15 Hours BT

I left home 12 hours ago. I finally found a room an hour from my destination 1 hour ago. Cod I hate S. Florida. But in 15 hours I will be awaiting entry into the first exhibit to tour with significant quantities of King Tut's stuff in something like 30 years so it's worth it right? Please say yes.

I got a large room with a Jacuzzi tub and wireless internet for about 2/3 of the price of the first place I tried and it only took 5 hotels with no vacancies or overpriced rooms and about 40 miles to find it.

NEVER decide that since it's the middle of the week you will not bother to make a reservation anywhere close to Ft. Lauderdale.

*whimper*

I'm going to go prune now.

Sure to be in News of The Weird

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10930824/

A Jackonville woman sent herself 26 POUNDS of pot via UPS and was arrested when she accepted delivery. She then explained that it wasn't for personal use but for starting up a sales business. She helpfully showed them where she kept her personal stash.

Best snerk of the story: "Police caught Ramirez-Gonzalez using a joint agency task force called High Intensity drug Trafficking Activity (HITA)." Is that as in "Hey, take a hita this joint"?

Yay Me!

A month ago I joined Curves, not as part of a New Year's resolution December is just when they have a big discount I'd been waiting on. Yesterday was my measurement day and...drum roll please...I lost 5 pounds!!

I'm particularly impressed with myself since that was over Christmas AND I got a virus that kept me from going for two weeks.

I also got a big compliment from my boss today on my work so this has been a good week. I keep having to remind myself to think about it and bask instead of shoving it into the back of my head and brooding about other stuff.

In other news I colored my hair because I was tired of plain brown and now I'm a deep dark auburn. I'd post a pic but I dunno how here and even if I did I don't have a digital camera I can borrow right now.

And Next Year They'll Have a Pope on a Rope

Russell Stover Chocolates apparently thought it would be a good idea last year to start making caramel filled chocolate crosses for Easter last year. But it's for the Hispanic market so that's all right then. Yeah.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/25/national/main683140.shtml

Perhaps they will consider expanding their line with other instruments of torture and death. How about a chocolate guillotine or a set of chocolate thumbscrews?

The fact that I know people who would buy a liquorice scourge probably doesn't disturb me as much as it should.

This is a natural outgrowth of a trend that I noticed a long time ago, the divorcing of what a cross actually was used for, and why we Christians hold it as a symbol of our faith, from the image of the cross as reproduced in jewelry, greeting cards, and now candy.

Words That Should Be Banned for Overuse in 2005

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

Lake Superior State University has compiled a list of words that have been worn out over the last year and should be stricken from the language.

My favorite:

FEMA – Dedicated to the memory of a great federal agency consigned to the ash heap of parody. “If they don't do anything, we don't need their acronym.” – Josh Hamilton, Tucson, Ariz.