The Comment Tater

As if I need one, but I found this to be fascinating. My mind is so weak that I need guidance.

Now, this is a disturbing story. Tip of the Hat to Nashville is Talking, by way of Bill Hobbs.

The U.S. government has barred Canadian-Iranian blogger, Hossein Derakhshan (otherwise known as Hoder), from entering the United States for six months.

Hoder is a critic of the Iranian goverment, according to this piece on Committee to Protect Bloggers (a site with which you should familiarize yourself). He is also a member of the international free speech community.

He is denied passage to the U.S. under the charge of illegally working in the U.S.

Ooohhh, it sends shudders through me. Brittney, over at Nashville is Talking, had the priviledge of meeting Hoder back in May. Read Brittney's thoughts.

I must give a shout out to the Taco Bell on Cason Lane in Murfreesboro. I left something there of great value. I thought, surely no one has turned it in. I called the Taco Bell on Cason Lane and they did have it . I spoke to Michelle Hathaway there and thanked her many times for holding it for me. I have to thank whomever found it and turned it in as well. I don't know who that was but my sincerest appreciation to you for turning that in. That is practically unheard of these days.

So, next time you are in Murfreesboro, TN, be sure to stop by the Taco Bell on Cason lane and let Michelle Hathaway know that the Comment Tater thinks her team is a great bunch of folk.

I took several days off from blogging to rest and relax and be with the family.

It was great.

Anyhow, saw Harry Potter over the holidays. This movie left me only wanting to learn more. It was difficult to end on the note it did and then know that I had to wait for a whole year to learn more. There were things that were left unaddressed and I think that is the biggest rub I had with the whole thing. Oh, well, hopefully next year we will learn more.

Anyone else have comments on the film? I've read about how they address the teenage, coming of age thing, and it was entertaining. It was especially entertaining for my two oldest children who are about the same age and going through the same thing.

Here's a list of things of which I am thankful for:

• I'm very thankful that Bad Bad Ivy found a job so quickly.
• The spicy people with whom I associate - you add flavor to my life.
• Interval wipers.
• My sanity - sometimes I think it is fleeting.
• Being born in America.
• Having met my husband but I am also thankful I met Lars (1989).
• Having met my father.
• Having met my step-mother.
• Having met my sisters.
• My children are mostly well adjusted after all they've been through.
• I am not married to my ex-husband.
• I am employed.
• I can pay my bills - most of the time.
• CALLER ID.

And I am so thankful for my cat, Freckle, who loves me to death.

Bad Bad Ivy, a very well written character who frequently changes her templates and designs most of her own art, is for hire.

Bad Bad Ivy is a mother of three with not one but two blogs. Must telecommute. If interested, please post your comments here or on Bad Bad Ivy's blog.

Bad Bad Ivy is a well connected member of the Rutherford and Davidson County communities in the Nashville, TN area.

The Resume
Education
1993
Oakland High School: Murfressboro, TN

1995 - 1999
MTSU: Murfreesboro, TN
Completed courses while working towards major in English. Focus in journalism.

Employment History
2005
Stay-at-Home Mother

1997 - 2000
Office Manager: Precision Tune Autocare (now Master Tech Autocare)
1804 Memorial Blvd. Murfreesboro, TN
(615) 904-7700


1995 -1997
Norrell Services: Various office jobs
La Vergne, TN

1994
Daily News Journal: Classified Ad Representative
224 N. Walnut Street, Murfreesboro, TN
(615) 893-5860

Tags: Blogger for Hire

Can someone please tell me what, exactly, I need to get my comcast to run on my desktop and have wireless for my laptop? I'm sure I need a wireless router and a card for my laptop but do I have to have networking cards and will the children be able to use the internet on the desktop while I access the internet on my laptop? Please point me in the right direction here.

I think I may just have to kidnap my friend, Chip Talks.

Oh, too many choices.

Gracias, happy turkey day and llama day.

I was reading a post this morning over at Nashville is Talking about those wristbands you see everyone wearing. I'd been thinking about this since I saw the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know. There is a piece in the film that talks about this fellow, Dr. Masaru Emoto. Mr. Emoto did a study about what words could do to influence water and published his photos of the result in his books Messages from Water 1 and 2. The Hidden Messages in Water. Hop over to the What the Bleep Do We Know website and have a look for yourself.

It is truly remarkable to think that words can cause water to photograph in different ways. Our bodies are comprised mostly of water and if words can do that to water, what can words do to people. So on that note, I've been really thinking about having a bracelet or a necklace or something. Oh, What the Bleep Do We Know folks are going to be selling necklaces that are for this very purpose.

