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Saturday, July 06, 2002

Modern Technology~~~~is a bitch. I think I'll just crawl into the back of my closet and pout for a while. Rambo does it all the time (when the door is open, natch) and it seems to improve hismood. Yesterday was a mess. Blogger was down all day, appparently it recovered during the night 'cause my July 5th entry was in the Mousetrap this morning.

So this is great, one small step for the new millenium. Unfortunately, I also noticed that my comments link has vanished into cyberspace and I don't have a clue as to how to restore it. YACCS must have been partying with Blogger last night, and apparently YACCS didn't make it to work at the Mousetrap this morning. Another step backward in modern technology.

Oh, and my sitemeter fell off the face of the earth a couple of days ago and had to be restored. This morning's mail brought me a new user name and password. Goody, I'll just go sign in. NOT. The new password, which Sitemeter assigned to me, was "invalid". Now this situation is w-a-a-a-y beyond my experience to remedy, I wouldn't even know where to start. Actually, getting my comments link back is of far more importance to me right now.

In the meantime, I'll just take my coffee the closet now. I have some serious pouting to do.

spewed by Lorraine @ 5:59 AM
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Today's Wise(ass) Commentary~~~~ Read my newspaper this morning, I like getting the paper, gives me something to do while I'm having my first and second cuppa Columbian. (coffee, sillies, coffee). Anyway, read where doctors in Las Vegas protested and got their Level I Trauma Center closed. Patients were being re-routed to emergency departments at other hospitals.

Actually, there's nothing very funny about this situation. The private surgeons at the county-operated medical center refused to return unless Nevada lawmakers cap those obscenely high medical malpractice awards. Which affects the physicians, of course, with their increasingly high malpractice insurance premiums I am not saying that patients who think they got screwed over by a team of doctors and wrecked their lives in one way or another shouldn't have legal recourse. But come on, we have become an A-one litigious society, people suing for frivolous stuff and all. But I agree that legitimate claims should have a monetary cap.

California has a 25-year-old act that caps jury awards for pain and suffering in medical cases to $250,000.. Much to my surprise, as I didn't know this little tidbit, Wisconsin also has a law that provides a $350,000 cap. Anyone think $350K would suffice for pain and suffering?

On a lighter note, I see where New Yorkers are paying $7.00 a pack for cigarettes!! Jeez, I am SO happy I quit four years ago (after 50 years of puffing them coffin nails). There is NO way I could afford to smoke today, even here where I think a pack of butts goes for about $3.50?? Kitty would know, wouldn't you, darling girl and A-1 Registered Respiratory Therapist?. hehe

So, if cigarettes went to $7 a pack where you live, would you just shrug and give up---oh, I don't know---Ben & Jerry? Chocolate? Vegetables? Fruit?----or would you try to quit (again)? I know, it's easy for me to say 'cause I don't need the cigs anymore. Yeah, baby.

spewed by Lorraine @ 9:12 AM
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I am slowly winding down. I wanted to visit everyone on my list, didn't make it. Need to flop on the recliner now. Oh well. You know, some people might feel sorry for me when I say I have nothing to do tomorrow, and no-one to do it with.

It's a holiday so that means food on the grill, sweating out in the yard, going to a parade and sweating there, well, you get the picture. But hard as it may be to believe, I am SO looking forward to getting up in the morning with the realization that I do not have to do anything I don't want or, or go anywhere I'm not interested in

Going to work on Mousetrap, eat popsicles, turn on the telly and watch patriotic stuff and wind up in the evening with the Boston Pops -- they always put on a heck of a show and I watch and listen every year. And sooner or later, get all weepy because we are all Americans, we dearly love our country---warts and all---and have the choice to say "God" bless us, or not...............

You all have a really neat break in the work week now, you hear? Don't burn the tofuburgers. Count your blessings, I'm sure we all have plenty of those, even though we complain a little (??) about stuff. And have a safe and sound Independence Day. Yeah!!!

spewed by Lorraine @ 7:50 PM
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"I'm very well-balanced, I have a chip on both shoulders". --- Is that a great line or what? Just finished watching "A Dangerous Mind", pretty good movie. A little draggy and plod-dy, but O.K.. Russell Crowe is kind of a jerk in real life, but a heck of an actor. Well, that's it, that's my big social event for tonight.

I have a lot of housecleaning to do on the Old Place tomorrow, you know, that big old Mousetrap? Going to re-arrange stuff and maybe blow the dust off some of the creaky articles. Whatever.

Truth be told, if there's going to be a movie about a stupendously great mind, I would choose "Good Will Hunting" . But that's just my opinion. Thanks to all of you who dropped by for making my Big Debut so outstanding. You are really swell.

spewed by Lorraine @ 8:55 PM
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July Something~~~~I was going to sign off about two hours or so ago. I'm still here. I cannot believe the extent of the obsession, it is total madness. It's like some spirit (a good one, I hope) has me pinned in my little swivel chair, I cannot move, I am hypnotized by the words on the screen. But one thing I DO know, I really need to go to the bathroom, right now---------ahhhh, life's simple pleasures, evacuating bodily fluids.

My "summer place" just blows me away. What a kid, sometimes I wonder if she's really mine, but I think she is 'cause I recall going to the hospital with terrible gas pains, then about 18 hours later, they handed me this big clunk of a baby girl. Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's mine.

Speaking of comment windows. I just had a panic attack when I checked over there a couple minutes ago and the actual "comments" from people were gone. Quick, quick---Eudora, run, run, run to Kitty's place and whine, real loud.. She answered right away and informed me the guy who provides the comments thingie is to blame and it will be OK. Oh boy, me suspect me have a lot to learn yet.

Foooo, I'm outta here. I need sustenance. I need my recliner. Bitch, bitch, bitch

spewed by Lorraine @ 4:42 PM
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Alrighty... I think it's done! Now if I can just get her to use this.... "Maybe I should try MT... " Maybe I should try Blogger?" Well, here it is Mumsy, all for you!

Now, I am reeeeally hungry, and I finally bought some peppers - YAY! So that's what I'm going to do now! I hope you like this.

xoxo,
your kittykitty kid

spewed by Lorraine @ 12:03 AM
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HI!! It's me! noooo, *ME* - your daughter!
spewed by Lorraine @ 10:58 PM
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