The State of Nevada issued the Amber Alert Saturday morning (07-11) after the children were reportedly abducted on Friday (07-10) in Washoe county. They
were last seen with the suspect in the Sun Valley area. Sun Valley is approximately 10 miles north of Reno.
Tyson Mata-Martinez (above left) a 4 year old white male, 2' 6", weighing 40 pounds.
Megan Mata-Martinez (above middle left) a 7 year old white female, 2'10" weighing 55 pounds.
Jakelyne Mata-Martinez (above middle right) an 8 year old white female, 3' weighing 60 pounds.
Ivan Mata-Martinez (above right) a 9 year old white male, 4' weighing 80 pounds.
The suspect is Claire Tourand, a white female, 34 Years old, 5' 8" and 220 pounbds with brown hair and hazel eyes.
The suspect vehicle is a 1998 white Mercury Sable with Nevada tag number 369-SDH.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911.
Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued this Missing Endangered person Alert after the girl went missing on Friday evening (06-26) while walking home from
a friends house in McCleary Washington. McCleary is a small town of about 1,500 residents and is about 15 miles west of Olympia. There is no evidence of
foul play in this case but the FBI is joining the investigation and search today (Monday 06-29). The FBI will also be bringing in additional law enforcement
personnel to help in the investigation and search. No Amber Alert has been issued in this case.
Lindsey J. Baum a 10 year old white female, 4' 9" tall, 80 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing a gray or blue hooded pullover
sweatshirt, with blue jeans and black shoes.
There is no suspect information at this time.
There is no suspoect vehicle information at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Office at 360-249-3711 or dial 911.
The State of Delaware issued the Amber Alert Saturday afternoon (6-27) after the boy was abducted by the suspect from his grandmother's home in Lincoln
earlier Saturday. The suspect violated a restraining order and is believed to be headed to Pennsylvania.
Zion Duprey a 5 year old Hispanic male, 2' 3" tall, 25 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing blue jean shorts to the knees and
a blue shirt with white designs.
The suspect is Angel D. Duprey, a 30 year old Hispanic male, 6' 2" tall, 165 pounds with brown hair. He was last seen wearing no shirt and blue jeans.
He has tattoos around his neck.
The suspect vehicle has been recovered in Delaware.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Delaware State Police - Troop 5 at 302-337-1090 or dial 911.
The State of Florida issued the Amber Alert early Sunday morning (05-31) after the boy was apparently abducted in Miami sometime on Saturday. The victim and his mother are believed to be traveling with an Hispanic male in a burgundy truck.
Donald Arauz a 2 year old Hispanic male, 3', 32 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and blue shorts. The childs mother, Antonia Acuna, 36 years old, five feet tal and weighs 130 pounds with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white tank top and blue jeans.
The susect is an unknown Hispanic male.
The suspect vehicle is a burgundy truck.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Miami Police Department at 305-579-6630 or dial 911.
The State of Pennsylvania issued the Amber Alert early Tuesday evening (05-26) after the girl and her mother were abducted in Upper Southampton Township earlier in the afternoon. According to reports two unknown black males jumped into the mother's vehicle along State Route 132, Street Road and drove away with the girl and her mother still in the vehicle.
Julia Rakoczy an 8 year old white female, 4’1”, 59 pounds with long brown hair and blue eyes. She has a dime-sized birthmark on her forehead. Her mother, Her mother, Bonnie Sweeten, was also abducted. She is a white female, 38 years old, 5’11” tall, 130 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
The suspects are two unknown black males.
The suspect vehicle is a silver 2005 GMC Denali SUV with PA Registration GYK8998.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911.
The State of Michigan issued the Amber Alert early Monday morning (05-25) after the girl was apparently abducted while playing in front of her apartment complex in Monroe Sunday evening (05-24). The girl was last seen at about 8:15 PM playing with ther scooter. The scooter was later found in the parking lot of the apartment complex. Due to the nature of her disappearance the child is considered to be in extreme danger.
Neviaeh Amyah Buchanan a 5 year old white female, 3'8", 45 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing a red, white and blue striped shirt, knee length blue jeans.
There is no suspect information available at this time.
