Cathawk’s Neighborhood

What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.

Fathom
Una Board
Country Roads
SoonerFans.com
Live Journal
boomerradio.com

New Toys!

A while back, I created a Google personalized homepage.

Now, Google has added themes to decorate your home page with - mainly a banner across the top of your page.  And the banners change over time.

I chose a beaches theme.  If I wake up at a decent time, I get to see a very nice sunrise.  The spectacular colors fade to blue and the bright sun moves across the banner.  Late evening brings a beautiful sunset, followed by the moon moving across darkened skies.

Bascially, there's a new banner for every two hour time block!  I'm lovin' it!

I think my application for it must be somewhere in my mail stack.

Clutter and mess trump clean and neat - Yahoo! News

Sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., the competition promoted "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity.

I might be the most effective person in the world!

APOD: 2007 March 22 - Goa Silhouettes

A truly amazing picture.

The message board sponsored by our local newspaper (and Morris Communications) has been shut down, possibly for good.

Trolls (who may or may not be alter egos of regular members) came and started posting a lot of really stupid threads, dredged up threads from 2 and 3 years ago to clutter up the "most Recent Posts" page, and finally, posted porn images on the board.

Here is a link to the message board main page:
http://forums.amarillo.com/cgi-bin/bb/ultimatebb.cgi

Do you think that the fact that the listed e-mail address is defunct is telling us how much consideration they're giving to re-opening the board?

are the creation of Satan...

There are Medical Savings Accounts I believe that really ARE savings accounts, where money can carry over from year to year.

Alas, mine is not one of these. You have to guess by January 1st how much your out-of-pocket medical expenses are going to be. Guess too much and you lose the excess. Guess too little and you lost the benefit of paying untaxed income for health care.

So far I have learned that I am a horrible guesser. I should back up, and say that I am new to the game of health insurance and medical bills, having been sheltered for nearly 24 years in the Army, and not surprisingly, given what I do, being stationed near major medical facilities that met all of our health care needs. So I have no sense of what things cost.

Year 1, 2004, I signed up for the max of $5400. Lost about $4200 of that.

Year 2, 2005, I signed up for $1300. Spent about $3600 in out-of-pocket expenses and so paid about $700 in taxes unnecessarily.

Year 3, 2006, I signed up for $2600. I just got through turning in all my receipts and stuff for about $1900 worth of expenses. So, another $700 down the drain.

This year, I'm signed up for $1300 again. We'll see.

How do you handle phone calls from telemarketers?

We're on the no-call list.  We also have caller ID and do not pick up the phone for unexpected out-of-area calls, and just let them go to answering machine instead.

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
Inspired by Stephanie.  

Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr
Shut Up & Kiss Me - Mary Chapin Carpenter
I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock & Roll Band)
Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves - Cher
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
A Time for Us - Johnny Mathis
Green & Grey - Nickel Creek
Jesus Is Just Alright - Doobie Brothers
Roll Over Beethoven - the Beatles
There Goes My Baby - Rick Nelson
I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
What'cha Gonna Do with a Cowboy - Chris LeDoux w/ Garth Brooks

What's one of your favorite quotes? 
Submitted by Georgie-boy. 

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
- Anonymous

What was your favorite game to play at recess in grade school? 
Submitted by Elisheva Chana.

Jump Rope