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25284. judithathome - 5/1/2009 3:23:43 PM Yes, because both states have so many people coming across the borders for jobs.
The one recorded death we've had here in Texas was a 22 month old baby who had come to Brownsville from Mexico for treatment of an underlying health problem. The hospital in Brownsville, a border town, sent him to Houston and he died there. No word on what his "underlying health problem" was but it no doubt weakened his immune system. 25285. wabbit - 5/1/2009 10:11:17 PM Stanford is doing a survey titled Health Knowledge and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Swine Flu. If you want to take it (only 16 questions and anonymous), go to this website. 25286. anomie - 5/1/2009 10:33:56 PM I did not like question 4. Can you avoid the swine flu virus? Well, how do you answer that? They had already asked about the risk of actually getting swine flu. I think the risk is very low. I have no idea if I can "avoid" the virus. The virus does not announce its presence. 25287. arkymalarky - 5/2/2009 4:54:32 AM We heard the familiar "pssssst" of Lysol spray in the halls yesterday and got a refresher on germs in the announcements. We have hand sanitizer dispensers in the hall. No flu yet, but who knows. 25288. Ulgine Barrows - 5/3/2009 9:07:28 AM magoseph, speedy recovery to your husband. I hope you are doing well, also.
My cousin sent me a disgusting photo of a toddler licking a pig snout. The title of the email was,
Avoiding Swine Flu--what NOT to do: 25289. Ulgine Barrows - 5/3/2009 9:12:41 AM Same cousin also sent a photo of a guy with his head and torso, literally, up a elephant's ass. Trying to get a calf delivered, I suppose. All you could see of this person was, hips, legs and feet. The rest of his body was in the rear of the beast.
Gag!
The title of that was, 'Remind me not to complain about my job'. 25290. judithathome - 5/3/2009 2:37:21 PM Hey, Ulgine! How's it going? 25291. arkymalarky - 5/5/2009 1:38:11 AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDITH!! 25292. alistairconnor - 5/5/2009 12:51:58 PM I'm hoping you had a cool birthday Judith... and that it's not a hangover that's keeping you from posting today? 25293. judithathome - 5/6/2009 3:52:42 PM No, it was having company stay here that kept me from posting!
I had a very cool birthday...and a great bottle of wine! $55 and worth every penny! 25294. alistairConnor - 5/6/2009 6:10:41 PM That's the main reason I'd like to be rich. Because the great wines really are worth the price. 25295. judithathome - 5/7/2009 5:37:35 PM I always pooh-poohed that idea but this bottle taught me that the old adage is true.
Luckily, it hasn't completely tainted me to the point I can't enjoy yhe cheap stuff, too. 25296. alistairConnor - 5/7/2009 8:23:14 PM OK spill the beans Jud: what was the wine? For that price, I want a full review! 25297. magoseph - 5/8/2009 4:00:58 AM Hi, Motiers--what's cooking? 25298. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 4:07:08 AM It could be going better. Actually I am working at the IRS, lowest of the lows in my career. The Clinton's return crossed the desk of the gal next to me, but I am unable to tell you what transpired. Since I am a sworn federal agent.
This building must have the largest population of overweight folks I have ever seen. People waddle along, or use canes. I guess I never really understood the jokes about government workers until I worked here.
I am actually quite pissed off that my tax money goes to paying some of these people. Forget wincing at these folks while they waddle along the halls on legs too thin to support their weight. The trickier ones get jet-ski things.
It's horrible. I hear their talk and if I would only become overweight and crippled, I could join them forever in their union. 25299. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 4:19:40 AM They also have a blind guy follow another guy, and repeat every coke he fills into the drink machine.
Which costs 1.50.
Most places I've worked, cokes cost no more than $1 25300. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 7:18:54 AM She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon
Didn’t anybody tell her?
Didn’t anybody see?
Sunday’s on the phone to monday
Tuesday’s on the phone to me
She said she’d always been a dancer
She worked at 15 clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well I knew what I could not say
And so I quit the police department
And got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
She could steal but she could not rob
Didn’t anybody tell her?
Didn’t anybody see?
Sunday’s on the phone to monday
Tuesday’s on the phone to me
Oh yeah 25301. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 7:20:27 AM good bye 25302. arkymalarky - 5/8/2009 1:46:40 PM Hey Mags, how's it going?
25303. judithathome - 5/9/2009 1:12:57 PM OK spill the beans Jud: what was the wine? For that price, I want a full review!
This is the humilating part: it was a California wine! A 2004 Lucas & Lewellen Petit Sirah...it was from a 400 case lot. That's all they made and we only paid $30 for the bottle but took it to a restaurant that had a $15 corkage fee. So I count THAT as spending $45 on it. (I'm cheating by including some tip money in the $55 cite...ha!)
I guess I've had more expensive wines before but we're just used to buying cheaper stuff...and certainly not paying some yahoo to OPEN it for us. The restaurant wine list was dreadful, though, so I'm glad we took our own.
The night I broke my leg a few years ago, I'd had half a glass of this $85 bottle the host had saved just for me but I only had a sip or two before the "fall" and the medics wouldn't let me finish it...plus I am used to $60 Perrier-Jouet champagne. But this stuff was the first pricey California wine I'd had. ;-)
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