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isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=l%5Fword%5Frevisited</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I seem to have crossed some kind of magic threshold on &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6128904-7.html" target="_blank"&gt;the Google&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; recently, because in spite of the fact that October of 2009 was one of my laziest blogging months EVAH (12 entries total, only half of which were original material), ShazzerSpeak miraculously managed to accumulate the 2nd highest monthly hit count in its (almost) five-year history.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%" align="center"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;There were so many hits in October (69,066 to be exact) that I actually had to buy more bandwidth to keep the blog from going dark the last few days of the month. But folks certainly weren&amp;#39;t coming by because of a constant flow of fresh new material. Rather, they were landing here because of a couple of very old entries that just won&amp;#39;t die...specifically, a cheeky piece I wrote back in May of 2005 about the Showtime series &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_L_Word" target="_blank"&gt;The L Word&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Remarkably, &lt;a href="/the_real_l_word_is_lie.htm" target="_blank"&gt;this entry&lt;/a&gt; comes up ranked #6 if you search the phrase &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The Real L Word&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; on Google, so lots of fans of the show (of which I am one BTW) find it. But based on the comments it continues to inspire, I&amp;#39;m not sure they actually &amp;quot;get it&amp;quot;. (Although the folks at Showtime certainly did. Their marketing team even thanked me for blogging about the show by &lt;a href="/who_knew_i_was_a_reputable_influencer.htm" target="_blank"&gt;sending me the complete series 4 on DVD&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;But the entry I wrote &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;over four years&lt;/span&gt; ago as a good-natured jab at one character&amp;#39;s hideous haircut (a woman who is supposed to be a much-in-demand stylist for crying outloud!) has recently turned into a snipe-fest about butch vs. femme stereotypes, with the most recent commenter suggesting that the only lesbians I know must be &amp;quot;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;fat, ugly trailer-trash dykes&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot; who have &amp;quot;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;nothing better to do with their lives than hang out in a bar drinking beer and playing pool&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://fs.glee.com/e61bbb3d548ccf49e869875efa912fa155760b8d/437x" alt="" title="Shane from The L Word." width="301" height="435" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hideously coiffed &amp;quot;Shane&amp;quot;, played by Kathrine Moenning, whom I stalk adoringly on Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Of course the very fit Swedish PhD with long blonde hair and impressive collection of imported single malt whiskys who has been my partner for the last 8 years might beg to differ.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;(P.S. She also looks HOT in the black ribbed L Word tank that Showtime sent along with the DVDs.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=l%5Fword%5Frevisited'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm'&gt;I remember leisure time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm'&gt;Enthusiastic practicality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm'&gt;Swedish anatomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm'&gt;We have no business being together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/what_the_hell_is_that_smell.htm'&gt;What the hell is that smell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/that_which_does_not_kill_us_makes_us_stronger.htm'&gt;That which does not kill us makes us stronger...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/rkeIlT1iX9M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>the l word</category><category>dr darling</category><category>blogging</category><category>gay life</category></item><item><title>More phone fun</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fphone%5Ffun</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Our plan to torment my father-in-law by rotating unfamiliar male voices for the outgoing message on our oddly-behaving answering machine fell apart late last week when it stopped working altogether, prompting Scandinavia&amp;#39;&amp;#39;s most diligently informed consumer to begin researching its replacement.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.philips.com/is/image/PhilipsConsumer/ID5551B_05-GAL-global?wid=430&amp;amp;hei=430&amp;amp;$jpglarge$" alt="" width="330" height="330" align="left" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Not surprisingly, &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; discovered we could get a decent cordless phone/answering machine combo for not much more than the price of the answering machine alone. And since we were still using an tethered-to-the-wall phone in &lt;a href="/the_home_improvement_department.htm" target="_blank"&gt;The Batcave&lt;/a&gt;, it made sense to go that route.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;We ended up with &lt;a href="http://www.consumer.philips.com/c/phones/id5551b_05/prd/gb/" target="_blank"&gt;this fancy Philips model&lt;/a&gt;, which appeals to the Swede&amp;#39;s minimalist design sense. (Interpret that any way you want.) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The phone has a gazillion features that we&amp;#39;ll probably never use, but the answering machine is simpler to operate than the old one. Each one of the buttons actually has an easily recognizable purpose!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;It also has an optional generic automated outgoing message...but this one is a female voice rather than male, and we&amp;#39;re trying to decide if this will &lt;a href="/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm" target="_blank"&gt;drive &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s Dad more or less crazy than the previous one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Better yet, the outgoing message can be switched between 5 different languages; Swedish, English, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish. So even if my father-in-law finally figures it out, it ought to throw the telemarketers off our scent for awhile. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fphone%5Ffun'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm'&gt;The L Word revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm'&gt;I remember leisure time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm'&gt;Enthusiastic practicality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/when_iphone_love__gop_loathing_collide.htm'&gt;When iPhone love &amp; GOP loathing collide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm'&gt;Swedish anatomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm'&gt;We have no business being together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/how_do_i_love_thee_iphone_let_me_count_the_ways.htm'&gt;How do I love thee, iPhone? Let me count the ways...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/UwV1mJYV8Bk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>technogadgetry</category><category>inlaws</category><category>dr darling</category></item><item><title>I remember leisure time...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fremember%5Fleisure%5Ftime</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Work has been crazy for both of us&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;lately...with me going in early (and skipping the gym to do so) and &lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/em&gt; having to stay late nearly every afternoon.&amp;nbsp; But by the middle of this week, the Swede was seeing a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3" style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Dr. Darling:&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;font size="3"&gt;I was home at a reasonable hour today and didn&amp;#39;t know what to do with myself.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Shazzer:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; Now you&amp;#39;ve got some time to dedicate to your hobbies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Dr. Darling:&lt;/span&gt; What hobbies?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Shazzer:&lt;/span&gt; Digital photography and single malt whisky.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Dr. Darling:&lt;/span&gt; Oh right.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Shazzer:&lt;/span&gt; Digitally photographing single malt whisky...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Dr. Darling:&lt;/span&gt; You do that more often than me.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Shazzer:&lt;/span&gt; Drunk digital photography...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Dr. Darling:&lt;/span&gt; Clearly I need some new hobbies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fremember%5Fleisure%5Ftime'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm'&gt;The L Word revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm'&gt;Enthusiastic practicality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm'&gt;Swedish anatomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm'&gt;We have no business being together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/what_the_hell_is_that_smell.htm'&gt;What the hell is that smell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/that_which_does_not_kill_us_makes_us_stronger.htm'&gt;That which does not kill us makes us stronger...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/DzNa5wW4lXo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>dr darling</category><category>single malt whisky</category></item><item><title>Enthusiastic practicality</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enthusiastic%5Fpracticality</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;One of my favorite colleagues, Eliza, came barreling into my office this afternoon while I was on the phone. Dancing around my desk she whispered loudly, &amp;quot;You&amp;#39;ve got &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;to get off the phone&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; The fact that I was talking to &lt;strong&gt;our boss&lt;/strong&gt; did not deter her insistence.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Seriously, you&amp;#39;ve got to hang up. Right now.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I couldn&amp;#39;t imagine what would possibly be so urgent...but I&amp;#39;m always glad to have an excuse to cut short a call from our boss. As I&amp;#39;m trying to extricate myself from the conversation, Eliza has become even more desperate to get me off the phone, at one point taking a red dry-erase marker and writing TRUST ME in big capital letters on the white board across from my desk.