Ashes to ashes, snowman to precipitation

Last day of the northern hemisphere's winter months. Last day of February.

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Finally! Vengeance is mine!

The only way to fight the stupidity of chain mail... is chain mail with humor.





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Inmates escape (again) by helicopter (again).

Remember when I wrote about two prisoners who escaped from prison by hitching a ride on their rented helicopter in June 2006? Well, the escapees were finally caught (again) and placed in the same prison (again).

And...
they escaped from prison (again),
same day, on a Sunday (again),
same prisoners on the run (again),
same means of escape, a chopper (again).

Same story (again).

Greek people are still chuckling (again).
Except for the prison guards and high-ranking embarrassed officials (again).

They are still looking at the sky over the prison and scratching their heads (again).

[news sources in english here, here and photo](again).

"What started out as a Sydney event, turned into a global movement"

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Did You Know?

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Olympic Airways

dedicated to those who have flown Olympic Airways and can picture the captain speaking...

Tragic and all too familiar

Photos from the bushfires still raging in Victoria, Australia and photos from the summer 2007 (from June until August) fires in Greece.
Too tragic. Too familiar.

More about the Victorian bushfires.

Pencil ninja

• Due to work overload issues, I didn't blog yesterday. I hang my head in shame and admit early defeat in my NaBloPoMo February 2009 challenge to post everyday for one month.

It was one of those aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! days at the office and my mind and fingers were too numb to write before the midnight deadline.

• Why is it people at work think something will get done sooner if they keep ringing me: "Is it ready yet? IS it? IS it?"

I kept daydreaming I was holding a sharpened pencil and replied with a question of my own: "Do you like your second eyeball? DO you? DO you?"

Old jews telling jokes

This site made my day and I want to share it with you. Enjoy.

Bookshelf lamp

I know I don't need it.
Something about it makes me want it.

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I want... but my body has a mind of its own

Sometimes in the quiet of the night I can actually hear my body creaking with getting-old noises.

I want to get back in shape.

Green thumbing it

I like plants that don't need a lot of looking after and spineless yucca are my kind of plants and why my balcony is full of them. They are able to survive sizzling summers and frosty winters and remain green all year long. Yucca need very little water and can go a long time without any so there's no need for someone to "plant-sit" while you're away. They need a lot of sunlight, which, luckily, we have a lot of in Greece and why we haven't gone completely mad as a people. Yuccas don't drop their leaves so there's no need to clean up after them by sweeping and raking. They leave rings of old, brown leafages as they grow which should be tugged out so that yuccas keep looking green and healthy.

Yucca are popular in Greek gardens and verandas and their popularity will grow as global warming pushes the Saharan climate northwards, over the Mediterranean. The lack of water and excess sunlight and heat will prove this plant a viable solution for all-year greenery.

Yesterday I decided to exercise my green thumb and tugged out the old leaves from my yuccas. My hands, today, are aching from multiple nicks and cuts the sharp sword-like foliage caused. Yuccas are not a very safe plant to have around the house if you have children or toddlers running around. They have been known to send people to hospitals with eye pokes and severe cuts.

I keep smacking my forehead for forgetting to keep a pair of gardening gloves near when I set out to prune the yucca plants. I fool my myself that I'll be careful and my hands always end up looking like I tried to give some poor cat a bath.

This spring I'm thinking of adding some flower box assortments with some herbs and bulbs of color. I want to get my hands dirty and watch the flowers grow.

If I manage I'll post a photo. If not you can still admire my yuccas from my flickr collection.

A month of wants

Since the blogosphere knows no boundaries and I'm in international blog waters I have once more decided to take part in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) for February 2009. Apparently, NaBloPoMo has evolved from an annual affair (one month a year) to a monthly blogging event. As the shortest month of the year, all I need is 28 different posts for February based on the theme "want" (although staying on theme isn't a prerequisite for taking part).

I want to shake off my blogger's block.

There. It has begun. Post #1 for February 2009 is done.