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Watch the video here. And the story goes…
Condo bust draws scams and squatters
MIAMI – June 19, 2008 – Someone had kicked the door in on the foreclosure on the 33rd floor at The Club at Brickell Bay. Last week, Lori Rice, the building’s property manager, pushed it open. Inside, she found the tell-tale signs of a squatter: a mattress on the floor, a few toiletries in the bathroom.
“Clearly, a man was staying in there,” Rice said, adding that she called the police.
When police arrived on Monday, they found the . . . → Read More About Just To Be Fair: Stateside Squatters
Last night at 11pm, I left all three boys at Juan Santamaría airport. All getting on the same airplane. If you are a neurotic, that makes for an anxious day fighting off dread premonitions. Not that I’m a neurotic. I’m just saying if YOU are, I’ve heard about people like you. How you obsessively check the airline flight status and if you get an internet error saying something like, "No more information available about this flight," you might reel into a panic. Because, you know, your entire life is on one airplane being held up over the . . . → Read More About PARTY TIME!
Hit it again: the site that downloaded a program that wiped Hal’s computer clean as a whistle. And I stumbled across it while researching Lotrel, of all things! When I realized I was at the Malicious Drive-By Download site (MDBD), I wrote down the web address then tried to close the window. Which was more than a little difficult because, when you get one closed, other windows pop-up. Eventually, you have to press "OK" to get the MDBD window to close… iffy pressing OK.
When I did get it closed, I did an . . . → Read More About The Malicious Drive-By Download Site
Wear an earbud:
If you go to YouTube, you’ll see a long list of videos of other people doing this. Watch these guys: they get a real kick out of this!
Hey, wait a minute. Maybe I’m not suffering from menopause after all…
Mo just Skyped me with a youtube link, saying:
"This song is one of the reasons I think Everlast is so great. It’s a great song and it has meaning … modern music with meaningful lyrics! I think a lot of people could benefit from listening to and learning from the lyrics… btw just in case you can’t understand the chorus, it goes ‘and then you really might know what it’s like.’ It’s a song that would actually make the world a better place if people would listen to it and apply it to their lives."
. . . → Read More About What It’s Like
Through some effort, I’ve mostly avoided politickin’ on the blog. Till today. I got a little rant going because of an email (below for your edification) from my Democrat-To-The-Death cousins. It’s supposed to be witty; maybe at another moment in time, I could shake my head and hit delete like I usually do. But I can’t let it go. Not only is it moronic and insulting, it’s intended to divide rather than educate or unify, perhaps persuade. McCain-esque in its arrogance. (Yeah, take that.)
The U.S. economy, hence its citizenry, is suffering and . . . → Read More About Politickin’
Man, my patience is tried. I’m fried, wiped out. I surrender. Ok, I almost surrender, but it’s touch and go. When bad things happen here – just everyday bad things – you come up against the culture shock thing big time. Because simple solutions here are not… simple. Mainly because they take way, way, waaaaaay longer. And you can never get the truth about when that solution is going to happen.
Like, the house phone went out two weeks ago. Not that it’s critical, but when you need a phone, nothing else will do.
It seems so silly now, . . . → Read More About Vexations
I remember the worst moment of my life, the moment the world turned from friendly and full of hidden promise to dangerous and full of unspeakable peril. The moment the words, "Be careful!" became my mantra. The moment I realized all the chillingly simple and unpredictable ways my child could be killed.
Morgan was not quite a year old, standing on a chair, drawing with a pencil. I was so involved in his wanting to draw, I missed the clear and present danger. How could I have been so foolish? Then he . . . → Read More About WARNING(S)!
Island Chica took a couple of fun photos while she was in Costa Rica last month. Love this face! If he could just keep it quiet…
If you are learning Spanish, get used to this. What the Anglo-Saxon says in two syllables, the Spanish say in five. At least five. Like:
Lawnmower = la máquina para cortar zacate eléctricala MA-kee-na PAR-ah core-TAR sza-KAH-tay a-LAKE-tree-kah = the machine for to cut grass electrically My sister’s house = la casa de mi hermanala KA-sa day me air-MAHN-ah = the house of my sister My friend’s sister’s house = la casa de la hermana de mi amigala KA-sa day la air-MAHN-ah day me ah-ME-gah = the house of the sister of my friend
Probably = probablemente . . . → Read More About Gratuitous Syllabification
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