New Site Address

http://s.r1chard.ca

Posted.

Well, today Steve was given a surprise choice. Wainwright (eeew) or Edmonton, both in Alberta. 30 March 2007 move date.

So, here's what information I've dug up so far:

Map of Lancaster Park, AB CA - CFB Edmonton

PMQ's Available there

Map of Edmonton - PDF

Map Of St. Albert

*taps foot* Hurry up already!

Steve's flight comes in to Fredericton soon, but it's been a bit delayed. Thank goodness for aircanada.ca, this way I'm not going to leave the house before his plane leaves Montreal. :-) It's been about 23 days, I'm going crazy to see him.

Sorry about my rant, below. It really got to me. I haven't been back to that site.

digg - "Games 4 Girls" GameStop Display

digg - Yet Another Girl Gamer Complains about the "Games 4 Girls" GameStop Display

The message board got messy over this one. Here's what I wrote:

by 1337mama just now

[comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 1 digg

"I'm really disappointed in you, diggers. I can't believe some of the things you're saying, and how they're getting dugg. If they're meant as jokes, which I somehow doubt, they're hurtful ones that aren't funny in the least.

"by xrisnothing + 48 diggs
Quit complaining and fetch a sandwich for me."

"by Tawni -3 diggs
No, it's not a myth. I am a girl. Girls play video games and exist on the Internet. sorry to disappoint you."

It's NOT OK!!! How in the world can you do things like this, and then complain that women are all mercenary bitches because you can't get a girlfriend? You think it's because you're too NICE?!? WTFH!!!!

I'm out of here, Digg. It's obvious that women aren't welcome into your little club."

New Words Today

Three new words today! Popsicle and Ice (Cream) for my mom, bath for me. When I went to put the fresh diaper on his butt, he told me, "No now!" That's his first phrase, and the first time I've ever used quotation marks for him. He's ready to talk!!

Steve's home from Alberta in 13 days.

More Doctor Who

Mostly for my personal reference:

The schedule of airdates for the new series on CBC is as follows:

October 23 - Episode 3 School Reunion (Sheri's note: Made me CRY!!!)

October 30 - Preempted.

November 6 - Episode 4 The Girl in the Fireplace
November 13 - Episode 5 Rise of the Cybermen
November 20 - Episode 6 The Age of Steel
November 27 - Episode 7 The Idiot's Lantern
December 4 - Episode 8 The Impossible Planet

December 11 to January 14 - Holiday Hiatus

January 15 - Episode 9 The Satan Pit
January 22 - Episode 10 Love & Monsters
January 29 - Episode 11 Fear Her
February 5 - Episode 12 Army of Ghosts
February 12 - Episode 13 Doomsday

At this point the CBC do not have information when they will be airing the 2006 Christmas Special or Torchwood.

Catch Series Two of Doctor Who, Mondays at 8:00pm on


The Doctor Who Blog

Afghanistan

Well, guess what. End of January, early February. For 6 months minimum. Dammit. -Sheri (Edit: Forgot to say that he's in Alberta now, has been for a couple weeks. He'll be home on the 25th.)

O'Connor says military 'scrambling' to find soldiers for Afghanistan - Yahoo! Canada News

In the Canadian Forces, which includes land, air, sea and special operations personnel, there are 62,000 regular members, 25,000 reservists and 4,000 Canadian Rangers. More than 2,000 Canadians are serving in Afghanistan.

Tommy's Almost Two!

Tommy's turning two in a couple of days. Nine AM tomorrow, it'll have been 2 years since I went into labour.

We opened his presents today, because Steve's getting sent to Alberta in the morning. He'll only be gone a month, but I'll miss him like crazy. In any case, we're doing cake on the big day, not much else.

Anyway, Tommy got a ton of Play-Doh, some Nerf Swords, a play Tool-Set (A SAFE one I checked), and some colouring books, crayons, that sort of thing. He had a BLAST!!!

I just wanted to post on what's going on, cause it's been too long. Thanks for the card, Aunt Judy!!! (My one and only reader, lol)

Amnesty International Canada

Dear Abby

Dear Abby rocks. I hope that more newspapers than not will run today's column. I really hope that editors don't just use a re-run instead.

I wish more mom's were as cool and open as mine is. Everyone needs a soft place to fall.

TEENAGE MOTHER URGES PARENTS TO HAVE 'THE TALK' WITH KIDS - Yahoo! News

Doctor Who on CBC

According to this CBC Website Doctor Who will be back with season 2 on October 9th.

Junior High TV Land

When Star got her stomach stapled, Rosie posted this.

When Star got her stomach stapled, Nancy said:
"I turned the View on a couple of weeks ago and said to myself..was that the lady that used to be overweight?? And then I see this web site today..but it doesnt say anything about your weight loss..What happened?? You look great..motivation seems to be my problem..and I am a 57 year old wife, Mom and Grandma who has had a weight problem since my 20's..I know what to do..its just doing it..or not doing it..You look great.. Congradulations..Great Job.."

Star's saying she told the world, "Medical Intervention." Nope.

I hope Nancy's ok.

Rosie's getting letters like this:
angelawalton@aol.com writes:
You are nothing but trailer park trash. You are notqualified to carry Star’s shoes much less crtique her life. I am sick of fat obnoxious white trash like you.

I know Angela's not ok.