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;You are going to be so happy!&amp;quot; she chimed as I hung up the phone. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Turns out she had submitted my name to radio station contest, and the announcer was going to be calling my mobile sometime in the next three minutes.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font size="3"&gt;What?! What kind of contest? Will the call be live on-air? Will I need to answer questions? IN SWEDISH?!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Eliza assured me that I&amp;#39;d be able to handle it because she&amp;#39;d briefed the announcer on my Swedish skills, which are a bit more limited over the phone. But I still wasn&amp;#39;t completely clear on the details of what the contest was about when my iPhone vibrated and boom, I was on-the-air.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I remember very little of the conversation except for the part when she asked me what it was like to play in a band with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axl_Rose" target="_blank"&gt;Axl Rose&lt;/a&gt;  (we were in junior high orchestra together), and if I had any idea what I&amp;#39;d won (which I didn&amp;#39;t). I still wasn&amp;#39;t sure when I gave her my address so that she could send it to me.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;After I got off the phone I walked into Eliza&amp;#39;s office, where she had been listening to the radio interview, and asked, &amp;quot;What the hell just happened?&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Turns out the station was asking listeners to nominate an &amp;quot;inspirational co-worker&amp;quot;, and Eliza...who is clearly a marketing genius...submitted a description of me that was picked as the winner. (Though I suspect her mention of my childhood connection to Axl Rose had alot to do with it, too. For some reason Swedes are really impressed by it.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt; And the prize? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img style="width: 721px; height: 310px" src="http://www.samsung.com/uk/system/consumer/product/2009/08/28/np-x120-fa01uk/090825_X120_main%20feature%2001.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/notebook-computers/x-series/NP-X120-FA01UK/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail" target="_blank"&gt;A Samsung X120 ultra thin notebook computer&lt;/a&gt;!&amp;nbsp; I couldn&amp;#39;t believe it! I never win anything!&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt; Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; was stunned as well, and jumped online immediately...I assumed...to check it out.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;You must be really excited about finally having a WinDoze laptop in the house,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;You looking at the specs?&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The Swede&amp;#39;s reply? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;No, I&amp;#39;m trying to figure out if you&amp;#39;re going to have to pay taxes on it.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enthusiastic%5Fpracticality'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm'&gt;The L Word revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm'&gt;I remember leisure time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm'&gt;Swedish anatomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm'&gt;We have no business being together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/what_the_hell_is_that_smell.htm'&gt;What the hell is that smell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/that_which_does_not_kill_us_makes_us_stronger.htm'&gt;That which does not kill us makes us stronger...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=1T_e1cCjK0g:tuqxLbngSZQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=1T_e1cCjK0g:tuqxLbngSZQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?i=1T_e1cCjK0g:tuqxLbngSZQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/1T_e1cCjK0g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>dr darling</category></item><item><title>New laundry war...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/new_laundry_war.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/new_laundry_war.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Flaundry%5Fwar</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;It&amp;#39;s been awhile since I&amp;#39;ve told any &lt;a href="/you_thought_i_was_making_it_up_didnt_you.htm" target="_blank"&gt;tales from the Swedish Laundry Room&lt;/a&gt;, primarily because we&amp;#39;ve had something of a monopoly on our preferred weekly time slot. In the 3+ years we&amp;#39;ve lived in our building, there just hasn&amp;#39;t been much demand for Sunday from 7 a.m. to noon. And even if that were the case, there are three laundry rooms to choose from...all located in the basement which connects our building to the one next door.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;We prefer the laundry room directly under our building (oddly designated No. 5 even though it&amp;#39;s one of three) because it&amp;#39;s closest to our apartment, and these days, it also happens to have the newest washers and tumble dryer. This was not always so. The first two years we lived here, No. 5 had the oldest, slowest and least efficient machines of the three laundry rooms...which is one of the reasons why so few people used it. Plus...it&amp;#39;s a pretty good hike for folks living in the other building.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Since the arrival of the new equipment, however, No. 5 is in much greater demand, but not at&amp;nbsp;7:00 on Sunday mornings. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The two laundry rooms down the hall under the adjacent building are rarely booked on Sunday mornings either. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Swedes may have a reputation for not being big church-goers, but it&amp;#39;s not because they&amp;#39;re doing laundry.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Two Sundays ago I went down to the basement to pull our last load of sheets and towels out of the tumble dryer and reserve the same time the following week, and I was really surprised to find the 7 a.m. to noon slot already taken. I shrugged it off as a one-time thing and reserved the time slot in one of the other laundry rooms in the adjacent building. But then the same thing happened the following week...our trusty No. 5&amp;nbsp; was already claimed for the following Sunday by the same person. (I know this from the number on the locking peg used to reserve the slot on the calendar board.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So now it&amp;#39;s pretty obvious this isn&amp;#39;t just a rare glitch in my weekend laundry ritual, making it officially annoying...especially since the usurper &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;lives in the other building&lt;/span&gt; where there are two laundry rooms routinely available on Sunday mornings. It was maddening! Even the unwritten-rule loving Swede was peeved. We had to get our laundry slot back!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;But in order to do that we had to claim it *while* the poacher was actually doing laundry...hence his/her locking peg is in the laundry room door rather than the calendar board. This is more challenging than it sounds because we&amp;#39;re doing laundry at the same time down in No. 3, so our locking peg is already occupied insuring that no one runs off with our socks and undies. (It could happen!) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Which is why this past Sunday morning I actually sacrificed the extra hour of sleep I could have had courtesy of the switch to Winter Time and started our wash at 6 a.m. Four hours later, with the interloper still in the middle of the rinse cycle, our peg was locked back into its usual slot in No. 5 for next Sunday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Let the games begin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Flaundry%5Fwar'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/zAcRtzu9ql4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description></item><item><title>First Family by Annie Leibovitz</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/first_family_by_annie_leibovitz.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/first_family_by_annie_leibovitz.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=first%5Ffamily%5Fby%5Fannie%5Fleibovitz</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/4035513827_8f85699646.jpg" alt="Obama Family Official Portrait" width="500" height="333" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I generally don&amp;#39;t spend a lot of time looking at other people&amp;#39;s photos on Flickr. But the exception is &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/" target="_blank"&gt;The Official White House Photostream&lt;/a&gt;, which never fails to charm, impress and inform. (Even though not all of the shots are taken by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz" target="_blank"&gt;Annie Leibovitz&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=first%5Ffamily%5Fby%5Fannie%5Fleibovitz'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fl_congressman_alan_grayson_is_my_hero.htm'&gt;FL Congressman Alan Grayson is my hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/two_big_os_invade_denmark.htm'&gt;Two Big O's invade Denmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/bill_maher_asks_the_dems_to_fight_holes_with_holes.htm'&gt;Bill Maher asks the Dems to fight @$$holes with @$$holes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/barack_preaches_to_the_choir.htm'&gt;Barack preaches to the choir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fierce_advocate_my_ass.htm'&gt;"Fierce advocate" my @$$&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/dinner_at_downing_street.htm'&gt;Dinner at Downing Street&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_wont_give_you_my_vote_but_can_i_have_your_autograph.htm'&gt;I won't give you my vote, but can I have your autograph?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/americans_want_bush_investigated.htm'&gt;71% of Americans want Bush investigated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/another_reason_to_love_lincoln.htm'&gt;Another reason to love Lincoln&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/yes_we_cant.htm'&gt;"Yes we can't!"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/-Di4sRPSRkA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>barack obama</category><category>flickr</category></item><item><title>Mormon Prop 8 money trail now on film</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/mormon_prop8_money_trail_on_film.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/mormon_prop8_money_trail_on_film.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mormon%5Fprop8%5Fmoney%5Ftrail%5Fon%5Ffilm</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;How ironic that a CHURCH that once advocated multiple wives for its male members (pun very much intended) would work so hard to deny the CIVIL RIGHT of a gay person to have just one spouse.