I'm sad. The lump they removed from my grandmother's breast on Tuesday turned out to be cancerous. They are doing a mastsecomy, removing the lymph nodes and then sending her to an oncologist for follow-up.

The Dr. said it is stage one and hasn't spread. The oncologist will determine if she needs chemo or radiation.

It brings back memories of my grandfather and his death from lung cancer in 1995.

My company has a slew of job openings in the Southeastern PA area, specifically Exton. Here is a bunch of the non-aerospace ones. They also have many openings for people with Aerospace skills. I make a referal fee on these, my email is in my profile.

So Tuesday morning a coworker of mine comes up and asks me if I've seen the new job postings on our company's web site. "No, I haven't what are they?" I say. "Well, there's a ton of them, one of them looks like your job", he says. "WTF", I say. I have 3 hours to get ready for a presentation, and now I am pissed off.

I am at work and laughing out loud to the list of 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army

Not allowed to watch Southpark when I'm supposed to be working.

My proper military title is 'Specialist Schwarz' not 'Princess Anastasia'.

Not allowed to threaten anyone with black magic.

Not allowed to challenge anyone's disbelief of black magic by asking for hair.

...it'll cost you money

I bought that "beater" car a while back. It is affectionately known as my Babe-Magnet. No women can resist a guy in a '94 Subaru Imprezza Wagon with 100,000 miles. They threw in a free stick when I bought it to keep all of the women back.

Got the Babe-Magnet because I have a 30 mile commute each way and it is great in bad weather. It has all wheel drive and anti-lock brakes.

I hope this link works, here is a link to pictures that I just had taken for Emily's 3rd birthday. I'm in one of them if anyone cares.

Yep, it happened. Things are going pretty well for me right now. The date that I thought was a dismal failure about 2 months ago...it wasn't. I think my nervousness and self-doubt made me feel that way. I'm usually a pretty self-confident person, but a little gun shy about relationships, can you blame me?

Someone just wrote a JE about that last week and I can't remember who.

I have an application (Blackberry Desktop) that always goes offscreen. I can't move it and see it.

Can someone remember who wrote up the JE or point me to it?

Turn them off. I don't care that joeblow@yourdomain got a virus that seems to come from postmaster@mydomain. I have been getting tons of email telling me that postmaster@mydomain has sent them a virus.

Great, thanks, but I'm not infected. Nobody at my company is either. I'll fix this when we hunt down all of the morons who left their machines get infected.

I took this Electability Whack-a-Pol. According to this and what I think is important, John Edwards is the Dem who stands the best chance.

I haven't followed Edwards much. I have almost no idea what he stands for, other than reading his own propaganda pages. Anyone got a read on this guy?

Pretty funny stuff. Here is Escape from Neverland

Hilarious...this guy I sit next to. He is very fussy and he has a quick Italian temper.

I had to order a Dell Inspiron 8600 for him. He really wanted a Red Lava cover for it. Warning: Sunglasses may be required for this link He was insistent on it.

So I was at Walmart, land of the Freaks. Yeah, I know they're evil and they eat babies and stuff, but they are the only store on my way home from work.

Anyway, as I'm walking in, this girl, looking to be about 14, with a pierced cheek comes walking out with what looks like her father. She has this baby pacifier that she is sucking on. My three year old hasn't used a pacifier since her second birthday, why would a teenager use one?

My new Mickey Mouse mouse is here. I shipped it to work, everyone here is jealous of me.

Actually, not mine :-(

This one is for Emily, she has been asking where it is since about an hour after I told her I bought it for her. I explained to her what shipping means. I told her the mailman brings it and she seemed to understand.

I just submitted this to Fark, thought it was amusing

D.A. says pilot may have been intoxicated.

Evan Brandt , ebrandt@pottsmerc.com 01/17/2004

LIMERICK -- Alcohol appears to have been a factor in the forced landing of a single-engine plane at the Pottstown/Limerick Airport Thursday night.