Japan gets all the good stuff

I ran across this gem on the girl gamers LJ:

Red Cross puts social networking and online tools to good use

I’d like to introduce you guys to someone: Ike Pigott. He’s a local blogger that I ran across on Twitter some time ago. I’ve been following his blog, Occam’s RazR, for a while now. He works for Red Cross and has an extensive background in communications.

He’s recently set himself upon a personal quest to utilize the online tools and social media for disaster relief and aid. He’s created the Red Cross Online Disaster Portal and opened the Red Cross Twitter Channel.

The idea is that people in evacuation zones could “follow” the Red Cross Twitter feed from their cell phones, and find out about shelter locations and service delivery sites.

I think it’s a great idea, and I’m personally excited to be able to see first-hand the mediums that we have available to us today being put to use for such a great cause. This will be especially handy for us locally with hurricane season coming up, as well as tornado season!

If you are interested in helping out or would like more information, please contact Ike. I’m sure that he’d love to hear from you and could use any and all help sent his way! :grin:

Congrats Zooomr!

My favorite photo-sharing service has won a CNET Webware Award! :mrgreen:

From CNET: “The ‘Webware 100′ Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, our editors selected the 250 finalists. But the Web’s users made the final cut, voting nearly half a million times to select the 100 top products (10 each in 10 categories) from our list of 250 finalists.”

Congrats to all of the Webware winners!

God is a good daddy

Last night Jessie was watching Bruce Almighty with us. Once the movie was over, Jessie turned and asked me if I thought God was black. I told her I didn’t know because I’ve never seen Him. She then asked if I thought God was like “Him” in the movie (Morgan Freeman). I said, “Yes, I think so.” She says, “How do you know?” I said, “The God I believe in is a God that loves you as you are, no matter what color, size, or shape you are, no matter how good or bad you’ve been, or what your life has become. He loves you no matter what.” She says, “So just like the movie, He believes in you?” I said, “Exactly.” Thoughtfully, she adds, “He sounds like a good daddy to me.”

Indeed.

I hope all you dads out there had a good Father’s Day! Mine spoke to me for a whole 37 seconds … oh the joy. ??:

In lighter news, here’s a cute bit that Jim’s mother sent me this morning:

Even God Enjoys a Good Laugh

There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:

1. He called everyone brother.
2. He liked Gospel.
3. He didn’t get a fair trial.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:

1. He went into His Father’s business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:

1. He talked with His hands.
2. He had wine with His meals.
3. He used olive oil.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:

1. He never cut His hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an American Indian:

1. He was at peace with nature.
2. He ate a lot of fish.
3. He talked about the Great Spirit.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:

1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.

But the most compelling evidence of all – 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:

1. He fed a crowd at a moment’s notice when there was virtually no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn’t get it.
3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was still work to do.

LOL! Cute.

Even my web surfing goes on tangents

Do you ever just wander aimlessly around a website? I did that earlier today and learned something: 3M (the “sticky notes” people) make littman stethoscopes.

Ok, not the most exciting discovery, I know, but was kind of neat I thought. That’s not exactly something that you’d think of that company making! Or, I didn’t anyways.

And apparently theirs are supposed to be pretty high-end as far as stethoscopes go (not that I’d know a whole hell of a lot about them) … I was reading up on the “Model 3000″ and this is what the ad says:

“Don’t miss the sounds you need to hear! Amplify heart, lung, and other body sounds while reducing distracting ambient noise with the Littmann Model 3000. Ergonomic and Versatile – The chest piece is ergonomically designed for easy, one-hand manipulation. Convenient single-button control allows volume and frequency mode adjustments with just one finger. The convex shape of the diaphragm and very small size of the internal sensor allow the Model 3000 to be used on adult, pediatric and infant patients, making it a truly universal stethoscope.”

I had to admit that I was kind of impressed … there was a flash video and downloadable brochure and all kinds of in-depth information for this thing. I guess if you’re in the health care profession, this would be all up in your bag.

I decided to go another way…

Had a lovely time at the Ladies Night Out meetup last night. Woke up with a splitting headache though … lousy bugger has stubbornly stuck with me all damned day. I put in a call to my Dr’s office, but the earliest I’ll hear back from her is Monday (if I’m lucky).

