Heather is going to die when she finds out her desk at work may have the cooties. I used her desk all week while she was gone. Heather uses those sanitizing gells and keeps her space clean to protect herself from cooties, so… yeah. I called in to warn the office that they should wipe down her desk before letting anyone use it after the doctor told me last night that I have community associated MRSA on my left forearm. See for yourself.

Staph and MRSA can also cause illness in persons outside of hospitals and healthcare facilities. MRSA infections that are acquired by persons who have not been recently (within the past year) hospitalized or had a medical procedure (such as dialysis, surgery, catheters) are know as CA-MRSA infections. Staph or MRSA infections in the community are usually manifested as skin infections, such as pimples and boils, and occur in otherwise healthy people.
[Community-Associated MRSA Information for the Public - CDC]

Y’all, my blog turns 8 years old today! When it first started back in 1999, I was manually entering and archiving my entries like a fool until hearing about Movabletype. I used that for a while and then started using WordPress in 2006.

This site has meant so much to me. It’s been the source of so many wonderful opportunities over the past decade including introducing me to life long friends. Here is to another great year!

I believe in personal resolutions. Goals give the future a terrain for sure footing. They help you work toward something instead of reacting bitterly from an innertube in the wake of other people’s effort. Resolutions help you see yourself in other people’s success instead of seeing yourself in self-defeating loosers. Goals make friends, and they make even more enemies.

Katie Couric says Christmas was once banned in America, and then the baby Santa was born and saved Christmas, or something.

Doctor Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral in south-east England, that humanity needed to protect the world created by God.

People should treat each other and nature with “reverence”, the Church of England leader said.

“More and more (is) clearly required of us as we grow in awareness of how fragile is the balance of species and environments in the world and just how our greed distorts it.

“When we threaten the balance of things, we don’t just put our material survival at risk; more profoundly we put our spiritual sensitivity at risk — the possibility of being opened up to endless wonder by the world around us.”
[Archbishop of Canterbury warns greed could wreck the Earth - AFP - 12-25-07]

(Kicks) - Rocketboom is doing a series of videos focusing on Internet memes of 2007. Here’s the list so far:

• Technoviking - fear the Technoviking
• LOL Cats
• One Take
• I Like Turtles - validate the ”I Like Turtles” kid
• The Rickroll - get Rickrolled
• Natural Parody

Good draft. Good drift. Good boosting. Vince bought a Heineken mini keg. After drinking a few bottles, we put this demo together to teach Americans how to properly use the 5-liter Heineken DraughtKeg. Nothing should keep you from your beer. Not even a stupid lever thingy.

Vince tries to escape with a warm bath, Hank Williams III and a Biore® Self-Heating Mask. Nice ring tone. Gaaaaahhhhh.