Why can't women just BE NICE TO EACH OTHER!!!

Pro Choice

One of my neighbours has put up a 3x6 foot Pro Life yard sign. It has colour, and a picture. It must have cost some money to make it. I wonder why they're not spending that money to help all the kids in foster care, waiting RIGHT NOW to get adopted? And when you start regulating medical proceedures, where does it end? If they made abortions illigal in New Brunwick again, would the suicide rate go up?

It's already impossible for poor people here to have an abortion. If you live in Saint John, you need about $500 and transportation to Fredericton. The clinic may waive the fee, if you know enough to ask, but how does a third generation welfare recipient get a drive to a city 2 hours away? Imagine that you have a minimum wage job, you're 15 years old, and you can't tell anyone. Exactly.

So, folks, that's why I have three tiny, one colour Pro Choice signs in my yard. For a friend I had in high school, who had two unwanted kids at 17 years old.

Gmail - Spam

5 spam messages last weekend, 33 so far today

I miss the Frog!

Blue Frog, Blue Security - The official letter

Here's the letter from the Blue Security site, as accessed using the Google cache:

Blue Security Ceases Anti-Spam Operations

When we founded Blue Security in 2004, we believed that if we automated a way for users to rise up and exercise their rights under the CAN-SPAM Act, we could reduce the amount of spam on the Internet.

Over the past few months we were able to leverage the power of the Blue Community and convince top spammers responsible for sending over 25% of the world's spam to comply with our users' opt-out list. We were making real progress in eliminating spam from the lives of our users.

However, several leading spammers viewed this change as a strategic threat to their spam business. The week before last, these spammers launched a series of attacks against us, taking down hundreds of thousands of other websites via a massive Denial-of-Service attack and causing damage to ISPs, website owners and Internet users worldwide. They also began a relentless campaign of email intimidation against many members of the Blue Community.

After recovering from the attack, we determined that once we reactivated the Blue Community, spammers would resume their attacks. We cannot take the responsibility for an ever-escalating cyber war through our continued operations.

As we cannot build the Blue Security business on the foundation we originally envisioned, we are discontinuing all of our anti-spam activities on your behalf and are exploring other, non spam-related avenues for our technological developments. As much as it saddens us, we believe this is the responsible thing to do.

You need not do anything as a result of this change. We will continue to protect your names and addresses and honor all privacy commitments we made to you.

We have concluded we should not take Blue Security to the full deployment stage we originally planned to achieve, but we are proud of what we have accomplished thus far as a young startup company.

We are extremely proud to have had the chance to work with such a devoted and dedicated community: thank you for the vote of confidence you gave us over the past few months as well as the particularly vocal support you have shown over the last two weeks.

We will be innovating and building our technology in new, other directions and will continue to give back to you, our Community.

Thank you for your support,

The Blue Security Team.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web attacks end anti-spam effort

It was great while it lasted, but it's over now. No more blue frog :-( It makes me hate spammers even more.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web attacks end anti-spam effort

Skype - Free Phone Service!!!

Hi there! Skype just started offering free calls within Canada and the US! I just downloaded it and called my home phone with it, and it actually WORKED! Very cool!

Here's how to do it: 1- Get High Speed internet 2- Run out to Radio Shack and get a headset for your computer. About 10 Bucks. You could just use the crappy mic and speakers that came with your computer, I guess. 3- Download and install the program, really easy. 4- Test it using the Test Call buddy that comes with the program. When it works: 5- Try your home phone number. Ignore the thing that asks you to buy credits, and just click on the "Dial" tab. Now, in the little text box, type in the number, like +15065551111 and your phone will ring!!! Cool, eh? I still can't get over it that it's for real!!!

My Skype ID is sheri.richard so look me up :-)

Sheri

Skype - The whole world can talk for free.

My Website

My personal site is all nicely updated, simplified, and now matches this blog, finally!!

The Richard Family

Doctor Who on CBC - June 20th? Woohoo!!

Woohoo! Looks like it's possible that maybe Doctor Who will start it's new season on CBC around June 20th ish, hopefully. Yay!! It's playing on BBC One right now, in the UK, but you know how Hockey season goes, eh?

mattwatts.ca � Blog Archive � Doctor Who on CBC - June 20th?

Blue Security - Members Site

I hate getting spam! So, about a year ago I started using this software, called Blue Frog. I love it! It works easily with all the e-mail programs that are out there, from Outlook to Thunderbird, to Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! I don't get a third of the spam I used to.

This program is working so well that one nasty, ugly, stupid old spammer (Who doesn't like getting asked that we be excluded from his list) has started sending pointless, stupid threats to the people who have the program. I'm not the least bit afraid of him, and you shouldn't be either. We're not dumb enough to believe him, let alone open an attachment from his emails! HA!

Download the program, protect your e-mail addresses, and help show Spammers that we're really, REALLY not interested in their products.

Download Blue Frog! Click here to go to their website!

PostSecret

Brilliant Art project: PostSecret

You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Create your 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material. If you want to share two or more secrets, use multiple postcards. Put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard.

