Stringers
Stringers are freelance journalists that cruise the city looking for bad things that are happening at night mainly. It's apparently a great living but frankly I find the whole idea just plain disgusting. These guys go out looking for something bad, and consider it a good night when they get a great shot of some very horrible situation. Now don't get me wrong, it's not like these guys are assholes or anything, they feel compassion and bad in general for the situation but their main goal for the night is to get the best shot of a horrible story so that the news companies will buy it.
In today's rant not only am I ranting against Stringers but also the news media as it is. Frankly you want to know why people are so depressed these days? Because we never hear about anything good anymore on the news. It's so doom and gloom. And these people are the ones to feed into it. This is why people are so paranoid about the world around them.
There are so many good things that happen daily but you don't see them on the news, they don't bring in ratings. The bad stuff on the other hand does and I'm not sure why it is. Perhaps it has to do with people's fascination with things they don't understand or they consider interesting.
I don't even watch the news anymore. During the election there was a lot of talk about hopeful things. Afterwards it's just been crap and it's been very depressing to say the least. I mean you can't even avoid it on TV shows. There is nothing really all that fun anymore. Maybe it's just the mood of the nation. I just want some feel good stuff on the TV once in a while.
Stumble Upon
Del.icio.us
Buzz
My favorite house…
So if I had the opportunity to build my own home this is what it would consist of.
First off it would be on a large piece of land so as to allow for a guest house (maybe two bedrooms to the guest house) of reasonable size for Patti to live in and also have a huge backyard.
It would be two levels. Lower level would be a semi-open floor plan. You'd enter the house and see a small formal living room and the dining room. The stairs would be located at the front of the house as well. Then you'd walk past a wall basically which separates the formal living room and dining room from the family room and kitchen. The family room and kitchen would be open to each other so I could cook and see Kaylee basically.
Off the living room would be the hall way to the guest room and bathroom as well as the direct access to the garage. Also there would be another room connected to the living room via two glass french doors which would be the education room for Kaylee. In this room would be a built in desk and library like shelving on one wall.
Upstairs would be four bedrooms. Two connected via a Jack and Jill bathroom. There would be a third bathroom not connected to any bedroom as well upstairs. The laundry room would be upstairs as well so no trucking of clothes up and stairs would have to be done. The master bedroom would be huge and have a huge bathroom as well in it. There would be a large desk which spans the back of the house (which also has access from one of the smaller bedrooms) and has stairs that lead downstairs to the backyard as well.
The backyard would be huge and just grass. The guest house would be back there as well in the back corner and would be set up almost like an apartment, with a small "yard" for itself that is fenced in so that Patti's dog wouldn't poop all over the main yard. We'd have a pool, fenced in obviously.
So that's my dream house and there are actually several homes in Simi Valley that would fit this very well, sadly I don't have 700K to purchase said house. Sucks.
I’ve seen 141 out of 239 films
SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own blog, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.
Some Pictures…
I finally uploaded the pictures from the past week or two. Here are some I like and a gallery to the rest:
Kaylee celebrates Obama's victory.
Kaylee loves Teddy!
Kaylee on her tricycle!
This is a WPSimpleViewerGallery
The Hensel Twins…
Let me say as a twin if I was attached to my sister I'd be so annoyed I don't know what I'd do. So the fact that the Hensel Twins seem very well adjusted is just amazing to me. Of course it's what they have always had to live with so they know no different.
Abigail "Abby" Loraine Hensel and Brittany "Britty" Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990, Carver County, Minnesota, United States), are highly symmetric dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins, and further, tribrachius, bipedus. They have two spines and separate half-sacrums, which converge distally within a slightly broad pelvis. They each control and sense their corresponding arm and leg; a third, rudimentary central arm was amputated in infancy.
I think some of the natural questions that are brought up about this since they are adults now is what will happen when they do get romantically involved with someone? I mean can you imagine the uncomfortable situation that would be for one sister when the other is doing "things" with a boy? My guess though is although it may be uncomfortable they'll get over it and adapt because that's what they do.
I do wonder though if they have two birth certificates? I couldn't find any information on that. I would assume there are two certificates, at least I hope so. The Twins plan to marry and if they want to do so I imagine if they don't have two certificates then the law could become an obstacle for them. Could you imagine if they didn't have two certs, if the government thought of them as one person. That would suck because they sure don't see it that way.
I imagine it's hard for people though when refering to them though. Do you refer to them as one person or as two? Do they really care? It's good to see they're doing well and managing with little to no interferance from the outside. There are a lot of questions though that's for sure.
Fight for land…
So the families of Flight 93 are sending a lettter to President Bush to ask him to take the land from the guy who owns it where the plane crashed so they can get their memorial done by 2011.
The Families of Flight 93 sent a letter earlier this month asking President George W. Bush to empower the Secretary of the Interior to take the land in dispute from a homeowner who had been in negotiations with the National Parks Service, said Patrick White, vice president of the families' organization.
Apparently the land owner isn't happy with the NPS's offer for the land. I don't understand what the owner wants. The land is only worth what it's worth and this guy should not profit from something so horrible. So to the owner of this land, you're an asshole for not selling it. I hope Bush does instruct the DOI to take the land or if Bush can't do it I hope Obama does. It may cost us a pretty penny to get it done, but it's well worth it.
Well that was productive…
So about 5 hours of searching last night led to this follow up email this morning:
Well, you found me! I am Karen Avery, previously Karen Lynn Ott. My father's name is Raymond Frederick Ott and my mother's name is Corrine Ott, previously Corrine Zinda. I have a sister named Lora Ott and a 1/2-sister named Jaye Clark, previously Jaye Zinda.
Wow. FC is something!
Is Ray still alive? My mother passed away many years ago.
Tell me about yourself and the family. My mom told me Ray had another kid, but I don't know anything about you or any of his family. And I never thought we'd connect!
Karen
What's sad is that now Brian has to tell her that her Dad is also dead. I don't know if she would care much, but I imagine not knowing sucks and now knowing will at least stop any wonder she may have.
I’ve been thinking…
Of what I should do after I finish school in three weeks. I won't be officially starting Kaylee with home schooling until age 3 anyhow and even then that's a bit too early, technically I should wait until 4 years old. Rosie had said I could come work at her job but frankly I worry about Kaylee. Yeah she'd be going to a great school for free, but I worry about sickness and plus frankly I don't like dealing with other people's children at all. I can handle my own but I'm uncomfortable with others.
So what can I do at the end of January? I was thinking about starting a Simi Valley blog and blogging about events going on around the city. Things I observe and what not. But I don't know how popular that would be. I was then thinking of trying to get this blog more popular. But see I don't exactly want to do things online, but rather a physical activity.
Maybe I'll get Kaylee involved in the gymnastic program I looked into. I am going to be taking her out daily on her tricycle though. I need to start getting some exercise.
I've been hearing about a medication used to treat mild forms of Hyperinsulinism. It's called Glucophage. I've heard of it before but wasn't sure what it was for. Glucophage is used to treat Type 2 Diabetes. This thoroughly confused me. Then the person taking it said that Glucophage doesn't block insulin like most common diabetes medications but rather it helps the body better process the insulin and makes the pancreas have a more appropriate response to the need for insulin. So that makes sense and I understand how it can work well for someone with very milk HI. So I'll get a referral from the doctor when I see him and keep it in mind as a course of treatment. It's safe for pregnancy too which is good. On a side note, it's not an option for Kaylee. Glucophage is not "strong" enough to deal with Kaylee's severity of the disorder. She may have a mild form, but it's not as mild as mine has apparently been.
