“Mom, I love you even when you fart.”

I had a great time taking Ian to work.

Just got back from the salon. I let my stylist talk me into dyeing my eyebrows. Hopefully this freakish Joan Crawford look will vanish in time for my job interview tomorrow.

I’m so proud of Ian. He’s now reading us bedtime stories. Tonight he read us a couple of chapters from Tales From the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne.

I’m considering blowing off working on the dissertation tomorrow to go see the wildflowers in Death Valley.

I am having a great time reading The Battle of the Labyrinth out loud to Ian and Hal. The best part is reading the monster Geryon’s lines like George Bush.

Mmm, I have a happy tummy full of half-price tapas and beer.

On the way to school this morning my son told me he thinks Sarah Palin is a big fat fart.

NASA Santa Tracker

NORAD Santa Tracker

From FoxNews:

Italian Scientist Links Christmas to Ancient Pagan Celebration.

I am going to participate in the Susan G. Komen Race for a Cure 5 K with the “Geologists For A Cure” team.

I will be running in honor of my late grandmother, Helene Hughes, who was a two-time breast cancer survivor.

If you are interested in sponsoring me, please visit my Geologists For A Cure site.

Thanks

p.s. Please remember to do a breast self examination (BSE) once a month. Men – that includes you, too!

I just heard on the radio that Don Adams of Get Smart and Thomas Ross Bond who played Butch in “The Little Rascals” and “Our Gang” series have both died today.

Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal dead at 96

via CNN

From CNN:

Step back in time with the Sage of Emporia
Wednesday, September 7, 2005; Posted: 4:52 p.m. EDT (20:52 GMT)
EMPORIA, Kansas (AP) — William Allen White’s house was more than just a place for his family to eat and sleep…..(via CNN)

‘Gonzo’ journalist’s ashes to be shot from cannon (via CNN).

The funeral for writer Hunter S. Thompson takes place tonight at his home near Aspen, CO. Johnny Depp, who did an excellent job of portraying Thompson in the 1998 movie based on “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, funded much of the cost of the extravaganza (or maybe I should say extravagonzo).

Today is my husband Hal‘s birthday. Happy birthday honey!

Giant waterfall discovered in California national park

Friday, August 12, 2005; Posted: 9:06 a.m. EDT (13:06 GMT)
California
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
WHISKEYTOWN, California (AP) — Dick McDermott knows these parts as
well as any man can.

“The 92-year-old used to earn a meager living mining the creeks that meander through the deeply wooded hills. He has slogged through the brush and hiked overgrown logging roads, hunting deer and gathering wood for his homemade fiddles.

But McDermott says he’s never laid eyes on the nearly 400-foot waterfall that park officials recently discovered in a remote corner of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 43,000 acres of wilderness in northern California….”

from CNN.

via blivet 2.0

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