Tips:
Be brief - the fewer words used the better.
Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.
Be creative - let the postcard be your canvas.
Mail your secrets to:

PostSecret
13345 Copper Ridge Rd
Germantown, Maryland
USA 20874-3454

World of Warcraft

I'm still addicted to World of Warcraft, but at least I'm good at it. Here's a couple of links to my 'toons profiles:

Mama, 60 (Maxed) Warrior
Mum, 60 (Maxed) Rogue
Mamma, 30-ish Hunter

Do you play too? Find me on the Horde side of the Muradin server :-)

Tom Green

I've realized that if I had kept my maiden name, and passed it on to my son, he would be Tom Greene. Yeah, it took me almost a year and a half to realize that.

Stupid Girls by Pink -- What happened to the dreams of a girl president?

"Disease's growing, it's epidemic
I'm scared that there ain't a cure
The world believes it and I'm going crazy
I cannot take any more
I'm so glad that I'll never fit in
That will never be me
Outcasts and girls with ambition
That's what I wanna see
Disasters all around
World despaired
Their only concern
Will they **** up my hair"

Love love love this song

Google

Google: "'Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.'
- Randy K. Milholland"

Quote of the Day

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
- Douglas Adams

Quote of the Day

New Phone, New Company

Steve got me a new phone, with a new company, for X-mas.

I've gotta update the Saga, too. The Cell Phone Company That Shall Not Be Named sent us a brand new (to us, refurbished) phone. It lasted about 25 minutes, total.

If they'd just let us keep the loaner-phone, it would have been great. That thing worked fine.

Oh, well. I love my new phone, and my new company. We got it from Furture Shop, with a 3 year extended warranty. :-)


The Saga of the Broken Cell Phone

Rawr

I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette. I need a cigarette.

That's why I've been such a little snot lately. Sorry.

IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER? - Yahoo! News

I was speaking to an American last week in WOW, who said that she believes that there are "Still," Weapons of mass distruction in Iraq. She wasn't kidding, at all. Seriously.

Who do we blame for this? The Media? Bush? The American culture of ignorance?

I just don't understand how they can ignore the words and deeds of their own government.

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IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?

# He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;

# He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;

# He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;

# He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;

# He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign (
Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);

# He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;

# He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;

# He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.
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Last night I had a conversation that hardened me towards Americans, so I appologise if this is a harsh post. A "Virtual Friend" of mine asked me what, exactly, the Canadian Army DOES. I replied that we're involved in Peacekeeping and Disaster relief, primarliy. He laughed and said, "In other words, NOTHING."

I'm sure that one of my buddies, who has spend the last couple of months in Pakistan helping with the cleanup from the big earthquake, would be impressed with this attitude. Or the family of the guy who was killed in Afganistan last week.

So yeah, I'm feeling a little peckish right now.

-Sheri

Oldie but a goodie - NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE

NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE

By John Cleese

To the citizens of the United States of America,

In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. (Except Utah, which she does not fancy.)

Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect :

1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.

2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".

3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.

4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.

5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.

6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.

7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".

9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be
trained to be more aggressive with customers.

11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added
to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.

12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen
Knat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.

13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon - get used to it).

14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,
lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.

16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you
shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).

Thank you for your co-operation and have a great day.

Ten to Avoid--the Worst Products of 2005 - Yahoo! News

Worth reading. I was thinking of getting one of those MP3 Cell Phones.

Ten to Avoid--the Worst Products of 2005
Jim Louderback - PC Magazine Mon Nov 21, 7:22 AM ET

It's the holiday season, time to pick up gifts for family and friends. We bring you the best stuff year-round, but often quality is in short supply this time of year. For you last-minute shoppers, here's my annual list of the ten worst products of the year—as scored and reviewed by PC Magazine Labs. These may all look shiny and sharp on the shelves, but each one is fundamentally flawed. You've been warned!

10. Oakley Thump: If you've overdone it with the eggnog, a $500 pair of sunglasses with a built-in MP3 player might seem a divine combination. It's not. The poorly fitting earbuds chafe, the glasses feel flimsy, and the style is dated. And what happens if you want to rock out at night? Unless you're buying for Bono, pick up an iPod shuffle and a pair of Revos for half the price.

9. Voodoo Doll D210: If you give someone this zippy breadbox-sized PC, they'll be sticking pins in your effigy all year—and you'll be out more than 3,000 smackeroos, too. Voodoo crammed two CPUs and two hard drives inside, but left out the keyboard, mouse, and monitor. If you buy one anyway, get a pair of industrial-strength ear protectors too, as it whines like a 747 taxiing for takeoff.

8. H2i SimplyTouch OpticalBar: Turn any monitor into a touch screen! That's the promise; the reality is different. The OpticalBar sits atop your monitor and tracks your finger as you touch special parts of the screen. Alas, it works more slowly than the midnight shift at an all-night diner, and often gets your order wrong, too. Opt for a tablet notebook instead.

7. ROKR E1: The Oakley Thump of the mobile phone set; at least it's a decent phone. The hype around "The First iTunes Phone" created unfulfillable expectations. It's not as polished as an iPod, and its oddly limited music storage makes a mediocre player even worse. Glacially slow music-transfer speeds put the final nail in this coffin. Sony Ericsson sells a much better MP3-phone combo, but I suggest a shuffle and a RAZR phone: Cheaper—and better, too.

6. Cinego D-1000: It slices! It dices! It projects your DVDs onto the wall! You might be tempted by this combination front-projector and DVD player, but stay away. Marred by a minuscule remote, nasty interface, and terrible video quality, it'll be quickly relegated to the garage or eBay. For budget home theater, hold out for HP's ep9010 combo, or pick up a cheaper projector and a DVD player for less.

