Be careful what you ask for!

Guess we got a little more rain then we could handle...nearly 2 inches in 30 minutes. Loads of hail and flooded freeways, along with downed trees and a couple roof collapses on businesses. The State Capitol building also has some flooding.

No problems locally here in the neighborhood. In fact, the storm passed so quickly that the sun is out and now there's not a cloud in the sky. If you listen closely enough you can almost hear the trees gasping in orgasmic pleasure as the coating of smog and dust got washed off their very dry leaves and quenched their thurst.

Full story at KCRA-Channel 3

Here comes the rain!

Last week we had temperatures over 100 degrees. This week there are predictions of a possibility of snow in the high Sierras and we are currently having our first rain since February and it is a welcome gusher. Had about an inch of rain in the last hour and it is still going strong without any let up.

We're sure having some crazy weather patterns on Mother Earth this year. Wonder if there is something unusual in the pattern or location of Earth in relation to the Sun this year.

New Orleans. You were a grand city to visit. Hope I'll be able to do so again.

Hurricane tracking prediction as of 4pm today looks to be a near direct hit for N'awlins.

If you're anywhere near New Orleans, the Florida Panhandle or any of the flatlands in between....please don't try to be the tough guy who never blinks. Get out. Err on the conservative side. I promise, no one will laugh at you for doing so.

Lauren, I haven't kept in touch with you or the other old AOL Guides from that area for a few years, but I hope you are no longer living in N'awlins, and if you are, that you all have sense enough to get out.

Need a reminder of what is predicted for that area in a huge hurricane? Read this old Now with Bill Moyers transcript from Sept., 2002.

Here are a few pertinent excerpts:

DANIEL ZWERDLING: So basically the part of New Orleans that most people in the United States and around the world think of as New Orleans would disappear under water.

JOE SUHAYDA:: That's right. During the worst of the storm, most of this area would be covered by 15 to 20 feet of water.

DANIEL ZWERDLING: Do you expect this kind of hurricane and this kind of flooding to hit New Orleans in our lifetime?

JOE SUHUYDA: Well, there-- I would say the probability is yes. In terms of past experience, we've had three storms that were near-misses that could've done at least something close to this.

WALTER MAESTRI: A couple of days ago we actually had an exercise where we brought a fictitious Category Five hurricane--

DANIEL ZWERDLING: The worst.

WALTER MAESTRI: --the absolute worst, into the metropolitan area

DANIEL ZWERDLING: Walter Maestri is basically the czar of public emergencies in Jefferson Parish. It's the biggest suburb in the region.

WALTER MAESTRI: Well, when the exercise was completed it was evident that we were going to lose a lot of people we changed the name of the storm from Delaney to K-Y-A-G-B... kiss your ass goodbye... because anybody who was here as that Category Five storm came across... was gone.

DANIEL ZWERDLING: The American Red Cross lists the worst natural disasters that might strike America. They worry about earthquakes in California, and tropical storms in Florida. But they say the biggest catastrophe could be a hurricane hitting New Orleans.

WALTER MAESTRI: New Orleans is, if you think about it, it's a soup bowl. Think of a soup bowl. And the soup bowl-- the high edges of the soup bowl-- is the Mississippi River. It's amazing to say, but the highest elevation in the city of New Orleans is at the Mississippi River.

DANIEL ZWERDLING: Maestri says, imagine what happens if a hurricane like Andrew comes raging up from the Gulf:

WALTER MAESTRI: The hurricane is spinning counter-clockwise. It's been pushing in front of it water from the Gulf of Mexico for days. It's now got a wall of water in front of it some 30, 40 feet high. As it approaches the levies of the-- the-- that surround the city, it tops those levees. As the storm continues to pass over. Now Lake Ponchetrain, that water from Lake Ponchartrain is now pushed on to that - those population which has been fleeing from the western side and everybody's caught in the middle. The bowl now completely fills. And we've now got the entire community underwater some 20, 30 feet underwater. Everything is lost.

DANIEL ZWERDLING: Remember the levees which the Army built, to hold smaller floods out of the bowl? Maestri says now those levees would doom the city. Because they'd trap the water in.

WALTER MAESTRI: It's going to look like a massive shipwreck. There's going to be-- there's going to be, you know-- everything that that the water has carried in is going to be there. Alligators, moccasins, you know every kind of rodent that you could think of.

All of your sewage treatment plants are under water. And of course the material is flowing free in the community. Disease becomes a distinct possibility now. The petrochemicals that are produced all up and down the Mississippi River --much of that has floated into this bowl. I mean this has become, you know, the biggest toxic waste dump in the world now. Is the city of New Orleans because of what has happened.