&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/IxA2vrh28hE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>gay marriage</category><category>pride</category><category>prop 8</category><category>lds</category></item><item><title>What a warm welcome...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/what_a_welcome.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/what_a_welcome.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fa%5Fwelcome</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;After much drama courtesy of the Super Secret System for securing holiday vacation time that apparently even &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s boss has no knowledge of (more on that later), we were finally able to book our Christmas trip to the US tonight.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;This marks the first time the Swede has made a US trip with me since Thanksgiving of 2006, so we&amp;#39;d not yet had the pleasure of using the &lt;a href="https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/esta.html?_flowExecutionKey=_cEBC7B052-B534-9750-FBAE-96E849313F59_k9CCAF086-B120-08D6-C816-588BD973ECDD" target="_blank"&gt;Electronic System for Travel Authorization&lt;/a&gt;. Here are the first three questions every foreign national is required to answer before entering the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;A) &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Do you have a communicable disease; physical or mental disorder; or are you a drug abuser or addict?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;B) &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude or a violation related to a controlled substance; or have been arrested or convicted for two or more offenses for which the aggregate sentence to confinement was five years or more; or have been a controlled substance trafficker; or are you seeking entry to engage in criminal or immoral activities?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;C)&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt; Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I was slightly shocked and somewhat offended on &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s behalf, until she noted that this was merely an electronic version of the paper document that previously was filled out on the plane prior to arrival. As a US citizen, I&amp;#39;d never been presented with this form...and was probably too busy trying to calculate the value of all the coffee and chocolate we were carrying to read it over the Swede&amp;#39;s shoulder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://travel-industry.uptake.com/blog/2009/10/04/us-entry-hassles-olympics/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;No wonder we lost the 2016 Olympics. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fa%5Fwelcome'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/why_do_i_never_end_up_in_this_airport_secuity_line.htm'&gt;Why do I never end up in THIS airport secuity line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/expat_american_stash.htm'&gt;Ex-pat American stash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/technology_rocks.htm'&gt;Technology Rocks!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/dr_darling_unimpressible.htm'&gt;Dr. Darling, unimpressible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/its_a_small_world_after_all.htm'&gt;It's a small world after all!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/to_hell_with_luggage_limits.htm'&gt;To hell with luggage limits!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/matts_dancing_badly_again.htm'&gt;Matt's dancing badly again!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/where_the_air_is_70_proof.htm'&gt;Where the air is 70-proof&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/to_be_or_not_to_be_in_denmark.htm'&gt;To be or not to be, in Denmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/denmark_this_could_be_dangerous.htm'&gt;Denmark, this could be dangerous...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=lk7T1HQuYO0:jML6ZzDc42g:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=lk7T1HQuYO0:jML6ZzDc42g:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?i=lk7T1HQuYO0:jML6ZzDc42g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/lk7T1HQuYO0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>airline travel</category><category>international travel</category></item><item><title>When iPhone love &amp; GOP loathing collide</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/when_iphone_love__gop_loathing_collide.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/when_iphone_love__gop_loathing_collide.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=when%5Fiphone%5Flove%5F%5Fgop%5Floathing%5Fcollide</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;object width="580" height="360"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e_IAN081P8I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e_IAN081P8I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=when%5Fiphone%5Flove%5F%5Fgop%5Floathing%5Fcollide'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/so_how_did_you_celebrate_talk_like_a_pirate_day.htm'&gt;So how did you celebrate "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/how_do_i_love_thee_iphone_let_me_count_the_ways.htm'&gt;How do I love thee, iPhone? Let me count the ways...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/twas_the_night_before_iphone.htm'&gt;T'was the night before iPhone...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/holy_app_attack_batman_1.htm'&gt;Holy App Attack, Batman!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/shazzers_iphone_saga_update.htm'&gt;Shazzer's iPhone 3GS saga update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/mandela_exhibit_at_malmohus_castle.htm'&gt;Mandela exhibit at Malmöhus Castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/the_great_iphone_delivery_dilemma.htm'&gt;The Great iPhone Delivery Dilemma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=geXkV_ZCt-E:ylzC4ZPkEl8:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=geXkV_ZCt-E:ylzC4ZPkEl8:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?i=geXkV_ZCt-E:ylzC4ZPkEl8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/geXkV_ZCt-E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>gop</category><category>iphone</category><category>technogadgetry</category></item><item><title>Perfect convergence of fall entertainment</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/perfect_convergence_of_fall_entertainment.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/perfect_convergence_of_fall_entertainment.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=perfect%5Fconvergence%5Fof%5Ffall%5Fentertainment</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;Leave it to Glee to find a way to combine two of my favorite things: American football and Beyonce.&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OuQqKA0lE_o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OuQqKA0lE_o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=perfect%5Fconvergence%5Fof%5Ffall%5Fentertainment'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/beyonces_single_ladies_dance_craze.htm'&gt;Beyonce's "Single Ladies" dance craze *finally* hits Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/beyonce_is_bad_for_blogging.htm'&gt;Beyoncé is bad for my blogging...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/my_adopted_country_rocks.htm'&gt;My adopted country ROCKS!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/lincoln_memorial_we_are_one_concert_impressions.htm'&gt;Lincoln Memorial "We Are One" concert impressions, Twitter-style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/even_country_cant_ruin_irreplaceable.htm'&gt;Even country can't ruin "Irreplaceable"!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/2_the_left.htm'&gt;"To the left, to the left..."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/election_day_anthem.htm'&gt;Beyoncé's Election Day Anthem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=-JGuqg9N93A:Srfb63TOJW4:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=-JGuqg9N93A:Srfb63TOJW4:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?i=-JGuqg9N93A:Srfb63TOJW4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/-JGuqg9N93A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>glee</category><category>beyonce</category><category>american football</category></item><item><title>Questioning my Swede-cred...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/questioning_my_swede_cred.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/questioning_my_swede_cred.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=questioning%5Fmy%5Fswede%5Fcred</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been living in Sweden for over seven years now and until recently, considered myself to be pretty well integrated into society. I&amp;#39;ve learned the language, cracked the cultural code of the workplace (not to mention the &lt;a href="/you_thought_i_was_making_it_up_didnt_you.htm" target="_blank"&gt;apartment building laundry room&lt;/a&gt;), happily paid the high taxes that provide a realistic social safety net, navigated the healthcare system and embraced all forms of public transportation. I&amp;#39;ve actually been a Swedish citizen since 2005 and have even voted in both national and European elections in the last few years. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;If there&amp;#39;s an element of Sweden that I haven&amp;#39;t gotten fully onboard with, it&amp;#39;s the electronic media. Swedish commercial radio is barely listenable and most of its domestically produced &amp;quot;entertainment&amp;quot; shows on TV are blatant rip-offs of British or American programs &lt;a href="/sweden_copies_us_tv_show_badly.htm" target="_blank"&gt;that are then badly done.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The web is a different animal, however. The Swedes do the internet REALLY well and this country is seriously wired up. But I still find reading Swedish to be a bit too much work to dedicate a lot of surfing time to it...which is probably why&lt;strong&gt; I didn&amp;#39;t even notice&lt;/strong&gt; when the &lt;a href="http://mashable.com/2009/10/13/sweden-internet-downtime/" target="_blank"&gt;country&amp;#39;s piece of the worldwide web went down&lt;/a&gt;  for almost an hour on last night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidently a bad script introduced during a routine update of the .se domain zone resulted in every website on the country&amp;#39;s official domain extension going dark. What caused the script to be corrupt? The lack of a single period (.) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Which just goes to show that the importance of punctuation&lt;em&gt; should never be underestimated.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=questioning%5Fmy%5Fswede%5Fcred'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/shazzers_iphone_saga_update.htm'&gt;Shazzer's iPhone 3GS saga update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/the_great_iphone_delivery_dilemma.htm'&gt;The Great iPhone Delivery Dilemma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/the_g33k_in_me_is_giddy_over_this.htm'&gt;The G33K in me is giddy over this...