Today's Lunch

Cornish Rock Game Hens cooking on the grill! :))

The Continuing Crisis

Long lines of cars on the side of the highway. Two hours or more wait time. Only 1 gas station within 50 miles or so that has any gas (or so we were told by a Quick Trip employee at a station that was out of gas, again.) That is the gas situation around our local area. Help is on the way, they keep saying, but when will it arrive? Apparently the fuel tankers are having trouble getting refuel, or so they say, be it with the precious cargo they're designed to carry, or the necessary fuel to get that cargo out to the masses. The EPA has released the fuel restrictions, allowing the release and sale of the standard gasoline, instead of the summer blend most stations within the area are required to fill their tanks with over the hottest months of the year. But so far we've seen one station after another run completely out of gas. Or, a station will get a fresh supply in, only to run out a few hours later due to the long lines of cars queuing for a chance to refuel. We spoke with one man tonight, who had been waiting for over an hour on the side of Highway 41 to get gas from the local Home Depot, the only station around here that had any gas. He said that he'd run out of gas waiting to GET gas, had then had to walk to Wal-Mart (I think) to buy a gas can, then walk back to the gas station to buy some gas so he could walk back to his car and fill it up with a little gas to continue waiting in line to try and get a FULL tank of gas. That's just insane!

So when is this all going to end?!? I tell you...the terrorist organizations that are against the United States, and wish to do us harm, are probably sitting around right now, laughing their collective heads off, watching as we slowly work ourselves into a frenzy over our pursuit of a full tank of gas! Police officers have already had to be called in for a number of incidents where gas station customers have started fist fights (or probably worse in some cases) with each other while they were waiting for their turn at the pump. If things continue on the way they have been, it's only a matter of time before people start holding up fuel tankers at gun point, syphoning gasoline from any cars they find unattended (most likely already going on in some places), and putting other people's lives at risk, bringing about possible injury and/or death. All for a tank of gas. That may sound rather extreme, but things are rapidly getting out of hand! We need gas, and we need it now, before the stress of economic turmoil and the scarcity of gasoline cause the collective masses to just snap!

They say helps on the way, but will it get here soon, and will it be enough? Only time will tell...

Girls & Their Cell Phones

Heather & Monica relaxing on the couch, on her birthday. My first "official" mobile blog post. :)

Waterfall Picture

This was a test picture from my cell phone (No, I didn't take the picture, it came with the phone.) to make sure I have it set up correctly to where I can mobile blog again. Now, once again, I'll be able to post pictures anytime, from anywhere. Isn't technology wonderful! ;)

Monica's Birthday

Well, tomorrow is Monica's birthday. Supposedly Heather and Louise are coming up here to spend the day with her tomorrow, and her friend Amanda will possibly be coming in for a visit late tomorrow night, and will then stay with us a few days. Plans are likely to change though, what with the "gas crisis" at hand. It's getting difficult to find gas stations that actually HAVE gas to buy, and then when you CAN find it, the nearly $4 per gallon (or higher in some places) price tag makes filling your tank an expensive ordeal! Still, I hope everyone comes, because I know Monica misses her friends a lot, and would love to see them, and share her birth day with them.

Other plans are in the works, and things could change dramatically over the next few months. More on that later though. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you're enjoying this wonderful fall weather, and that you're able to walk down the path of life that was meant just for you. Peace.

Oops...They Found Out!

Here's something humorous I just came across:

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"I'm a PC," and I Was Made on a Mac

Microsoft's new phase of its ad campaign, aimed at renovating the image of Windows, which began with the much criticized Seinfeld-Gates ads (three of which were filmed but only two of which were aired), seems much better than the first phase.But it's also proven somewhat embarrassing for the company: images created for use in the campaign were created using not just a competitor's product (Adobe Creative Suite 3), but also non-Windows based PCs --- Macs to be exact.

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How ironic...Microsoft is trying to improve its image...but to do that, they've had to use Macintosh computers. It's kind of sad really. ;)

Jacob Turns Two

Monica and I went to Commerce yesterday to celebrate Jacob's second birthday. It was a relaxed affair, with only immediate family in attendance. Mike and Kate made/cooked food, and we all hung out and had a good time chatting and catching up on each other's lives.
Here are a couple of pictures of the now 2-year-old Jacob.

Pound Cake - The Results

Okay, so here is how the pound cake turned out. We used our castle/cathedral bundt cake pan, and Monica managed to turn it out perfectly (she's so good like that. *s*) This picture shows it with 10X powdered sugar on it, but it also has an orange rum glaze on it now too. :)

So here you go...a post with a new picture. Enjoy! lol

Pound Cake & MP3s

Well, after a late night (in bed after 4 AM, BOTH of us), and a long lay in this morning (got up around noon), we are enjoying the day, just hanging out. Monica is chatting on her cell phone right now, while a pound cake she just made bakes in the oven. As for myself, I'm looking through some of my old files, trying to find The Big Chill soundtrack to load onto Monica's iPod. I know I have it somewhere, it's just a matter of locating it.

I've also been playing around with my new phone, and getting things set back up to where I can post to my mobile blog from it. The link on this page has a posting that I initially sent, but then deleted, so I have to upload something new to replace that one. I really missed having a camera on my phone, because I often see things I want to snap a quick picture of, and I couldn't, while using the Samsung Go phone that has been my standby for the last month or so. Still, I'm glad that we had it, or I would have been completely out of touch with everyone!

At any rate, I want to get out today and do some photography with my digital camera, but I don't want to wander too far from home, because I've been having stomach issues for close to a week now. It's not really stomach pain (although it does hurt from time to time), it's more that I feel somewhat "sick to my stomach" and it "churns" a lot. It was probably from something I ate recently, but who knows. Regardless, it's rather annoying. No big deal though! :)

I want to try and find SOMETHING interesting to put on my blog this weekend though, because I know that I'M tired of just seeing posts with words, so I'm sure the 2 or 3 others of you out there reading these things probably are too. I promise I'll post some new pictures (of something) soon, hopefully by this evening! *g*

Well, I guess that's enough text for now. Have a great weekend everyone, and keep safe. Peace.

Random Pictures of the Crawford House

Okay, so here are some (small) pictures of the house we MIGHT move to in Crawford. Just click on the link below, and then navigate through the pictures by clicking on each thumbnail at the bottom of the page. The images are basically grouped together, with between 4 and 6 pictures per room of the house. You can't really get a complete idea of what the house is like, without seeing it in person, but here are some pictures anyway, if you want to try. Enjoy.

http://www.fullmoondesign.net/gallery/