There is no suspect vehicle information available at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Monroe County Sheriff at 734-243-7070 or dial 911.
The State of Colorado issued the Amber Alert early Saturday morning (05-23) after the boy's parents failed to show up for a court appearance in Colorado Springs on Thursday. Custody of the boy was transferred to the state of Colorado due to allegations of child abuse. The boy requires medical attention due to sever burns he suffered in April to his hands. Police believe the suspects may be headed to Mexico with the boy.
Emanuel Guzman a 2 year old Hispanic male, 2', 30 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.
There are two suspects. Carmen Aguilera is a 30 year old Hispanic female, 5' 6", 130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Benito Guzman is a 29 year old Hispanic male, 5' 8", 180 pounds with black hair, brown eyes and has a mustache.
There are two possible suspect vehicles, a tan 2004 Ford pickup with Colorado tag number 491-SKZ or a brown 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee with Colorado tag number 781-SLH.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7000 or dial 911.
Many, definitely too many to list. Music is my biggest passion, and I'm always singing, so I tend to learn all the words to songs I like very quickly.
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Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued this Missing Endangered person Alert after the girl was last seen leaving Oliver Stephens School in Woodstock Ont. just after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday (04-09). No Amber Alert has been issued at this time.
Victoria (Tori) Stafford a white female, 8 years old with short blond hair and blue eyes. she is 4' 5, weighing 62 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black Hannah Montana jacket with a fur-lined hood.
There is no suspect at this time although police have security camera footage of Tori leaving the school with a tall woman with long black hair wearing tight blue jeans. Police are asking the woman to come forward to aid in the search.
There is no suspect vehicle at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Oxford Community Police Service or Crime Stoppers at 421-TIPS (8477) or toll free at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Khloe Kardashian Kicked off 'Celebrity Apprentice' for Past DUI Offense
Though Khloe Kardashian has been gaining attention on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she became even more notorious for being the seventh contestant fired from the reality series The Celebrity Apprentice. In a shocking turn of events, Donald Trump revealed that he had just learned about the starlet’s past DUI arrest and decided that it was one reason for her to leave the show.
Audiences might think it unfair that Khloe’s DUI was the sole cause for her elimination, and the reality TV celebrity agrees. Following the incident,
Khloe Kardashian wrote on her blog: “So as I'm sure you've all heard, The Donald fired me off of Celebrity Apprentice last night. It wasn't because of
my work ethic, it wasn't because I was slacking -- it was because of my DUI, one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made that I will forever regret.”
“I will NEVER say that what I did was right, but I think it is completely unrelated to my place on the show and I don't think I should have been fired
for that reason alone. I have tried to bring awareness to how serious DUI's are and I am trying to make some right out of my huge mistake.”
Despite the injustice of what happened, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star realized that the experience was worth it anyway. “Oh well...what's done
is done, and there's nothing I can do now. I just wish Mr. Trump would have handled the situation a little differently. I guess I was expecting a lot...
LOL.”
Even though she’s no longer on Celebrity Apprentice, Khloe Kardashian gathered enough memories and lessons to last. “I met a lot of cool people on the
show, many who were really talented.”
“It was a great experience and I love a new challenge,” she wrote, “but I have to say that I was happy when it was over so that I could focus on the growth
and success of my clothing store and shooting Keeping Up with the people I love most in the world! Filming Celebrity Apprentice gave me a whole new outlook
on Keeping Up. I adore working with my family and this just made it all that much clearer to me.”
-Maria Gonzalez, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
I understand that Trump makes the rules for the show, but I wonder if there's a law that is supposed to prevent him from firing an employee based on his/her past criminal record. There are plenty of celebrities who have criminal records, and if Kardashian had a contract, she could sue Trump, couldn't she?
I think, as do many, that Kardashian's dismissal was extremely unfair. She has shown a very admirable effort to redeem herself and help others, and it's not up to Trump to pass judgment on her.
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Sandra Cantu was last seen at the Orchard Estates mobile home park around 4:00 p.m. Friday.
After returning home from school, Sandra left to go to a friend's home inside the same mobile home park around 3 p.m., Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said. Sheneman said Sandra left the friend's home and was last seen outside her own home around 4 p.m.
