Poor Boss boy
Our poor shepherd Boss has intermittent bleeding from his penis. We first noticed it a couple of weeks ago, the odd drop of blood on the floor where he’d been. Hubby took him to the vet but she couldn’t spot anything. Then in the last week or so the bleeding has increased. Spots of blood […]
No smoking
I haven’t had a cigarette now for more than two weeks, it feels good. I get the occasional urge, particularly during work periods when smoking has always been a stress reliever, but so far I have been able to resist. It had got to the point where I was feeling really unhealthy. Waking up feeling […]
United in Faith
The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment to ecumenism as a duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and guided by love. Here too we can apply the words of Saint Paul to the first Christians of Rome: “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit”; thus our “hope […]
Job applications
Applied for a couple of “work-at-home” positions which looked more promising than the usual MLM schemes. First one, inbound calls verifying sales data – SalesForce@Home. Second one, outbound calls collecting marketing data for a car dealership.
Some play, some pay
I’m no gamer so this seems incredible to me, but there is a demand for people to play multiplayer online role-playing games on behalf of others who don’t have the time. The idea is to build status and “experience points” for their game character without the hard slog, by paying someone else to do it. […]
Food for thought
Eating your way to smarter thinking in 11 steps to a better brain involves breakfast of beans on wholegrain toast, omelette and salad for lunch, rounded off with a tub of yoghurt. Then a mid-afternoon snack, avoiding junk. For dinner, fish really is “brain food” and finish it off with some strawberries and blueberries (apparently […]