The Hannah Family

I love happy endings

Three teenage boys adrift in the Pacific for 50 days were rescued alive against all odds.  They'd begun drinking seawater since it hadn't rained so clearly they wouldn't have survived for much longer.  The fishing boat took a different route than usual and spotted the kids (800 miles from where they'd started).  Miracles do happen.  Here's the whole story, just click the link.

Irresponsible and so selfish!

What do bakers do with unsold food at the end of the day?  Some places like Panera Bread donate to the local food bank which is awesome and cuts down on the waste.

What do retailers do with unsold clothes and shoes?  Slash holes in the them and bag for the nearest landfill which is what the New York Times reported H&M and Wal-Mart were doing when recently caught dumping giant trash bags of merchandise.  Hello - ever heard of charity?  They have now and had better stick with the program.  Target routinely makes donations and I'm sure they get a tax write-off which is fair and reasonable, doing otherwise is completely unacceptable.

So trashy

Too broke to rent a room?  A man and woman (both 44) in Wichita actually climbed into a dumpster for some adult alone time.  Clearly the guy is some smooth kind of talker.  That would be enough of a story for me to go to press, but it gets worse.  They were robbed... in the dumpster... while doing the dirty.  The police must have thought they were on Candid Camera when they were called, but they took a report and caught the bad guys.  No mention of charges against the lovebirds.  Seems like public drunk (?), drug (?), or indecency laws must have been broken, but it looks like karma is punishing them already.

I've read all the books, may as well visit the theme park someday

Universal Studios is working on a Harry Potter park in Orlando, FL scheduled to open Spring 2010.  I suppose I should start saving my galleons now.

RIP

Sad news:  Farewell to Patrick Swayze who finally succumbed today to pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.  He was a talented man and one of my longtime crushes, rating right up there with John Travolta, Tom Cruise, and Michael J. Fox.  Whoa, I just zoned out here at the keyboard for a while.

The Duggars are expecting baby number 19

Their first grandchild will come first, a little girl.  Good thing Arkansas is such an economical place to live!

My kids would be jealous

27,000 students in Washington are missing school due to a teacher's strike.  They need to reach an agreement soon!

I'm going to have to stop watching the news

Thank God Jaycee Dugard was returned to her family at last.  Kidnapped at age 11, held for 18 years, now has two young girls with her abductor (registered sex offender) who are 11 and 15.  A long drawn out nightmare reminiscent of Elizabeth Smart and Elisabeth Fritzl in Austria.  Why can't the crazies stay in their holes by themselves?

I buy a ticket for every Powerball drawing regardless of the jackpot

The odds are 1-in-80 million, but anyone with a ticket could be the winner...

 

Powerball Jackpot Soars to Quarter of a Billion Dollars! RALEIGH- The Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday night drawing has rolled to an estimated $250 million! It’s the largest current lottery jackpot in the world. Powerball sales across the country and here in North Carolina are brisk prompting an increase in the estimated jackpot from the original estimate of $245 million. In the lunchtime hour, Powerball sales in North Carolina were averaging about $900 per minute. If the jackpot is won Wednesday, it will be the 10th largest in Powerball history. The estimated lump sum cash option is $124.8 million. Powerball is the world’s best known jackpot lottery game. Drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 EST. ... For prizes of $5,000 and greater, 25% federal tax and 7% state tax are withheld.

Stranger than fiction

A Rhode Island mother went to get her 9-month-old son from daycare only to find the building closed and locked for the night.  She banged on the doors and windows loud enough to attract the attention of a neighbor who broke into the center for her, and found the baby crying in a crib all alone.  The daycare owner said it happened because the mom hadn't signed the child in that morning.  You can see the adorable (and luckily unharmed) baby in the video link attached to the story.  What a nightmare.