A quick note

October 30, 2004 · Posted in Blog · 1 Comment

I am still working on Bill’s request for the pick a card post. It is taking a little longer than I thought. I am also still fighting this very odd and annoying illness. I will hopefully be back to normal by Monday!

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Hypo-Allergenic cats, what will they think of next?

October 28, 2004 · Posted in Blog · 7 Comments

Well here’s the first post as requested by Stacy Enjoy!

First off let me start out by telling you a little something about myself, I am biased, I hate cats. It’s a long depressing story as to why so lets just leave it at I hate ‘em.

Until Stacy mentioned this I had never heard of it. Wow Hypo-Allergenic cats, genetically altered to remove allergens. Too bad they couldn’t genetically alter a cats bad attitude. Since I hadn’t heard of it, I had to do some research, there’s a few hours of my time that I will never get back!
First off, this wonderful invention is by a company named Allerca, oddly I had never heard of them either, how intriguing. I read through their site and found this interesting tidbit!

A glycoprotein, Fel d 1, secreted by the sebaceous glands, is the major cat allergen. This allergen is found in the fur, pelt, saliva, serum, urine, mucous, salivary glands, and hair roots of the cat. The main sources of the allergen, however, are the skin and saliva. Cat allergen is so small it can remain airborne for months. It is about 10 times smaller than pollen or dust particles.

Nice, yet another reason to not like cats! According to them, the removal of this allergen will not harm the cat in any way. How the heck do they know? They just said on another page that the first kitten won’t be born till 2007. I would think you would have to observe one through it’s entire life cycle to make that determination. Well let’s see what else we can find out. You know, now that I think about it, I’m curious as to what this allergen stuff is for on the cat. I mean it must be there for a reason. After a web search I came up with this, and this. No real answers there. Then a search on Allerca themselves turned up no news from them other than this, they evidently appeared out of no where! So then I read their legal info and found this great quote!

Although we believe in the hope and promise of hypoallergenic cats and anticipate that hypoallergenic cats may assist those persons who suffer from certain allergies or other medical conditions, we do not guarantee that a hypoallergenic cat is useful for the treatment of any particular disorder and is a matter for your physicians to determine.

In other words, if this cat makes you sneeze it isn’t our fault.
I was hooked, I decided to preorder one of these bad boys. Off to the reservation page I went. HOLY GUACAMOLE these suckers cost $3,500! On the plus side I can lay down a $250 deposit for my new allergen free kitty!
So let me see if I got this straight. I can send $250 to a company I have never heard of for a product they haven’t even made yet and they don’t even guarantee it will help? Oh sign me up now please!

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Pick a card, any card

October 27, 2004 · Posted in Blog · 9 Comments

Alright here’s the deal. I want to do an exercise here and I need some help. Hopefully this will get the creative juices flowing again, or at the very least keep us entertained for a bit.
I want you, my dear reader to pick a subject, any one at all, and I will write a blog entry about it. Depending on the subject you pick I may go the humorous route or serious, we won’t know till I try. Depending on the number of people who give me subjects I may be able to complete this in one day or it might take a week, I’m guessing not that long unless I peak the collective curiosity on this.

So go ahead, give me your best shot. Pop a comment on this entry with your subject and lets get the ball rolling.

Update I will start posting these tomorrow!

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Breaking the law (with apologies to Judas Preist)

October 26, 2004 · Posted in Blog · 2 Comments

I suck at telling stories so I never know where to begin. So I will start here at the semi-begining.
Sometimes at night(morning) when I take a break, I will play a quick hand of solitaire. I like playing solitaire as it doesn’t require a lot of thinking on my part. I guess at least two times over the last month I have forgotten to close the game out when I go back to work and my supervisor found them that morning. So now, no matter how much work I turn out all they can imagine is me sitting there playing solitaire all night instead of doing my work.
I think I consistently turn out quite a bit of work but that doesn’t matter anymore. It’s sad really that they feel this way and there doesn’t seem to be any way to clear this up. Guess I can’t play on break anymore, crap!

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Dang it.

October 25, 2004 · Posted in Blog · Comments Off

I feel like the walking dead. I have the chills and a really bad case of.. lets just say I have to go to the restroom a lot. Other wonderful symptoms include dizziness, tingling sensation in the joints when I stand up(comes and goes), mentally incapacitated(although I used a big word). I am having trouble with anything that involves thinking or eye hand coordination. Did I mention the shaking which is making it darn difficult to even drink a soda? This sucks!

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