Posted on 01/15/2007 5:38:24 PM PST by snugs
The President spent part of the weekend at Camp David whilst the First Lady travelled to France where she is on a 3 day visit.
Today being Martin Luther King the President met with volunteers at Cardozo Senior High School in Washington
Vice President Dick Cheney was interviewed on FNS yesterday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on a Middle East tour
Yesterday Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Britain's Defence Secretary Des Browne in London and today attended a conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
In Japan, texting is free. It is considered extremely rude to talk on your cell phone in crowded places, like the Metro, or in a store, so folks text each other all the time. When we were riding from place to place, my friend would text her daughter, who was across the aisle on the train from us. LOL!
Thanks, Jonny, you're the best.
Guess what? Perils of weather, icy roads, hail, snow, and federal holidays conspire to keep your Apple Strudel bread in the car waiting for an unfilled post office parcel box to receive that precious treat. It has been wrapped, boxed, and with postage affixed for a few days, but the box outside the PO to drop off parcels was stuffed to the max last weekend (the box having arrived at the PO after hours), and alas, now it doesn't have transport to the PO for a certainty until Thursday.
I have never had such a time sending a package. It should still be in decent shape because it's not like a regular loaf of bread (more sugar, and it has one whole apple in each loaf). Yum-O. But you must be honest when it arrives and weigh the difficulty and extended travel time when deciding if it arrived still able to claim the title of something delicious.
I don't even know how to text message! Uh Oh!
Heh, I didn't say that I knew how to do it! My kids text each other sometimes, but I've never done it.
"Do you have the package!? Where's the package!?"*
* A funny reference if you saw last night's 24 :)
Don't worry about a thing, Gretchen. I know what it's like trying to get a package in the mail when it seems like everyone and everything is conspiring against you.
But that Apple Strudel bread better be the best thing I've ever tasted or I'll be very disappointed--LOL ;)
I'm in northeast nebraska....get use to it. That's what the winters were like all the time i was growing up! But it's the freezing rain and/or drizzle that will get ya! I never have figure out something, if you have a hard time walking because of the ice, why do people think that a 2 thousand pound car on wheels is going to have a better time?????
"24" is too intense for me so I am ignorant of the package reference last night.
To add misery to wretchedness, the roads got even more treacherous today, due to snow and ice. It's a skating rink out there. But I have a friend who is planning to drop the box off on Thursday on the way to or from work.
There was a pathetically hilarious video on TV, shot in Portland from the roof of an apartment building by a teacher who kept hearing metal-on-metal crashes. He caught this poor slob's vehicle sliding and spinning and crashing into one thing after another. I saw the portion where the car slid into something on the right side of a four-way intersection, then slid across the street into a pole, which took off part of the back fender, then it slid kitty-corner across the intersection into a barrier, taking out the left headlight, then it slid backwards down the street into a packet of three or four other vehicles. It was slow-motion horror for the driver, no doubt. Oh what a helpless feeling! The car looked like the silver ball in pinball machines. The fire department put a truck in that area to block access, and then two cars slid into it.
It's supposed to stay like this for a while.
All I can say is they lied to me. "Oh we get some snow, but it's gone in a few days." Actually, snow and 30 degrees I can take, it musta been about 10 degrees this morning at the bus stop. I had on 2 pairs of gloves and the long underwear and a balaclava and I was COLD, COLD, COLD!
But as someone who has spent the last 5 years in Seattle, I guess I can say that at least the sun was shining. : )
It was kinda funny to me to see these young things in short jackets, fashion boots, and no hat. And the boys were no better, light jackets and tennis shoes. Maybe the young don't feel the cold the way mature folks do!
Okay, but if the roads are still icy, then don't worry about it. I can wait :)
It's on my friend's way to work. Right on the direct route.
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