I am sad to inform you that my cousin May and her partner Eva lost to the Singaporean team. Eva also lost women’s single earlier, so the US Badminton girls are all out of the running. ETA: USA Network is now re-broadcasting May’s match with commentators. Of course, I was waiting to hear how badly they would butcher May’s long last name, Mangkalakiri. That’s pronounced Mang-ka-la-kee-ree, folks. But the commentator went crazy there with. Mang-gala-CARRY. Carry? Really? How did the “I” become “A”? The former USA Badminton president is the one going with the safe way, having known May, calling...
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The Olympics had begun, y’all. I was at Katie’s wedding last night so I missed most of the celebration during the first broadcast. However, I did catch the US and Thai national teams marched into the stadium. And I tivo’ed the rerun to watch again this morning. “Cousin” Nicky is reporting prolifically from Beijing on their adventures so far. And tonight, May takes the court. So please tune in on the computer at 9 p.m. PST (California time), Thais and Americans everywhere, to cheer her on. LA Times Olympics Blog also got to talk to May a bit as she...
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What a whirlwind week I’m having so far! This weekend was shock full of activities with the bike shopping and the bike riding. Work has been just nuts. I just now realized that I have to do 3 Christmas duties BEFORE the end of October. And then all the stuff I postponed because of the conference last month started to pile up. I was knee deep in stuff to do. And then there’s this business of Celeste leaving the company. Did I mention that she’s leaving my office for a greener pasture? Well, she is. I am extremely happy for...
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Water on Mars! WATER ON MARS! I am such a geek. Oh, and the alien in my eye also hatched today. The corner of my eye by my nose is still swollen and red but virtually painless at this point.  Yeah, tear duct infection turned out to be more of the infection of my eyelid by the same alien that used to live in my nose, it seemed. Let me see how many times I have been on antibiotics this year. There’s the the original nose alien in January, but I actually didn’t go to the doctor for that. ...
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…badeedodah Zapped-badeeday. Zapped. Zapped. Zapped. Completely out of energy, that is. Brandon and I crashed out last night just before 9 p.m. after a sun-drenched afternoon in Redondo Beach at Justin & Olaina’s. You know me. Unless you put a beverage right in my hand, I have a tendency to forget to hydrate. My ice cold bottle of water never left Olaina’s cooler-backpack. So sometime before my alarm went off this morning, I woke up radiating heat without actually sweating. By now I knew what I was getting into. I downed a glass of water with a couple of Tylenols,...
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BBC News reports: Rabbit ripper shocks Germany …Rocco and Felina are among the 30 pet rabbits killed in the towns of Witten and Dortmund since last summer. Many of the rabbits have been decapitated and the blood drained from their bodies… …It is also unclear how the killer has been locating his victims. Most of the beheaded pets were hidden from public view, locked away in back yards or back gardens. It has raised the possibility that the killer has been using satellite images on the internet to find houses with rabbit hutches… …Fear is driving German rabbit-owners to hide...
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