see... the thing is, Frank Cho hasn't stopped doing comics, and The Journal certainly never dropped his strip. All of you are presuming that his work is still syndicate, and it's not: he started publishing independently a couple years back, and if you would like to keep up with his comics after he dropped from the syndicate I suggest you head over to your local comic shop and pick up his comic books.

And in other news, President Bush is slated to announce his intentions for a new space program in order to do the following: reinvigorate NASA, stamp out the Chinese threat, divert attention from his farce of an illegal war, and bolster his number of supporters come next election. Unfortunately, whether or not the program succeeds is very likely of no concern to him. But at the very least this is an incredibly important step in the right direction. It is rumoured that he will announce a 10-year plan to send mankind to Mars, as well as reinstitute our presence on the moon with a permament base facility.

Meanwhile, the Spirit Mars-lander appears to be somewhat stuck, having caught itself in it's own deflated airbag system; scientists are attempting to tackle the problem. However, despite this 'temporary' setback it continues to relay a very nice view from it's stationary vantage point. The postcards are appreciated.

No one here?

if ernie comes- will he bring his rubber duckie? - Rubber duckies are fun :)

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Your name isn't Mercy it is Percy!

Mercy.

Congratulation Bella for surviving 100 years. Not many beings can claim this honour since the weak are quickly taken care of... ummm... yeah...

If Chuckee Cheese is too kiddy we can always comprimise and go to Reds... Can I bring Ernie?

well Paras, I am sure you will be happy to know that, at least
according to my 1710 page tome of a dictionary (bigger may not
be better, but apparently it is righter (more right)), exactitude
IS a word. It's right there on page 483. Now we can all sleep
at night.

But the real reason for my post is that I took my dog to the vet
today (she has an infection in her ear) and there was a chart on the
wall where your dog's age in 'dog years' is calculated according to
their weight. (large dogs have a much shorter life span than small
dogs). The highest category was 55 lbs and over (Belle is 78) which
informed me that at age 11 my dog will be approximately 100 dog years
old. And Belle's 11th birthday is this Sunday. So there you go.

I wasn't so sure about that Percy-birthday-idea, but it is Bert, and he is my current fear expert (stupid alarmist Ernie), so I'm on board.



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• Why didn't I preface this list with some attempedly-witty intro?



• Should the page title change to "So that Alison can rant and I can exercise my scroll wheel"? Or is that too self-explanatory?



• Why is it that when my arm hurt and I took Motrin, my arm still hurt and now I have a headache?



• Why is it that I still don't know if exactitude is a word?



• Why am I constantly asking questions and not actually making segues?



• Why is Frank "Monkeyboy" Cho such a brilliant cartoonist?

How bout Percy's birthday bash at Chuckee Cheese instead?