5. PQI mPack P800 Media Player: Looking for a portable music and video player? The mPack looks attractive—you can record video and FM radio directly, and it even includes a CompactFlash slot. But playback is a problem. Even with the most recent flash update, fast-forward and rewind simply do not work, despite the manual's direction. The screen is terrible, the interface abysmal, and the physical buttons erratic. Apple's video iPod, the Creative Zen Vision, and anything from Archos deliver a better experience for less.

4. Dual XNAV3500P: Even alpha males can use a little GPS assistance now and then. This hybrid car and portable mapping system seems solid—until you start using it. Marred by an awful interface and a poor data-entry keypad, it failed our tests. Pick up a TomTom GO, or give an IOU for Garmin's amazing Nuvi, debuting here in January.

3. PepperPad: Following in the footsteps of the Audrey, Netpliance, and NIC, this is an Internet bubble failure five years too late. More expensive than a laptop, with a battery life measured in minutes, and a tiny 8- by 6-inch touch screen, this home Internet tablet has few redeeming features. Unless you're a fan of freaky keyboards, opt for a cheap tablet PC instead.

2. Sony S2 Sports Network Walkman NW-S23: Pity poor Sony. It invented the Walkman and then squabbled as Apple stole its lunch. This player finally supports MP3 files, yet it lacks so much else that it's hardly worth the price. With ergonomics straight from a Klingon warship, balky software, and a poor display, this one deserves a place in the remainder rack. Again, you're better off with a shuffle.

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... the worst product of the year—and from a surprising source.

1. Samsung Digimax V700: Samsung can seemingly do no wrong these days. The company has supplanted Sony as the top electronics brand, exuding both quality and cool. We hope this terrible digital camera is an aberration, not a sign of things to come. With slow performance, lousy auto-exposure, and some shutter lag, this 7.1-megapixel camera never should have been released. Compact cameras from Canon, Sony and Nikon are far better—even if they do cost a bit more.

Things have never been so swell - Music

~Music~


Orgy - Blue Monday

D.H.T. - Listen to Your Heart - Get the accoustic if you can, nice cover

Martika - Toy Soldiers

Rob Thomas - Lonely No More

Nirvana - You Know You're Right

At least read the polls at this lyric site. It's everything and nothing.

Interesting News pt. 1.5

Nation mourns bird killed in domino shooting


AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch animal lovers are mourning a sparrow shot dead after it fluttered into an exhibition hall and knocked over thousands of dominoes set up in preparation for a world record attempt.

The sparrow will be commemorated in a live Dutch television broadcast of the domino-toppling Friday after a wave of national outrage at the shooting.

"We know we are responsible for a lot of emotion in the country and we realize we couldn't go on without properly marking this," said Jeroen van Waardenberg, a spokesman for reality TV company Endemol, the firm behind "Big Brother."

An exterminator shot the sparrow Monday in the northern city of Leeuwarden after fears the bird could upset more of the 4 million dominoes which staff had spent weeks balancing on their edges for the record attempt.

Dutch animal rights groups are outraged, especially as sparrows are a protected species in the Netherlands.

Hundreds of condolence messages have been posted on a website for the sparrow (www.dodemus.nl), which has attracted 200,000 hits.

Link to the cell phone story

The Saga of the Broken Cell Phone

The Saga of the Broken Cell Phone pt. 8

Now, I'm not entirely optimistic about this, but the situation with the cell phone could be resolved. Here's a hint: We had to go back to where we started from.

I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm shell-shocked.

Would you have had the patience to do what I did? Or would you have paid for the repair?

Thanks for the laughs, I've been happy to share this experience with you all :-)

The Saga of the Broken Cell Phone Pt. 6? or 7?

Yup, I'm still mad. I can't sleep. I'm mad that I didn't keep that dang paperwork safe. I'm mad about all the changes in their story.

I'm going to get that stupid phone disconnected, pay the fee for ending my term 2 months early (As it now stands, that is. Read the whole story) and throw the dang thing in the garbage. Maybe I could throw a nice "Broken Cell Phone Smashing" party. Hmm.

I'm going to go try to sleep, again.

-Sheri

The Saga of the Broken Cell Phone

Saga of the Broken Cell Phone Continues

Click on the title of this post to see the webpage I've created, dedicated to the Saga of the Broken Cell Phone. I deleted most of my previous posts on this subject, simply because it was too hard to follow the story in a newest-at-the-top format. Plus, the story rather deserves it's own page. I'd say it was funny, if I wasn't about to go completely insane. I'm sure it will be funny, in a few years.

It's totally worth reading, even if it is a little bit long.

*Heeheehehheheheheahhahahahahehehahaha*

My phone is still broken. Will it ever get fixed? Read the story at www.r1chard.ca (It's in the drop-down menu, if you're going to type that in your address bar.)

I'll keep you updated as the situation unfurls.

-Sheri

Saga of the Broken Cell Phone Part 5

That's it, this is just too funny. I'm going to turn this into it's own page on my website. Keep checking www.r1chard.ca to see if it's up yet.

Sheri

Interesting News pt. 2

If anything will make the stuffed shirts stand up and take notice, I'd say that this is it.

