Today's Ramblings

I finally figured out where I picked up the term "mug" from - the K9 Advantix puppy commercial! Talk about picking up something from a commercial unconciously! But now that's one less thing pestering my always-curious lil brain.
Things are going groovy here, nothing I can complain about for the most part. I've gotten done some of the stuff I've been wanting to. I got my box nearly completed, though the mesh bottom is waiting for me to finish it and attach it to the side walls, but I got distracted. I'm 90% finished with creating my own cradle for my PocketPC (though I didn't cut a hole for the charger to go through so it will have to sit on battery power). But this'll enable me to multitask a bit if I need to and I should have it finished soon! I'll post pics of the walls of the box here soon (if I can get them to come out right). Perhaps I'll go fetch the pics from the other box I made and post them too.
It appears once again the cause of the sick cats eating Menu Foods' products has changed. It's no longer rat poison, it's a chemical used in plastics and fertilizer. PETA wants the recall to expand to dry food - but there are two big problems with this. 1, a lot of cats would have to starve as they'll only eat one brand of food and if it's recalled, they won't eat. 2, there's no evidence that any animal has gotten sick from eating dry food, and I think with the scrutiny going on right now, we'd know about it if there had been cases of this happening.
My family has been very lucky in this first major outbreak of tornados in this once-again early tornado season. When the system moved east out of Western Kansas, they greatly decreased in strength, which is always good news. However, it's just getting started, and tornado season has at least two or three more months to go. I'm not about to take a sigh of relief just yet.
What's up lately with Philadelphia's homicide rate? Very quickly, it's gone from a quiet start to another record-breaking year. You know I thought Cincinnati was dangerous. But I'm starting to think Cincinnati's safer as you might get shot, but your chances of dying are less. Cincinnati's homicide rate is just more than one fatal shooting a week, a record year being 70 or so. Philadelphia saw 406 last year alone, and this year is on its way to 500+ if the current trend continues. The city is truly in crisis, and the "stop snitching" campaign taken on by some in the criminal syndicate is not helping. People need to speak up. Yes there's a chance of retaliation. But the community can't improve so long as the criminal element is allowed to continue operating with relative security.
Anyways, I'll post more later when I got more to say.