quiet evening at home

Since I was really having a chocolate craving, I decided to start trying some of the gluten-free brownie recipies that are available to try. I'm still waiting for this batch to cool, so we'll see.

Just catching up on my news reading for the day. First of all, there was a tragedy for a shark researcher. I've always respected the shark - they've been around far longer than homo sapiens, and yet the homo sapiens may lead to their extinction. I have a tatoo of a blue shark on the back of my right shoulder. Since it looks like my scuba diving days may be over with, that will be one regret in my life - to dive with sharks.

Second was a "why couldn't this have been known a few years ago" kind of story. Here's the weblink (free registeration). Transdermal buprenorphine worn as a patch seems to help neuropathic pain. The only medication that helped me for a significant amount of time was fentanyl in a patch called duragesic. I hope this helps some of those not as fortunate as I have become and are living with too much of the trigeminal pain.

UPDATE: Still warm, but the brownies are like most things that I've tried that are gluten-free. Crumbly, dense, and something about the texture that tells you it's not quite right. Tomorrow will have to be a different recipe.

Sick form of natural selection

Okay, I admit that it's a tragedy when this happens, but the parents should have made a better choice in who was supposed to be watching their toddler.

If the relatives didn't see a problem in having a toddler on a busy street at 10:00 PM, then it's too bad that the accident happened to the child, and not themselves.

What in heck is a toodler doing up and out of the house at 10:00 PM anyway???

I'm glad I don't have any children, and don't expect ever to have any. Parents have enough to worry about when they need to track their child via cell phone, but now they have to worry about who's watching them.

What took it so long?

I'm not surprised that this is in development. Especially when 911 operators could locate you via cell phone. Now your parents will be able to. Any smart kid will just leave the phone behind when they're going to do something stupid.

What really cracks me up is the filtering content feature. I'm sorry, my phone has web capabilities, and it's not the greatest. If a teen's parents are being kept awake at night because of what they fear their child is looking up on their internet cell phone, then they're psychotic to begin with. They might as well not let their teen drive because of the chance they'll get into an accident, or go cruising for drugs.

Sheesh! I'm glad I'm not a parent - and expect to stay that way.