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/just_call_me_encyclopedia_shazzamica.htm'&gt;Just call me Encyclopedia Shazzam-ica!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/sweet_cloudcovered_relief.htm'&gt;Sweet, cloud-covered relief&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/crapping_the_digital_slide_1.htm'&gt;Crapping the digital slide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/irony_is_often_lost_on_swedes_2.htm'&gt;Irony is often lost on Swedes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/midsummer_weekend_survived.htm'&gt;Midsummer Weekend Survived&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/mutual_admiration_society_20.htm'&gt;Mutual Admiration Society, 2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedes_say_marriage_for_everybody.htm'&gt;Swedes say "marriage for everybody"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=yQHgs8KOeeE:A9DSPbHWbrs:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=yQHgs8KOeeE:A9DSPbHWbrs:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?i=yQHgs8KOeeE:A9DSPbHWbrs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/yQHgs8KOeeE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>internet</category><category>sweden</category></item><item><title>FL Congressman Alan Grayson is my hero</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fl_congressman_alan_grayson_is_my_hero.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fl_congressman_alan_grayson_is_my_hero.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fl%5Fcongressman%5Falan%5Fgrayson%5Fis%5Fmy%5Fhero</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;This week my favorite member of Congress reminded his Democratic colleagues that Americans did not elect Olympian Snow president, and then he scolded the Republicans for their obstructionism, claiming that if Barack Obama ate a BLT for lunch tomorrow, the GOP would try to ban bacon. THAT would surely get the public's attention.&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/DrmQbS5ScCU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>gop hypocrites</category><category>bacon</category><category>barack obama</category><category>democrats</category></item><item><title>Fun with fathers-in-law</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fun%5Fwith%5Ffathers%5Finlaw</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Our answering machine has been behaving badly the last couple weeks. I came home from work one day to find the call indicator light flashing even though there were no messages on it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Initially, I thought maybe the electricity had been out during the day, but then it wouldn&amp;#39;t reset in the usual manner and the user manual was not in the drawer where I expected to find it. So in typical fashion, I proceeded to press every one of the half-dozen buttons on the machine even though I had no idea what they do and had never touched more than two of them before. All this to no effect (surprise - NOT).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I then tried to turn it off, thinking that cutting the power would force it to reset. But remarkably, NONE of the half dozen buttons on the machine is an on/off switch. So I unplugged it from the wall socket, waited 30 seconds and plugged it back in. No luck. Clearly this was job for &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;, who...in very UNtypical fashion, could not put her hands on the user manual either. (This is a person who still has warranty documentation on the analogue clock radio she had as an undergrad. It&amp;#39;s GOT to be around here somewhere.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;In the meantime, we were able to ascertain that the answering machine is actually still working despite the constantly flashing call indicator light. The only glitch is that our outgoing message is now a generic greeting in English from an obviously automated male voice instead of the personal one I recorded (at least 3 years ago) in both English and Swedish. Without the user manual, neither one of us has any idea how to record a new greeting, and to be honest, it doesn&amp;#39;t really seem all that important to do. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Especially now that we&amp;#39;ve learned that the automated male voice is driving my father-in-law crazy. He has a long-established reputation for not listening very well when talking to either of his kids, and he clearly missed the initial explanation that the voice did not belong to a real person. So when he asked &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;a second time&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Who IS that guy on your answering machine&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; could barely keep from laughing outloud.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s not a real person, Dad. It&amp;#39;s an automated greeting that&amp;#39;s built into the machine.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Have you called yourself to listen to the message? You really ought to try to figure out who that guy is.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Good idea. We&amp;#39;ll get right on that, Pop.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So now we&amp;#39;re giving serious consideration to enlisting several of our male friends to record identical outgoing greetings that we can rotate once a month. During which time we&amp;#39;ll continue to tell my father-in-law that it&amp;#39;s an automated voice built into the machine! It&amp;#39;s going be GREAT! &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;But this means we&amp;#39;ve GOT to find that damn user manual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fun%5Fwith%5Ffathers%5Finlaw'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm'&gt;The L Word revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm'&gt;I remember leisure time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm'&gt;Enthusiastic practicality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/when_iphone_love__gop_loathing_collide.htm'&gt;When iPhone love &amp; GOP loathing collide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm'&gt;Swedish anatomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm'&gt;We have no business being together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/how_do_i_love_thee_iphone_let_me_count_the_ways.htm'&gt;How do I love thee, iPhone? 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/GYEPCbyO2F0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>dr darling</category><category>inlaws</category><category>technogadgetry</category></item><item><title>America's Right-Wingnuts celebrate Olympic loss</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/americas_rightwingnuts_celebrate_olympic_loss.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/americas_rightwingnuts_celebrate_olympic_loss.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=americas%5Frightwingnuts%5Fcelebrate%5Folympic%5Floss</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;The Far Right of the US political spectrum has always been a pain-in-the-ass, but this is just mortifyingly embarrassing.&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/33148233#33148233" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;"&gt;Visit msnbc.com for &lt;a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com"&gt;Breaking News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;"&gt;World News&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;"&gt;News about the Economy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=americas%5Frightwingnuts%5Fcelebrate%5Folympic%5Floss'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/two_big_os_invade_denmark.htm'&gt;Two Big O's invade Denmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/vertigo_sufferers_nightmare_opens_in_chicago.htm'&gt;Vertigo sufferers' nightmare opens in Chicago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/laughing_too_hard_to_write_a_proper_title_for_this.htm'&gt;Laughing too hard to write a proper title for this!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/rachel_maddow_gets_her_own_show_on_msnbc.htm'&gt;Rachel Maddow gets her own show on MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/ca_prop_8_supporters_sue_over_blunt_ballot_language.htm'&gt;CA Prop 8 supporters sue over blunt ballot language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/disappearing_civil_liberties_coffee_mug.htm'&gt;The disappearing civil liberties coffee mug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/social_conservatives_just_need_more_life_experience.htm'&gt;Social conservatives just need more life experience!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/starting_the_day_off_in_the_wrong_pants.htm'&gt;Starting the day off in the wrong pants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/when_holy_rollers_go_literal.htm'&gt;When "Holy Rollers" go literal...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/AMMxzdLq-tU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>rachel maddow</category><category>right wingnuts</category><category>olympics</category><category>chicago</category></item><item><title>Two Big O's invade Denmark</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/two_big_os_invade_denmark.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/two_big_os_invade_denmark.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fbig%5Fos%5Finvade%5Fdenmark</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/30/michelle-obama-arrives-copenhagen/?feat=home_headlines" target="_blank"&gt;Michelle Obama arrived in Denmark today&lt;/a&gt;  to help sell Chicago to the International Olympic Committee as the site of the 2016 Games. And while &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; Copenhagen is delighted to be hosting the First Lady, along with Oprah Winfrey and eventually the President himself on Friday, Jens Q. Publik is not as enthusiastic.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Not surprisingly, the arrival of Air Force One is going to wreak havoc on commuters (including &lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/em&gt; and my Favorite Alpha Geek) Friday morning, because not only will Kastrup be shutdown to air traffic, but the trains (both commuter from Sweden and local Metro) that stop at the airport will be prevented from passing under it during the morning rush hour, producing a domino-effect of delays for the entire system. Then there are the large sections of central Copenhagen&amp;#39;s business district that will be impassable to vehicular traffic due to security for the Presidential motorcade.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;In other words, Barack&amp;#39;s appearance at the IOC meeting this week is creating an awful lot of hassle for what the Danish press is reporting as all but a &amp;quot;done deal.&amp;quot; At least that&amp;#39;s what I&amp;#39;ve been able to gleen from the TV reports we&amp;#39;ve been watching...most of which have been live with no Swedish subtitles. (Even &lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/em&gt; needs subtitles when watching Danish TV.