The nasty LEEP thing is done! Finally! Not gonna gross anyone out with details but I'm pretty sure I never want to smell my own tissue be cauterized again. Blech.

I had more I was going to say but I'm distracted by the idea of soon having Sims 2 to play with. I have dreams of calling in sick to work saying, "I'm sorry, I'm watching my Sims plant their garden. I can't come in." *swoon*

Shut up.

I saw the oddest thing the other day. Was waiting to be seated at a restaurant and a young couple walked in with their lil baby. The baby looked all of about 9 or 10 months old, if that, and the mama was about 7 months pregnant. How the HELL does that happen? I mean, if it was an accident, I kinda pity the mama for not really getting a break from feeling tired all the time. If it wasn't an accident, I can only imagine it seemed like a good idea at the time. Knock out your kiddie-bearing early so's you don't have to drag it out over the course of a few years.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway. Not something I'd consider, I don't think. Twins, maybe. That'd be interesting. But having two babies, one at each end of a year? I dun think I'd be up for that. Well, I would be if it just happened. heh. Not much choice there. But I don't think it'd be one of those 'Hey hon, think about this...' things.

Boy, 11, charged in sexual assault of senior
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Posted: 8:22 PM EDT (0022 GMT)


MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- An 11-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a 76-year-old neighborhood woman in her home as three of his friends stood watch.

Police said that for a week before the attack, the boys had been "terrorizing" the woman in her house, repeatedly breaking in and taking cash and other items.


History repeats and there is nothing new under the sun...

Yesterday, the office bathroom's toilet stopped working. After about 30 minutes of the plunger not helping anything, Anthony and I went and got some drain stuffs and a snake. Ran the snake down the breather pipe cause we figured it may have become clogged. Got alot of nasty stuff out from somewhere but the toilet still wouldn't drain. After trying to run the snake through the toilet and being unsuccessful there, we pulled the toilet up and ran the snake that way. No worky. Pulled up some more grossness but the water wouldn't go away.

So today, we rented a power snake. ½" threaded line and a mean looking bit. Ran that a while in the bathroom (fecal water on the walls now. HELL yeah.). Nothing. Went outside and removed the lid from the newly installed cleanout in the back yard (this is now an option because the washing machine has been moved and much pipe replaced in the back yard... another story, another time). Ran the snake from THERE for about an hour and a half and still had no moving water. Back into the house we went and Anthony ran the snake down the toilet pipe again. I went out to see if any water was moving and could hear the end of the snake rattling around. So, the snake cable can go through the pipes to the yard but the water can't.

This leaves us with the conclusion that the water is scared of pipes and is now simply leaking under the house. That explains why the mums I planted at the front of the house are happy. Moo ha ha. Soggy ground from toilet drainage. Must be very... rich.

Uh... I lost my train of thought. Stupid telemarketers.

Exonerated man denied aid
Spent 22 years in prison
Monday, September 13, 2004 Posted: 10:53 AM EDT (1453 GMT)

PORT ST. JOHN, Florida (AP) -- A man who was freed after serving 22 years for a rape he didn't commit walked out of jail with a few possessions in a plastic bag, and nothing else.

Wilton A. Dedge, 42, didn't get the $100 that Florida gives even its most vicious ex-cons when he was released last month. He didn't get the counseling or job referrals or temporary housing the state offers paroled murderers and rapists.

He didn't even get a bus ticket home.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paychecks could surge or shrink for a few or for millions of workers across the country starting Monday, when sweeping changes to the nation's overtime pay rules take effect.

There is little agreement by the Bush administration, employer groups, labor experts and others on how many workers will gain or lose the right to overtime pay under the new rules in the Fair Labor Standards Act.

"To be candid, no one knows," said Jerry Hunter, a labor lawyer at Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis and former general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board during the first Bush administration.

Employers have sought changes for decades, complaining the regulations were ambiguous and out of date, and questioning why highly paid professionals should get overtime pay. Labor unions, however, say the new rules are intended to reduce employers' costs by cutting the number of workers who are eligible for overtime pay.

Estimates of how many workers will lose their overtime eligibility range from 107,000 to 6 million. Workers who could become newly eligible range from very few to 1.3 million.

"Not only is the Labor Department unsure, but a lot of people in a lot of industries are unsure," Hunter said. "This is all very fluid right now."


I'm just glad our law makers are required to know the consequences of their actions before they make radical changes. Boy, it'd suck if they just did stuff without knowing the outcome...