Male fish with eggs in sewage off California coast - Yahoo! News: "Male fish with eggs in sewage off California coast

By Nichola Groom Mon Nov 14, 6:56 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Researchers have found male fish with eggs in their testes and female sex traits off the coast of Southern California and believe that chemicals in sewage may be the cause, an author of two studies said on Monday.

The two reports found the changes in fish such as English sole and California halibut, both of which are bottom dwellers, in water near where sewage is released, said Dan Schlenk, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Riverside.

High levels of estrogen, both natural and man-made formulations used in birth control pills, are thought to cause such abnormalities in fish. Estrogen makes its way into sewage water and then the ocean through women's excretions.

Compounds that act like estrogen, found in certain industrial chemicals, have also been blamed for such changes.

But in this instance, Schlenk said higher levels of the egg protein were found in male fish in areas with lower levels of estrogen and estrogen-like chemicals in the sediment. The cause of the female characteristics, therefore, could be unknown chemicals in the sediment, he said.

'We might have other players in this game,' Schlenk said in an interview on Monday. 'We would guess they are primarily coming from waste water.'

He said the sewage contained natural and man-made chemicals that was deposited in ocean sediment.

One of the culprits could be DDT, Schlenk said, a pesticide banned in the United States in 1972 after it was shown to cause reproductive damage to birds. DDT is no longer used but can remain in the environment for a long time.

Los Angeles County's sewage outfall, Schlenk said, 'has probably one of the most contaminated DDT sites in North America, and these responses are fairly consistent with that kind of exposure.'

Interesting News pt. 1

Facetious. I love it. Note the last 2 lines.

Boycott Endemol NV!!!

Sparrow Knocks Over 23,000 Dominoes

Mon Nov 14, 4:47 PM ET

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before it was shot to death Monday, the state news agency reported.

The unfortunate bird flew through an open window at an exposition center in the northern city of Leeuwarden where employees of television company Endemol NV have worked for weeks setting up more than 4 million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes on Friday night.

Only a system of 750 built-in gaps in the chain prevented the bird from knocking most or all of the dominoes over ahead of schedule, "Domino Day"; organizers were quoted as saying by the NOS news agency.

The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.

The organizers are out to break their own record of 3,992,397 dominoes set last year with a new record of 4,321,000.

New Baby Pictures

It was Tommy's first birthday last week, so I took a bunch of cute new pictures of him. They're up on the site now, so check it out. :-) Lovelovelove that baby! www.r1chard.ca

This is soooo cool!!!

Check out this link!!! I wish I was a Tween again, so I could get myself one of these, I'm so impressed. It's a computer but it's a pen. The paper is the input device, and the pen provides the output.

Make sure that you don't miss the Flytones and Calculator sections of the site, it's amazing. I can't wait until I can get a "Grown-up," one, I just know that it could be HUGE.

Link to the Fly Pentop site

US Poverty... I wonder how we're doing by comparison?

I wonder, per capita, how Canada is doing compared to the United States on this front?

E-mail Forward.

I like this kind of forward about as much as I like the ones telling me Jesus loves me.

Here are my thoughts, for what they're worth. Excuse the spelling, if you want to pass it on, please let your spell checker do it's thing. I really don't want to waste the energy doing it myself, that would make it seem that I acutally thought this was important. -Sheri


Andy Rooney ! said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. The white versions of those things have been around much longer. Yes, I said white versions. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door. Why bother? Those do tecnically already exist. Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. How many murders per-capita are there in Detroit? And Toronto? Hmmm, big disparity there. "Gun Violence?" You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game. Yes, but why would you need a gun at a ball game?

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE? Who really cares about this? If you have 3 sons in scouts, should your tomboy daughter be excluded?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion. But if you try to kill them, or utter death threats against them, you sure are psycho. "Damn, I'd f'ing kill one who touched me." Sound familiar, folks?

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off. That's a great attitude. Why don't other cultures like Americans again?

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability. Yeah, and if Marshmallows only had 1 calorie a piece, they'd be diet food. Saying it doesn't make it an actual scenario.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English! And they say that Americans are rude. I don't know where they'd get ideas like that.

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. Yeah, ain't mutual respect great? I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry a_ _(bottom) if you threaten them, after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines. Fine, shoot tourists.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business. Yeah, God knows America has enough of a poverty problem. Over 50% below the poverty line in places around the last hurricane path, I heard on CNN earlier this week.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document, and open to their interpretations. Ooh, yeah, the US supreme court is just filled with forigners.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor. Yeah, why pity the kid with an empty belly and no shoes on his feet? And good, I agree, you shouldn't hate anyone.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them. And your point is....?

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made, and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building. Just don't be stupid and say, "Sorry Bill, can we take a look at that disk later? We're pretty busy," Like those guys from Apple in the 80's.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!" Yeah, I love seeing kids with bruises from their loving parents. They always seem surprised when the kids hit them back.

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries! Then if thine eye offends thee, pluck it out.

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. Oooh, big news there. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else. Um, congratulations, I guess.

And if you don't like my point of view, tough... Likewise, bucko. These opinions DO make you a minority though... Uh oh!

DON'T PASS IT ON... It says as much about you for sending it as it does about me for answering it.

Bodies, gunfire and chaos in New Orleans' streets - Yahoo! News

Please, know you're in our hearts and minds. Nous espérons que vous êtes sûr.