&lt;/font&gt;)&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;nbsp; In the meantime, Michelle&amp;#39;s 3-day itinerary is packed but includes no appearances for which the public can come and see her...which is really disappointing.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Oprah has been spotted out and about in Copenhagen, however. Evidently she is using the trip to prepare a taped video package for her show that explains why Danes are consistently ranked at the top of &amp;quot;life satisfaction&amp;quot; surveys and studies. I&amp;#39;m thinking about sending her producers my blog entry about our experience during a family vacation AKA &amp;quot;Snooze-Fest&amp;quot;&lt;a href="/to_be_or_not_to_be_in_denmark.htm" target="_blank"&gt; to Denmark&amp;#39;s Lalandia Resort, home of the country&amp;#39;s largest waterpark&lt;/a&gt;, you know, as background information. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fbig%5Fos%5Finvade%5Fdenmark'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/first_family_by_annie_leibovitz.htm'&gt;First Family by Annie Leibovitz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fl_congressman_alan_grayson_is_my_hero.htm'&gt;FL Congressman Alan Grayson is my hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/americas_rightwingnuts_celebrate_olympic_loss.htm'&gt;America's Right-Wingnuts celebrate Olympic loss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/behold_the_power_of_the_tweet.htm'&gt;Behold the power of the tweet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/bill_maher_asks_the_dems_to_fight_holes_with_holes.htm'&gt;Bill Maher asks the Dems to fight @$$holes with @$$holes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/barack_preaches_to_the_choir.htm'&gt;Barack preaches to the choir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/vertigo_sufferers_nightmare_opens_in_chicago.htm'&gt;Vertigo sufferers' nightmare opens in Chicago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fierce_advocate_my_ass.htm'&gt;"Fierce advocate" my @$$&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/even_the_queen_of_england_wants_to_cuddle_up_to_michelle_oba.htm'&gt;Even the Queen of England wants to cuddle up to Michelle Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/dinner_at_downing_street.htm'&gt;Dinner at Downing Street&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/3sf7wAA9JX4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>copenhagen</category><category>barack obama</category><category>michelle obama</category><category>olympics</category><category>chicago</category></item><item><title>Behold the power of the tweet</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/behold_the_power_of_the_tweet.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/behold_the_power_of_the_tweet.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=behold%5Fthe%5Fpower%5Fof%5Fthe%5Ftweet</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;When it comes to Twitter, I find that people tend to fall into two camps: those who &amp;quot;get it&amp;quot; and those who don&amp;#39;t. And the folks who &amp;quot;get it&amp;quot; are often torn as to how hard we should try to convince the &amp;quot;don&amp;#39;ts&amp;quot; of what they&amp;#39;re missing. The service is kind of challenging to explain to begin with...and then there&amp;#39;s a sub-group that doesn&amp;#39;t see the value even when they understand what Twitter does.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/shazzer" target="_blank"&gt;I use Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  for lots of different things...to stay in contact with friends and family, to interact with a variety of online tools when I&amp;#39;m not in front of a computer, and to learn stuff from people who share my interests. One of the folks I follow is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Carvin" target="_blank"&gt;Andy Carvin&lt;/a&gt;, a social media expert responsible for development of online communities at the National Public Radio network in the US. Given that I&amp;#39;m a huge NPR fan, a former radio news journalist and a social media geek, Andy Carvin is something of a superhero in my book, and last week he was making the rounds of some radio industry conferences in Scandinavia.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;When he mentioned that his last stop would be right next door in Copenhagen, I sent a tweet saying how much I would enjoy hearing his presentation, and he promptly tweeted back the time and location. I then asked it was open to the public or just the conference attendees. (Keep in mind that tweets are limited to 140 characters, so conversations tend to be short and punchy.) A few moments he sent me a direct message (basically a tweet that is viewable only by me) asking that I send my full name to his e-mail address &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/community/persona.php?uid=1830547" target="_blank"&gt;at NPR&lt;/a&gt;  as soon as possible so he could forward it to the conference organizers&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So thanks to Twitter, and the generosity of Andy Carvin, there was an official conference badge waiting for me at Danish National Radio headquarters on Saturday afternoon. I not only got to hear his fantastic presentation on the use of social media in support of news gathering, but I also got to meet him and talk a little shop.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Of course I tweeted the fact that I was heading over to Copenhagen, but I was not really prepared for that message to end up as part of his presentation. During the Q&amp;amp;A, someone asked him how he kept track of all the information that streams through his twitter feed, so he opened TweetDeck on his computer, and there at the top of his @mentions column, on a huge projection screen at the front of the auditorium, was the followiing:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;Shazzer: Copenhagen-bound w/plans to see @&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/acarvin" class="tweet-url username"&gt;acarvin&lt;/a&gt; speak at a Danish radio conference. As long as I&amp;#39;m there, might  as well buy some booze, too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold"&gt;&lt;font size="3" style="font-weight: normal"&gt;Oops.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;So Andy, if you&amp;#39;re reading this, thanks again for the invite, and I&amp;#39;m honestly not a lush. It&amp;#39;s just that alcohol is a lot cheaper in Denmark than it is in Sweden!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=behold%5Fthe%5Fpower%5Fof%5Fthe%5Ftweet'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/two_big_os_invade_denmark.htm'&gt;Two Big O's invade Denmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/2009_eurovision_song_contest_twitterstyle.htm'&gt;2009 Eurovision Song Contest, Twitter-style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/dr_darling_single_malt_swede.htm'&gt;Dr. Darling, single malt Swede&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/healthy_eating_advice_i_can_believe_in.htm'&gt;Healthy eating advice I can believe in...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/liveblogging_cnns_coverage_of_the_inauguration.htm'&gt;Live-blogging CNN's coverage of the inauguration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/lincoln_memorial_we_are_one_concert_impressions.htm'&gt;Lincoln Memorial "We Are One" concert impressions, Twitter-style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_want_sandy_back.htm'&gt;I want Sandy back!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/thanksgiving_with_the_buckeyes_twitterstyle_1.htm'&gt;Thanksgiving with the Buckeyes: Twitter-style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/living_election_day_vicariously_via_twitter_vote_report.htm'&gt;Living Election Day vicariously via Twitter Vote Report!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/eight_days_of_mostly_meetings_in_september.htm'&gt;Eight days (of mostly meetings) in September&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=O8MwWmpKQ_Q:yNxUzCsMucc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?a=O8MwWmpKQ_Q:yNxUzCsMucc:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Shazzerspeak?i=O8MwWmpKQ_Q:yNxUzCsMucc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/O8MwWmpKQ_Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>twitter</category><category>npr</category><category>copenhagen</category><category>booze</category></item><item><title>Kallbadhus conflict...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/kallbadhus_conflict.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/kallbadhus_conflict.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kallbadhus%5Fconflict</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Last Saturday morning was sunshiney and warm, just begging for us to get outside and enjoy it before the Swedish autumn sets in. To my surprise and delight, &lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/em&gt;, suggested we go to the kallbadhus (literally translated: cold bathhouse) for a sauna and a dip into the &amp;Ouml;resund, followed by a leisurely lie-around in the sun. All of this done in the traditional Swedish style of course, i.e. totally naked.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Prior to the &lt;a href="/new_years_resolution.htm" target="_blank"&gt;New Year&amp;#39;s Eve Kallbadhus Adventure&lt;/a&gt;  we arranged for my brother last December, the Swede wouldn&amp;#39;t go near the place except to fika in its caf&amp;eacute;. &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; thinks the &amp;Ouml;resund is too cold for swimming in the summertime, let alone the dead of winter. But ever since braving that initial icy plunge, she&amp;#39;s not only been game to do it again, but &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;enthusiastically&lt;/span&gt; game to do it again. Who was I to argue?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;We arrived about 10:45 to find the place not especially crowded considering the abundant sunshine. After claiming one of the numerous small wooden cubicles lining the outdoor decks (and taking care to choose one that would put a bit of distance between us and other sun worshippers&lt;/font&gt;), &lt;font size="3"&gt;we s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;tripped off our clothes, grabbed our towels and headed for the sauna. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;When we returning from sweating and swimming about 30 minutes later, I was kind of surprised to see that someone had claimed a spot on the deck almost directly in front of our obviously occupied cubicle. But whatever. Maybe she wanted some company? How wrong I was on that count.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;She was wearing a shirt but no pants and had her bare backside to us as we spread our towels out next to her, but she turned around immediately and asked me, in Swedish of course, why we had to sunbathe in this particular spot when there was so much space available elsewhere. I responded that all of our belongings were in the cubicle behind her...assuming she&amp;#39;d come to the obvious conclusion that we had been there first. Turns out I was wrong on that count, too.