We spend much of our lives in the pursuit of creating options. Family options. Friends options. Economic options.

It's natural to be unhappy when someone who shouldn't restricts our options by telling us what to do. In other words, we put a high price on our individual freedom.

When I check in at BCTS WITHOUT logging in, I am always missing a few blogs and stories that I can only see if I am logged in.
For instance right now, as I AM logged in, I can see Gamma Trials; Working Relations -6; & Homecoming Princess-Princess Found 12; AND I can see a blog PCOS. But if I log out, they disappear and the last story I can see is Easy As Falling Off A Bike 762.

Rube Goldberg lives, in a computer, In Holland

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4,
> 1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands.
>
> Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything, and it's
> in Dutch; but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.
> Don't click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see what
> happens.
>
> This company has a sense of humor and a GREAT web site designer!
>
>
http://producten.hema.nl/
>

I've had the most brilliant experiences yesterday and the day before. I'm still on an emotional high from them.

I spent ages this morning trying to get Internet Exploder to download the sites I wanted to visit. For some reason it doesn't like Top Shelf. I was cross anyway, because I should have been doing a bike ride today and had to cry off because I wasn't very well. So after taking another long period to download an alternative - this being my netbook with dongle connection, which claims to work at 7.2Mbs, but is more like 5Kbs - I am now writing this with the good offices of Firefox, amazing what you can do with cheese. Thank you Mozzarella for your assistance.

Angharad

I have just posted Part two of SECOND CHANCE to my site. http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip---second-chance---part-2...

Tanya

I've just posted Chapters 5 & 6 of A girl can but dream on my site
at http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip---a-girl-can-but-dream--...

Tanya

I didn't lose any friends on 9/11, but a friend of mine was there(in NYC)and sheltered a lot of people when it went down. I have lost friends in the subsequent wars.

I will not make any political commentary of any kind here, and I would ask yawl to please follow suit, but I would like to ask one thing, that we all take a moment to remember our honored dead.

That, I think, is only proper.

Thank you.

May we never forget this day and all the loved ones who lost their lives. I will always remember where I was that day. I was out on the floor working in a factory that made home interior products. My boss came out and told us what was happening. We knew that the world would never be the same ever again. It is hard to believe it has been eight years. It seems like it happened yesterday.

[Moderator Edit Note]: Sephrena I have turned comments off because this just crossed the line of civil commenting. But this topic is worth viewing, so it will remain viewable.

(sounds like she has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS).)

Caster Semenya is a woman --- and a man.

SYDNEY (AP) - World 800-meter champion Caster Semenya of South Africa has male and female sexual organs, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Friday, posing an ethical and political quandary for athletics' ruling body.

Semenya's reported condition could have grave medical implications.

The Herald said extensive physical examinations of 18-year-old Semenya ordered by the IAAF have shown she is technically a hermaphrodite.

Sorry no stories posted, but my second grandson was born yesterday. The labour lasted less than half an hour and my son delivered it at home. All well.
Tanya

A little over a year ago, I read a story that captivated me. That story was "Tragedy of the Spirit". The Authoress was a friend whom I met years previous. Mellissa, She was a wonderful friend whom had a demeaner of strength and determination I have only seen a few times in my life. When I read "Tragedy" the first time I was overcome with raw emotion and sadness as to how the human spirit can be wrecked by such sensless acts of violence towards children, let alone human beings. I would never had imagined what Mellissa went through until I read her story.