Entries from September 2006 ↓

I now fully believe that Lukas is set to win the whole thing, and I'm not pleased about it.

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Stats I heard were that there were 3 stingray deaths in Australia in the last 100 years – and 17 worldwide. So no, this wasn't a REALLY dangerous thing – it was a weird fluke. The odds that it could hit him in a fatal place were astronomical. Apparently he pulled the barb out on camera, as if to make one of his classic "No sweat" type statements before they realized what really happened. Pretty sad. 🙁

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Even the house band is dissing on Dilana now. Then again she did send out a big "screw you" to the Internet voters, so maybe my original "Dilana is nuts" post that got me all the traffic wasn't that far off. Plus, what the what is Storm singing about?

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Does it bother anybody else that Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray? Kerry and I (and friends) swam with those things down in the Cayman Islands. My first thought was, "Surely we're not talking about the same thing. He must have been swimming with the exotic poisonous cousins of the ones we swam with."

Nope. That's the big thing everybody's talking about how, what would have provoked the "usually peaceful" stingray. Since they have it on video (ewww) the current theory is that the stingray became trapped between Irwin and the cameraman, and it was a defensive move on the animal's part.

The scariest part is that he did not die because the thing is poison and it scratched him, or it bit him and he bled to death or something….he died because its barb hit him in the chest and punctured his heart. Holy $%^&*(. When we went swimming with the things the worst they told us to expect was a pretty nasty hicky if you touched their food and then touched yourself. (And yes, clear instructions were given to under no circumstances touch the food and then your crotch just to see what would happen.)

Got some new pictures up this weekend. Actually old pictures – mostly of the christening – but new in that I finally got them up on the site. I'm not linking them directly from the blog anymore, so if you've forgotten the URL, email me and I'll let you know.