I was attacked by someone's lilac perfume today. The store was rather crowded so I'm not sure exactly who it was, but I think it was this tall blond who walked by - she LOOKED like she knew she smelled like lilac. The odor wafted over to me in what I swear was a lilac colored cloud and then, thankfully, continued on its way - but I had one of those moments where you breathe in and are shocked to find it's not actual OXYGEN in your lungs. *grin*
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I've been having a great time looking at swords and daggers (yes, I admit it - there's nothing cooler than carrying around a short sword, and face it - period clothes are TONS more interesting than anything you'd ever find in THE GAP! *grin*) Anyway, I ran across this fun article comparing Rennies (from 'Renaissance Faires') with Trekkies. Actually, the whole site is really well done, and the subtle (and not so subtle) humor sprinkled everywhere, including in the catalog descriptions, will keep you chuckling... if you like that sort of thing. LOL.
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The funniest part about this story about Phish fans being busted for possession was that when I read this quote, "They don't just sell grilled-cheese sandwiches out there", all I could think was, "Mmmmmm.... grilled cheese" and forgot about the story almost completely. I think I really SHOULD eat something today. *grin*
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Sometimes I really enjoy a reminder that other people have vastly different belief systems than I do. In the "separate space continuums" category: Politician: Sydney Olympics More Sex Than Sport
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I seems like the Royal Spider Air Corps is out carpet bombing again. The author heard a loud droning noise one night and the next morning there were little puffs of spider webby stuff all over the place. Lots of photos.
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Call me crazy, but someday I want to live in a house where the electricity doesn't go out on a biweekly basis. It went out a few hours ago, and all our clocks are digital, so I didn't know what time it was, and I couldn't find our small battery-operated radio we have sitting around - had to call time and temperature, which is LONG DISTANCE from here because our nearby town is too SMALL to have it's own T&T line. LOL. Even the COWS were boring - just laying down in the field - not a good alternative for being online. A nice ADDITION, but not an alternative. And it was SO QUIET out here - that part was nice at least. Of course, the power is back now, and all again is right with the world. ... ... ... Wasn't that a great story? *grin*
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Using the Job Title Generator I entered the information that's the closest to what I "do" in my life and got this title, "Self-Governing Creation Journeyman" - now that's something to put on a business card! *grin*
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Although we don't know if it has nasty, big, pointy teeth,, here's an actual glow-in-the-dark rabbit!
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I feel like I'm having dreams that last all night - even when one of the dogs barks and wakes me up - it's like glancing away from a long tv show and then tuning back in. And there are such intricate storylines - if I tried to write them down it would take hours every morning! You'll have to pardon me - I'm still in that half-dazed state, trying to remember more details. *grin* Maybe I should blog more LATER, after a Coke - LOL.
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When you go to the post office and get "24" delivery, make sure to specify that it's 24 HOURS you want it delivered in or it could end up like this postcard. It was just received by a person who sent it home from a trip he was taking 24 years ago.
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The interview is titled Practical Time Travel. I am a bit doubtful on the practical part, but it is definitely an interesting read. Steven Gibbs claims to have successfully traveled through time on several occasions. He has some interesting beliefs about negative energy and the "evil greys" but I just skim over that stuff.
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I'll tell the story...

One morning about 3 years ago I noticed something funny about the olive trees that screened our yard from the street. There had been three trees there, I'd climbed in all of them, but now there were only two. I thought I was seeing things so I went outside to check up close. The middle tree was gone and the branches of the two end trees had extended to fill the gap. There was no hole in the ground or any sign that there had ever been three trees. At that point I though I must have remembered it wrong. To test if it was just me I asked everyone in the house (individually) how many trees we had out front without telling them anything first. We had friends, Kristen actually *grin* over at the time, and out of the 8 I asked I got 6 "three"'s and 2 "at least three"'s. Then I told them that there were only two, everyone had to go check.
