Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I can’t help it, I laugh every time I think of this story: Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters today highlighted a recent conviction in a scheme by four individuals in the Los Angeles area to invent a man out of whole cloth, hold his funeral, and then reap in the insurance benefits from his death. [...]

Of all the browsers I have and regularly use – Firefox 3, IE 8, Google Chrome, Opera  9 – I most unfashionably like IE the best. Sigh. There goes my geek card.

The equivalent of little green men (where are the little green women?) have been trooping in and out of my house all day. They pop in through the television set, at my mom’s invitation, spouting stuff about pyramids and Chaco Canyon and creatively named places in Mexico and Central and South America. We did that! [...]

I haven’t heard the whole story but I imagine it went something like this: Low level screw-up friend comes by and says, “Hey, I know you need some cash. I know where to get some – easy!” “Nah, man, you know I don’t want nothing to do with any of your mess. I keep my [...]

from the BBC WEEK OF SHOOTINGS Sat 4 April: Father is suspected of shooting dead his five children, then himself, near Seattle Sat 4 April: Gunman kills three policemen in Pittsburgh before being wounded and captured Fri 3 April: Gunman kills 13 people at an immigration centre in Binghamton, New York state, then apparently shoots [...]