Thank you, Google. For "trojaning" my computer.

First,  if you use iGoogle....DON'T!

They have recently added theme "suggestions' to the igoogle home page. One of them is a Pacman theme.  Just signing into my account today (never coming near the "theme suggestion" icon, and certainly not clicking it....

...the pacman music/siren started playing. And won't stop. It had embedded and plays anytime I log onto the internet, on everypage. Changing my homepage made no difference. Rebooting did nothing.

In our desire for seclusion, we buy houses that are.....challenged. In Nevada, we lived in the middle of 30 acres. The road was 1600 feet long, graveled, and prone to washouts. In the winter it was covered in packed snow. Springtime was particularly hazardous, as the warm days would melt the accumulated, packed snow, which would then freeze to a sheet of ice during the cold nights.

Well, I can say categorically that the economic crisis is over.

No, I don't have insider trading knowledge. I am not privy to cabinet-level discussions with congress or the president. Nor do I search out obscure newsblogs, publications or cable-tv shows which analyze the global economic situation and purport to expound on such things with expertise.

No, I base my statement on hard, down-to-earth incontrovertible evidence:  credit card applications. 

Well, I admit that my vision is ......not as good as it used to be. And that my arm SOMETIMES is not quite long enough...

But I was stunned today by how much better it was.

To see, that is.

Yesterday, while working upstairs at Kaiser clinic I took stitches out of a lady's fingertip.  The stitches were small and closely placed....and it was difficult to see well enough to get under the edge of the "catgut" to snip it with the scissors.

"LBJ took the IRT down to 4TH Street, USA....." The lyrics from the song "Initials" from the  60's musical Hair ran through my head as I played with my new phone.

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, I had set my sights on a new smartphone. Rather than continuing to jump through Amazon's hoops...their loss....I got it at the Verizon store and spent the next few days setting it up.