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| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | |
| 8:25 am | Banned Books A post from work. (I can't FB from work, but I can LJ. W00t.) Kansas City Kansas Community College Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 26−October 3, 2009 Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information, while drawing attention to the harms of censorship. Celebrate and protect your rights of freedom of speech and expression. Please join your host Adam Hadley, Wednesday September 30th: • Open Mic., 9:00 – 10:00, Library • Read In, 10:00 – 11:00, Intercultural Center (These events are sponsored by the Division of Humanities & Fine Arts, the Library, and the Intercultural Center.) Listed below are just some of the books that have been banned at one time or another: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Bastard by John Jakes Blubber by Judy Blume Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Christine by Stephen King A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Color Purple by Alice Walker Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Decameron by Boccaccio The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fallen Angels by Walter Myers Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews Forever by Judy Blume From Here to Eternity by James Jones The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Have to Go by Robert Munsch The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Impressions edited by Jack Booth In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm The Living Bible by William C. Bower Lord of the Flies by William Golding Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein Lysistrata by Aristophanes The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My House by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman Night Chills by Dean Koontz Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People by Judith Guest Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective Pentagon Papers The Pigman by Paul Zindel Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders Separate Peace by John Knowles The Shining by Stephen King Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff The Witches by Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle |
| Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | |
| 8:49 pm | Thoughts about God Thoughts On God Lately I've gone through a slight paradigm shift on my life philosophy which is a return back to earlier principles. I was raised in the Evangelical Lutheran Church - a special kind of "creepy" Christian denomination, which was so Fundamentalist that women weren't provided the right to vote on church matters. How's that for democracy? These are the people who are right now trying to destroy our country, our freedoms, our technology to bring about Armageddon. Trust me when I say that these people are frightening in their single-minded devotion to the concepts of Virgin Birth, Transubstiantion, Creationism, and God's Law. We're talking about the cultish mind-control practiced by those "true believers." You're either in, or you're out. After suffering beatings from my father to make me attend a place that so contradicted any rational thought I could work out in my brain (that God gave me!) that I nearly became psychotic as a result, I decided I was definitely out. I'm not a "true believer." Now, go away and leave me alone. The sad thing about having been in that church is that it killed God in my world. Before we started going to church, God was someone who loved us and looked after us and wanted us to be the best people we could be. I believed in that God just fine. Of course, I was a mere child then and I didn't understand it. I also believed in the Force, from Star Wars. And I wanted to marry Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) when I grew up. I can tell you that the thought of having an all-loving being, who's got our back forever as long as we love him and love each other, sure does sound like a good idea. It sounded like a good idea when I was 6, 8, 10. It wasn't until I spent time with the scary Evangelicals that I found out that God was a whole lot more like the Dark Side of the Force. So, I got out of that place as quick as I could. The months and months of illnesses that were the eventual reason for me to stop going to church were really a blessing, if there are such things. I stopped going to church altogether eventually, after I witnessed people I called friends lambaste one of my best friends for getting married to a man they disapproved of. It all just made me sick. If these people, these Christians, are going to treat each other like that, I don't want to have anything to do with it or them. I don't believe in any of that. I don't think that's what Christ taught at all. I don't think it's right to endorse such behavior. The lies, the maniuplation, the scare tactics. I spent 5 years trembling in my boots that at any time I could be thrown into a fiery pit of buring pitch, and had persistent nightmares of nuclear warfare. That was no fun way to grow up. I'm sure I decided at some point, "There IS No God." I'm sure I proclaimed it. I don't know if I ever really believed it, though. I've always felt connected to something "other," "bigger," "eternal." I don't know what it is. God's as good as word as any to describe it. I could call it a chair. Call it the Force. These are the dreams