Those damned Londoners stole my apostrophe

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_no_apostrophe
and now every time I type of possessive or contraction, I have to go back and re-insert the apostrophe because the first time it didn’t take.  And now my spell check is marking the word “didn’t” as mis-spelled.  Coincidence?  I’m thinking no.  I’m thinking they’ve been after retribution ever since that Tea Party thing.
I seriously [...]

She could have been so much more….

To the people of Harlem, GA:  You have the most adorable town I’ve ever seen.  Complete with the Laurel & Hardy museum, and the birthplace of Oliver Hardy.   And you had me halfway moved there until I read about the town being founded because two men wanted somewhere that didn’t sell liquor.
I can’t find [...]

OK, something nice about Baxley, GA -

They have the nicest Dairy Queen I’ve ever seen.
Still not enough for me to want to go back, though.

My apologies to the people of Baxley, GA

But your city stinks. I don’t mean stink in the way of a 7th grader who didn’t get their way about something, either. I mean stinks as in “something crawled up the butt of your town and died up in there. “I don’t know if it’s the nuclear plant outside of town or if it [...]

So tomorrow is the big day….

There are lots of big things happening tomorrow.  There is, of course, the inauguration happening tomorrow.  That’s big news, fer sure.  More on that later.
Tomorrow is the day I send back the form to the kidlet’s teacher agreeing to have her evaluated for speech therapy.  Not sure how I feel about this, but apparently she [...]