I nearly fell out of my chair this morning. Now, I've got like 7 blogs. I confess, I'm crazy. If only I could get paid really well to be crazy or to sleep, now that would be nice. I can't do neat things like make afghans or anything. I can barely spell the word afghan without a dictionary. One of these days I plan to become rich through inheritance (mind you I know no rich folk), donation, winning of lottery or by sheer luck... If you haven't guessed by now, I also suffer from attention defecit disorder. Stringing together sentences that are coherent, cohesive and intelligent is also a challenge for me.

So, I'm sitting in my chair at this hour, an hour of which I am usually only awake during work days, reading other people's blogs to see if I have missed something to discover as I read on Tiny Cat Pants, that the beloved Aunt B. has saw fit to add me to her blog roll. Talk about fall out of your chair! Holy shmoly, my fellow readers. I was floored AND shocked AND I'm sitting here thinking, damn, I'm really going to have to clean up my writing style, add more flair, more description... people will come to expect that of me if they are reading Tiny Cat Pants and then it occurs to me that she must have found something in my blog which made her link to me so I must be on to something or doing something right at this very moment. Sitting in this very chair. Using this very mind that is in my head.

A sigh of relief is heard.

But never will I, again, be the same because Tiny Cat Pants has linked to me.

But I don't know three people to send this to that weren't already tagged.


Seems like this is the new chain letter? Anyway, I was tagged by Bad Bad Ivy. I, too, changed the rules. There's a random word generator here. The game is afoot. Here's the rules:

The Rules of this here Game:

1. FLIP open a dictionary and point to a word.
2. Type the word into Google images.
3. PICK an image that strikes you.
4. Write a 10 line RIFF off the image.
5. Use the word or the meaning of the word at least once within the first 5 lines of your riff.
6. Tag 3 other bloggers on your list.

The Word:
assuetude

The meaning:
As´sue`tude
n.1.Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.

1. The rose has become a assuetude during valentine's day.
2. Men are are prone to assuetude of roses, such as these, to seduce women.
3. Women are prone to assuetude of roses to convince themselves that they are loved.
4. Brides are prone to assuetude of roses to symbolize beauty.
5. It is assuetude for some men to purchase roses, such as these, for their date.
6. We have the assuetude to place roses like these on our table to cheer us up.
7. For some women, it is assuetude for them to don perfumes that resemble the fragrance of roses such as these.
8. It assuetude to snap back at someone who accuses you of not smelling, shall we say, good, to say that your shi* doesn't smell of roses (such as these) either.
9. It is assuetude to go into the yard, year after year and prune and groom your roses so that they might look like these.
10. I have the assuetude of not following directions so I hope that my riff on these roses is right on.

I tag DeWayne, Mama Llama and Sandi... Michael's already been tagged and so has Ivy and those are about the only other bloggers I know.

Never put regular dishwashing detergent in a dishwasher. You will be mopping up suds for days.

Years ago I ran out of dish washing machine detergent and decided to put in a bit of regular dishwashing liquid. Well, I'm glad I was living on a bottom floor apartment that had concrete beneath the laminate floor. Bubbles spilled forth from the dishwasher unto the floor. It was like a winter wonderland when I walked into the kitchen. I tried and tried for hours to drain the water and soap out of the dishwasher and finally got it to run clean.

So, in case no one ever told you, never put regular dishwashing liquid into a dishwasher.

Tags: In case you didn't know

My friend Michael recommends these psychedelic specs.

If I had the money, I would invest in Google and iRobot. I really want a Roomba. Okay, that's it, that's going on my wish list. Oh and I so want the Scooba.

Oh, let there be a wealthy benefactor out there that will adopt me.

Tags: Investments, Robotics, iRobot, Google, Money

What do you get when you make two women work together when they are PMS'ing? A nuclear explosion.

Be it known that I am woman and I still care to pose this question - are there any other women out there who feel that women working for women is just a bad idea? They are both ready to kill and then they are both going to be ready to kill each other. Bad idea. Men know women and know that once a month they are going to be short tempered. But women who have that once a month cycle at the same time don't give a rats behind about the other women's disposition.

Oh, no, they've found me.

Oligopolywatch.com has some very facsinating posts. This one was very curious to me. I had seen "Rootkit" showing up in some of my rss feeds but did not understand what it meant. Now I bet Sony is wishing they never heard of "Rootkit", or maybe not.

Tags: Sony Root Kit

Read this article on the glut of Hummers.

Tags: Hummers