America's Second Harvest: http://www.secondharvest.org/default2.asp (100% of funds raised go directly to feeding the victims)

Humane Society: http://www.la-spca.org/

I don't wanna swim

New Orleans picture from http://www.usefilm.com/image/901270.html

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue green
I can't forsake a dixie dead shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy
What's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man
And I don't wanna swim
- The Tragically Hip

Oakley sunglasses go digital to lure gadget hounds - Yahoo! News

Now THAT is cool.

Oakley sunglasses go digital to lure gadget hounds - Yahoo! News: "Oakley Inc. is jumping into the electronic age with sunglasses that play music and work with cell phones as it targets gadget lovers who want more than just protection from the sun."

Campfire Songs

I was surfing around the net looking for campfire songs for the lake-kids to sing Saturday night, when I came across this site Becky's Campfire Songbook and a sweet little song. I wish I knew the tune...

Witches
(source: "Rise Up Singing", Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, 1992.)

Chorus:

Who were the witches, where did they come from
Maybe your great, great, great-grandma was one
Witches were wise, wise women they say
And there's a little witch in every woman today

Witches knew all about flowers and trees
How to use all their roots and their leaves and their seeds
When women had babies, the witches were there
To help them and hold them and give them sweet care

Some people thought that the witches were bad
Some people were scared of the power they had
But power to help and to heal and to care
Isn't something to fear, it's a treasure to share

Saint John High School - Vita Vitalis - A Life Worth While

My ten-year High School reunion is this weekend, and I'm NOT going. From what I can see, almost noone I know is going to be there. If Kristine was going to be there, I might. Andrea and I barely speak anymore. When I was 19, I stole her man... Then married him. I deserve whatever I get. I'd love to get in contact with the rest of my old buddies, but my family reunion is the same day, and they'd never let me live it down if I didn't go. Plus, I need more info for the Family Tree, and I have to be there to get it. *sigh* Oh, well. I'll be at the 20 year reunion!! Count on it!!

Hair and Being Myself

I haven't coloured my hair since I got pregnant with Tommy. He's 8 1/2 months old now, so it's been a long time.

I've gone through different phases with my hair. I dyed it red for awhile in high school. Then when I was doing tech support, I went a nice, respectable brown. Then, I got bored about 2 years ago and started going red again. Different shades, like brown-red, but still red.

I've decided to quit it. I'm in a good spot in my life. I like myself. If people think that I look better with darker hair, well, they can just deal with it. I can't possibly see how it could be any of their business. I AM BLONDE! HEAR ME ROAR!!!

If it goes grey, then so be it. I think grey hair is beautiful.

Go look in the mirror, and see your own Real Beauty

Isn't this sweet? I might be wrong, but that looks like a Canadian helmet to me.

Fallen Idols

Why don't I like American (Canadian) Idol?

Well, in three words, Jacob-friggin'-Hoggard. He is the best contestant that the show has ever seen in any incarnation. Period. He's that damn good. Like dark chocolate.

He was in the final three, and basically asked (In a round about way) for people NOT to vote for him. He wanted to go back to his band, sign a contract with them, and get famous with his friends.

Almost a year later, still no Jacob. No Hedley. (That's his band)

I hate the Idol series, and him. I'm bitter. I don't know why, but I cried when that show was over, and I didn't call in to vote for him. Maybe it was hormones. Crazy gorgous talented nutcase broke an old pregnant woman's heart.

Seeing as this much time has passed, and you can't legally get any of his music, I recommend downloading both his version of "Sundown" and "Unforgettable." Get it in .avi (movie) format if you can, especially "Unforgettable."

That's that. If I don't get to go out and buy a CD with him on it by this time next year, I'm tempted to stream "Unforgettable" on this site at an abnormal volume until you all send letters of disgust to him.

*sigh* I'm still mad at him.

Oh, yeah. One more thing: Get your butt over to www.r1chard.ca and sign my guestbook. I'm feeling quite unloved at the moment. :-P

CTV.ca | Worst may soon be over for N.B. flooding

It's raining, it's pouring!

I'll put up some pictures from my back deck sometime, it's pretty amazing. Luckily everything seems to be ok, but we might go down to Saint John this week for a visit, just to give our well and septic system time alone. :-)

CTV.ca | Worst may soon be over for N.B. flooding

Pretty World

It's a pretty world out there tonight.

The frogs are singing, the moon is big, and life is good.

Tommy tried peaches for the first time today. He actually ate some, he didn't just drool it like he does the rice cerial. In awhile I'll try bananas, I have some of that babyfood too. Awww, my little boy!!! I just can't handle how much I lovelovelove him.

A baby hug can cure just about anything. :-)

READ THIS POST

My mom said that she's proud of me for not caring about the opinions of the people who read this blog. She means that she's proud that I've finally stopped caring so much what other people think of me.

Honestly, my dear reader, this isn't for you. This is for ME.

Feel free to read this blog if you want to. For me, it's just therapy.

Weather I'm right
weather I'm wrong
weather I find my place in this world
or never belong
I gots to be me
I gots to be me
What else can I be,
but what I am?
I gots to be me!
-Dog food commercial

Edit: I'm not editing for spelling or grammer. I'm just not. Ever.

I know you just had a kidney transplant, but...

