Today

Guess who's birthday it is today! Happy birthday to me. Here's an Astrology Profile. It's all true, lol.

This week both WETA and WAMU are running their pledge drives. Usually they try to offset it by a week. It's kind of interesting to hear their different pledge goals: WAMU is asking for a lot more money, no doubt because now they are 24 hours news/talk and all those NPR shows aren't cheap. It's funny to think about how this shuffle of programming happened last spring in the wake of the end of commercial classical WGMS. What kind of annoys me is they run these drives twice a year, but they try to act like they are only doing it once a year, almost as if they are trying to trick you into ponying up 2x a year (hoping you'll forget), when this is supposedly for a 1-year 'membership.'

In unrelated news: Potty Python: Woman Finds Snake in Toilet. Yikes! Though it reminds me of a few years ago (and 3 jobs ago) when a co-worker came out of the basement men's room to report that while he was on the throne, a rat swam up into the bowl. YIKES!!! He said he frantically flushed until it was gone. But, things swimming up the sewers, icky.

And, I've been hearing more and more scare stories about the drug-resistant bacteria... they warned us not to use that anti-bacterial soap, cause it was just making the little buggers mutate. Of course it could all be a plot by the drug companies, who will produce new, effective and expensive antibiotics.