Swine Flu Update - 30 April '09

This is the status of today...

For USA..


Arizona 1
California 14
Indiana 1
Kansas 2
Massachusetts 2
Michigan 1
Nevada 1
New York 50
Ohio 1
South Carolina 10
Texas 26 - Death 1
TOTAL COUNTS 109 cases 1 death
Outside USA-

Austria (1), Canada (13), Germany (3), Israel (2), New Zealand (3), Spain (4) and the United Kingdom (5).
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W.H.Org... 30 April 2009 -- As of 1 April 2009 the Ministry of Health of the Republic of the Congo reported one case of yellow Fever detected on 28 January 2009 by the epidemiological surveillance system for yellow fever.

There is a God! Idol Voters Wake Up!

FINALLY!!

Finally the American Idol watchers and voting public is waking up to reality.

Adam Lambert is finally in the bottom 2.

The fact he should have been in the bottom 2 the first week is mind blowing to me.

I've always said he was nothing but a cheap cabaret lounge act, or a drag queen burlesque act at best.

For the life of me he must have had every single transvestite voting for him across the nation. Sad that someone with real prospective talent could have still been on that stage and fine-tuning their talent, but that waste of energy is still there. With any luck he will be going home next week.


Sadly, Matt Girard went home this week, instead of Adam the Annoying.

Swine Flu Hits Home Area...

Now this is something....

GET THIS:

Swine flu has now hit my state. And to top it, within 4 miles of me. This is too close for comfort. And get this, the little 8 year old boy who has been confirmed had it 2 weeks ago & recovering. He was around other people in the mean time, instead of quaranteening all people who have any type of flu. HHR guy, on the news saying how this kid had the flu, still was around people. So this is being passed near others

So HHR guy then says, it wasn't until swine had made so much attention, they started sending all flu samples to cdc for testing. WTF? So technically this has been in my area for well over 2-3 weeks, and we didn't even know it. Heck for all I know I've been exposed to this horrible disease.

So I am on alert & going no where. I can do everything from my command center here, and avoid contamination. I have my sprayer bottle filled with alcohol to spray often. I could even spray the handles of a shopping cart if I had to go out for something very important. But all and all, I will be taking the stay home, stay safe approach to this pandemic.

Note...
HHR = Heath and Human Resources for the State.

Update...
America - 91

Austria (1), Canada (13), Germany (3), Israel (2), New Zealand (3), Spain (4) and the United Kingdom (5).

Twitter Weakness Warnings...

This is one of the constant warnings I get from twitter, when trying to do something, like fix the picture error which is continously happening. Why do these things happen on something so big at the moment.

I keep getting these ridiculous error notices all the time from twitter. Wouldn't you think they could have upgraded with so many members, to prevent this? silly huh!

When celebs should shut up!

I hate when I feel I must do this. I hate to have a little whiney rant, but there are just times when it is called for. This is one of them.

Now for a couple weeks we watched this couple ranting on and on about getting their "numbers" up to over a million. Oh yes, the "numbers game". {rolling eyes commencing} This in a sense of blackmail, that if you get the "NUMBERS" high enough they would donate for nets to stop malaria. Now isn't that just silly beyond belief? If they wanted to actually make the donations, why not do it anonymously like the rest of us do, who don't feel we need glory and more fame for our good deeds.

The celebs are always "oh look at me, look what good I am doing", which sort of reverses the deed anyway. It takes it away and is viewed as attention seeking, and cancels the deed out in the first place since the intent was only for making a bigger name for yourself. The act being done in vein.

If you have to make it known of your deed, your just an attention grabber and should be shunned by the masses.

Everyone with a brain knows that all deeds done in silent, are the best deeds of all.
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Swine Flu

Swine Flu -

With so much talk about swine flu, I ended up dreaming of airbourne pigs. Woke up craving bacon, so this lil piggy went to market.

{{giggling}}

Me and My Stendhal Syndrome

I "GET" how others will never see the same beauty in things that I see. But others do not "GET" what they are missing.

This is just a little information about Stendhal Syndrome from one who was blessed/cursed by it my entire life.


I had known early on there was something happening, just not sure until around 7th Grade in a painting class. We were all asked to paint a picture of the person who sat across from us. Mine was of Sandy Trost. The class all had finished their's, but me and I struggled with it cause I could never reach that point that I was satisfied with it. Always not quite perfect. Not like the masters perfect, in my eyes. In my eyes. Not in the eyes of others. My teacher had said it was fine and I got an A on it.


Somehow that image of not getting it where I wanted it, was probably the start of noticing my life was heading in a specific direction with this etched in my mind. That incompleteness of that painting.


I had taken many art classes through the years. I had painted in nearly all mediums. Drew until my hands hurt so much I got muscle cramps in my hands.


I had also participated in nearly every kind of Arts and Crafts known to man, over the years of my life thus far. I simply love working with my hands being creative. It soothes me. It gives me a sense of meaning and enrichment. It is part of what defines me.


I has been "unsettled" with having Stendhal Syndrome for so long, until I was sitting in an Amish quilting circle. When someone told me an Amish Quilting Theory, which made my prospective all better.


The Amish quilters would intentionally make mistakes in their quilting. No matter how perfect, yet always gorgeous, they would quilt them, they would make intentional errors in them. Like turning 1 piece the wrong direction, and things like that. Sew crooked lines here and there. I asked why they did this. I was told that it was to prove that only God is perfect. That error were made intentionally to make them "imperfect".


It was at that point, that I realised that I could never do things "perfect" no matter how much I wanted them to be. I had accepted that I can make things as "imperfect" as need by, cause even I can and will never measure up to God, in his "perfect" ways. I can only try to be the nearly best that I can be.


So this is my "imperfect" blog at this point and time.

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods" - Byron -

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

-LORD BYRON, Childe Harold-

What a Rainy Day Does to Oneself...

This is me on a rainy day....

I've never been much of a sleeper (since age 13) so once i get my 3 hrs in (or finish my REM cycle) I get down to things.

I have a couple little business' that I have been running and keeping me occupied non-stop and at times overwhelmed. I rarely get any idle time unless I "TAKE" it out of my otherwise hectic life.

I had been so busy since last June when I launched 2 seriously productive business, I just do not have time of leisure. I have to force myself to take time off and kick back and do some little nothings.

So, since they are rare, I like to use them towards "GOOD" little nothings.

I rarely even get to see youtube much anymore... and today I ventured in there again. Some were good and some were such a waste. (MORE of this subject in a later blog)

But, the point here is my little entertainment moments are few and far between, so once I finally do get them, I want them to be of good quality.

So there you have it.

The return of the ickle one. {{ giggling}}

I realise I have not been working on this blog as I had been doing on many of my other blogs,,, (11 in all), and time to return to this 1.

I am a blog-a-holic, and I just like voicing my opinions in "FONT".

OH YES,, I did say that "F" word didn't I?

Well if you are new to my blogs, please by all means enjoy them, hate them, or even ignore them. Just remember they are mine, not yours.

These are "MY" opinions, whether you like them or not is so seriously immaterial to me.

These are mine and I shall carry on like the seriously verbally oriented person that I grew up to be.

So, on I go...

lil.g