Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Ari Update on May 21st, 2006
Ari ignored his mother’s advice not to run near the steps outside the house the other day and rolled off the steps in what seemed like slow motion to me. While he got a couple big scratches, I think it scared him more than hurt him. “Bad rake,” he said to the rake that [...]
Posted in General on May 21st, 2006
The more I research it, the more it looks like I may have it for sure.
I don’t think I could do a GFCF diet, which really is only supposed to help the worst aspects of the syndrome. Wheat is too big a part of my diet, and Ezekiel bread or Spelt bread cost too much [...]
Posted in General on May 21st, 2006
The bees are gone. The bee keeper for the area picked up the bees. He lifted the planter and just slid the bees into a box with his hands. They said the original hive got crowded out and so the old queen left with half the hive, and these are the ones we saw. There [...]
Posted in General on May 21st, 2006
So I am out in the yard, shoveling gravel back onto the driveway. I hear a loud buzzing sound but ignore it for a minute. When I look up, a big wall of bees is coming right at me and I take off down the street. For several minutes I couldn’t go near my house [...]
Posted in General on May 21st, 2006
What boxing needs, in the humble opinion of an under educated fan, who probably doesn’t know enough to actually have a valid opinion:
An end to the alphabet soup mess.
There are way too many sanctioning organizations. We have the WBA, the WBC, the IBF, and the WBO, and those are the ones I know of. Each [...]
Posted in Politics on May 21st, 2006
RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification) are tiny little microchips that will in the near future be put into most products you buy. They will serve several functions. Setting off the anti-theft alarms and product identification are the main selling points. If a person tries to steal an item, the alarm in theory could say what item [...]
Posted in Politics on May 21st, 2006
Nagin re-won the Election in New Orleans, despite being the single person most responsible for not evacuating the city’s poor. Nagin refuses a Federal evacuation order, until it is nearly too late, then sends the city bus drivers out of the city without having them take the poor, careless people out. Then FEMA responds faster [...]
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