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Instead of recognizing that it was her responsibility to move if she had a problem with our proximity, she told me that I didn&amp;#39;t need to worry about our stuff, that she&amp;#39;d been coming to the kallbadhus for 20 years and she was sure that no one would bother it. She went on to say, in a very aggressive tone...especially for a Swede...that she knew we would be talking and she *needed* the atmosphere to be calm and quiet. WTF? Who goes to a public swimming facility on a warm, sunny day and expects solitude? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I assured her that I wasn&amp;#39;t worried about our stuff (we&amp;#39;d left it there while in the sauna and swimming, for crying outloud, how concerned about theft could we possibly be?), that the two of us were planning to do some dozing in the sun, and if we did talk to each other, we&amp;#39;d do so very quietly. I thought this would satisfy her, but for the third time, I was wrong.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;She came back with how she had already moved several times in her quest to find a quiet spot, and unfortunately, I didn&amp;#39;t know the Swedish translation for &lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tough%20Noogies" target="_blank"&gt;Tough Noogies&lt;/a&gt;. Instead I responded incredulously, &amp;quot;I understand what you&amp;#39;re saying, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;but we were here first&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;At this stage I turned to &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr.Doesn&amp;#39;t-Do-Conflict Darling&lt;/span&gt;, hoping for some back-up. Silly me. Her suggestion was that we could move over a couple of meters...which was &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;SO NOT THE POINT.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; Plus doing so would put us right next to somebody else. Never mind that there were at least 10 meters of empty deck space on the *other side* of Ms. Rude-vig Entitled-sson.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Suddenly the ridiculousness of the situation hit me. Here I was, buck-naked and dripping wet, trying to reason with a bitter, pantless woman in a 2nd language who was under the delusion that she owned the place, while simultaneously being undercut by my usually reliably supportive Swede, who seemed content to let this idiot go on thinking she was Queen of the Kallbadhus. &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold"&gt;What planet was I on?!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;It certainly wasn&amp;#39;t worth ruining our visit &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;over, so we moved two meters to the left, but made a point of talking loudly enough that she could not miss the fact that we both thought she was a total nutjob.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;As a precaution against further hassle, we left our towels on the deck when we went for a 2nd sauna and swim, and when we got back we were thrilled to see that two young women had claimed a spot practically &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;right on top of her&lt;/span&gt; and were happily chattering away. So naturally I HAD to wonder aloud in clear-as-a-bell English, &amp;quot;Gee, I wonder if she yelled at them, too?&amp;quot; In any case, it was nice to see that karma, at least, was on MY side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kallbadhus%5Fconflict'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swim_fast_swim_naked.htm'&gt;Swim fast, swim naked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/irony_is_often_lost_on_swedes_2.htm'&gt;Irony is often lost on Swedes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedes_say_marriage_for_everybody.htm'&gt;Swedes say "marriage for everybody"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/of_course_the_naked_golfer_had_to_be_swedish.htm'&gt;Of course the naked golfer had to be Swedish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/officer_id_like_to_make_a_citizens_arrest.htm'&gt;Officer, I'd like to make a citizen's arrest!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/new_years_resolution.htm'&gt;2009 Resolution: Keep my hands to myself near naked strangers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/pranksters_turn_swedish_park_into_sprawling_pot_farm.htm'&gt;Pranksters turn Swedish park into sprawling pot farm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/halmstad_trip_recap_twitterstyle.htm'&gt;Halmstad trip recap, Twitter-style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/same_punchline_different_joke_1.htm'&gt;Same punchline, different joke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/drunken_swede_tries_to_row_home_from_denmark.htm'&gt;Drunken Swede tries to row home from Denmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/1l9SqSKbCbI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>swedes</category><category>nakedness</category><category>kallbadhus</category><category>karma</category></item><item><title>So how did you celebrate "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/so_how_did_you_celebrate_talk_like_a_pirate_day.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/so_how_did_you_celebrate_talk_like_a_pirate_day.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=so%5Fhow%5Fdid%5Fyou%5Fcelebrate%5Ftalk%5Flike%5Fa%5Fpirate%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;As a new iPhone owner...I really had no choice.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/iphone-pirate.jpg" alt="" align="baseline" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=so%5Fhow%5Fdid%5Fyou%5Fcelebrate%5Ftalk%5Flike%5Fa%5Fpirate%5Fday'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/when_iphone_love__gop_loathing_collide.htm'&gt;When iPhone love &amp; GOP loathing collide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_plundering_and_pilaging_in_my_future.htm'&gt;Lots more plundering and pilaging in my future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/how_do_i_love_thee_iphone_let_me_count_the_ways.htm'&gt;How do I love thee, iPhone? Let me count the ways...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/twas_the_night_before_iphone.htm'&gt;T'was the night before iPhone...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/holy_app_attack_batman_1.htm'&gt;Holy App Attack, Batman!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/shazzers_iphone_saga_update.htm'&gt;Shazzer's iPhone 3GS saga update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/mandela_exhibit_at_malmohus_castle.htm'&gt;Mandela exhibit at Malmöhus Castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/the_great_iphone_delivery_dilemma.htm'&gt;The Great iPhone Delivery Dilemma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/some_vikings_go_pirate_2.htm'&gt;Some Vikings go Pirate!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/zguZg5ORpAU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>iphone</category><category>pirates</category><category>pirate mode</category></item><item><title>Swedish anatomy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=swedish%5Fanatomy</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;One of the many charms of being part of a bi-national couple is the often comical way each mangles the other&amp;#39;s native language. It&amp;#39;s truly a continuing source of entertainment.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;These days, I tend to be the primary offender, but back in the first few years of our relationship when I spoke little to ZERO Swedish, it was all &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;. Some of these mispronunciations and misapplied word combinations are so funny that they beg to be repeated rather than corrected...and several have become part of our &amp;quot;couple lexicon.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Case in point: &amp;quot;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Buttlocks&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; blames this on a biologist&amp;#39;s natural tendency to use correct anatomical terms (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttocks" target="_blank"&gt;buttocks&lt;/a&gt;) combined with too many episodes of &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105929/" target="_blank"&gt;Absolutely Fabulous&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; in which the word &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks" target="_blank"&gt;bollocks&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; is tossed about liberally. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;And why, you may ask...would we have occasion to use this accidently invented word so regularly? (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Insert potential &lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tmi" target="_blank"&gt;TMI&lt;/a&gt;  warning here&lt;/span&gt;.) Well, for one thing, the Swede&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;buttlocks&amp;quot; happen to be spectacular specimens of perfectly proportioned and muscled roundness that demand at least bi-weekly admiration and commentary. And, as long as I&amp;#39;m over-sharing, let me just go ahead and admit that &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;I can&amp;#39;t keep my hands off them&lt;/span&gt;. (Apologies to both our mothers, who I know are reading this.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;In fact, it was a very early instance of my hands-on method of appreciation that prompted &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s first-ever use of the word &amp;quot;buttlocks&amp;quot; in the form of a warning to me not to get them out of alignment. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic"&gt;Say what?!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I had never heard of such a thing, but evidently it&amp;#39;s possible to get the two halves of one&amp;#39;s @$$ &amp;quot;out of alignment&amp;quot;, an annoying and uncomfortable situation that...get this...is most effectively remedied in the shower&lt;/font&gt;. &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Yeah, right!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;When I got done laughing, I was sure the Swede was making it up. Either that, or only the perfectly proportioned were afflicted.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So imagine my surprise when earlier this week, after returning from the gym, I noticed a rather odd sensation in that region that resolved itself almost immediately after I stepped into the shower.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;My very own buttlocks had actually been out of alignment!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; And days later&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt; Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; still isn&amp;#39;t done laughing. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=swedish%5Fanatomy'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm'&gt;The L Word revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm'&gt;I remember leisure time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm'&gt;Enthusiastic practicality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm'&gt;We have no business being together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/what_the_hell_is_that_smell.htm'&gt;What the hell is that smell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/that_which_does_not_kill_us_makes_us_stronger.htm'&gt;That which does not kill us makes us stronger...