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Good morning! Hey folks, ready to start another work/school week? Ours started on a gross foot. Michelle and I removed a fully embedded tic from Jingle. Usually Abby keeps on careful eye on him, but somehow she missed this one. Bleah! BLEAH! 6:04am

Relieved! I just dropped the last of the kids off at school when I got a call from my dad. I knew my mom went to the hospital in an ambulance last night. Now we know that it is "just" a kidney stone. With mom battling cancer, I feared worse. 8:59am

Michelle went to Timothy's parent-teacher conference mtg and then head to Merrimack to teach her Step class. I'm home VPN'd into work for the day. 9:45am

New spark module installed in stove, check. Now, small but worrisome watermark on kitchen ceiling just below an upstairs bath tub. Suspect a pipe is dripping a bit. sigh It's always somethin', isn't it? On the bright side I'm providing more job stimulus than Congress and the President. 4:17pm

Back from a good albeit muggy Step class at Golds. Eager for some re-heated dinner, Sloppy Joes! 6:53pm

Back from an Opus Dei Circle. Feeling very sleepy. Good night all! 9:57pm

Bookmarks I made today:

Camera shop in downtown closing down - NashuaTelegraph.com
Comment: My dad will be sad to read this. CameraLand is closing down. I bought my Nikon 35mm SLR (the one he now has) there. I later bought my Nikon Coolpix prosumer camera there. *sniff*
Excerpt: Declining sales, competition from online and big box retailers, the arrival of digital photography and the recession all led to the difficult decision to shut the doors for good Dec. 31, according to store manager and part owner Brian Lawrence.

Bailout Ben - Home
Comment: Laughing my behind off: "Want to drop $$$$ out of a helicopter to rescue the economy? There's an app for that!" Is there no concept program someone hasn't ported to the iPhone.
Excerpt: Bailout Ben (aka Helicopter Benny), the intrepid pilot of Bail Force One, is on a mission to engineer the biggest bailout in the history of the universe!Benny's helicopter is flying lower and lower, and if he doesn't bail out every single company he will crash & burn!

Brussels says churches must lift ban on employing homosexuals | World news | The Observer
Comment: Waiting to hear from the usually shrill "separation of Church 'n State" crowd...
Excerpt: The government is being forced by the European commission to rip up controversial exemptions that allow church bodies to refuse to employ homosexual staff

Cable failure cuts Milford-area Internet
Comment: You can imagine my panic when I saw this. Luckily for me, while they *say* cable, they don't mean Comcast cable broadband. They mean the cable for DSL users. Another FairPoint success story... ;-P
Excerpt: MILFORD– A failed coaxial cable in the central office on South Street of Milford has cut high-speed Internet access for hundreds of customers throughout the Milford area.

Radium Updated
Comment: Yeah! An update to Radium (for MacOS) has just been released. This past week Sirius/XM changed their Internet protocol slightly and Radium couldn't stream their channels. Now fixed. Happily listening in again at my desk...
Excerpt: Radium is an Internet Radio player for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5+) and later. It sits in your menu bar and stays out of your way. Mouse over for a screenshot .

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 To Launch On AT&T Only
Comment: *sigh* One of the best smart phones to use our new SnapDragon processor, and it's going to be on ... AT&T. Luckily there are plenty of good SnapDragon based phones in the near term pipeline...
Excerpt: AT&T has apparently managed to get yet another exclusive after Apple's iPhone as Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 spec sheet shows that the smartphone will only support AT&T's network.

Snapshots I took today: