Linda Bartash blogged again

I just received a link to this blog from my uncle who saw my aunt mentioned in it:
http://underthelobsterscope.blogspot.com/
Stupid blogger keeps crashing when I try to blogthis so I hope this works.
Some interesting stuff from a former tour guide of a candle factory.... I'm not one to judge. I use to be a chinchilla caretaker.

"We can see at night (a)nd have magic boots. "

I wish my Uncle, a vet, would start a blog. I've tried to encourage him and even set one up on Blogger and sent him directions. Anyway, I'm not sure if he reads my blog, but if he does, I would like to know what he thinks about this site. This is one of the stories I read that was very well written and interesting.

"I Saw a Holy Man Die Last Night (Paul Rieckhoff)"

Here is a letter written by the founder of Operation Truth, Paul Rieckhoff, to his girlfriend while he was stationed in Baghdad, describing an eventful patrol:

3/13/2005

Howdy - I am working on my first issue of my 'zine for this year (volume 2!!!) and have realized that I left a bunch of submissions at a friend's house. Oops. Sorry! I need them! I feel bad leaving someone's mental creations just sitting on the table like that. Hopefully he won't withdrawal his generosity (hee hee hee - that sounds dirty.) Anyway I wrote up a Annual Report 2003, so I feel I should do one for 2004, just to get me on track, even tho it's already March. There are a lot of things I am proud of myself to be working on, and one thing that I have already finished that is a step in the right direction (two things really.) So, one it's done, I'll try to remember to post it here. Some day I hope to be as famous as this guy,
but I will never be as famous as David Bowie.

Sigh - another thing. I suppose I will have admit a grudging acceptance for the technology that allows people to access the internet and their email via phone or PDA (I believe this called wireless). And my sudden change of heart? Well, it comes from the fact that I want to become more involved in The Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club meetings and volunteer opportunities (I belong to both of these organizations) . But, in order to be more ecologically sound, I had them send me emails as opposed to newsletters. Well, there is a reason I still have a Franklin Planner as opposed to a PDA - I looove paper, I love having something in hard copy form, and I can’t get away from that. So therefore, I have a hard time dealing with these newsletters and PDFs online, especially when I can only access them from my DIAL-UP home internet access. Arg!!! I will find a way. I will persever and I will acieve greatness!!!

Screw Alex - she is a self centered, self aggrandizing, Miss Priss LA painted plastic barbie whose ass I could so kick (and who I am supremely greeneyed at.) Pllllllllbbbbbbbbllllllll!!!!!!

These girls are much cooler.

yELLO

hELLO ... oops, yes, well, onto my second beer.
So today I was on VACATION (and yesterday) - So on Friday I slept until 10 or 11 a.m., woke up and decided to go to the West Side Market cafe for lunch. I had to do a lot of running around before that - silly to think that President's Day weekend I had sort of a 4 day weekend (I had to work Saturday night) and I got very little done- - oh yeah, I was sick with that strain of bronchial garbage. Coughing up globs of yellow... well, anyway, out of commis. So yes, yesteday I got up, took a nice bathy, then I went to
1. Library (drive through, return books)
2. Bank (drive through, get $50, have a check to cash/deposit but I think they overpaid me $100 so I'm waiting until they figure it out - I am THAT nice, shiesh)
3. Post office (had a pkg to mail, had stamps on it, but it wouldn't fit in the drop box so I actually had to go inside - I have heard its better for the environment to not use drive throughs, but I think some times the quickness outweighs the two minutes it take to run inside.)
So went to the WSMC and had coffee and an Asian steak wrap. The boy had meatloaf. His was much yummier. Dispite the fact that our server guy said that he ordered the steak wrap a lot, it was rather tastless, except for some hotness. The salad it was rolled into the wrap with was good, but didn't seem to fit very well. It needed a second dressing besides the thai peanut sauce. And the home made chips were burnt. The last really good to-go meal I had was Mo Pa To Fu from the China Garden by Marcs. And the meals I get comped from the WinkLiz (I got the Patty melt there last - onions on the side - and it was DELISHIOS!) Okay - I'll admit, tho I have just stated that I ate a steak wrap and a patty melt, I rarely eat meat. I have to have an excuse / reason. I like to think. And I especially like to think about food. That includes everything from taste, to how it was prepared and where it came from. In fact, the former two affect the previous one. Anyway, back to lunch. All the items used in preparing food at the cafe are from the West Side Market. Now even tho this market is not a Farmers' Market (like in Madison WI), these are still a lot of family businesses and an awsome atmosphere of comerce I enjoy supporting. Soo there is my excuse for meateating this time - but like I said, I was rather dissapinted with the tastlessness. My man, on the other hand (lets call him Duckie), his slabs of meatloaf were very good, and the mashed potatoes were to DIE for! Yum. So after that we went to the bank again, since Duckie had forgotten to get any money the first time. Oh, we had also bought cheese (3 year old white cheddar and some creamy sheeps milk cheese - sorry goats, plus salami and turkey meat sticks, and some water bikkies) . We went to 3 diffent resale shops looking for a radio - I got a keen tape player, but that was it. And, Savers next to Best Buy is closed! Oh well. So - then it was OFF TO AKRON! We got there soon enough, but then it took forever to find a place to stay. This is the dump we ended up in but it was tu cul because it reminded me of the palce (ontomythirdbeernow) we went to in FL long ago and far away. And it was cheep. Anywho, it was a quiet night, just me and my boy and nothing on TV. The next day (that would be TODAY) we ventured out to the Akron Zoo. I would have to say the kewlest animals (outside the goats Of COURSE) was the Sumatran tiger - just a small, lazy cat it seemed. I'm use to the Siberian giants at our Zoo (RAR - I'm HUGE!). Also of couse I like the barking deer, AKA the Reeve's muntjac. Okay, so then we went to the Quaker Towers. They took the old oatmeal factory and put stores, resteaurant and a hotel in the old grainery towers. Very cool. Well, then I came home. And I still have 2 days of vacations leflt - woo hoo!