Sheneman had no information about who saw the girl or whether family members saw Sandra after she came home from her friend's home. Sandra lives with her mother and grandparents.
The girl's mother called police around 8 p.m.
"We have no indication that an abduction has occurred and it is our hope that (TV) viewers will see Sandra and immediately notify the police department and get her on her way home," Scheneman said.
"It's definitely out of character for her to be gone this long," Sandra's uncle Joe Chavez said. "She always calls and checks in. She's not allowed to leave the mobile home park. She never goes out."
The FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were called in Saturday to assist in the search. After canvassing area parks and schools overnight, authorities were contacting all the park's residents Saturday and searching cars to uncover more information, Scheneman said.
Sandra Cantu is described as 4 feet tall, 45 pounds with brown eyes and hair. She was last seen wearing a pink Hello Kitty t-shirt and black leggings.
"She's a very friendly girl and I just pray she's ok. If she's out there, we just want her to come home," Sandra's aunt Angie Chavez said.
Authorities were trying to reach Sandra's father, who lives in Mexico. Family spokeswoman Lisa Encarnacion said he had been estranged from his family for several years and family members did not think he was involved in Sandra's disappearance.
Family and friends held a vigil for Sandra outside the family's home at 8 p.m. Saturday.
At the entrance to the mobile home park, Tracy Police and other law enforcement agencies screened each car leaving and entering the area. They planned to continue that checkpoint throughout the night before resuming their search by foot and from the air around 8 a.m. Sunday.
At least 200 law enforcement officers and community volunteers were expected to help with that effort, which will cover more remote areas outside town after Saturday's search turned up no evidence of Cantu's whereabouts in her neighborhood.
Anyone with information about Sandra's whereabouts as asked to call the Tracy Police Department general number at 209-831-4550 or Det. Tim Bauer at 209-321-4461.
The State of Kentucky issued the Amber Alert on Saturday (2-28) after the suspect failed to return the girl following visitation in Frankfort on Friday. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous and has suicidal tendencies according to Police.
Breanna Woodside is a white female, 2 years old, 3 ft. tall and weighs 35 pounds. She has straight blonde hair past her shoulders, and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing purple sweatpants, a purple and pink striped shirt, a black jacket with pink lining, and blue shoes.
The suspect is Miles Woodside, a 30 year old white male, 6'1'' and weighs 190 pounds. He has red hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing loose-fitting blue jeans, and tennis shoes. He has a tattoo with symbols between his upper shoulders.
The suspect vehicle is a silver 1997 Lincoln Towncar with KY tag number 064BAA.
Anyone with information is asked to call Frankfort Police Department at 502-875-8582 or dial 911.
Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:22 PM AT
Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued this Missing Endangered person Alert after the girl disappeared from her bedroom some time after 3 AM Tuesday morning in Satsuma. Satsuma is approximately 75 miles east of Gainsville.
Haleigh Cummings a white female, 3 feet tall, weighs 39 pounds and has blond hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear.
There are no suspects in this case at this time. However, due to the circumstances of the child's disappearance an abduction is strongly suspected.
There is no suspect vehicle at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Putnam County Sheriff's office at (386) 329-0808 or dial 911.
CANS Alert Issued for 3 Year Old Arkansas Boy
Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:22 PM AT
Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued this Missing Endangered person Alert after the boy dissappered while playing behind his home Tuesday afternoon in Chidester which is in south central Arkansas.
Dominick Wesley Arceneaux a white male, 3 feet tall, weighs 38 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing blue jean shorts with red stiching on the pockets.
There are no suspects in this case at this time. However, officials are leaning toward the possibility Arceneaux was kidnapped because they haven't found any sign of the boy as of Thursday night.
There is no suspect vehicle at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Ouachita County Sheriff's Office (870) 837-2200 or dial 911.
The Sate of California issued the Amber Alert on Friday after the boys were apparently abducted in Altadena on Thursday by their mother. The mother is reportedly suicidal and has threatened to kill both of the boys as well.
Evan Ruelas, (pictured above right) an Hispanic Male, 6 years old.
Gabriel Ruelas, (pictured above middle) an Hispanic Male, 10 years old.
