the 5 flavor LifeSavers roll has consisted of the same five original flavors -- Cherry, Pineapple, Orange, Lemon and Lime.

Next month, that's gonna change - cherry and pineapple will stay, but they're getting rid of orange, lemon and lime...

their replacements? raspberry, watermelon and blackberry - what the hell?!?

supposedly there was a vote, but nobody asked me. raspberry? yuck. watermelon? ehhh, okay, instead of lemon or lime, i could deal with that. blackberry? errrr, no thanks. i'm surprised they'd get rid of orange - cherry and orange are the two best ones!

as for the single flavor rolls, butter rum's good, but the favorite's gotta be cryst-o-mint....

heh heh heh - if you weren't a big fan of the Dubya in the flight suit doll, how about this ebay auction for a Texas Air National Guard George W Bush Action Figure. seems the doll's gone AWOL from the box it's being shipped in...

here's the list of candidates on the California recall ballot...

will schwarzenegger actually have a chance at winning this thing?!? the whole thing just seems so crazy - but then again, we ARE talking about california...

welcome to my Fair & Balanced blog! why the hell should Fox News consider themselves any more Fair & Balanced than Al Franken??

What time is it?

well, now that Gary Coleman's gotten a key endorsement, i think it's OBVIOUS that he's gonna whoop Arnold Schwarzenegger's ass in the California recall election - Nellie Oleson from Little House On The Prairie thinks Coleman is qualified...

The Unabomber Wants His Stuff Back - one of the things he mentioned wanting returned to him is his copy of "On Being Sane in Insane Places"...hmmm...

jeezus - scrape yer forty bucks together, so that you can get your very own dubya military action figure!

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interesting blog: Medical Rants

totalfark's lit up with articles about flash mobs - hell, maybe something like this could work here in Indy...hrmm...

flashmob

A Website and Weblog about Topics and Issues discussed in the book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold

Stunts involving 'mob' silliness latest e-mail craze

SFBA Mob #2 - Instructions @ robzazueta.com

In a flash, `mobs' gather in a gaggle, then are gone

hrm, perhaps i should just BUY one...

Interesting ("disturbing" is more like it) facts via Harper's Index:

Amount of the $106,185 price of a Hummer H1 that businesses may deduct under the proposed Bush tax plan : $88,722

Number of Grateful Dead concerts attended by columnist Ann Coulter : 67

Bill Maher is blogging now.

My favorite fark headline of yesterday referred to this story on slate.com: "Liberian soldiers cross-dress to gain element of surprise. Eddie Izzard hired by pentagon as military advisor."

"Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade?" - Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill

going through the list of Behavioral Care Providers, i see there's an alphabet soup of acronyms - MD's easy...since i have a LCSW i know it means licensed clinical social worker - but what's an ACSW? LP? LMHC? LMFT? this Acronym City page gives a few answers...

VNS Update - Saw Dr. Mohan today after a major anxiety attack before I was supposed to be going to work on Tuesday (didn't go). He's deferring to my family doc, who told me to take a couple more weeks off and find a new psychiatrist (the one I was seeing left the practice early this year) to make decisions on meds.

That stuff's not particularily VNS related, but when I saw Dr. Mohan today I asked him about the use of the VNS as a depression treatment. Since it's not FDA approved for that use in the US, he doesn't know have the info on how it works. So I don't know if just having the VNS in me to treat my seizures will provide an added benefit of treating my depression, or if they have different settings to use in the treatment of depression - something to look in to, certainly.

Death by caffeine! ever wonder how much pop ya'd hafta drink to die of a caffeine overdose? well now you can find out!

hoo doggie! i didn't know that Roscoe P. Coltrane was a Hoosier. not only a Hoosier, but a Sagamore of the Wabash - Indiana's highest honor!

VNS Update - Had a followup visit with the neurologist on Friday, 25 July...he asked me if i wanted more time off from work. As tempting as it was to say HELL YES, I refrained - so back to work I go on Monday! No seizures since I last saw him, so we made no adjustments to the settings - still 30 seconds at .75 every 5 minutes. I was half expecting him to tell me that something happened again with it not going off as much as it should, but it is going off (according to the computer) as it should - guess I've gotten used to it quickly. I'm sure that the relative ease in my getting used to the stimulation is from Dr. Mohan's philosophy of starting low and upping it if need be - sounds as tho the other patients on the Cyberonics website and such have side effects that are more intense because they're pulsing either stronger or more frequently right off the bat.

Work - eek! Part of me's ready to go back, part isn't. I just hope I'm not getting in over my head by going back full time.