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I feel like someone is shouting to me from all axes (x, y, and z!). Today my body reacted completely. Both sides of my neck, shoulders, and head tightened, stiffened, and throbbed. During my last class of the week I sat and watched while my eyes teared up with pain from the surrounding pressure.
BOOM! Topic shift.

Yesterday one monstrously huge piece of news fell on my ears a few hours after it was learned. The C(ancer) word is typically a frightening word but there is another C word that I hadn’t even thought about. Cured. Cured! emma has been given the all clear by her doctor at Sloan Ketering.

Cured! The only other way I could probably get the message out quicker would be via a bulletin on Myspace. Let’s not and say I did. Oooookay. That was a fun first. Phew. Glad I got that out the system.

Seriously though. emma is cured. Sure there are annual appointments but that’s nothing compared to two years ago.

C!!!

Quick side note… The kittens aren’t here tonight. They were de-womaned. I was told they were VERY still before going in for pre-op tests. Very, very still and huddled together. Tomorrow I get to pick them up. How drugged up will they be? It was a quiet night at 11o1 without the kittens. Spider-Man 2 was the film of choice. What a fun, laugh out loud film.

Some things are worth answering. The age old question “Why does orange juice taste bad horrible if I drink it after I brush my teeth?” has been wading in the pool of unanswered questions for a long, long time. David Cannell, a spokesperson for Questacon, has great news for us all! An answer - sodium laurel sulfate. Damn you sodium laurel sulfate. Read on!

This past weekend the crew of 11o1, all four of us, sat in traffic for four hours on out way up to CT. Yes. Four. Hours. In the early part of the drive I figured everything would be great because there was usual slow down kind of traffic but not the stop and go kind of thing. Wrong.

I 95 had an accident at exit 17 on the south bound side of the highway. Key words - south bound. Due to the ever popular activity of rubber necking I 95 north bound was affected going all the back to exit 4-ish. For more than 10 miles we stopped, rolled, braked, putted due to two accidents on the south bound side of the highway.

Can a large make shift wall be put in place for accidents like this coppers? Something to restrict the view of drivers so as to avoid additional traffic. I am sick of CT’s DOT lack of traffic information.

When I’m driving in CT I’m not going to log on to your site to see what the traffic reports are where I am or where I’m going. I need it on the radio or on my cell phone. Create a toll free number that people can call in to and select which location for which they want information. If movie theaters, insurance companies, and other customer service lines can ‘hear’ my request I’m fairly certain CT, and any other state, can put in place a voice automated system that people can use to get and or give traffic information.

Enough already. Do something that will actually HELP drivers. Web cams… Uh, no. It’s going to cost more than it will be worth.

Maybe it’s time I changed my site name to something like “Making Traffic Information More Available in CT” or Need Traffic Information in CT… Good Luck” OR “CT Traffic Information… Coming Soon.”

Last bit… After breaking free of the traffic on I 95 we thought all we well. I decided to pass up the opportunity to take the Merritt to Rt 69, had I known Rt 8 had a two car accident half way to where I needed to be I probably would have made a different decision.

Think ahead decision makers. People have cell phones and radios in their cars. Use wireless technologies to tell them what is happening. It’s pretty inexpensive compared to your plan of web cams. How much is that costing the tax payers!? Sigh.

Sigh. Didn’t I write about this last night?! The more we grow the more we adapt. Blah. {sarcasm}Yeah team.{/sarcasm}

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On 2006/09/29 (Friday) I reported that 1110 spam comments were caught by Akismet on my site. Today, 2006/10/20 (Friday), at 12:16 AM I’m confused.

Akismet has now caught 2096 spam!? How in the world did I get nearly 1000 spam comments in one less than one month? Dunno. Stange. Very strange.

My Google page ranking has moved up from 4/10 to 5/10. That’s cool. .com-ing is climbing (slowly) to 6/10. Here goes…  crawl crawl crawl