um...water storage bladder, that is.

Water catchment is a way of life here on Big Island. In an area with 200" of annual rainfall, it would be a crime to not take advantage of all that free water.

Our corregated steel tank is lined with a food-grade pvc liner. Liner's lives are about 5 years.  We are due. and have had a liner in storage for a while, but have been too (lazy) busy to replace it....

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.