of a little girl who saw Star Wars and grew up with the fight against oppression, cruelty, and megalomaniacial tyrants - the fight for A New Hope. I say that this is the fight we are fighting now - that fight between good and the fight between merciless evil. Today's Fundementalism, whatever it's flavor, is the merciless evil out there in the world. The term "Nazi" has been bandied about quite a lot recently. It's the thing you accuse when you have nothing else to say. One of the more frightening aspects of the Nazi regime was their undying loyalty to God. They were Fundamentalists, they were sent To Save The Human Race by God. Hitler was also into the occult, and there have been allegations that he participated in Black Magic. Don't say that the Holocaust wasn't entirely about the "Good Christians" against the Jews. Seriously. I think sometimes people miss the forest for the trees in that respect. WWII and every atrocity committed by the Nazis had to do with God. Not my God, not your God, but their God. And we've got other genocides happening all over the world, and it's still all about God. People are fighting over GOD. God, who's supposed to love us and save us from the eternal pitfires of hell. That makes no sense. If we're all saved, why do we have to fight with each other all the time? Whatever your particular brand of religion, they all pretty much say the same things. "Don't be greedy, help your neighbor, be a steward to the Earth." Some have different rules, and some go way further, and it doesn't apply to every single religion, but it applies to most of them. Most of them also have some variant of "no fighting" thrown in there for good measure. Of course, those aren't the parts most Fundamentalists focus on. The true Fundies want everyone else to just die, since everyone else is already going to Hell, they might as well help us along. Not only are they gonna get theirs in Heaven (or analog), they want it here too. Well, I say Hell NO! If Heaven is going to be full of those people, I don't wanna go there. I wanna have at least a reasonably decent life here on Earth. I do not want to spend any possible afterlife with those Fundies. If there's an afterlife, I wanna hang out with Ghandi, Gallileo, Plato, Aristotle, and all the brilliant (many atheist) scientists whom God created. I want to meet Einstein, who said, "'I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.'" Clearly, God does not meddle in our lives. Of if it does, God does it in very tiny ways you almost wouldn't see if you weren't looking. Which you can't do if you're busy being a shit to all the other human beings on the Earth. If you'd start paying attention to the things around you, your path to Heaven is paved - seriously because there's a pretty good chance that when this life is over, it's over. So, you'd better make peace and be friendly while you're still here. It's all we get. Just this. Nothing more. Quit pissing in the bathwater, it's starting to stink. Heaven on Earth makes the most sense to me. Everyone getting along with each other. Everyone using good manners, and not being so rude to each other. A life like that on "Leave it to Beaver." People are friendly, and when they make mistakes, they fess right up for the most part. There's no genocide. There's no starvation, or poverty, or sex crimes. The more you pay attention to the natural rhythms of the world, and spend less time controlling everything, you start being able to see God everywhere. If that's what it is. You find out amazing things about this world when you're not so self-possessed to be on a 'mission' or a 'Crusade.' When you take the time to be present in as many moments as possible, beauty is revealed. Beauty of every variety. One of the things I love about the film, American Beauty, is that it shows how Lester learns to appreciate all the beauty he'd missed all those years he'd been spending as a tight-assed-dorkwad. He found his spirituality by working out, smoking dope, and figuring out how to have the most integrity he could have as a human being. Even though it backfired on him in the end, it was not surprisingly because of the twisted next-door-neighbor. Fundies! They're everywhere. I believe in Love. I believe in the power of Love. I'm also as close as one could get to being a hippie, given that I'm only 35. You go your way, I go my way, and if we groove like that - it's all good. I'm not into conflict, reallly. I like peace, harmony, joy. I don' t like being on a downer. I don't really like rollercoasters either. I like boat rides. With seagulls. I like doing those things as much as possible, even if I'm only by myself - I'm totally hip with that. I'd rather do all those things with someone with whom to share them. I'd love to travel and write about everything. I want to paint sunsets while hanging out in the South West. I want to visit the craziest parts of America. I want to see where the punks live in Seattle. I'd like to visit friends, other writers, all over the country. I'd like to go to writing conventions and workshops. I think I could write some awesome stories with enough experience in those places. I'm lucky that I've had a real taste or two of many places here in the U. S. There are so many more I want to see. I see God in everything, if I look hard enough. God, or whatever it is that made all this beauty out here in the world. I've heard that the sunsets in Afghanistan have no rival. It has something to do with the arid climate