The suspect is Lisa Vigil Ruelas, (pictured above left) an Hispanic female, 38 years old, 5' 4 " and weighing 140 pounds.
The suspect vehicle is a a silver 2005 Saturn mini-van with a roof-top luggage rack and California license 5SNJ931.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, 626-798-1131 or dial 911.
I really need to get out of my current living situation, but I'm on a very tight budget. Does anyone know of any housing (apt, townhome, travel lodge, rented room... I'm open to anything) anywhere in Memphis that costs between $200 and $300 a month? Please leave a comment or call 615-556-9977.
Thanks,
Becky
> Annoying software: a rogues' gallery
No gain without pain?
The internet has brought us many joys. It's rewritten the rules of business and pleasure.
And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time
('let's use it to make sure our customers have the latest software', for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery -- usually, but by no means always,
after marketing gets its fangs in.
Here are just ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly
succeed.
Adobe Reader
What does Adobe Reader do? Displays PDF pages. How does it do it? With as much bloody-minded bureaucracy, delay and needless interaction as possible. Perhaps
it's because we humans have been spoiled by books, where the gap between wanting to read something and reading it is as short as the time taken to lift
the cover. But Reader's incessant updates (demanding you reset your computer -- why?), thundering great list of modules to load, and hour-glass-provoking
pauses for thought have given Portable Document Format a reputation for being as welcome as a flatulent camel in the kitchen.
Which is a shame, because other lightweight PDF readers seem to manage perfectly well.
Apple
Oh, Apple. You created a domain where humans came first. You took usability and distilled it into an art form. Now look at you. iTunes is a music player
the size of a fat-bottomed whale that gobbles resources like krill. It spends half its time trying to sell us stuff and the other half trying to stop us
using it. But that's not as bad as your auto-update policy: slipping us stealth copies of Safari under the cover of important version updates to iTunes
and Quicktime -- what is this, Make Microsoft Look Good day?
Windows Update
Your machine will reset in four minutes. Your machine will not shut down until these five updates are installed. You must restart your machine now. You
will install Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Please wait while these updates are installed. Please shut down all applications before applying this update.
Pop! New updates are ready to be installed. And now that we've stopped you doing whatever it was you were doing (like we care), shall we go ahead and install
them now, or would you rather be interrupted yet again later?
We've been kind and not talked about Vista.
RealPlayer
If this software turned up at your door, you'd call the police. RealPlayer commits just about every sin in the book, sprinkling itself across your desktop
and offering 'Free games!'. It installs a 'Message Center' that tells you about microcelebrities. There is more advertising embedded in the application
than used to be on the front page of The Times. And you just wanted to stream The Archers.
At least Europe's been spared Real's Rhapsody music shop. When we looked at a beta before a subsequently abandoned UK launch, we were given software to
install. 'Disable your firewall', it commanded. 'Drop dead', we replied.
Java
Java doesn't do anything by itself. It's a programming language. Programming languages are like sewage plants: if the average user becomes aware of them,
something's gone wrong.
Java doesn't know this. Java wants to be in your face. Java wants to be updated. Java wants to tell you the good news about Sun. Have you heard about Sun?
Here's a nice picture of our logo. And fancy a copy of OpenOffice? No? Well, never mind. Java's installed a copy of Yahoo Toolbar in your browser instead.
Because that's what programming languages are there to do, right?
Yahoo
And talking of Yahoo. Please stop. Please stop trying to take over my email, my search engine, my home page. Please stop 'updating' your IM client to include
more emoticons, animations, noises and whatnot -- or at least have the good grace to produce a grown-ups' edition I can use at work without feeling like
I should still be reading Smash Hits. And yes, when I ask to exit the software, that's because I really want to, not because I'm having a crisis of doubt.
And there is absolutely no point in a toolbar that just replicates all the options on your web site's front page. Not unless you want to come across as
the sort of shrill, desperate, needy software company that makes big noises about user relationships but in fact knows less about its users than the Queen
does about shopping in Lidl.
