Dr Copa

My daughter called me last night, telling me that she was looking through the lapolicegear.com website to check out their closeouts. I’m pretty sure that I’ve told you that she is a police officer in New England, so we talk about police things a lot. Especially when she is asking me to send her money to help pay for some uniform or equipment thing that she wants. So she was telling me that the website is having a 35% discount sale on their Maxpedition gear. The sale is only good for a few days, so she wanted me to let her know if I could help her pay for some of the things before she placed her order.

There have been reports that the FEMA trailers used by the US government to house people who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina have/had 5 times the safe level of formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen, and there is evidence to support the worry that the people who have been living in the trailers already are, or will be in the future suffering from various ailments from asthma to cancer as a result of the prolonged exposure to the formaldehyde.

The US Government KNEW about this since 2006, and yet there are still thousands of people living in those trailers! I consider this an outrage, and a crime against humanity!

Let’s face it, although there are a lot of things we can buy over the Internet at a great price, there are times when we need to find something locally.  Like plumbing services, or a good local restaurant.  I don’t know why it is, but whenever I am looking for the paper version of the local yellowpages, I can’t seem to find where my wife put it!

I know she has a system of  “A place for everything, and everything in its place” but I can never remember where the places are!  That’s why I never put anything away – if it is not out in plain sight, I can’t find it!  I get so aggravated when I look for something and I find out that my wife “put it away!”

So even though I know we have several telephone books in the house, instead of trying to find them I just go on the Internet to the local.com website to do a local search for the businesses and services that I need to have done.  It’s quick and easy, and I don’t have to try to remember to put it away when I’m through with it!

Well, apparently more people DO judge a book by its cover than they should! Case in point; the audience and judge’s reaction to contestant Susan Boyle! Everyone pre-judged her by her humble appearance. I have to admit that I found it difficult to understand her when she talked, and when she said she wanted to be a professional singer I wondered how that could possibly happen! But it wasn’t long before I realized that her singing voice was wonderful, and when she sang her accent seemed to disappear. I have to wonder how a person can sing without an accent if they can’t talk without it! I’ll be very interested to hear how her new career works out for her. I’m sure that she will have a big recording contract even if she doesn’t win the Britain’s Got Talent show!

Today I was driving to the post office and was noticing all of the different beautiful trees, shrubs,and flowers that are in bloom. In my mind it is still early spring; back where I grew up there is still snow on the ground and there is NOTHING in bloom! So it just amazes me when I drive around here that I see people have already mowed their lawns and so many flowers are in bloom. There are beautiful forsythia, cherry trees, pear trees, daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, and much to my complete amazement I saw a very tall rose bush in what appeared to be full bloom! I could NOT believe my eyes! I wonder if it was a fake? It just doesn’t seem natural; the azaleas haven’t even started to bloom, and here is a blooming rose bush? Is that even possible?