Real Slum - No Millionaire

View a video presentation from the LA Times about real conditions in the slums of Mumbai. Now, don't you have a lot to be thankful for?

Richmond Cold Snap - Are your pipes frozen?

It may be too late to prevent a frozen pipe and if your backyard is full of frozen water then stop reading and call an emergency plumber now! On the other hand, if, like me, only your hot water is down to a trickle then there's some hope. For a straight forward, step-by-step approach try e-how's list. I combined their suggestions with the more definitive American Red Cross Prepare site which warns against using open flame to thaw a pipe. I'm no sooner going to use open flame on my pipes than I am to get acrobatic in the crawl space when (like now) it's 6 degrees outside. Nah-ah. I'm waiting until it gets up to freezing and then I'm going to get more wood from the shed and build a very hot fire in the fireplace.

While I was writing this, I successfully unfroze my hot water pipe by following the simple directions culled from both sites. I have learned. I will also follow closely the directions from Prepare so I can sleep soundly in the coming week when the night temperature will only be around 20.

Blue and Green by Polyvore

Blue and Green by me
I tried to get an overall yellow background but the ap kept dropping out the background colors (like the blue in the sky). Weird but fun grouping of stuff. Everything's pretty normal except for the Stella McCartney shoes (lower right corner). I would never wear them. They would be up on a shelf at eye level, so I could enjoy them. Probably right next to the door.
Current Fads
Listening 90's Playlist (unpublished); train horn/whistle
Watching. De-Lovely (2004)
Activity. wondering why today's energy is so different from yesterday's
Gadget. Dot•it Linear Swivel LED stick up lights from Smarthome
News Source. Google News
Reading. Miss Julia Strikes Back - Ann B. Ross; My Multiverse; Mensa Journal

where you are

there where you are must be truly wonderful
or maybe you're locked up?

because you're not here.

Be a Fan of a Celebrity on Facebook

That little gingerbread guy from Shrek (the movie) has more profiles than live, real celebrities. The astounding thing to me is how many of the gingerbread guy's profiles are in Spanish. Homer Simpson is the number one celeb today with 1,923,846 fans putting Michael Phelps in second place. I am now a fan of Boo (Monsters Inc.) and Sid (Ice Age), among others. Did you know that 151,017 people with profiles on Facebook are fans of "Guy Who Threw His Shoe at Bush"? I love it!