This guy named Cojo, who I've noticed on TV for years, was on Oprah today. He was actually fired by his employer a few weeks after he had a kidney transplant. The thing is, he's a bit of a celebrity, and the employer was the Today Show.

How is that alright???

So I'm never watching THAT show again.

People say and do dumb things when they don't know how to react to something. Maybe the person who actually did the firing that day wasn't intending it to be that day, or even that month. Still, it happened, and he deserves an appology.

Why can I stick up for him, someone I don't even know, and them, someone whose actions I find reprehensable? Who knows.

ABC News: Cojocaru Discusses Transplant on Oprah

Back home.

We're back home from a trip to Saint John to visit family. Tommy and I stayed with my mom, and Stephen stayed with his parents.

We put Tommy in his stroller and took him for a nice walk through the pedways from mom's apartment to the City Market. He loved it! He just sat there and looked all around, not making a peep. I'm so lucky to have such an easy baby!

One day this week, I'm going to sit down here and reply to the past two month's emails. I've been so lazy about it, sorry.

Oops, little guy is awake!

Pregnant Ladies

What is it with moms and pregnant ladies? I just want to tell every pregnant woman in the world what a hero they are!

Why not start with Britney Spears?

Britney Spears ~ The Official Site

Dear Mrs. Federline,

I am so pleased to hear your good news! As the new mom of a 5 month old, I'm so happy to share in your joy.

My only advice is to listen to your body. Instinct is an important thing for us women. Trust it!

Congratulations!

Sheri Richard
www.r1chard.ca

edit: is it we women or us women? Oh, well. Shave me bald and send me to sea.

Really Love-Love-Love That Baby!!

Oh, I love that baby. Having him has added a new dimension, a new depth, to my life. When he's having his last bottle of they day, snuggled up under my arm, he's just so warm and snuggly and perfect.

He IS perfection. He IS love.

He's so wonderful, my soul streaches with my love for him. My heart can't contain it's joy.

He is everything.

Hormones

Talked about it. Feel better now.

Please don't commit me! :-)

Desperatly happy

I'm desperatly unhappy with my current happiness.

I don't deserve any of the things I have, or that I enjoy.

I love my baby, my pets, and my house. I just can't take care of them. I'm not strong enough. I'm so weak, so tired, so damn sick.

So I should "Take Better Care of Myself."

Ok.

I don't have the will to argue.

I'm typing this with my elbows in my lap, because I can't actually hold the wieght of my hands.

It's not like what I have is actually a disease or something. It's just Fibromyalgia, or Celiac Disease, or something that's not understood, respected, or curable.

I'm going to bed.

Food Issues

I can not eat in front of people.

I am a pickey eater with possible celiac disease and a touch of anxiety disorder. Therin lies my problem.

The celiac disease, or whatever it is, gives me a bad reaction to some of the foods I eat. Then I get pickier about what I eat. Then, people feel the need to comment about what/how much/with what/how I'm eating, and I feel embarrassed. Then I choke up. Then I can't eat anything.

So then people see that I'm not eating at all (right that very moment) and think that means that I'm anorexic or something. I'm not, I'm just not able to force myself to eat around them. They are scarey to me. Would a gazelle with a lion chasing it stop for a quick nibble on a tree, even if it was the tastiest tree on the savannah?

I knew a guy once who ate his french fries in order of smallest to largest. No matter what. He diddn't care what or who was around, he just brushed it off. I think I could learn something from him.

I don't need anyone's approval to do what I need to do to survive.

No wonder that gazelle got killed by that lion, he didn't eat anything.

Not Done

I guess I wasn't done yet, I'm still thinking in journal form. So I guess I might as well type it in, that's what this stream-of-conciousness-journaling-thing is all about, anyway. It's supposed to Help.

I have been good for someone lately. My son. My husband. Myself. So what if other people fall by the wayside sometimes, right?

Just because I say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, every once in awhile, doesn't mean that I should lay awake at night worrying that other people are laying awake worrying about what I said or did that was wrong. They're probably not right?

If you lie awake at night, worrying about something I said or did to/with/around you, please forgive me. If you lie awake at night worrying about something you said or did to/with/around me, please don't. I forgive you.

Messed Up

I need to get a life.

I find that I'm constantly getting upset that other people are upset. I'm in a great mood, walking along, enjoying my day, when suddenly someone's bad mood/sadness/grief/rejection/whatever rubs off on me.

I take personal responsability for "things" that aren't mine. I *will* make it all better, dammit.

Then, when the boo-boo has been kissed and the tears are dry, I'm left feeling residual effects. I've got negitivity-slime all over me.

That reminds me of an Oprah I once saw, where she said that someone had to learn to say, "That's too bad, how are you going to fix it?"

*shrug*

I spend so much time screaming "I don't care" when I just can't stop caring.

Lately, I haven't been any good for any one.

Happy Birthday to Meee!!!

So I'm another year older. 18 for the 10th time. Hehehe, it's not that bad. Stephen is taking me out to my favorite restauraunt, and his mom is going to stay here overnight and watch Tommy.

Friday night was fun. I think. I ended up on stage with the hypnotist again, so my memory is fuzzy. I had a wonderful time seeing all my friends, and we all got a little too "happy," but it was worth it. X-)

I went to Frenchies today with my Mom and Mom-in-Law, and got a pair of Ralph Lauren cords for 4 dollars. Woo hoo! I don't care is they're last years models, they make my butt look nice. Hahaha!

