New Space Pictures

If you haven’t guessed it, I am a space pictures freak. I have loved what has been beamed back to Earth so far by Cassini, the Mars Rover and the Hubble. While I was concerned when the Hubble’s camera went kaput this week, there are plans to upgrade the main lens and camera within a year. More beautiful pics to come!

Here is the link to the MSNBC Site where you can see it. This will come up in a pop-up flash player, just so you know.

Bridget Jones’ Huge Little Sister

I am taking control of my life. Starting now. There is no excuse for me to be overweight, when I have the means to eat healthy and set an example for my children with diet and excercise. As of today, I am finally going to buckle down and get this done.

Click, Click, Boom!

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Atomic scientists have turned the clock forward two minutes closer to midnight. For those of you trying to figure out what exactly is going on here, let me put it in layman’s terms.

The smartest minds in the world sit on a panel debating on when the human race will eventually destroy themselves. This clock is their instrument of warning to civilization. Based on two major criteria, nuclear armament and disastrous global climate change, smart men like Stephen Hawking have decided we are that much closer to the apocalypse. The dials on the ticker read 11:55 now, 5 minutes until we completely obliterify ourselves.

For those of you who wonder what the end of the world will look like when Iran finally nukes us, I invite you to Peter-Hodge’s page where he posts this picture.

For the rest of you, who believe another ice age will be shortly around the corner, better start buying up those propane heaters now!

Ironically, while the Department of Homeland Security had nothing to say about the doomsday clock, they were quick to offer this little quote after the rotten egg smell enveloped NYC.  “There is no indication at this time of a terrorism connection.” Seems to me, we should be worried a little less about mercaptan smell and more about the neighbors on the other side of the fence who have the big guns aimed at our house.

New Theme

I hope you like it. I found a theme I could finally mess with the header. So I punched out a pic of my favorite flower and added the text on a pic editor. Hope you like!

 I think it looks fresh, friendly and stylin!

Your Assignment…

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, scroll down to the 5th sentence.
3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. List the name of the book and the author.

Bluff: In general, being either famous or infamous aids Bluff checks. However, any Bluff check made to deny or hide your identity (“No, I’m not that smuggler. You must be thinking of someone else.”) automatically turns the character’s reputation bonus into a penalty for that check.

From: Star Wars Role Playing Game Revised Core Edition – Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins, JD Wiker

Can I just tell you how mortified I am right now?

Dunkaccino No! (An open letter to Dunkin Donuts)

You can imagine my dismay when I pulled up to my neighborhood Dunkin Donuts and ordered a medium dunkaccino with whipped cream, (the only hot beverage I can actually enjoy from said establishment) only to find that they have replaced it with white chocolate hot chocolate. Sorry for the double noun there, but white hot chocolate just doesn’t seem right to me.

So grrr! This may have to be rectified by a letter writing campaign! I pulled up to pay for the regular hot chocolate that I had purchased instead and pleaded with the messy haired, overworked and underpaid drive through woman, who was like, “Don’t look at me, you’re like the millionth person to complain.”

I feel soo angry and shocked that they would secretly do this to faithful customers! Not even a mention on the website! Replace my favorite beverage with a completely unhealthy white chocolate drink? Don’t they know white chocolate is like, the worst for people?

I’m going to go cry in a corner now. RIP Dunkaccino. I will write your legacy and try to revive your spirit that was crushed so anti-climatically.