Norton Antivirus
It's a little unfair to pick on Norton Antivirus and make it carry the sins of half the desktop malware industry -- but only a little unfair. If ever a
class of software deserved to be cast into the lower reaches of Hell and run on Satan's own desktop, it is this. Performance-sapping, space-hogging, noisy,
irritating and prone to inducing just as many problems as they purport to solve, these horrible, ineffective, expensive lumps of digital thuggery keep
entire platoons of support engineers in business and home users in tears. We know. We get the phone calls.
Preinstalled software bundles
After quarter of a century of the IBM PC, we still don't understand why so many companies feel obliged to create swathes of below-par software to install
on the computers they sell. Notebook makers are the worst, and Sony the king of them all: the first job for any new Vaio owner is to strip out the layers
of desktop 'enhancements', media 'managers' and system 'control software' that serve only to get in the way of doing things the way you know how to do
them, interfere with other software packages and suck up such enormous amounts of resources on start-up that two weeks after you've bought one, you're
still not sure whether it's broken or not.
Outlook/Exchange
Free, web-based email systems have more storage than you can use. They have powerful, accurate, swift search systems. They have clean interfaces, with threaded
conversations and sane attachment management.
Then there's Microsoft's Outlook. Things have been getting better for those whose corporate upgrade strategy allows it, but with major updates happening
every four years or so that's a long time to be looking at a non-threaded, licence-restricted storage- squeezed, treacle-slow-searching email system. Especially
while the online services get better and better, and doubly so now that email is the single most important business application ever created.
Flash
There's nothing wrong with Flash, provided you don't use it to construct web sites where people want to find information, navigate easily or do anything
beyond passively consume exactly what you choose to give them in exactly the way you've decided.
There's also nothing wrong with using it for a splendid splash screen replete with movies, sound and animation -- if you don't mind frustrating, annoying
and possibly even driving away people who might, just might, have something better to do.
Hope y’all enjoyed.
Namaste,
Becky
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To add to that, my cold is almost completely gone, finally! I'm thoroughly relieved; this one really was a bitch.
Hope everyone is well.
Namaste,
Becky
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Stop the U.S.-backed genocidal Israeli war on Gaza!
Nearly a thousand women, men and children killed by U.S.-made Israeli bombs
Thousands more wounded
1.5 million under siege for the past 18 months, without food, water, medicine, fuel
Collective punishment for resisting occupation; emergency aid blocked
Massive violations of international law
Apartheid wall
Racist oppression
Homes and land stolen
Forced into refugee camps
60 years of occupation, from the river to the sea
We Say Enough!
We Are
Jews in Solidarity with Palestine
No to Israel! Yes To Self-Determination, Democracy & Freedom!
Stop U.S. Funding of the War on Palestine!
Free Palestine
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The whole world is horrified by the murderous Israeli assault against the suffering people of Gaza. From Seoul to Caracas, from Johannesburg to Amman to
London, millions of people have poured into the streets to demand an end to this genocidal campaign, which is funded by the United States and carried out
with U.S.-supplied weaponry.
There have also been protests in U.S. cities. While most of those marching are Arab-Americans, many African Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans and whites
have joined in. Many Jewish people, outraged at Israel's war crimes and anguished that they are carried out in their name, are speaking out.
It's good that Jewish people of conscience are disassociating themselves from the Gaza aggression. But it's not enough. This atrocity is only the latest,
and it's no aberration. It reflects the program of the Israeli settler state?which is based on the theft of Palestine, the ouster and suppression of the
Palestinian people, and the racist ideology of Zionism?and of its primary sponsor, the Pentagon and U.S. business establishment.
It's not enough to oppose the bombing. It's not enough to demand an end to the 41-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. We stand in complete and unconditional
support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people. This includes the right to return to Palestine, from the river to the sea, and the right
to democratically determine the form and the future of the Palestinian state.
Nothing less will undo the historic crime of al Nakba?the 1948 catastrophe of the establishment of the state of Israel based on the ouster of the Palestinian
people from their homeland, oppression and inequality.
That crime betrayed the whole history of the Jewish people. From helping topple the czar in Russia and build the unions in New York, to resisting pogroms
and fighting to the last breath in the Warsaw Ghetto, opposition to persecution, oppression and racism was central to the Jewish heritage.
