Getting around the sucky "New Facebook" ...

So I've been hating the "new facebook" since they forced it upon innocent facebook users across the globe. JB, a friend from high school, sent me the following suggestion for getting back to the old (better/more familiar and therefore gooder) facebook. I share this with all of you in the hopes that you can revert to the old facebook if you so choose! http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2345053339
then click 'add application'
then, come back here and click:
http://apps.new.facebook.com/?fbnew_opt_out=1

If you use this, please post it so that others can see how to do this as well. a mini facebook revolution.

Link fo the day (from my new favorite TV show) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWoo82zNUA

More water

so I decided to go out and take more pictures of the golf course today, while it is light out. I had to composite them together from photographs taken from inside the car (it is raining too hard to expose my camera to the elements), but I think you get the idea.I really wasn't kidding when I said the golf course was practically a lake. Every pond is overflowing, many of them into the streets. I also drove into town to check on Zanorak's sump pump, and the main street into BH is filled with more water than I've ever seen it.

Now that this is uploaded, I will spend some quality time cleaning the house and making peach cobbler for my minions at Marion. maybe an apple pie too!

Water, water everywhere (I've never met an Ike I liked...)

I love rain, really I do. I particularly love rain when I get to sit at home with a book and curl up and watch it fall, take naps and generally be lazy. I also love rain when the warm rain from the south is negating the possibility of cold snow from the north.


But there is a limit to my love. When water comes through my (very expensive and until now perfectly functioning) french drain... that is enough. When my brother's new house has six inches of water in the basement because the sump pump can't keep up... that is enough. Granted, my suffering is insignificant compared with people in Galveston and Houston but I'm really ready to be done with Ike now. Rain, rain go away... come again some other day. A week from Tuesday would be good - Give us time to recover.

Entertainingly enough, there are still cars parked over at the golf course, even though it looks like they would need AAVs to get from the club house to the first tee. But in a dinky little town like this, the locals have their specific hangouts, and even the weather can't change them. And I suppose that while the golfers are not allowed out on the course, they can't be hitting golf balls into my yard. Something more to be grateful for.

I've been convinced

by akg ... to start a blog of my own. I harassed her into starting one, and now I suppose it is my turn to give in to the inevitable. Today it is warm and rainy - a perfect summer "at home with a book" day. The fog horn on the pier is still going. Too bad I have to work.

Speaking of akg, apparently 107.7 WRKR in Kalamazoo is hosting the first ever Rocker Cornhole Challenge on Saturday... I totally am wishing she was around to go watch these 64 teams duke it out for supremacy on the corn hole field (and money apparently). http://www.wrkr.com/pages/pages.php?page=13

I wonder if Jason Bourne counts "corn hole toss" among his many skill sets (like outdriving the French police, speaking bazillions of foreign languages and stealing car keys?)