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Lots of fun stories here - here's one as a teaser: "I was helping my mother sweep up the kitchen floor after dinner one evening. While I was sweeping in one corner, my mother opened the refrigerator door to put something away and the action sent a tomato that was on top of the refrigerator rolling off the edge. We saw it fall off, but somehow could not see where it rolled after "landing". We pulled the fridge away from the wall and even looked under it. No tomato! We looked all around the room and no tomato! We gave up, perplexed. I began to sweep again, and looked at the refrigerator area just in time to see the tomato reappear out of thin air six inches in front of the top of the fridge and fall to the floor. Mom didn't see the materialization, but she heard it hit the ground. We were more perplexed than ever...the tomato had been borrowed and returned." Reminds me of Tom's olive tree story - shall you tell it or shall I? *grin*
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From Blue Moon News: "In December of 1974, the people of Liaoning province in Northwest China began to notice that the animal kingdom was behaving a bit...odd. Geese refused to nest, and pigs would not eat. Snakes awoke from hibernation, to go gliding off across the snow, and froze to death. Rats roamed the streets, even allowing people to pick them up, and the normally docile cattle were not only fighting with each other, but they were also trying to dig into the ground with their hooves. Most people would have just thought the animals were going loopy, but China has been monitoring animal behavior as a way to forecast Earth changes for thousands of years. Four years before the animals started their abnormal behavior, the Chinese government had been studying the likelihood of an earthquake occurring in the region, and in 1973 announced that an earthquake was imminent. They trained the local people to watch for signs in the animal kingdom for any unusual behavior that might be a warning. From mid-December 1974, the animals started acting completely out of character, and started with the creatures in the wild. In February, even the domestic animals started acting very weird. Their behavior, along with the mini tremors resulted in the Chinese government to order the evacuation of the city of Haicheng. On that day, the earthquake hit. But even though it demolished most of the city, almost all of the 500,000 people were safe, because they had listened to the animals when they told them what was coming..." (Visit James Berkland's site (under construction) for more info on predicting earthquakes.)
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Have some sea serpent fun! There are thousands of reported "sea monster" sightings, but this one was made by two qualified zoologists. The watched the animal for some time, and it was later spotted by the crew of their research yacht. The only catch to the story? It happened in 1905.
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LOL - Checking Saint Gennaro's blood seems a little more cool somehow than watching for a rodent to pop its head out of a hole. *grin*
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I love seeing psychic predictions come true. I don't know if it's the little bit of validation, or the thrill of knowing that humans are capable of so much more than we sometimes think. A Bulgarian woman predicted the sinking of the Kursk in 1980, mentioning it by name and stating it would be underwater in August of either 1999 or 2000 and the world would mourn. At the time people thought she meant the city of Kursk, and discounted the prediction.
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I'll post this on a server that's working. *grin* Saint Gennaro's blood liquefied right on schedule this year, signaling all clear for the next six months. On five occasions when the blood failed to liquefy disaster soon followed for the people of Naples. Scientists have examined the vial and verified that it is in fact blood. No one can explain why it turns from powder to liquid every six months.
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Not only are Goths banned, if a teacher teaches witchcraft they get immediately fired. It's like some sort of weird time warp, I thought we were done with all of this stuff years ago. I wonder what would happen if a teacher taught goth kids about witchcraft?
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"Goths' make-up and crimped hair banned from school" - they're not violating dress code but the headmaster has said that they were distracting the other students and his job is to make sure that all students feel safe and at-ease. I'm sure the Goths will feel safe and at-ease knowing that who they are isn't acceptable or "okay" to be anymore. If the Goths complained about not feeling safe or at ease because of not being able to wear what feels comfortable they'd just get prescribed Ritalin or told to get counseling. The REAL problem is that the Goths are probably more interesting to focus on than the school subjects and school knows it can't compete. *grin*
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On the one hand, it's mid September and it shouldn't be this HOT at 9 a.m. On the other hand, this IS California. ... ... ... But I'm also glad that we live in the hills and that the sun isn't as high in the sky, so the sun isn't 'out' as much as it is during the summer, and nights aren't as bad. But since it's going to be in the triple digits today here, we're probably going to take refuge in the air-conditioning in town, maybe a movie. (Otherwise, we'd just be out sitting in the car all day - it has a/c. Our HOUSE has fans, no a/c, but it has computer access - now if we could just figure out a GOOD way to combine the two.....) *grin*
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Ahhh, forget fuel-cells, here's a Volkswagon that's been converted to run on used cooking oil!
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Are the Harry Potter Books pointing your kids toward Satanism? (Please... remember that this 'article' is in The Onion, okay?) *grin*
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I dreamed last night of a strange little creature. It was about 3 feet tall, tannish brown, and walked upright. It's hair was in little tufts, almost like spheres covering it's body, but that was not the odd thing about it. It had no midriff. Its upper body was independent of its legs. It kept itself together by holding onto its waist with its hands. It was quite cool looking. Then in a later dream I was getting replacement legs for myself. I'm not sure why, but I knew the replacements were better for some reason. It doesn't take much to interpret those. *laugh*
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