We call on Jewish people around the world, including those inside Israel, to join us in reclaiming that heritage. Reject racism and genocide. Reject the
Zionist state, the very concept of which is racist to the core. Take the hand of our Palestinian sisters and brothers. Defend their righteous struggle
to restore their stolen land and build a democratic Palestine.
This is not an impossible quest. Remember how mighty the settler state in South Africa seemed, only a little over two decades ago? The racist regime there
was buttressed by U.S.?and Israeli?support. But it was battered by the unstoppable political and military struggle against apartheid, which gained worldwide
support. Apartheid fell, replaced by a new state based on legal equality.
A future of equality for all is possible in Palestine too. Until this future is won, the Palestinian struggle will go on. We stand with that struggle.
I watched the inauguration with Jess on the phone. We were wondering whether Dubya would get booed when the announcer called his name, but I'm actually glad he didn't, only because it would've taken away from the ceremony itself. I thought the piece by Yo Yo Ma and the other guy was incredible, as was the performance by Aritha Franklin. I was thoroughly annoyed when they first called Obama's name and used only his middle initial, and I was glad when they stopped that nonsense. I still can't believe the Chief Justice screwed up Obama's oath! The only part about Obama's speech that really bugged me was the insistence that America must "lead". All the implications over the years that America's leaders think they're better and smarter than everyone else in the world is irritating and undoubtedly the reason for many of our problems. That being said, I'm still looking forward to the next four years.
Not long after the inauguration, I got into an argument with my father, in which he did his usual yelling at the top of his lungs. The difference this time was, I'm officially done with it. We haven't spoken since, and he left the house not long afterword, but from here on out, I will have as little contact with him as possible for the remainder of my stay here. I'm done with pretending that things just go back to normal after he does this shit, so I intend to have no further communication with him.
American Idol was highly entertaining tonight, and I think the last guy that auditioned was the best I've seen so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how far he goes.
And on that note, I'm out. Later.
Namaste,
Becky
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Update to computer crisis: I still can't get into the Yahoo account, and now I can't get on saveanime.com, which is hindering my work for SEVASA, bigtime. My mother is going to do a system restore, for all the good it'll do. I'm convinced the problem won't be solved unless evil Norton is removed completely and replaced with NOD32 or something. But I've backed up all the SEVASA files and whatnot anyway. I think I'm at the point, though, at which I can no longer use my parents' computer and keep my sanity, the main three reasons being Norton, the inability to store anything private on the computer itself, and having to constantly hear them yelling at Abby, or each other (there's no door on their room). So, it looks like it's time to look hardcore for a laptop. Problem is, (1) I really can't afford one and (2) I'll be damn lucky to get one with my credit the way it is. But I'm gonna try anyway, damn it.
I woke up Saturday morning with a cold and did my best to fight it for the rest of the day. Yesterday, I thought I'd beaten it, but apparently I haven't, as I feel like crap again today. I'd really rather not be sick tomorrow while watching the inauguration, but as long as I'm better by Friday, I'll deal. I'm planning on going to see NMB's show Friday night, because it's really been too damn long since I've seen them.
Speaking of inauguration... I'm starting to feel mounting excitement. I really don't want to watch it by myself, though. I wish I could watch it with a group of friends in person and have some sort of celebration, but since that's probably not gonna happen, I'm thinking of seeing who wants to conference call, either by phone or on Skype. If anyone's interested, lemme know.
Recent discussion about the state of the anime industry has spurred me to new heights in SEVASA. Now that I'm a co-admin, I've been doing quite a bit of networking, posting, and thinking about short-term and long-term goals. I've also been talking with representatives from other advocacy groups, and I have a heightened sense of faith in all of us in the fan community. All the work I've been doing lately has given me a feeling similar to that of having an actual job, and it's great. The work is fun and fulfilling. This, though, is another reason I need my own comp and also why being sick is a right pain in the arse.
This Thursday, I will be calling Grayhound to make my seven-day advance purchase for my ticket to Ohayocon. Then I'll be leaving the following Thursday evening. Nerves and excitement mounting there as well.
So, lots going on and lots to look forward to in the next couple weeks. And now I'm finished scribbling; I'll write more later.
Namaste,
Becky
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