WARNING:

Sue Miller has issued a prediction that tomorrow is THE LUCKY DAY of the year. And as many of my friends can attest, if it is supposed to be anything like last year’s LUCKY DAY, then I recommend you all get your best disaster preparedness kits together and hunker down for the upcoming apocalypse.

Good luck to you all…May The Force Be With You!

HUNT FOR KRAKEN ENDS, BUT MANY MYSTERIES WAIT
By William J. Broad The New York Times

Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005

NEW YORK The human instinct to observe nature has always been mixed with a tendency to embroider upon it. So it is that, over the ages, societies have lived alongside not only real animals, but also a shadow bestiary of fantastic ones - mermaids, griffins, unicorns and the like. None loomed larger than the giant squid, the kraken, a great, malevolent devil of the deep. “One of these Sea-Monsters,” Olaus Magnus wrote in 1555, “will drown easily many great ships.”

Just got back from a very wonderful vacation in the Ol’ Land of Port in the Pacific Northwest. Glitterbug and I enjoyed fine dining, museums, street-life, people, enchanting japanese gardens, dancing with drag queens and skanky nekked male box dancers, flame dancers, and gothic strip clubs (stop drooling slackker), a most beautiful wedding out in the trees, lots o great coffee, the majestic view from the top after a 5 mile hike and many other moments of adventure and mirth.

It’s good to be home and I can’t believe how much stuff I have to get done in the next week or so.

Here at work we have an online system to request work from our facilities department. Within this feature there is a drop-down menu of types of services that are frequently requested or issues that need to be reported. Many of them seem fairly standard, however, I wonder if the group who developed this feature were pranksters, or if actual research bore out this need. Either way, it sure makes me curious (and I must say a little nervous):