Ok, this is sick.

Kids of Slain Ill. Woman Are Found Dead

Sep 23, 10:58 PM (ET)

By JIM SUHR

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Three young children were found dead Saturday, hours after a woman was charged with killing their pregnant mother and her fetus in a grisly attack in which her womb was cut open, authorities said

I'm sorry but WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE TODAY???!!!!! I will complain about a lack of common sense and an absence of common courtesy in people nowadays, but this goes WAYYYYYY beyond courtesy or even rationality. What's scary is that too much of this kind of thing is happening today. It's easy to see that people are more selfish and shortsighted but brutal? What are we teaching our kids? Is ANYBODY teaching their kids
Anything??? How could anybody think of doing this, much less actually doing it? Maybe our society is slowly driving itself insane. I wouldn't be surprised.

I totally blanked here. I forgot the most important thing from today. My dad is very into microscopy. I bring him water samples from all over so he can scope them and find little critters in them. Anyway, he was apparently locking at some water this morning and was watching a paramecium. He happened to be doing a video capture and he actually caught the thing expelling waste. Yes, that's correct. He took video of a paramecium taking a dump. What's even cooler is he posted it on his website. Check it out at www.hollosenso.com but be sure to check quick cause he changes his front page often and it might not be there long if he finds something even cooler.

Yippee. I'm at my mom's house tonight. There were some very bad storms that moved thru earlier along with possible tornados. I am hoping my camper is still in one piece. I haven't been back out to the lake to check since mom and my daughter decided that I ought to stay here for the night. Not too bad a hardship since dad has DSL and a wireless router....

Ok, I know this guy Rocky. I've known him since high school. We used to do lots of really stupid and outrageous things. I miss him lots. He's living on a boat in Florida. Technically off the coast of Florida. So I'm catching up reading his blog today (I had to import a my old bookmarks from my desktop to the laptop) and my first complaint is that he's not updated it since the end of August. And the second thing is that he went on a cruise. Ok. He went on a cruise. He lives on a boat, but he went on a cruise. Am I the only person who thinks this is slightly odd? MAYBE. But I'm quite odd myself so it's ok. If you wanna read about his misadventures, check out http://svcosmicdebris.blogspot.com it's quite entertaining reading. I wonder what it's like living on a boat for a regular person. I don't count myself as a regular person cause I get rather violent and copius motion sickness. Like projectile vomiting even. Sad but true. I've gotten ill on a rowboat on a mostly still lake. lol

I had another odd dream last night. Why I am now having weird dreams is beyond me. Possibly the stress that underlies my daily existence is causing it. Years ago I used to run a chat channel on dalnet called #lifesucks. In my dream last night I was in a room, a real room with some people. I can't remember their faces but I knew they were Thist, Atsoca, Epitaph and a couple of people I am not sure now who they were but at the time I knew exactly. And I kept asking them where Sydrian was. Now the only one of these people I ever met in real life was Epitaph. But I remember asking and asking where Sydrian was. I was very concerned that nobody had seen him recently. I hope that this doesn't mean something has happened to him for real. I worry when I have weird dreams that the dream might be connected to something in real life that I should know about.

Well, tomorrow one of my favorite websites is going down. Uproar.com is ceasing to be a place of games and entertainment as of the 30th, but tomorrow all icoins expire. Now, if you haven't ever been there you might be asking yourself what I'm talking about. You could play games there and use the winnings (icoins) to enter raffles for prizes. I used to have a lot of fun there. They have a version of pyramid solitaire that has Egyptian markings on it. Very cool. I've been playing games at this site for 6 years. On almost a daily basis. It's kind of like your favorite coffeehouse closing. No more iced mochas for you!!! :P Now I have to find another place to play. I like the old games. I don't care for the new ones. Tetris, Mah Jong, solitaire. To me those are the best.

Arg. Reality sucks. I need to figure out a way to earn some extra cash. I really need to get started on my solar panels but haven't gotten there yet. I am wondering if I ought to buy a small generator instead of stressing over the solar right now. And I wish I knew how to weld. I really should have taken welding in school. I was going to but then ended up not doing it. It's so much cheaper when you can create the things you envision yourself and not have to rely on somebody else to do it. I've found that when you rely on somebody else, especially if it's a man, to do something it either ends up done the way they want it and not the way you want it if it ends up done at all. Men seem to be weird that way. You can figure it out, draw them a diagram, explain to them why it has to be just like you outlined then it still ends up how they wanted to do it. It might just be easier to bang your head against a concrete wall. Not that I'm saying that women are any easier to deal with. It's just that most of my experience has been with trying to get men to do something because it involved a power tool that I don't know how to use. Because of this, I've learned how to operate quite a few power tools. My next learning project will be the table saw. Dad said he will show me how to use it, so that's cool.

Skipped blogging the past few days. Real life was interfering with my cyberspace time. It happens. Thankfully it is looking like things will be a little bit slower this week and I can get some more written.