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Talk about disoriented. When I woke up today, I swore it was Sunday. I was all ready to snuggle back under the covers and get more sleep when I realized…nope, ’tis Tuesday. Now, I can understand the occasional sleep-induced-wishful-thinking-haze of thinking Thursday is Friday, but mistaking Tuesday for Sunday? When I went to work on Monday? That’s just odd.

I still have my magnetic poetry bits and pieces on my refrigerator. All arranged by letter – thanks to dad. He wrote two little bits himself:
“ferocious animals home here”

And, my favorite…because it’s a good memory of him:
“remember never speak to the wild men
but like the fool”

As if it’s not bad enough that there’s piped in Muzak here at work, it has now turned into Muzak Christmas carols. Please, someone, keep me from going postal…

I don’t see how garment makers can get away with putting this on their labels: “Wash in cold water on gentle cycle; cool iron when needed.” When what they really mean is: “Wash in cold water on gentle cycle; be prepared to iron for hours on end if you ever want to wear this in public again.”

How bad is it that there’s a commercial on TV that I actually look forward to? I know it’s silly, but every time I hear that lady in the Sprint commercial say, “You want me to put my hand in the what? And pull out the what what?” (while looking at a large uncooked turkey), I laugh.

The pilot light on my heater keeps going out. Brrr…it’s cold in here.

I had no idea that the name my cat had when I adopted her had any special meaning. Then, I read this entry on my cat calendar today:

“In Norse mythology, as in legends of other cultures, cats are associated with fertility. Freya, the Scandinavian goddess of love and fertility, is pictured in a carriage drawn by cats and Friday, named for her, is considered a lucky day for marriage.”

Guess I’ve been pronouncing her name wrong…I’ve been saying it “Fray-a” – perhaps it’s “Fry-a.” Oh, I’m not saying it wrong per www.m-w.com. And they say she’s the Norse goddess of love and beauty.

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Now this is scary. Here”s an excerpt:

If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as “a virtual, centralized grand database.”

As I was driving home from work one day last week, I heard a news story about phone fraud on NPR. Turns out that in about 80% of the phone fraud cases in the US, the money people were defrauded of was paid out to telephone frauders in Canada. Seems like Americans are suckers for those polite, Canadian phone voices…