Well, this is cheery news...

The WHO is predicting a flu pandemic within the next few years.

No, getting that shot won't help, so don't bother. The best way to avoid a disease like this is: 1. wash your hands often 2. stay away from sick people 3. wash your hands MORE often and 4. invest in a surgical mask or better.

And if you die, well, best wishes.

I love my family.

Earlier, after we ate dinner, but before we ate dessert, everyone but 'dul was sitting in the living room. And Mommy started chanting something like "we want pie. we want pie". I don't remember what. Anyway, it occurs to me to harmonize: Pie, pie, pie, pie! (ascending scale, then back to the first pie). I keep this up for a while until I decide to do "Three point one four one five nine! Three point one four one five nine!", at which point Jenn joins in, with an "apple" for every "nine". Fun.

I love them all. *hugs* That's why I washed the dishes after everyone else went to bed/sofa/crib.

Just remember, it's Buy Nothing day today.

Don't give in to the hype! I can guarantee you, your family does NOT need the most expensive presents.

See? BND.

Okay. I've been psuedo-political today. Met my quota and all. I guess I can go out and buy that toilet paper now. I mean, I'd like not to, but this is kinda... different.

*blinkblinkblink*

A girl survived a new rabies treatment. She's apparently one of only five people in the world known to have survived after the onset of symptoms. Apparently, one person dies of rabies every 15 minutes. *shudders* Remind me never to travel. Anywhere.

*screams*

Mr and Mrs Ainscow's daughter, aged 33, has Asperger's syndrome, which caused her to spend her parents' cash wildly on expensive shoes, clothes and meals.

No, it really didn't. Her parents giving her the money, and not telling her to knock it off, and letting her be a little brat... that is what caused her to spend the money. The original article said she had AS, and was bipolar, and a host of other things, but now it's all gone but the Asperger's? And now, even though the woman (the daughter) is saying that's not true, she has "no mental health problems", the article just says "she has Asperger's", not "her mother says she has Asperger's", which is just a bit unfair, don't you think?

Oh, cool!

It's a short dialogue that takes place over and over again in different time periods to indicate how the Great Vowel Shift occured!

You can hear it and everything! Go click, go listen!

Ooh, and they have actual writings from various periods, Shakespeare and Chaucer, to indicate how things were pronounced.