Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

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  • 20091210-Darkness’ Sun

    In recent news, there appeared a circular-shaped formation in a counter-clockwise direction over northern Norway. There was a blueish plume in a general lower right hand quadrant leading to and from the center of this sky phenomenon above and the ground below. The Russians later claimed it was a failed missile.

    New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy
    by Stuart Williams Stuart Williams – Thu Dec 10, 12:14 pm ET

    MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia’s new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.

    http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091210/capt.photo_1260465216636-1-0.jpg?x=400&y=259&q=85&sig=JQKR6dbZlQe1x2EB30EbFQ--
    Circular-shaped formation and blue plume

    This aerial event coincided with the arrival of President Barack Obama, who accepted the $1.4 million Nobel peace prize. I say that Indonesian man is NOT a peace maker. And unlike Obama, former President Ronald Reagan actually helped to consecrate Russia and changed its heart by tearing down the proverbial wall that divides people from each other and God.

  • 20091207-Gallary Nice

    I got tired of adding one image at a time and discovered over this weekend the ease of using gallery. I prefer using `random` or `menu` order with 2 columns (for narrower themes here at WordPress.com).

    As a result, I’ve added tags called `gallery` to my old posts labeled `images`. Adding this newest `gallery` tag is usually helpful for my research purposes.

  • 20091207-A Rock

    Tonight, I recalled watching one of my favorite, childhood cartoons on television: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) (TV) and a memorable quote from Charlie Brown:

    I don’t understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks. I suppose you spent all night in the pumpkin patch.

    Honestly, all I want for Christmas is a TIN FOIL HAT! Why? I’d like to keep my thoughts private and not have Santa know if I’ve been naughty or nice. Alas, and just like Charlie Brown, I know that my special friend sent me yet another friggin’ rock! Ugh! What am I going to do with this orgone piece?

    To sum up my `feelings`, here is a downloaded copy from YouTube.com:

    `Charlie Brown Got A ****Ing Rock` by MasonWorkz

    Note: This blog entry is continued with 20091207-Prayer Journal.

  • 20091207-Tweaking Again

    Yesterday, switched to the Kubrick theme by Michael Heilemann here at WordPress.com and for the header of my weblog uploaded:

    Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1852) is part of the Tate Gallery collection. His painting influenced the image in Kenneth Branagh’s `Hamlet`.

    Image source from `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Millais_-_Ophelia.jpg`.
    Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1852)

    I may switch back to my advanced `Header Colors` later on:

    • Font Color (CSS): #FFFFFF
    • Upper Color (HEX): #CCCCFF
    • Lower Color (HEX): #000033

  • 20091206-Guitaring Vets

    After shopping at the DeCA in Moffett Field, CA, we heard three guitarists playing Filipino music. They are called `FilAm Vets Rondalla`. Paw donated one dollar in their plastic jar.

    “All proceeds will go to ABS-CBN Foundation.“

    We loaded the Mercedes Benz E430 with our grocery, which for the first time was paid twice by Paw’s two ATM/Debit card! He pressed the pen on the keypads rather roughly, with his right hand shaking all the way.

    Maw wanted to speech with the threesome and we learned that they were going to attend our local church during the nine-days of “Simbang Gabi“. Maw offered donations for their appearances.

    Here are two of three photos taken after coming down the ramp of the grocery store:

  • 20091205-Don’t Open

    A few minutes ago, the doorbell rang downstairs and Maw opened the door to the USPS guy, who was just leaving.

    He said: `There’s a package for you.`

    She replied: `Thank you.`

    I came running downstairs and knew what it was and asked: `Is it for for me?`

    Maw asked: `Who’s it is from?`

    I simply said: `It’s someone from L.A.`

    She inquired again: `Is he your boyfriend?`

    A hand written note on the side of the package reads:

    Image source: IMG_7209 taken on 12/5/2009 10:59:32 AM with Canon PowerShot A610.
    Open on Christmas!

    I have placed my first present of the Christmas season underneath our 4.5 feet tall tree, which is located atop a side table and immediately to the right of the front door. I was really hoping for a TIN FOIL HAT to block out waves into my brain. But it’s okay.