Jim and I were out most of the day. This morning I went by Merle Norman and got my first trial makeup run. Jim really liked what they did and I’m happy with it overall, but I don’t care for the color of lipstick they chose (was BRIGHT red) … I think I’ll definitely go darker on the next run to see how it turns out.

What can I say, I’m a sucker for a good burgundy or crimson!

We hit up several stores around town looking at various wedding supplies. We’re looking for a good photo album, but most of what we’re seeing either aren’t big enough or aren’t practical. We hit up the Hobby Lobby in Gardendale and perused the spacious crafts, paints, and so on … but not a whole lot of wedding stuff. (bummer)

We tried the local Wal-mart, and while they didn’t have a whole lot of photo albums, they did have a lot of other things. We looked at their silk trees and flowers section … I’m thinking of making my bouquet of those instead of real flowers. It would definitely keep longer! Still haven’t found a decent flower girl basket for Jessie yet. I take that back — there were several “decent” ones, but nothing I liked.

We booked around the Galleria a bit and I found my wedding jewelry:

I hate that I didn’t get those other earrings, but after seeing these I couldn’t pass them up! They were a bit more, but were nicer quality crystals and are much fancier.

What do y’all think?

I’m sure I just made somebody’s day

I decided to close my Neopets account. In the course of 20 minutes, I’ve squandered about 3 million Neopoints and am in the process now of cleaning out my NP Safety Deposit box. Looking for a way to get rid of the virtual funds quickly, I loaded up on expensive items and donated them to the Money Tree:

I’m sure some poor n00b or two just had a heart attack, LOL!

Rawr! it’s Gojira!

Courtesy of my favorite furry funnies:

Oops! I had forgotten to share this

Wednesday night, I was going through catalogs and surfing around online looking for a match to those earrings that I posted. Jim was getting a little TOO amused by my frustration and at one point chuckled … I gave him a dirty look. Laughing and feigning sympathy, he asked what I was looking for. I showed him the earrings and he said, “Wow, those will look great with your wedding dress!” I told him I thought so too but was having a very hard time finding a necklace to match it. He thought it was early enough in the evening that most stores would still be open and suggested we ride around and see who all had what to offer.

Not a bad idea … good thing I’m marrying him, LOL

We tried several different places, but nothing really struck me as “HAD TO HAVE.” On a whim, Jim suggests, “Let’s try Wal-mart.”

That was an adventure, LOL!

We went in and looked at their jewelry selections and didn’t really see a whole lot. Jim then says, “I got an idea,” and walks towards the back. We walked through the electronics (and slowed down long enough to see if any new games or DVDs were in that we didn’t already have, hehe), then exercise equipment, then finally sports. Jim stops in front of a Ping Golf display. Humoring him I pretended to be really interested in some golfing gadget on a nearby shelf. After he’s gone over the display and decided he didn’t need anything, he says “Nope, no jewelry here. I guess we’ll have to try somewhere else.” LOL!

I laughed and rolled my eyes … who does he think he’s fooling? I said, “Honey if you wanted to look at the toys, you should’ve said so!”

Feelin’ good and a DIY idea

I feel muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better today! Had a decent night’s sleep (first in several days) and woke up this morning feelin’ good. It’s now 8:04 am and so far I’ve updated all of my support tickets and am basically sitting here waiting on the rest of my department to show up, LOL!

I’m supposed to meet my mom today for lunch. I wanted to show her my rings (as they’ll be put up this weekend now that I know for certain that they fit well and will not need resizing), and hit her up for a wedding contribution. I had asked last summer if she and/or dad planned on helping out and I got a “not right now, maybe later” so not being able to wait any longer, I’m asking now so I know for certain and so Jim and I can move on and re-budget if needed.

Part of me is so excited about the wedding, but another part of me just wants it to be over with already, LOL! I’ve been looking at various housing and real estate magazines and brochures and have seen several great ideas for sprucing up little things around our house — most of it stuff Jim and I can do ourselves. I love DIY, or Do It Yourself, projects.

I saw this one last night:

It’s nothing really fancy or overly spectacular, just some under cabinet lighting that turned out very well. I saw that and thought to myself, “We could do that!” and it would really brighten up the kitchen! I’ve looked at several kits and maybe this fall Jim and I could start adding neat little things like that around the house.

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