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/7zWpjMV6PkI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>dr darling</category><category>embarrassing moments</category></item><item><title>Godparent gig is exhausting for exhibitionists</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/godparent_gig_is_exhausting.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/godparent_gig_is_exhausting.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=godparent%5Fgig%5Fis%5Fexhausting</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/em&gt; and I had the honor and privilege to become Godparents last Saturday afternoon, but our &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; responsibilities actually kicked in a bit earlier than that. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;My first assignment came mid-week when new Dad (AKA my favorite Alpha G33K) asked me to make ice for the &amp;quot;welcome drink.&amp;quot; All formal and semi-formal Swedish parties start with some kind of punch or mixed drink that can be made in a large batch. It&amp;#39;s served as soon as all the guests have arrived and is typically accompanied by some words of welcome from the host(s). Given that I&amp;#39;ve never met a Swede who puts enough ice in a drink, it was no surprise&amp;nbsp; that this task was entrusted to an American...especially one with a very impressive collection of novelty-shape ice cube trays.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The next detail was on Friday night and involved helping the Alpha G33K and his brother set up the church hall for the meal that would be served to all the guests immediately after the service (and aforementioned welcome drink). &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; was supposed to be part of this set-up crew, but had decided to have a beer after work on an empty stomach and was too drunk to be of much assistance. (&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling &lt;/span&gt;is a bit of a light-weight.) It was during church hall set-up that I saw a half-dozen multi-liter bottles of soft drinks placed under the beverage table instead of the refrigerators in the kitchen and realized that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;I needed to make&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;a lot more ice&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;But the biggest job landed in our laps (literally) the day of the christening, and we didn&amp;#39;t even know it was coming. We were still in our pajamas when the Alpha G33K called at 8 a.m. ( *highly* unusual for him) and asked if we could take the baby for a couple of hours. He and his lovely wife were putting the finishing touches on elements of the Filipino feast we would all be enjoying that afternoon and figured they&amp;#39;d have an easier time of it if their little angel hung out at The Penthouse-Nordic for awhile.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Of course we were delighted to be of assistance and quickly threw on some clothes to walk over to their place to pick her up. This would be the first time they had ever left her with us...in fact, it may have been the first time they&amp;#39;d ever left her with anybody...and &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; positively beamed as we collected not only the baby but all of the equipment needed to look after a 3-month-old for a few hours. In hindsight we wished we&amp;#39;d taken my visiting mother-in-law with us (she was down from Halmstad for the christening) because upon arrival at their place we learned they wanted us to bathe the little Punkin&amp;#39; and wash her hair, and we could have used the extra set of hands to carry the baby tub.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;We knew they had lots to do before the 1 p.m. service, but their stress-level was palpable. New Mom was scrambling around the kitchen elbow-deep in her native Filipino cuisine, while the Alpha G33K, who tends to be quite modest for a Swede, stood at the changing table in his underwear wrangling his very lively daughter into a clean diaper. The poor guy didn&amp;#39;t even have time to put pants on!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;It was in this atmosphere that I made a snap decision: the infant seat was more critical to everybody&amp;#39;s comfort than the baby bathtub...we&amp;#39;d cross the bathing bridge when we came to it...and &lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/em&gt; did not challenge me on the point. This didn&amp;#39;t really surprise me given that I&amp;#39;m the more experienced baby-minder. What did surprise me was how cooperative the Swede was when she found out the bath-time solution involved her getting in the tub with the baby, who absolutely LOVED it. Even more shocking, the shy Swede &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;actually allowed her mother to take pictures&lt;/span&gt; of the two of them in the bath together...photos that were later shared (slightly Photoshopped) with Mr. &amp;amp; Mrs. Alpha G33K...who were genuinely interested in the technique, ahem.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;To make a long story only slightly longer, the baby survived the morning with us and was a complete angel during the ceremony, the dinner afterward was delicious and there was twice as much ice on hand was was needed. (Evidently Filipinos use even less of it than Swedes do.) But I&amp;#39;m still trying to get over the fact that there are at least three pictures of &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt; in the buff on my mother-in-law&amp;#39;s mobile phone...when I&amp;#39;m not permitted anywhere near her with a camera when she&amp;#39;s naked. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=godparent%5Fgig%5Fis%5Fexhausting'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/st--xRyoB-s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lofoten Island Tour: Souvenirs and Scary Hotels</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/lofoten_island_tour_souvenirs_and_scary_hotels.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/lofoten_island_tour_souvenirs_and_scary_hotels.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lofoten%5Fisland%5Ftour%5Fsouvenirs%5Fand%5Fscary%5Fhotels</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;When we last left our &lt;strike&gt;idiot&lt;/strike&gt; intrepid cycle tourers Shazzer and Dr. Darling, they had just spent two days staying out of the rain in a cozy sea cabin in the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway.&amp;nbsp; Had they known what they were in for the next night, they probably would have stayed put! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;It was quite warm and and only *threatening* to rain when we departed Lyngvaer, so it seemed reasonable to forgo our rain pants. This decision came back to haunt a us a short time later when the occasional sprinkles turned into more regular showers, and water started trickling down our bare legs and into our shoes. This struck us both as rather ironic considering that the &lt;a href="/sometimes_mother_nature_wins.htm" target="_blank"&gt;tacky-looking plastic bags we were still wearing on our feet&lt;/a&gt; were doing a fine job of keeping the exterior of our shoes dry.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;After dodging into a small bus stop shelter to dig up and put on our rain pants, we pressed on to &lt;a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/576069/Svolvaer" target="_blank"&gt;Svolvaer&lt;/a&gt;, commonly considered the Lofoten Island group&amp;#39;s capital city. Our first stop was the Tourist Information Office to get what we hoped would be up-to-date info on accommodation options on the way to Melbu. The weather was still lousy, and we did not want to put up the tent in the rain after riding in it all day.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Our second stop was &amp;quot;the biggest outdoor store in Lofoten&amp;quot;, where we bought the only two pairs of cycling gaiters (AKA bike boots) they had, at a premium price, of course, BECAUSE IT&amp;#39;S NORWAY. And surprisingly, the spendthrift Swede &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;didn&amp;#39;t even flinch&lt;/span&gt;. (Clearly necessity is the key to relaxing &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;s inner-tight-wad.). We then grabbed lunch at a diner that served us cheeseburgers with sweet corn...AS A TOPPING, which we assumed was some kind of strange local custom.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;During lunch we called ahead to the ONLY hotel in Melbu to make sure they had a room available if the weather allowed us to make it that far. The front desk assured us they had space, so, our feet finally properly attired and our bellies full of cheese-coated sweet corn, we continued pedalling north. The weather was not exactly conducive to having the cameras out, so we don&amp;#39;t have a lot of photos of the section of the ride. 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But weirdly, &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;it was locked up tight and looked completely empty&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;There was a sign on the door with the number to call if you wanted to check in, but my iPhone could not find a mobile network. Fortunately there was a phone booth nearby (and yes, Norwegian phone booths are as disgusting their American counterparts), and while I was on the landline with the hotel manager, my iPhone magically received an e-mail from &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s Dad&amp;#39;s wife. WTF?!&amp;nbsp; If I didn&amp;#39;t have a mobile network, how the hell was I able to receive data?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;We were still puzzling over this when the hotel manager arrived. She invited us to wheel our bikes right into the entrance of the lobby and leave them there for the night. After getting us registered she helped us haul the panniers up to our room, which was on the 2nd floor at the end of a long hallway. &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;We did not see or hear a soul the entire way there&lt;/span&gt;, and I expressed surprise that she was going to leave us alone in an empty hotel. She made a joke about how we appeared trustworthy, and then proceeded to give us a key to a back service door so we could go out and get some dinner. The weirdness just kept on coming!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;We soon discovered we didn&amp;#39;t have too many choices for food. The town, like the hotel, was dead. But we were starving and not especially picky. We passed a pizza place that looked promising until we saw the opening hours were limited to Thursdays and Saturdays. How does anybody make a living with a restaurant that&amp;#39;s only open two days a week? 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/FgoaJhF4pmM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>norway</category><category>bike tour</category></item><item><title>Bill Maher asks the Dems to fight @$$holes with @$$holes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/bill_maher_asks_the_dems_to_fight_holes_with_holes.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/bill_maher_asks_the_dems_to_fight_holes_with_holes.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bill%5Fmaher%5Fasks%5Fthe%5Fdems%5Fto%5Ffight%5Fholes%5Fwith%5Fholes</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;And I think he's got it absolutely right:&lt;/strong&gt;

