Internet silliness.

I found this high school web thingy surfing blogs. Funny, but I've often thought about starting my own church...for tax purposes, of course!

Your Life Path Number is 11. Your purpose in life is to inspire others. Your amazing energy draws people to you, and you give them great insight in return. You hold a great amount of power over others, without even trying. You have the makings of an inventor, artist, religious leader, or prophet. In love, you are sensitive and passionate. You connect with your partner on a very deep level. You have great abilities, but you are often way too critical of yourself. You don't fit in - and instead of celebrating your differences, you dwell on them. You have high expectations of yourself, but sometimes you set them too high and don't achieve anything. What Is Your Life Path Number?

Sleep, America...sleep...

Maybe the scariest thing I've read this year

Is this the beginnning of the end of the United States as we know it? Read this article and decide for yourself...

Jazz Fest, and finishing up

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | April 27-29 & May 4-6, 2007

I didn't think that we'd still be in New Orleans for this event, but we will be, and I'm really, REALLY excited. This Sunday's headliner is Bonnie Raitt. I have seen many bands, but never Bonnie. This Saturday is Norah Jones. AND Ludacris--at the same time, on different stages. Never mind the other two hundred or so bands that play all day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as next weekend. Next weekend's big names are Steely Dan and Harry Connick, Jr. I WILL have to see that. I've seen Jr. twice before, and he always puts on a good show. OH! Just saw next Saturday's line-up...THE ALLMAN BROTHERS! I saw them in KC many years ago and the show was incredible...a total good time.

Even with all of the problems New Orleans seems to have, the things that happen here that are fun, done right, and done well, are really done well. Two weekends ago the city held the French Quarter Fest, and it was so fun and so cozy. And since I'll always have a place to stay here, I will come back for the fun things like Jazz Fest and the FQ Fest, no doubt.

It's mornings like this, though, when I get up and have some quiet time to myself, enjoying coffee, that I really like being here. I really like this town, even with its problems. I sort of fantasize about staying somehow, although that is totally out of the question when my husband's opinion is taken into consideration. Oh well. Marriage. It is best to agree on the big decisions like buying real estate or your employment. If you don't--fahgeddaboutit. You'll only argue and be resentful of each other. And we are almost done with our little remodeling job here. A real estate agent came by yesterday and talked to us about renting out the condo unit we've been remodeling--apparently, our remodel is somewhere within the "excellent" condition range. Wow. It's not something I ever thought I would do that well. But I've enjoyed it...picking out the appliances, bathroom cabinets, and the light fixtures. That part has been really fun. Painting was the most un-fun part, and I still have two little places left to finish that I've been putting off. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. If my mother-in-law decides to rent it out as a corporate rental, which she is considering, we may be stuck here a few weeks more just shopping for a whole household of stuff, including the sofa, flat screen TVs, linens, kitchen items...and ohmyGAWD that would be a blast! Crossing my fingers here...

best of craigslist

best of craigslist

Read 'em and weep...from laughing so hard you can't even breathe and you start crying.

Yeah, it's silly internet stuff. But it is pretty good happy-fun reading.

I can't disagree with Dr. Blakely

Steering New Orleans’s Recovery With a Clinical Eye - NY Times

NEW ORLEANS, April 9 — In a city fond of its own self-portrait, Edward J. Blakely’s opinions are a shot of cold water.

Dr. Blakely, New Orleans’s belatedly appointed Hurricane Katrina recovery chief, refers to the city’s racial factions as “a bit like the Shiites and Sunnis,” calls the civic elite “insular,” and says the newcomers he wants to draw here will be impatient with local “buffoons.”

Several local politicians now want this guy fired. They are probably the "buffoons" that he has encountered in trying to rebuild. He has caused quite an uproar here, but I cannot disagree with anything he's said. He's right--and the first step in the road to recovery is realizing what kind of problems you have so you can fix them and move forward.

I call Dr. Blakely's comments "tough love." Sometimes, you have to hear the truth, no matter how much it hurts.

Electric Car Karma.

Chrysler, Ford U.S. sales slide in March again -- Reuters.co.uk

Toyota Motor USA March Sales Up 11.7%

Ha ha ha HA!

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Watch this documentary.

Congress questions Google over maps whitewashing Katrina damage

US Congress questions Google over maps whitewashing Katrina damage

Isn't replacing current pictures with older pictures sort of...lying?

Google had been providing imagery of how the region looked after Katrina, but replaced that with images before the storm. And a virtual trip through that old New Orleans is a surreal experience of scrolling across a landscape of packed parking lots and marinas full of boats.

The reality is very different: Entire neighborhoods are now slab mosaics where houses once stood and shopping malls, churches and marinas are empty of life, and often gone entirely.

Really, this is a bizarre story. Why would Google do this? Hm...

...the office of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says it did not have a hand in the matter.