check the new passport card. From inside your wallet it sends a signal that the government can read. If you’re walking up to a Texas/Mexico border crossing it would trigger your “file” and pop it up on their computer screens. Not being all black helicopter here just saying that that’s wild. Actually it’s probably a great thing in it’s intended context, time savings and efficiency for people needing to cross the border all the time. And if you don’t want one you don’t have to have it, you can wait longer in the line with your standard passport. But still….
“The passport card should smooth the way of Americans living in border communities through its embedded vicinity-read radio frequency identification (RFID) chip. The chip will enable U.S. customs and border protection officers to
This is the first time I’ve done an upgrade. Renee has done it, Uzyn has done it… I was always way too scared. This was a wild one because to catch up it was a jump of several major and several minor revisions of the software. Sure enough, at one point it all crashed and came up with six pages of error messages but I went in and upgraded some plugins and it suddenly came back to life. They promised the database would load faster and, at least for me on
This Swiss goop (”Cyber Clean“) is a viscous slime that you roll around on your keyboard, so that all the food particles and fingernail parings are swept away, while the germicidal surface de-germifies your icky, filthy, disgusting keyboard. from BoingBoing
The more information you have and the less risk you take that may extend your life.
You can get a small container of nitroglycerin pills to carry on your key chain for a few bucks. I have used mine twice over the last 10 years and who knows I may not be writing this if I had not used it in time.
And what is it like? It’s like getting run over by Alexander’s Rag Time Band!
He picked out where he wanted to work, walked in and he got hired right on the spot. The Grist Mill. He has a lot of history in Gruene and now he works there. It’s nice to live in a moderately small town - the guy looked at his application and the first thing he asked was how Casey was doing. Taylor’s got a girlfriend, a driver’s license, a car, a bank account with money in it and a job. He’s happy.
Yesterday my mom sent this photo from her Braniff days. I actually have the skirt she’s wearing, this was their Pucci outfit which they used varieties of till 1977 when they switched to the Halston uniforms which were cream and brown polyester that had tiny little “H”s all over them. I have those shirts still and I think Haley has one of the Halston dresses. But I’ve been looking up lots of Braniff stuff lately trying to find old pictures of mama but she found one before me. So she is on the back row the second beauty on the left. Hmmm maybe I can find the top and be a flight attendant for Halloween…
and maybe not tomatoes after all. Nobody around here got sick I guess because San Antonians have been eating questionably fertilized chillies from Mexico since the 1800’s, we’re immune.
This is certainly Art For The Day. We all wanted to go see Townes Van Zandt, this is the guy Townes Van Zandt wanted to go see. A little finger picking was going around at Riley’s last night, Casey’s been practicing her guitar lately and was listening for who was strumming and who was finger picking. This is a great example of finger picking, a GREAT song with closeup video to see what he’s doing; really good but not so crazy that you couldn’t learn it. Relax…. it’s not flamingo, it’s just two fingers.
How what you do effects your children and their children, just like the bible said. “For humans perhaps the most important finding of epigenetics is that we are not owners of our genes but their guardian. If we drink heavily, take drugs, get fat or wait too long to reproduce, then epigenetics might start tying up some of the wrong genes and loosening the bonds on others”
Jimmie and I were listening to all her songs on MySpace this morning and really enjoying it, she’s such a natural singer. I haven’t heard her do this one in a long time, it’s one of my favorites.
Evan took this picture yesterday. You can tell it’s a hot summer day when Loretta spends so much time relaxing in the pool. Whenever she feels like it she jumps in, climbs up on her float and the water carries her around in laps. She takes long floats five or six times a day. The other dogs would never dream of doing it, they think she’s crazy. Sometimes she’ll be playing with the other two Shepherds and use up all her energy running and chasing and being the aggressor and then when they start to get the upper hand she’ll run right into the pool and laugh at them. We’ve had great dogs in the family before I’ve never known another Shepherd as funny as her.
Maybe as Mitch convalesces he can be on the phone working radio. I was going to bring him this cool electric hospital bed that Dad has but Mitch got wind of it - Hillary warned that if we didn’t get it there and set up before he found out then it would be a no go. Even when he’s pumped full of pain killers Mitch’s radar still works perfectly. We’re going to go visit him tonight.
got an email and Hillary says he’s on his cell phone if you want to call him. This is Wednesday so don’t plan on going to the hospital after today. Hillary says that other than the pain, he’s doing good.