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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/0jCi3u7R0XM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>bill maher</category><category>new rules</category><category>barack obama</category><category>democrats</category></item><item><title>Heck, 4 million is peanuts...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/heck_4_million_is_peanuts.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/heck_4_million_is_peanuts.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=heck%5F4%5Fmillion%5Fis%5Fpeanuts</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;This Marriage Equality ad from Ireland is going viral on the web. It depicts a a young man, played by well-known Irish actor Hugh O'Connor, traipsing across the country asking pretty much everyone he encounters for his intended's hand in marriage. (She is an unseen woman named Sinead.)
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Simple message, beautifully shot, lovely music, powerfully effective.&lt;/strong&gt;

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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/aZdWKfjDKNA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>gay marriage</category></item><item><title>Lots more plundering and pilaging in my future</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_plundering_and_pilaging_in_my_future.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_plundering_and_pilaging_in_my_future.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fplundering%5Fand%5Fpilaging%5Fin%5Fmy%5Ffuture</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So last spring I had the first of what I understand will be an annual cleaning, polishing and fit-check of my prosthetic eye. During this visit the prosthetist noticed that my right eyelid was a little puffy...something I was aware of but not especially alarmed about. It looked a little sloppy, but it didn&amp;#39;t hurt and only itched occasionally. She suggested that while it wasn&amp;#39;t common, people do occasionally become allergic to their prosthetics over time and I might want to mention it the next time I saw my eye doctor.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Because I only see the eye doc once a year (as opposed to my oncologist whom I see so often that she generally notices when I&amp;#39;ve had a haircut), I went ahead and called the Eye Clinic rather than waiting for my regular appointment. The doctor seemed a bit skeptical of the prosthetist&amp;#39;s theory but confirmed that I was indeed exhibiting allergy symptoms in my right eye socket ONLY. He prescribed some drops that addressed the itching and (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;TMI alert&lt;/span&gt;: a goopy discharge) but did nothing for the swelling. At the same time, I started taking the fake eye out at night and not wearing it at all on the weekends in the hopes that giving the eyelid an occasional break might get it to settle down a bit.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I saw the the eye doc again the first week in August and while he was still not convinced I was allergic to the prosthetic, he did switch me to a steroid drop 3x per day. I used for about 10 days without any impact other than making everything I ate and drank taste like crap. And then it was time to leave for our cycling tour of the Lofoten Islands in Norway, for which I decided to just leave the prosthetic at home.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;This was a decision I very likely would have made even if the fake eye hadn&amp;#39;t been bothering me. I often wear a patch when I travel just so that others know that I&amp;#39;m blind on the right side, and I always wear one when I&amp;#39;m on a bike for the same reason. Since I&amp;#39;m no longer wearing the prosthetic at night and would be patching my eye during the day, there was really no point in taking it along...giving &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;both the socket and lid a full two weeks&amp;#39; rest.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;And guess what? When I popped the eye in on Monday morning, the eyelid looked completely normal!&amp;nbsp; But lo and behold, by Monday evening after a full day&amp;#39;s wear...it was puffy and swollen again. In my mind, there was no longer any question that I was allergic to the prosthetic, and fortunately the Dr. *finally* came around as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;But here&amp;#39;s the kicker...I&amp;#39;m now being referred &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;back to the prosthetic clinic&lt;/span&gt;...which is exactly where I started almost six months ago! Gaaaahhhhh! In the meantime I&amp;#39;ve forwarned my colleagues that they can expect to see me in Pirate Mode a lot more often, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;which has prompted my Mom to double my collection of homemade designer eye patches. It also inspied somebody in personnel to replace the name plate outside my office door witha sign that says &amp;quot;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Capt. RumJugs McScurvy&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;quot; NICE!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fplundering%5Fand%5Fpilaging%5Fin%5Fmy%5Ffuture'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/sucks_to_be_us_sometimes.htm'&gt;Sucks to be us sometimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/so_how_did_you_celebrate_talk_like_a_pirate_day.htm'&gt;So how did you celebrate "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/ill_not_be_missing_it_this_time_mateys.htm'&gt;I'll not be missing it this time, Mateys!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/roadtrip_recap_twitter_style.htm'&gt;Roadtrip Recap Twitter-style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/colour_me_miserable_matey.htm'&gt;Colour me miserable, matey.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/forgive_me_for_this_third_eye_blind_reference.htm'&gt;Forgive me for this Third Eye Blind reference...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/look_in_the_mirror_much.htm'&gt;Look in the mirror much?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/youre_gonna_do_what.htm'&gt;You're gonna do what?!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/imagining_all_the_party_tricks_in_my_future.htm'&gt;Imagining all the party tricks in my future...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/running_the_gauntlet.htm'&gt;Running the gauntlet...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Shazzerspeak/~4/QypVnccS5yM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><category>pirate mode</category><category>monocular</category></item><item><title>We have no business being together</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm</guid><link>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/we_have_no_business_being_together.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Fhave%5Fno%5Fbusiness%5Fbeing%5Ftogether</comments><dc:creator>Shazzer</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Recently one of our &amp;quot;classic&amp;quot; cable TV networks began airing nightly episodes of possibly my all-time favorite series from the late 80&amp;#39;s - early 90&amp;#39;s, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Law" target="_blank"&gt;LA Law&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;And since there&amp;#39;s virtually nothing else to watch until the new fall season gets underway (which seems to happen later and later every year), &lt;em&gt;Dr. Darling &lt;/em&gt;has offered very little protest when I flip the channel over. It&amp;#39;s been a serious trip down Memory Lane for me, and especially fun to see some of early episodes for the first time in what, 20 years maybe? (OUCH.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So other night we&amp;#39;re watching the episode where Deputy DA Grace Van Owen (played by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Dey" target="_blank"&gt;Susan Dey&lt;/a&gt;) arrives at the home of McKenzie Brachman attorney Michael Kuzak (played by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hamlin" target="_blank"&gt;Harry Hamlin&lt;/a&gt; ) with a red balloon. She explains to her love interest how she needs to &amp;quot;lighten up&amp;quot; and have more fun, and as she does this he takes the knot out of the base of the balloon, inhales the helium, and responds to her in a circus voice. As the credits rolled, I looked over and saw the Swede&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;grinning.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Have you ever done that?&amp;quot; I asked.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;Dr. Darling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s head shakes in the negative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t how it works, but it&amp;#39;s really funny.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Helium is lighter and less dense than air, so the vocal cords vibrate more quickly.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;So you&amp;#39;re telling me that you&amp;#39;ve never inhaled helium from a balloon, and yet you can explain the physics of why it makes people sound like a cartoon?&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Yes.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Could you be any more of a nerd?&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;quot;Probably.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Fhave%5Fno%5Fbusiness%5Fbeing%5Ftogether'&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Entries:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/sucks_to_be_us_sometimes.htm'&gt;Sucks to be us sometimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/l_word_revisited.htm'&gt;The L Word revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/more_phone_fun.htm'&gt;More phone fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/i_remember_leisure_time.htm'&gt;I remember leisure time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/enthusiastic_practicality.htm'&gt;Enthusiastic practicality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/fun_with_fathers_inlaw.htm'&gt;Fun with fathers-in-law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/swedish_anatomy.htm'&gt;Swedish anatomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/and_the_packing_is_underway.htm'&gt;And the packing is underway!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/preparing_for_vacation_is_hard_work.htm'&gt;Preparing for vacation is hard work!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://shazzerspeak.blog-city.com/twas_the_night_before_iphone.htm'&gt;T'was the night before iPhone...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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