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I'm doing NaNoWriMO this year and for those of you who care I've set up a webpage where I'm posting the novel in chapters if you want to read it and you can also check on my progress. Here's the site: Alter Ego.

For those of you who don't know what NaNoWriMo is check it out here:

National Novel Writing Month.

You just can't fix stupid




Something tells me this kid won't end up at the top of his class.



Don't show it off if you can't wear it correctly.




Yeah, this is safe.




Spray-painting the side of your does not increase its perceived value.





Ever heard of a leash?





One sign that you're spending too much time at the computer.





Maybe this was her favorite skirt. Or, maybe she's crying tears of relief that she wore panties today?




The smiley face is a nice touch.



And the news room goes silent...



You have to love how no one has seen him yet



IS THIS YOU BABE?????? Steady sleeper.



There are just some things you can't unsee

Gunther's Ding Dong Song. I just had to share it.

This is amazing. And I'm willing to bet I'm among the last to know about.

This being Second Life discovered today in this article. But what's even more intriging is Second Life's Thursday's Fiction . Plus a plethora of other neat stuff.

Book Mooch is a cool site I just discovered thanks to Vegetarian Times magazine. Apparently, for folks like me, who have way too many books I'll never read again but can't bear to throw away,with this site you list books to give away and browse listings for new ones to take their place, all for the cost of shipping. Most of my favorite books are out of print so I am always searching used book sites. This site looks just as good, and seems a lot less expensive, plus you can also donate to charity.

Unbelievable. I travel better than fifty percent of the time and most of it by air. I have traveled from point A to point B by air since I was a child, and that was a long time ago. In my view it's nothing short of a nightmare anymore to get on a plane.

I flew overseas within weeks of 9/11. I remember the armed military and the dogs and the body searches. I remember having my purse and carry on emptied at the gate because security wanted to search them. I had no heartburn with it. But what happened here is just beyond belief. I hope she sues and I hope she ends up owning the airline.

I tend to be a creature of habit when it comes to a number of things, starting with caffeine in the morning and going on from there. The reason I mention it is that one of my habits is to take the week of Fourth of July off. I'm not particularly patriotic when I do that, I'm just getting the most bang for the vacation days buck. I also take the week between Christmas and New Years, but that's a matter of principle. But I digress.

I have been disgruntled and cranky all day because I am not doing that this year. I am not doing it because I need vacation days to go to Washington DC in October to my brother's wedding. It will be a circus. He lives in DC and is getting married in Ocean City. Or rather, to be accurate, psuedo-remarried, since he got married for real Valentine's Day in Hawaii and second because the guy that's performing the ceremony in October isn't licensed or whatever you have to be to perform weddings. The circus part arises in that he is 45 and has never been married so he is assembling a cast of thousands to attend what will be nothing more, when you get right down to it, than what you might call a stage show.

I love my brother. I am delighted he is getting married and I like his wife. I expect to enjoy myself at the wedding and am glad to be going. I even took a bump on a plane that meant I got re-routed through O'Hare airport just to get the voucher to play for the plane ticket. But he's getting in the way of my routine.

However I console myself with the reflection that he also determined to embrace fatherhood. That means he'll be pushing sixty, if not past it, when the kidlet hits high school and at the rate college tuition is going he won't be able to retire 'til he's over seventy, making the issue of me working Monday and Tuesday in support of family togetherness on important occasions seem a bit less annoying. When I look at it that way you might say, especially since I am the maiden aunt in the family, that I am getting the better deal when it comes to days off.

Dog Has Kittens from my friends over at Ananova. I'd like the one in the middle please.

While over at YouTube. we have this. Whoever comes up with this stuff clearly hasn't nearly enough to do.