So, a very happy birthday it is. Good friends, good family, good times. This is the happiest I've ever been in my whole adult life.

Blogger: User Profile: Sheri Richard

I just noticed this:

Blogger: User Profile: Sheri Richard: "Astrological Sign: Aries"

That would be true, if I were born in the southern hemisphere.

Really, I'm a Pisces. Well, Pisces-Aries cusp, with Capricorn Ascendant.

But I could be wrong.

How very Aries of me.

formerlyROSIE

I finally found a way to tell Ro (Rosie O'Donnell) how much her book touched me, as a fellow "Swamp Person" who lost a parent (My Dad) at the age of 12. Thing is, is it's a blog like this one, and I can't work up the nerve to post a comment. I'm afraid that I'll be judged "daft" or "stupid" by the other posters. There's no specific post I want to comment on, you know?

If I had to pick one:

formerlyROSIE: "out it flows
on dead mommy day
quicker then a ray of light"

I found an answer to the problem. I met someone whose birthday is the same date, different year, as when my father died. I stayed friends with him, and try to go to his birthday party. One of these years, I'll probably be good company. :-) I suppose that's bitchy of me, to expose others to my grief. I suppose it's even worse that I don't really care if others are offended by it. Grief happens, get used to it.

Think of all the people being messed up by shrinks saying, "It's perfectly normal to feel that way, dear, but stop it."

Yep, I really care about RoO'd, because I can.

Birthday Wish 2005

Why can't people just be nice to each other? I'm not asking rich people to give away their money, or people who can cook to do it for free, or people who just lost their dog to smile, I just want people to stop going out of their way to piss off other people.

That's going to be my birthday wish.

We're going out to see a hypnotist in a bar on Friday night, and it should be fun. I went a couple of years ago, and got up on stage. Was it "For Real?" Well, let me tell you, I can't say the man's name anymore. If I do, I have to say it three times. That's why I'm not going to type it. It makes me a little crazy. Just it?

My birthday's on Sunday. :-)

Love that baby!

I'm so in love with my little man! I can't believe that this is normal. I never knew, at all, the depth of emotion. Commercial songs get me crying with joy.

Well I love you so dearly
I love you so fearlessly
Wake you up in the mornin' so early
Just to tell you I got the wanderin' blues
I got the wanderin' blues
And I don't wanna leave you
I love you through and through
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs...

Love love love him. He really is the cutest little snuggle-bug.

Being a mom is wonderful.

Sleep?

What's that?

I'm such a net-addict. Online games, online cards, online news, online crimes, online pictures, online words, online life. I'm always online. Apparently that's not the norm, but what's normal that's worth anything, right?

I really love that baby. He reminds me to play, something I'd forgotten.

I read Rosie O'Donnell's book Find Me last night, it only took a couple of hours. It was THAT good. I really recommend it, if you're a Swamp Person like us, with trauma on your brain. Read it, you'll understand.

Do you watch the show "Lost?" I haven't since I figured it out. Want me to tell you? If not, stop reading. Cover up the next line with your fingers.

They're all dead. Watch it, you'll see.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm going to bed before I fall off the chair. It's my turn with the baby again soon enough, and I want to be awake enough to play. :-)

Welcome to our family, Sophie!

My cousin Barbie and her husband Mike are adopting a little girl from China, and today's the day that they get to meet her! Here's the note I just left in the "Awaiting Joy" guestbook:

Oh, Sophie, I just can't wait to meet you! Today is so exciting for all of us back here at home, we're all so happy to know that today is the day that you get to meet your mommy and daddy for the first time! What a special day! I think of your mommy and daddy, probably awake in a hotel room right now, and my heart glows for them, and for you. Having a baby is the most wonderful, hard, beautiful thing that life has to offer. I love you all! Are you ever going to love it at grand lake this summer, with all your cousins, aunts and uncles! I hope that you and Tommy will be just like your uncle Kirk and I, riding your bikes to the store for candy some day! I just can't wait to meet you!! Barb (and Mike's!) cousin Sheri

Chinese Adoption Group Site

World of Warcraft

Steve and his brother started playing this online game, so I got curious and tried it myself. Now I'm addicted!

Don't worry though, I'm still working on the family tree. I desperately need any information you may have, so please send it to me!

Love to all of you,

Sheri

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Mrs. Sheri Richard

I've been up all night with Tommy, and he's been watching me work on the family tree. Follow the link to see how it's progressed. RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Mrs. Sheri Richard

I'm going to bed now, hopefully...

-Sheri

Family Tree

I'm going to try to get my family tree project going again. I got sidetracked last year when Steve's grandfather died, but I'm bound and determined to get some results this time.

Sheri and Steve's Website

While I'm here, I may as well put up a link to my homepage. Hey, why not?

Sheri and Steve's Website

Overtired

I'm so tired I can't sleep. Pauline and Terry are here, thank goodness, or I'd be completely insane. As it is, I'm just a little crazy. :-) This mommy thing is harder than it looks, but meanwhile I smile like an idiot if I even THINK about him. I love him. Those words seem so inadequate...

Hi

I'm a mom. I have a kid, a husband, a house, a car, and some pets. I'm a grown-up.

Weird.

Pogo

I love Pogo ! I play every day, but I'm not addicted. No way, not me.