The Consumer Action Website is where I went after by starting from Federal Consumer Information. I was looking for copyright information. Can't remember why now since I then went to the American Council on Science and Health to see if there were any exciting myth busters on the home page. Not really. So I decided to pick my favorite: Alfalfa which, after using a Google imbedded search tool, got me to the Alfalfa Org. page. This told me about alfalfa culture but not if it was really good for anything besides feeding horses.

Okay. So into Sherlock and search a few online reference books for alfalfa. From Bartleby's where it says that Young alfalfa shoots have been used as food for humans and have antiscorbutic properties. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls. Are they online?

The obvious site. Too much happening today!! Merry Christmas!!

I updated my healing page (choose "Healing Resources") today with an instant meditation and decided to take another look at View Zone and ended up on theirSalvia Divinorum page. If you scroll down you'll see that congress is moving to outlaw it. So buy it fast! (well, how fast is that? It's a government process. Could be years.) Your other choice is to become a Mexican shaman or start a religion with the herb as essential ingredient. I'm a little scared by the travel logs. Meanwhile, I went to the botany page and ended up looking at highly unusual air fresheners. There are tons of other fascinating things there. I could get lost for at least an hour. I tried to find out how to start a new religion but just ended up on bogus sites. You tell me if you find a way to do that.

From creative to bland. I guess that's what usability and great interfaces are coming to. I don't know if you can see the page I'm looking at , but it's a page from the book Web Redesign: Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler. It shows babycenter.com design development as the site changed. Am I the only one who enjoys creative navigation? The Yale Manual hasn't changed either. They still believe in ordinary navigation. I like what they do within their boundaries. Am I just kicking something as timeless as the table of contents? Even wired.com is looking tired. ... and when can we drop that .com thing?

Found a picture of Alpine Flowers tea. Why didn't I think of it sooner? You have to search on Alpine and it comes up.

Cooking accessories for the man in your life! I got here looking for the tea "Alpine Flowers" which is also sold on this site. Check out the Puppy Cam. It's not just a page, it's a button on every page! Meanwhile, Alpine Flowers is one of the best teas I've ever tasted, next to Harrod's Organic Green Tea. (You can't get there from there. I think you have to email them to send you a Word doc with a listing of teas you can order. Right now they're all caught up in the January sales which is the biggest national event in England, not counting the queen's birthday.) I first drank Alpine Flowers at World Cup (in Richmond VA), which doesn't appear to have a web site. If you find the website, email me and I'll send you two free movie tickets. (No cash substitutes. :-o)

Meanwhile, the Tea Herb Farm (watch that dynamically created link) also came up in the search, but no Alpine Flowers tea. gourmetcoffeesetc.com sells it for the same price but they don't tell you how much is in it. (Also the store front is wierd, ergo no link.) Why does no one show a picture of the mixture?

For fun, we have edible flowers and The Alpine Flower Garden, on the sunny side of Kitzbuehel. (woo hoo!) Or what about alpine rock gardening on the net? (Alpine flowers of New Zealand.) Be gentle with those pixel seeds. A puff of breath will scatter them all over your desk and you'll need a magnifying glass to pick them up.

ARGHHHH! Enough. Time to get back to Christmas shopping.

Writing Success and who doesn't dream of that? Or what about writing anywhere in the world, including outside on your deck in your bathrobe? But what seems wierd to me is that this online course is mailed to you as a package! (??) Or what about this one--Write a Book Now! that you can subscribe to it by email for free or order with bonus items by mail and pay for it! (?? again) Who writes this stuff? Who falls for this?

Oh, yeah ... here's the official site:20th Century Fox -- Solaris .

I've been helping my mother recover from breast reduction surgery that took a load off of her 74-year-old-shoulders. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I've been organizing SciFi/Fantasy movie get togethers for my local Mensa group. So far, all attentendees have been enthusuiastic about the movies we've seen. One of the members, Terry, a 70-something, energetic woman, recommendedSolaris. She watched the russian original on cable so she could compare. That's what I'm talking about when I say deep interests. Which is what you generally find among Mensa members.

Cruises in February from Cheap Tickets. They sent me an email. I hope you see what I saw! 7 days in the Carribbean for $203.00. Oh well. There's about another $200 in fees. And you have to get to Miami first. I'm only doing this because today is a really shitty day. All the anger in my life has come to the surface. I had to crack my car out of ice and snow to go to work. Why? Why? It's just a bad news day. It's a good day to stay home and try out some of those decorating ideas and work my personal web site. Ah, the beach! The sun! the Warmth! Someone send me, NOW!

alright! got it up and running. well, that was certainly not very intuitive. it took less time to figure out (WARNING: pop-up ads)how to download a custom ring to my Nokia cell phone.

In the meantime, it's getting freezing outside. Snow predicted. I'm sure you needed to know that.

Still slow at work. Pretending to work, I try to figure out how to convert a midi to a wav so I can send it as background music in a PowerPoint show. I find many utilities but none for free. (I didn't look very hard.)

Meanwhile, I've also found a good site for home decorating and etc. with the assumption that I am still having my little holiday get together.

Okay. I'm trying this again.

testing ... again

So, here are the linkings to the links I visited today.
I'm looking at the calendar of events at the Richmond Times Dispatch (so I can plan a party) and

• notice that there's a MUG in my building that I have never heard of. XMUG, the local Mac User Group.


• Then back to check the calendar and it's on to a folk dancing group that I might someday join.
• Then back to the calendar again (still don't have a date selected for the party) and see what looks like a low key singles group. What? A low key singles group? What a concept! You mean I can just meet people and not have to date them?
• I also checked out ideas at Better Homes and Gardens. It's a bit stuffy but at least they don't dabble in insider trading.

Then I went back to work. Gotta take a break from all this fun or it gets boring.

blaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!

give me an error message!!

yikes!!!!!!

okay. changed the settings. maybe this will work.

okay. file not found. what's going on. i'm going to keep on posting. just like a tarantula.

Just for the heck of it, here's a link to tarantula. Control those pests!

First post on the new blog. Geesh. I'm an official blogger now. Who knows? I might actually follow through on this one. Long day with not much happening at work. You'd think that would be inspiring. Planned to update my website but got caught up in the tarantula web. It was a way to pass the time.

For those of you who have no familiarity with Carnelli, it's a game I learned at a Mensa Regional Gathering in Williamsburg, Va. Here's a page with the rules. Not sure this will actually relate to that but I like the concept of linking concepts. This may be a game of participation where you tell me the concepts.

Boredom has been a working concept for me, lo, these many months. Well, that's enough excitement for now.