Silk Willow Talk

I was so saddened to come across this story of Leonid Milkin and the slaying of his family. Leonid is an Army reservist deployed in Iraq when his family was brutally massacred by a neighbor who just moved in a few weeks before. Leonid lost his young wife, sister-in-law and two very young sons, one being only 3 years old. Please say a prayer for him and his family and friends.

We’re in the middle of a heat wave right now. Yesterday, the temps broke all records. It sucks to see the yard roasting away after having spent mucho dinero on it. We can’t even watch television. And I need to shear the cat’s coat at some point. This is crazy but the only thing crazier is hearing how New York has had no power in a week with this kind of heat. That makes me feel just a bit more appreciative of the aging lines we have conducting power erratically into our neighborhood. Yes, I’ll take the power surges and flickering lights anytime over no power for a week in the middle of the worst heat wave we’ve ever experienced in July.

Gee I’m just so tickled how my $500 a month utility bill makes sure I only have to wait 2 hours each time for service to be restored. And service interruption only occurs between the hottest hours of 4 pm to 9 pm three times in a day. Yes we are so lucky indeed.

If you can believe this, I have been in the technical field for 15 years and have made a decent living in it, yet haven’t been in touch with the latest web trends. So I’m trying to do some catch up now by trying this out. Hope I’m not too boring.

I am trying out new templates as well to see how it works. Let’s see…