My Favorite version and video of F.U.

Thanks to my Cousin Jane, I remembered and am reposting this video in the shadow of DADT being voted on once again... Lighten up everyone, it's not the end of the world (oh wait, that's another great video)...

Over and "Out" once again from a day, less productive than I thought it would be! Thank goodness for previous posts and You Tube!!!

United 93... The one that got away...

I watched this film last night for the first time.  I felt it an apt end to the 9/11 weekend and my work week.  I have to tell you, I was tired when I got home at 9:30, but this movie kept me engaged until it's well known climax at Midnight... As soon as we got comfy in bed to watch this, I heard the little snarling noises coming from Michael's side of the bed and knew he was out...  It's usually the other way around. Michael can not fall to sleep with the TV on, yet for me it's like a mild sleeping pill. Once my body goes horizontal I am usually out like a light... After watching this last night it took me another 45 minutes or so (due to my brain still remembering that day), to fall asleep.

Anyone that feels a need to relive the date, the probable experiences of the heroes on that flight, and the chaos and frustration the FAA, Military, and Air Traffic Controllers had, must see this picture...  It was very intense...

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...  Michael and I are enjoying our mid-week weekend (we are both off today and tomorrow).  I go back to work Thursday and Friday, then head up to Richmond on Saturday (my 55th) to see my youngest and only daughter, then meet up with Michael on Sunday to head over to Kelly's (and Jeff's) wedding reception.  It should be a jam packed weekend...

Time to head to the grocery for some essentials, then start some laundry (I know, how domestic huh?)...

Over and "Out" from my little world, in Portsmouth, VA

ps: I changed the post date on this to yesterday...  just for fun...

Remember tomorrow...

It's been 9 years but I remember it like yesterday. So many lost, so many lost friends and family...

Remembering from my place in Portsmouth, VA

Earth Shattering News from Minnesota:

I was trying very hard to get a Stephen Colbert video to load correctly on blogger, but failed miserably...  Instead I bring you this breaking video from my Mom's birth-state of Minnesota:



Over and "Out" on a cooler evening, from Portsmouth, VA

Roller Coaster...

I love it that AT&T has used this theme for the new blackberry...   My cell service is through AT&T even though I choose not to browse the web on my little "zoo-lander" Walkman flip phone.  Regardless of my uses for a cell phone, I applaud the commercial...

Over and "Out" on the first day of September, from Portsmouth, VA

Who says you can't teach an "Old Dog" a new trick?

This is Audrey, our upstairs neighbor's 8 year old Great Dane...  Julian is in the Navy, he had to go on some submarine for a week or two.  His wife Jillian wanted to take advantage of her husband's absence and go visit her family in New Hampshire. She asked us to watch Audrey for the week...

Prior to this past week, Audrey was a non-smoking, tea drinking, no sex, run of the mill female Great Dane...  Michael and I have done our best to educate her while her parents were away...

We have introduced her to Miller Lite (you have to keep that girlish figure), Doral Ultralights (low tar and nicotine), and of course we pimped her out this week to help pay the rent...  Little did I know she would take it to this extreme, but at least it seems she is trying to recycle (a by-product of drinking beer from a bottle like her new gay step parents do) even though she knows smoking in the house is totally forbidden, it seems she got her "trick" out before we got home...

Please don't report us to PETA (just across the river from us in Norfolk). Over, "Out" and feeling a little guilty here in Portsmouth, VA  

Where were you: Eight-Twenty-four, of Ninety-two?

August 24, 1992, I was living in Miami Shores, a small city just north of downtown Miami (well actually about 85 blocks north)... and on that day in the wee hours of the morning, Hurricane Andrew made landfall twenty or so miles south of us.

What we experienced was nothing compared to what the people in South Miami, Kendall and Homestead had to deal with.  We had no power for a week, they had no power for (in some cases) 3-4 months... I can't imagine...

My first visit (post Andrew) to Kendall was like driving down some road on a distant planet.  The trees that once lined Kendall Drive had all been sheared off, mid-trunk. I mean, they weren't pulled out of the ground, or just topped, they were literally snapped in two my the force of this storm...

Funny thing, I lived in South Florida for almost 30 years, and since moving to Virginia in 1999, we have experienced the remnants of more named storms here, than we ever did there...  Am I a magnet?

Over and "Out" on a cooler evening, from Portsmouth, VA.