A couple of weeks ago, Mindfly's resident Neighborhood-kids.com journalist Theresa Carpine discovered a really fun local (Bellingham, Wa) website faces of Bellingham© and since that time it has sort of been "the buzz" around our office. The website is proof that a great website idea does not have to be complicated.
Lea Kelley (the photographer and owner of faces of Bellingham©) came into the Mindfly Studio yesterday and took pictures of Theresa, John and I.
Mindfly Mugs on faces of Bellingham
Great job Lea ... and thanks!
Olivia has always been into music. She loves to dance and has now started citing lyrics to songs she hears. Recently, I was playing around with Olivia and listening to Kara's workout playlist on the ipod, the track by Britney Spears - Piece of Me started. Olivia started bopping and singing ... "you wanna a piece of MEAT."
LOL!
I really love Pachelbel's Canon ... seriously, it was my favorite "diddy" to play when I took piano -- however, I have been on hold with expedia.com for nearly three hours (not an exageration) due to the fact that Aloha Airlines closed down shop and for some reason they believe that playing the freakin song over and over and over and over and over and over is the way to go. In short, I have had 3 phone calls, recieved incorrect information the first time, got dropped (after over an hour the second time) and am still on hold with an unresolved issue on my third attempt...
Just for the record, I still like Pachelbel's Canon, I am having second thoughts about Expedia.com and am wishing I dealt with the little roaming gnome guy.
Having trouble sleeping is nothing new to me. While everyone else in the house is quitely sombering I often times get up and either mess around on a script, play some sort of game or watch the tube until I get tired enough to pass out. Last night, I decided to try to cut things short, took a Tylenol PM and set downstairs to watch Star Trek Voyager in my recliner (which I was never going to be allowed to own, finally bought and now never get to sit in as everyone else lays claim to it).
It worked. About half way through the show I must of dozed off to be awakened by a couple of arguing Klingons on DS9 (Deep Space 9 for those of you who are not in the know) and had obviously fell asleep in one show and woke up in the middle of another. Whatever, DS9 is a good show as well so I left the remote sitting idle, besides I have always enjoyed really listening to Klingon since I read that so language professor somewhere worked on its' actual phonetics to create a "realistic" made up language ... but I am drifting in and out of sleep to the point where the "I am a warrior, I fear not death" slowly transitions into a "been using it for weeks and it is longer, it really works ..." at some point I open my eyes to try to figure out what in the hell Worf, Son of Mog is talking about only to find out I had once again dozed off and woke up in the middle of an Extenze infomercial. LOL!
Oh, my title is a compilation of words from The Klingon Language Institute.
I know I have not jotted anything down for a while. I really have been meaning to but everytime I sat down, I was only tempted to gripe about one thing or another ... and I really don't like to gripe. At very least I do not see any point in turning this blog into a public complaint (there are all too many of those out there anyway).
That being said, I was watching The Oreilly Factor yesterday and saw an interview with Gregg Jarrett about a 10-year-old girl dying of brain tumors who's last wish was to see her father (who is in federal prison on drug charges) and the prison's warden denied him furlough. This is one of the saddest things I have ever heard! Even if the father is an absolute creep and a loser, maybe he is -- maybe he isn't, what is the benefit to society to punish the sick little girl.
I was unable to find a story on any of Bill Oreilly's sites, but did find a related article entitled A Dying Wish on kolnkgin.com.
Apparently the little girl had a stroke yesterday and does not have much longer to live. What a tear jerker.