presence symbolized by (a stab-proof vest), you’re sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person,” said Tim Krause. “It interferes with what we call ‘dynamic security.’ We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they’re doing.” Last month, Sun Media reported a guard at the Edmonton Institution was threatened with disciplinary action several times by prison…

I'm reading The Magus for and I'm startled to find myself reaching for a good dictionary. That doesn't happen often.

Dear Jen, Just for today, will you please drink your damn water and watch your portion sizes? Please? Don't make me hurt you. Love and kisses, Jen

dig through the papers on my desk, shred and file try to set up gnucash to get a handle on money learn to use gnucash and create necessary accounts find all recent car receipts to get my car minder back up to date pay bills work on taxes

…but there’s something just not right about these urinals.

Many thanks to for the heads up to this link: http://magnatune.com Streaming music. Indie bands. Good stuff.

Prompted by a discussion in this post, I decided to post the Scary Passage Of the Year here: All those women having jobs: hard to imagine, now, but thousands of them had jobs, millions. It was considered the normal thing. Now it's like remembering the paper money, when they still had that. My mother kept some of it, pasted into her scrapbook along with the early photos. It was obsolete by then, you couldn't buy anything with it. Pieces of paper, thickish, greasy to the touch, green-colored, with pictures on each side, some old man in a wig and on…

I almost feel as if I'm accomplishing something! Here's what I'm in the midst of: digging through the papers on my desk, shredding and filing trying to set up gnucash to get a handle on money finding all recent car receipts to get my car minder back up to date paying bills working on taxes So, of course I need to make a post about the books in my To Be Read stack! The Magus – John Fowles; currently reading for Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser; been meaning to read this for a while. Maybe my McDonald's craving will…

Secretary of State Colin Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous debate in the United States, sought to assure Indians that the Bush administration would not try to halt the outsourcing of high-technology jobs to their country. So basically, all that's going to be left here in the states is “You want fries with that?”

Man treated after attempting to nail himself to cross “When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911,” Boucher said. It was unclear whether the man was seeking assistance for his injury or help in nailing down his other hand.