05:28 - Wednesday, Oct. 05, 2005
wednesday junk
howdy folks!
well, i got no mail yesterday! (ok, everybuddy say, awwwwwwww!!) maybe today i will get some. the hi-light of the day yesterday was that i went to walmart and got a air purifier and filters for it. there went a C note. well, i tell ya its worth it!! this morning, the creamsicle cat is wide eyed and bushy tailed, and NOT RASPY!! now, one thing i need to do, is to remember not to give him REAL MILK!!
i got an alternative to the closet for him that i feel better with, and that is under the sink!! i cleaned it out last night, and left the door open, and he is in there now! he did come out when i woke up to cry about the closet, but then has given up on that.
it snowed in the mountains here yesterday!! around here, thats where most of the snow goes anyway.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police stormed into an 80-year-old woman's apartment, startling her in her sleep, after neighbors mistook her protest over a broken elevator as a plea to be rescued.
"The lady had hung up a banner on her balcony saying: 'Help, I am locked up!' and worried residents in the neighborhood called the police," police spokesman Frans van Rijnswou said on Monday.
Pensioner Philomena Priem, who has difficulties walking and lives on the seventh floor in an apartment in the town of Zoetermeer, put up the banner to complain about maintenance work to an elevator that prevented her from coming and going when she wanted.
SEATTLE (Reuters) - An Oregon woman whose doctor convinced her that he could cure her lower back pain by having sex with her is suing him and his medical clinic for $4 million, according to legal documents obtained on Monday.
The doctor, Randall Smith, who was 50 at the time, was stripped of his license and sent to jail for 60 days last year for charging the state's Oregon Health Plan $5,000 for his 45-minute "treatments" involving the woman.
"Dr. Smith's medical treatment included intercourse in which he told plaintiff was needed to help alleviate plaintiff's lower back and lower extremity pain," the former patient said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, which charges battery, negligence and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, was filed on Friday in Multnomah County court.
"We never comment on lawsuits," said a spokesman for the Adventist Medical Group clinic in Gresham, Oregon where Smith worked. Smith could not be located for comment.
Though he pleaded guilty to submitting false health care claims, a felony, Smith maintained the sex with the 47-year-old woman was consensual.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Everyone has to take time off from work to go to the dentist -- even Pope Benedict.
At the end of Monday's morning session of a synod of bishops at the Vatican, the secretary-general of the gathering, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, made an announcement about the afternoon session, scheduled to begin at 4.30 p.m.
Just before the microphones on the dais were turned off, reporters following the synod on closed circuit television could hear the Pope telling Eterovic in Italian: "Unfortunately at 4 p.m. I have an appointment with the dentist."
well, today is clean the cave day, and pogo day.
not much else going on here!
hava toasty day!
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WORD OF THE DAY
beneficence buh-NEFF-i-suhns, noun:
1. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity.
2. A charitable gift or act.
Lord Jeffrey told Dickens that it [A Christmas Carol] had "prompted more positive acts of beneficence than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842."
--Roger Highfield, The Physics of Christmas
From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence and abstinence.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
She had disseminated around her what seemed an involuntary aura of beneficence and goodwill.
--John Bayley, Elegy for Iris
FACT OF THE DAY
Two explosions killed four people and injured more than 50 in the southern English town of Guildford on this day in 1974. The bombs were planted by the IRA and four men, including Gerry Conlon, were arrested, tried and imprisoned in 1975. The 'Guildford Four' were released in 1989 after the Court of Appeal found serious flaws in the police investigation.
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