and the thin-air, as well as the deep points of the mountains... I hear the sunsets last for hours, and are breathtaking. As I write this I think of all the men and women, theirs and ours, who are out there dying. Right now. If I close my eyes and pay attention, I can even feel it. The only comfort those people are going to have is that, if they're lucky, they'll see God in that sunset over the mountains in Afghanistan. Ain't no one else doin' nothing but gettin' on with the killin'. Over what? God. Right, Him. Fundies. Y'all are psycho! Put down your Fundamentalist hat. Put down your grenade launchers, your IEDs, your swords. Talk to one another. We're all just men and women here. We're all just people. We're all just trying to survive. Darwin gave us everything when he revealed the divinity of God's Creation. We're just evolving, surviving, the best that we can. And, we have these magnificent brains that can figure out how to get out of this shit we're in. If we'd only use our powers for good, instead of evil. Natural Selection is what happens when a species overpopulates and starts to destroy the Earth. Uh, yeah, that's us. Right about now. I believe in God, if that's what it is when I feel joy. I believe in anything that makes me feel more connected to the Earth and my fellow human. I believe there are some forces of evil, and I like to avoid those as much as I can. I don't like evil, evil is bad. I'm okay with the idea of believing in the power of good to do good and the power of evil to do evil, and that we have a choice as to what we want to do with our lives. It's all very rational to me. You should be nice to each other because it's good. Being mean psycho people is bad. Simple morality, and I've not even blamed God for any of it.It's all up to you, human. I believe in the idea of Jesus's sacrifice for the suffering for all man. That's pretty cool when you really think about it. I believe in the power of that kind of love. Jesus was pretty awesome. Yeah, but I don't believe he really died. Didn't happen. Nope. Maybe he was in a deep meditative trance, like one of those Sufis who can stop and restart their own hearts, but he didn't die and come back to life three days later. That's a crock of something. That's like a zombie. I've seen zombie movies, and they're not nice. They're quite scary. I don't want God to be scary. I don't want God to be scary. There are too many scary things out there already. God shouldn't be one of them. In my world, God isn't one of them. If there's a God, he's not a scary God. Existential angst from my youth: solved. Today, I think I'm as close as I'm ever going to get to being a Christian. I focus my energy on doing what is right and good to the best of my ability. I work for the light side of the Force. Now that life has slowed a little, I've even seen glimmers of what could be God. It could be. That's all I'm willing to say. It's all I'm willing to say, because I can't quite give up the fear that was instilled in me about that brimstone and fire stuff. To quote Joni Mitchell, "I'm frightened by the devil, and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid." So, I hang my hat on the peg marked "Agnostic," and I focus on as many joyful moments as possible. I routinely express my gratitude for not having the misfortune to be born in Afghanistan. End the war, folks. Let's save each other. |
| Monday, August 17th, 2009 | |
| 2:12 pm | Health care story: Part 1 I became ill with infectious mononucleosis (a.k.a. Epstein-Barr Virus or EBV) my sophomore year in high school. ( Read the full story... ) |
| Saturday, August 15th, 2009 | |
| 8:17 am | Health Care Debate I don't want to spend a lot of time on this subject. It's being beaten to death by everyone else. I will just put in my $.02. In my mind there are two solutions that make any sense at all. Solution #1: Universal Single-Payer Government Funded Health Care. -It works and it is cost effective. Furthermore, the whole "They're going to kill your granny" argument is the most ridiculous argument I've heard... especially since my granny (and yours too) is ALREADY covered under the government funded system - Medicare. F-ing nonsense. Solution #2: No insurance, and everyone pays for him/herself. True PRIVATE health service. -I'm not sure how well it works, but it's got to be better than what we've got. Private health insurance companies are evil. They're not well-regulated, and they cheat. They don't pay doctors and hospitals in a timely manner. They drive up prices through their deceptive collective bargaining practices. If we do away with the health insurance companies, then maybe routine health care will be affordable to the average person, rather than the extra-ordinate prices that we have now. It works well for most people, and screw you if you get a serious illness. At least if we went that way, we'd be leveling the playing field somewhat... since disease is an equal-opportunity vendor, even the wealthiest people could find themselves in thousands of dollars of debt at the drop of a hat. It wouldn't take long for certain disparities to dissipate with that going on. I work with people every day who bitch about having to pay $200 for a pair of eyeglasses, yet they are the same people who are against universal health coverage. Well folks, you can't have it both ways. Suck it up. If you don't want to have universal coverage, then be ready to fork over the dollars or go without! That's the way it works in a capitalist system, and if that's what you want, put up or shut up. Furthermore, much of this debate is all about protecting pocketbooks. Many in Congress and the Senate aren't paying any attention to what their constituents want or need. They're listening to their campaign contributors. Enough said. So, I'm cynical - I think what's going to happen is that we're going to end up being legislated into having private insurance, with little benefit for those who can't afford it due to predatory practices. Much like the car insurance industry, only worse. Think carefully about your choices folks, we all will suffer if we make the wrong one. |
| Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | |
| 2:24 pm | Bank Bailout I think it was a bad idea. More than half of Americans agree. |
| Monday, November 17th, 2008 | |
| 2:51 am | 3 am It's not yet 3 am, and I am really going to bed. I read the last 80 entries on my friends page. That's the most LJ I've done since... 2004??? Don't congratulate me. Just smile and nod. |
| 2:37 am | Twitter Ok, that's sort of cool I'm on Twitter now - a new way to play with Text messages. Kaimm @ Twitter.com Check it out. Yay me. |
| 12:30 am | Kitchen Geekishness Sometimes things suck. There are only a few things that immediately ameliorate suckishness. Today's Thing: Kitchen Geekishness. 1 Cuisinart Burr Grinder. ALL MINE. $35. I rock. 1 Stainless Steel Coffee Percolator. Brews 1 cup per minute. ALL MINE. $35. I am the bomb. So - There is a standing open invitation to *everyone* who wishes to come to my house for coffee. Yummmmmmmmmy coffee. Brewed in the percolator, french press, espresso machine, or classic drip. Or all of the above! We'll have a caffeinated frenzied coffee-drinking party. I now have permanent cafe-quality coffee-making equipment in my house that will be with me forever. (Barring fires and natural disasters.) The other good news: I will NEVER AGAIN have to pay $2 for a crappy cup of coffee. The WONDEROUS JOY of a SS Perc and my own burr grinder is that I can pack and go with that bad boy. And I have a thermos. I may end up homeless, but I'm going to have damn good coffee with me on the streets. I'm almost too excited to go to bed to wait to have coffee in the morning. This is the happiest I've been since I came back from California. Yay me. (Yes, please post if you share in my utter happiness and joy of my kitchen geekishness.) Current Mood:  ecstatic |
| Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | |
| 1:33 pm | Home(s) needed for my cats Ok, unless I get a donation of $4000 or so, wherefore I may travel to Tijuana and get inoculated with hookworms to combat my severe allergies... I must finally admit that I need to find a good home for my two very lovable cats. Anyone who is willing to take Sid and Squeekers, let me know. I'll travel anywhere in the continental US to find a good home for them, though I have to say that Sid is probably going to need to stay local if possible due to his inability to handle even short car rides. I'm willing to separate the pair. Sid is 7 years old, weighs about 22 lbs, and is very laid-back. He loves to be brushed, petted, and generally doted on. He's my baby! He's somewhat vocal, so not a good match if you need a cat who never meows. He is Feline Respiratory positive - he is rarely ill and is a loud breather. He's a domestic - medium haired cat- black with a few gray/white hairs. He has been neutered, current on typical vaccinations, and is microchipped. He has been indoors only, but would probably adjust to being indoors/outdoors. Squeekers is 5 years old or so, weighs about 17 lbs, and is also very laid-back. He is very curious, and loves to go outside. He's incredibly friendly, and loves to mark everything in site (not pee marking, just rubbing with his face.) He's a very social animal - he is also dominant and tends to engage in mounting behavior with Sid. I don't know that it's any problem unless you have a female cat who is small. He has been neutered, current on vaccinations, and has never had a health problem. He is tabby with incredibly soft short hair. He also meows sometimes, but not loud - his meows are a little squeaky, hence the name Squeekers. He has been microchipped. He would do well to be an outdoors/indoors cat, since he LOVES to go outside. I have raised him indoors only, but he was a rescue from outdoors. Both cats have been around dogs with mixed success. It more depends on the dog - as Ms. Emma attacked Squeeks and he had a small injury as a result (totally healed now). Both cats are kid friendly, and despite Ms. Parvana's many tail and ear-pulls at potluck dinners, they never scratched or bit her. Both cats still have their claws, which I manage by trimming every couple of weeks, Sid fusses about this, but Squeeks tends to take to it fairly well. I've never had either cat ever ruin furniture, as long as they have scratching posts, etc. I have plenty of these items to send with them. Aside from that no behavioral issues. Send me a message here if you or ANYONE YOU KNOW can take them. |
| Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | |
| 11:26 pm | No chastising allowed! I haven't posted in any of my journals in ages. Never fear, I am still alive. Though, there are some out there who may bemoan this a bit if I am going to go off of some of the email messages left for me here on LJ. Just FYI, I'm NOT a stinky bitch. I showered this morning, and I used deoderant! I was triply scolded at the 4th of July gathering for not posting. I'm posting, I'm posting! See here! In other news: I have a foster daughter, a foster grand-daughter, and a foster baby-daddy. Or something like that. I live in Kansas City, Kansas - where it is still legal to smoke INSIDE restaurants and bars. And we have our own casino. I have had the same job for 3.5 years. It's scary. It sorta freaks me out sometimes. I hope (cross fingers) that I can go see Dr. Dave August 7 - 17 in San Francisco, visit Lake Tahoe before GWB declares martial law, stymies the next election, and blows up the world. If that doesn't happen, I'm hoping to be able to find out from the folks at UC Berkeley whether or not I can ever be a candidate for their PhD program, and more specifically if I will like it there. No doubt, I'll have fun in a town full of queens and tree-hugging sandal-wearing granola crunchers. And I might for once get a date. I hope to find out soon when I will be getting the sleep mask the Dr. says I need so I will breathe at night. Call me Darth Kai. I bought a Honda Fit last year. It has 28,000 miles on it now. Wowee. Nothing else much to report. Oh, I bought a sax and an axe. My axe is black, and has a strap with spade, diamond, club, and heart on it. I have learned "Wish you were here." I play it well enough to recognize. Yay for me. And yes, I want to hear from you. Really. Just don't ask me to read your LJ. I don't have the time. Current Mood:  sleepy |
| Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | |
| 7:51 pm | Birthday My birthday is on wednesday and I will be in Lawrence. I'm thinking that I'll head on over to Vermont St. BBQ on Mass St. for 25 cent wings sometime around 5 - 5:30. Anyone who wants is welcome to join me. $10 buys you 40. And Paige, they have fried okra. After that, I don't know what my plan will be... I've been thinking about getting a motel room, since I have an early am doctor appointment also in Lawrence on Thursday. Coffee at some point, ice cream. Dunno. Suggestions are welcome. I'm on Paid Time Off this week. I hesitate to call it vacation... that would imply that I'm trying to enjoy the time off by doing something nice, rather than taking a break from constant insanity, which is what it really is. Love ya. |
| Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 | |
| 8:32 pm | New Year's Eve Once again it is time to announce Kai's Annual New Year's Gathering. Starting around 7 or 8 o'clock. I have room for two couples to crash, or miscellaneous combinations of people on the couch/futons. If you don't mind sharing. There will be food. There will be fun. Everyone is invited. Let me know (by posting here) if you plan to come and I will give you directions to my pad in KC. I'm near Westport/Plaza area in KCK. Convenient access from I-35 and I-70. Let's ring in 2008 the right way! -Kai |
| Friday, August 10th, 2007 | |
| 12:46 am | Philistines! Our country sucks. |
| Friday, August 3rd, 2007 | |
| 7:53 am | Nelson-Atkins We're meeting at the Nelson on Saturday Aug 4 at 3 PM by the fountain/reflecting pool. We meaning a couple of people I've never met, and my friend Joe. It is an open invite, and the joy is that you're not obligated to stick with the group. Just a chance to meet people and look at art. It's like a "force yourself to do something you've been putting off for years" sort of thing. If you want to come but can't be there at 3 send me a message, we'll trade numbers and meet up at at time that works for you. We will probably go for coffee/drinks afterward, maybe dinner. |
| Monday, July 16th, 2007 | |
| 9:24 pm | For your listening pleasure: Go to this MySpace Page and Click on the song title. "When the Bastards Get you Down." Post comments here - forward to your friends if you like the song. |
| Thursday, September 21st, 2006 | |
| 8:34 am | CORRECTION I will be moving Saturday Saturday, September 30. Not Sat Oct 30 as I had posted yesterday. That's one week from this coming Saturday. |
| Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | |
| 8:09 am | IMPORTANT NEWS I've found a place in Kansas City KS to buy. I've signed a 6-month lease that starts Oct 1, with the intention of making an offer before long and hope to close right after the New Year. 3 bed 2 bath, garage, no yard to speak of (a good thing), all appliances including washer and dryer included. He's even giving me a lawnmower. Needs some work, almost entirely cosmetic - nothing that I haven't already done to the place I'm currently at. Planning on loading the truck on Sat Ok, that's all I have time for right now. But I just have to say that I'm REALLY EXCITED. |
| Sunday, July 16th, 2006 | |
| 8:30 am | Blue Screen Of Death Who ever can fix my BSOD error wins the Kai prize. I have a device driver error that Microsoft does not seem to know how to fix. Oh, yeah, and if someone wants to come and figure out how to make the webcam I have work, that would be nice too. I hate futzing with my computer. |
| Thursday, July 13th, 2006 | |
| 4:30 pm | Apartment for Rent If you know anyone who is looking for a place in Lawrence... It's a 2 bed, 2 bath townhouse on Glenview Drive, the west side. It's a few mins from HWY 70, one car garage, fenced back yard, the carpet kinda sucks, but it's only $700. They allow pets but it's a $250 pet rent yearly fee. It would probably be available the 1st week of Aug. Contact me for more information. |
| Thursday, June 29th, 2006 | |
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