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A Video That Will Get You Thinking

On: December 28th, 2007 at 2:08 pm | Number of Comments » 0

Ends and Odds

On: December 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 am | Number of Comments » 8

I installed a tracking program on this site to see if anyone actually reads this blog. All these zero comments entries makes me wonder if I should just throw in the towel on blog writing. Maybe I suck at it, since no one’s blogs who I comment at ever comments here, and according [...]


Merry Christmas!

On: December 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pm | Number of Comments » 0

A Chirstmas Gift

On: December 10th, 2007 at 5:13 pm | Number of Comments » 2

Here are two really cool alternatives to your local toy drives; Heifer InternationalKivaYou can give small amounts, like $10.00 – $25.00, up to much larger amounts of hundreds of dollars. Heifer International allows the giver to pick out the type of animal that she chooses to give, and Kiva allows the giver to [...]


C-section Rate At An All Time High

On: December 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm | Number of Comments » 1

The CDC released it’s preliminary birth data for 2006.
Cesarean delivery is at an all time high of 31.1% of all births;
The cesarean delivery rate rose again in 2006, to 31.1 percent of all births, a 3 percent increase from 2005 and a new record high. The percentage of all births delivered by cesarean [...]


Litter Box Woes

On: December 3rd, 2007 at 8:23 pm | Number of Comments » 4

Our cats are comparatively huge. About 20 and 16 pounds. Finding a litter box for them has been a challenge. Keeping it clean has been a bigger one. They get in an average size box, and there isn’t much space to do their business. Often times when they pee, about [...]