Important Critical Update from Microsoft:


Be sure to update ALL your Microsoft software including Windows, Office, Picture It, FrontPage, Publisher, Word, Excel, Access, etc.

Here's the link to Microsoft's new update tool that is supposed to aid in the update of all jpg-related software:



And be sure your anti-virus and firewall software are up to date. Yesterday my anti-virus software successfully blocked an attempt to infect my PC with a trojan. I haven't been able to track down the source or duplicate it after retracing all the sites I visited yesterday.

Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs
Published: September 14, 2004, 1:24 PM PDT
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Microsoft published on Tuesday a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable.

The critical flaw has to do with how Microsoft's operating systems and other software process the widely used JPEG image format and could let attackers create an image file that would run a malicious program on a victim's computer as soon as the file was viewed. Because the software giant's Internet Explorer browser is vulnerable, Windows users could fall prey to an attack just by browsing to an untrusted Web site.

It's only fair!

Does this mean that we women are now in the right if we grab a disrupting right-wing jackass by the balls and lead him out of a political gathering?

I'm confident that the fair and balanced Fox News would be sure to get photos of such an incident if it were to occur.

Photo from Yahoo/AP

A member of the audience pulls a demonstrator's hair as he forces her out of an auditorium where President Bush was addressing a crowd of supporters at Byers Choice in Colmar, Pa. Thursday Sept. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Talk to the Animals

If we could talk to the animals, just imagine it
Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee
Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah
What a neat achievement that would be

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages
Maybe take an animal degree
We'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle
Alligator, guinea pig, and flea

We would converse in polar bear and python
And we could curse in fluent kangaroo
If people asked us, "Can you speak in rhinoceros?"
We'd say, "Of courserous, can't you?"

If we conferred with our furry friends, man to animal
Think of all the things we could discuss
If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals
And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to us

Made another friend while out on my walk this morning. He was quacking his head off at me as I walked by so I stopped to exchange quacks with him. At one point he was even nibbling at my toes in my sandals.
He followed me all the way home so I went upstairs to fetch some birdseed for him. There's a broken sprinkler pipe in the carport that has created a mini pond. My webbed friend made himself at home there. He has a band around his ankle so he must be domesticated. I'm thinking about calling him "Aflac" and me Ms. Doolittle.

For all you folks out there with friends who have cats and cat boxes, I present this year's self-cleaning toilet model for your gift shopping wish lists.




Copyright Camilla Eriksson, MillanNet

Was just looking at my website statistics and was amused by this week's search phrases used to find the content on my website.

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Never realized that having photos of cats in bumblebee costumes out on my balcony, humping my sexy mom's gorgeous beauty as she rides topless on a bicycle doing the hula through the garden would be such a hit with the search engines. LOL!

This too shall pass...


Things are better. Most of the fires are out or nearly out and the winds have died down considerably. We had winds of up to 45 to 50 mph on Friday and Saturday in some areas.

Local news reports that there's an arsonist (or two) in the area that is setting fires to businesses and houses along a nearby business district street in Citrus Heights, and an arsonist that is setting grassfires along the various freeways in both the Fairfield and Valley areas. I am wondering if it has anything to do with the case against some fire fighteres who were busted for going to porn parties while on duty recently.

I was able to have the windows open Sunday and Monday mornings to cool the place off. There's still a smell of smoke in the air but it isn't irritating my lungs like it did earlier in the weekend. Keeping everything closed up and using the central air fan and purifiers to filter the air helped a lot. I'm just not looking forward to the increased electric bill.

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes...


Woke up coughing early this morning. There must of been a change in wind direction during the night. We've got grass and wild fires all around us on both sides of and in the Valley. The air is starting to get rather smokey and I'm already experiencing a little breathing problems so I've closed up all the windows, put towels under doors, have turned on my air purifiers and located my inhaler.

If the air quality (and my breathing) gets worse, I'll need to find somewhere else to stay until the fires are out.

Wildfires burn across Northern California

Eight horses were killed and more than a half dozen homes burned Friday as gusty winds fanned several wildfires across Northern California.

In Vacaville, 32 miles southwest of Sacramento, a 30-acre grassfire destroyed a farmhouse and several barns, killing eight horses. And a fire in nearby Davis jumped a highway, burned two homes and injured three people.

A wildfire in Calaveras County near Burson quickly spread to 1,500 acres in just a few hours, destroying four houses, numerous other buildings and forcing evacuations, said Kristine Ferreira of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Another blaze, near Anderson Springs in Sonoma County, burned through 75 acres before the wind gusts died down and fire fighters were able to start bringing it under control.