December 1st is World AIDS Day, a day to reflect on those we have known who died of AIDS and to think about what needs to be done to gain control over this disease. One way to act is to speak openly about how people get the HIV virus. There are many ways: sharing drugs, unprotected sex with untested partners, transfer via bodily fluids including blood, transfer to fetus in the womb. Here are two sources of information and resources:
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My little online group has been having fun this week looking at webcam shots all over the world – quick look – here’s a great sunrise – here it’s snowing – here it’s not – etc. Since it’s snowing in many of the places we actually are, it’s nice to see that it’s snowy in many other places, and see what else is out there in small towns and big parks across the world.
There was even this other cat cam which was pretty cool, although I’ve yet to see any of the promised cats.
On my own webcam, yours truly made a rare appearance as I snuck up and gave boopsie a little pedicure. Like all good pedicures, it was quick and painless and makes you feel better than you started out.
Here are some other web cams in the Albany NY area, including one in Averill Park.
I did have my design notebook out last night but didn’t have it in me to fiddle around with some of the ideas in my head yet. So I settled myself down to re-read part of Twyla Tharp’s great book “The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use It for Life“. This book is now available in paperback folks – go get your own copy.
ooops! My bad. Apologies folks and thanks Deb for making me go back and check. Looks like it’s supposed to hit paperback the end of December 2005. (Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 27, 2005))Sorry to get your hopes up, but it will be worth the wait!
Wherez MB?
Home sick at the moment, no doubt with some offering given to me on Black Friday at the mall. Let’s just say that it involved a little sumptin-sumptin called hard chills on Monday night. Jolly. I’m off to the health care provider in awhile to see what’s happening. In the meanwhile, the cats are refusing to help make me soup or coffee and basically are just short of entitled about the extra warm-bed time. Grateful is not in feline vocabulary, really.
Because of this I missed the record high temperature experienced in this neck of the woods – 66F at Albany NY’s airport. I think between that and the internal temperature thing going on I had no need to reset the programmable thermostat off the low-low daytime away temp. I guess if I didn’t notice, it’s not a bad thing.
Finally, there must be a few of the “free-range” guinea hens still in existence. My neighbor has this notion about keeping free-range birds. He started with chickens: 20 or so Rhode Island Reds which lasted a summer. Now there’s a smaller flock of guinea hens. So far one has gone to a dog, and two apparently to cars. It seems guinea hens know less about traffic than chickens. Anyway, free-range around here is somewhere between suicidal and abuse. There are foxes, coyotes, free-ranging dogs and of course motorized vehicles that are willing to weed out the weak at every turn.
But this morning, I heard the call of the females and then the call of the lone male. Perhaps they’ll figure this out before it’s too late. Or not.
Even Ziggy gets a bit of the fruitcake action. Tis the season! (Thanks Mom!)
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
