What a tiring Saturday! Another garage sale. I’m done this time. Didn’t sell anywhere near what I wanted to, but I can’t handle doing another one. Tons of stuff got donated–well soon, I hope.

I had seen blog ratings a couple of times today while reading through blogs. Mine was rated PG. It completely misses photographs and video. It looks at how many times certain words appear in the posts. So the rating can be misleading. A couple of photos aren’t PG and the Lenny Bruce video certainly isn’t. If you want to get your blog rating, go here.

Here’s another video. If anyone can tell me the significance of this short animation, I would greatly appreciate it. Opinions are appreciated as well.

This is how people react to acknowledgements. No one seems to be able to really take a compliment or a thank you and yet they feel unappreciated. Hmm.

It seems that I can’t figure out how to embed a video on Wordpress due to needing to active php curl (sounds weird to me and I don’t want to deal with the host at this time), so the link will have to do.

It’s fixed now thanks to a new plug-in that actually works. Enjoy!

Well I survived the volunteering weekend. The course went very well for my son. After taking an entire weekend away, we’re back to our normal schedule. We’re both quite tired though. So now my son has compelted two courses in Landmark. He loved it. I recommend their courses to anyone. The results are quite amazing.

Here’s a nice picture of Max. He rarely stays still enough to get a good picture, and he rarely has such a sweet look. Don’t let him fool you though. He bites when petted. He will be two years old this fall. He also seems to cause all the problems in the house. He seems to piss off the older black cat who thinks he is the king of the house. Chasing and fights ensue.

For those of you out-of-towners, I hope you made plans early. This Saturday is the Pride Parade. However, if you not into Pride but into all things sexy, check out this article by Violet Blue. She has all the can’t miss spots in SF. She has definitely done her homework.

If you do get your freak on, don’t end up like this South Carolina couple.

My regular readers will have figured out that I’m Jewish, but what you don’t know is that I converted a few years ago. I was Catholic for a few years (around 5 or so I guess). Yesterday’s post is a perfect example of why I’m not anymore. I can figure out for myself how to live my life–thank you very much. The Catholic hierachy just has too much time on its hands to be doling out advice on driving–or the sins one is capable of while driving. As if we can’t get that for ourselves. While it might be nice if everyone was more polite while driving, I hardly think that some bulletin from the Vatican is going to do anything. It’s good for a laugh though.

I left it long ago when I saw the “liberal” priests being booted out for really tiny things–like making jokes that someone found offensive and reported to the bishop. Mostly they were minor missteps in speaking. Nothing really to bother about. Good excuse though to get rid of the pesky liberals and promoters of Vatican II. I also got sick and tired of listening to priests tell me that I should be home making babies. That’s all women are good for, you know. God forbid that one ever consider that a female might have a brain. So after an awakening to the misogyny of the Church and the realization that I didn’t believe that Jesus was God. How can a person be God anyway? Jesus never said he was. I went through a period of being nothing–not related to any particular religion. After a few life changing circumstances, I realized that I was missing something and also found out that my beliefs corresponded more with Judaism than anything else. Trust me, I read up on lots of things:  Buddhism, Pagan, Wicca, etc. None really worked for me though.

Reminder:  God is watching… No, this is for real. The Vatican released driving commandments. Even I had to double check because it sounded like an article from The Onion. They actually recommend reciting the rosary while driving. Apparently it isn’t distracting. Hmm. Not sure about that, but I’m not going to test it out. The SF Chronicle is giving readers an opportunity to submit their own commandments. I didn’t see anything about swearing at other drivers while driving.

Sexist? You decide… This may be one commercial you rarely see.