  • 20091203-Bamboo Background

    Out of sheer frustrated boredom, I’ve been re-organizing my documents. But my goal is to DELETE everything! I wanted to leave without junk in my trunk.

    Alas, I ended up lurking the internet and found a wonderful background for free! It’s a .jpg image of a bamboo, the color of creamy yellow of my formerly plain background. The file name is 333 and the dimensions are 468 x 528.

    Here is an image of the bamboo background:

    http://queen-annie.net/backgrounds/333.jpg
    Free Background 333

    If you have a slow connection, too bad! Please be patient and relish this newest eye candy.

    Anyway, the website where I found this free background appears to be heavily into New Age. There are lots of Biblical references and some about Knights Templars. The site is very colorful and animated, too.

  • 20091203-Moonlight Rings

    While waiting for my categories to convert (or merge) over to the ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL label of post, I logged into my email account, saw messages, read one from a friend, logged off my account and was redirected to a main site which had the following photo:

    http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//ydownload_ap/20091202/photos_net_ap_sc/1259794720/
    Surrounded by trees and a building, the moonlight forms a ring over Macedonia's capital Skopje, in this Jan. 24, 2005 photo. This sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals cover much of the sky. Each ice crystal acts like a miniature lens. Because most of the crystals have a similar elongated hexagonal shape, light entering one crystal face and exiting through the opposing face refracts 22 degrees, which corresponds to the radius of the Moon Halo. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) Wed Dec 2, 5:58 PM ET

    As with all things, no things and everything else in between, these are blessings in disguise. Even the moon has a halo! Earlier, I was blessing the moon and this photo is something worth sharing.

  • 20091202-Trying Theme

    I’m enjoying the P2 theme by Automattic.

    This theme has the `Hide the sidebar` feature, which makes my weblog look like a narrow, one column page, perfect for smaller screen resolutions of 800 by 600 pixels.

    I tried the sidebar but the extra width made scrolling much slower and the width does not automatically adjust to smaller screen resolutions.

    There is no top navigation bar for a main menu page. So my current `Front` (or `Home`) page works well as a `Content` page, which acts as a menu of three sections: pages, archives and posts.

    I’m using the `Bubbles` background image of blue spherical shapes instead of the `Polka Dots` of vertical rows of rainbow-colored dots. The blue background matches the blue fonts and red hover links.

    Here is the `Bubbles` image to the P2 background:

    Bubbles (P2 by Automattic)

  • 20091130-Thank You

    Thank You

    That day I received a lime green envelop, which contained a `Thank You` card of rainbow colors as if drawn by Crayola Crayons. I especially liked the eight-petaled flower of red color for the letter `O` in the word `You`.

  • 20091201-Prayer Journal

    Here are two scanned images showing three pages of prayers from my birthday card, which was given by my parents:

    [slideshow]

    Dear Lyn,

    A Birthday Prayer For You Daughter:

    ” ‘The Lord bless you…

    May He bless you with everything that is good and wonderful, with daily strength, and everlasting yous.

    and keep you…

    May He keep you safe and protect you in your goings and comings, and may you be kept for every special thing He desires to bring into your life.

    the Lord make His face shine upon you…

    May He always smile upon you, and may His presence be your daily reward.

    and be gracious to you…

    May you be blessed with the beauty of His grace, and may His favor be over you and upon you.

    the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.’ “

    May His peace fill your life and guard your heart, and may His love keep you in all your ways.

    With love to you and for you on your birthday and always.

    Love, Dad & Mom (December 1, 2009)

  • 20091130-Seeing Dots

    Okay, fine! Out of frustrated boredom, I’ve switched my theme (AGAIN) to P2 by Automattic. After all, bloggers here at WordPress.com owe our thanks to the folks at Automattic for providing us different themes to choose from, right?

    With the `P2 Options`, I chose the Polka Dots as the background image and selected to `hide the sidebar` and `display the titles`. It’s the eye candy of rainbow colored delights that makes my weblog feel all fruity.

    Here is the `Polka Dots` image of the P2 background:

    Polka Dots (P2 by Automattic)

    Also, the gravatar is displayed to the left of the author, followed by the time/date stamp and tags. The funny thing missing is the category from the `Recent Updates` mode. The title is bold and big, followed by the text and a horizontal line to separate each blog entry.