The Prescription

This is the story about how refilling one generic prescription that I have been on for more than a year has taken the whole week so far and is not done yet. I present to you the combined effects of: tightly coupled systems; similar numbers; incompetent yet confident clerks; persistent computer errors that are not corrected; supply chain mishaps; and poorly handled mergers. Ladies and gentlemen, come with me on a fantastic voyage to: THE PHARMACY!

( cut for length, this was so crazy )

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midget afro chickens?

1. The brave souls at Losanjealous attended a Steven Seagal show so that you don't have to. Their report amuses. ...I mean a certain type that seems not to have evolved in at least fourteen years. It’s the same white-haired guy in white jeans and an orange shirt from the Macy’s Young Men’s Department and his cougar girlfriend. They haven’t changed at all. She still wears her hair in ringlets and has breast implants that look like fire hydrants. And he still makes angry premeditated spins on the dance floor. And she applauds them like an elementary school teacher. It just hasn’t changed.
   
   
2. A formerly high-ranking law enforcement intelligence officer for the State of California has alleged that his demotion was retaliation for not going along with questionable intelligence-gathering. According to him, there were plans to bug the offices of Muslim clerics and infiltrate college animal rights groups.
   
   
3. With a name like Zachary Nicodemous, what else are you going to do but join a sex slave cult called the "Kaotians"?
   
   
4. Like Tom, the U.S. Government is everyone's friend. Again..
   
   
5. This collaborative project mapped the city of Barcelona for and by disabled people with mobility issues.
   
   
6. The next Pet Sematary movie will have to include a mad taxidermist whose animatronic experiments have been all too successful.

I am a consumer whore...

...and how! I have Space Invaders Shoes now. They are invading your space. Please note the sole, which imprints an invader and "One Point" as I walk.

I found these after my original quest for the limited edition Space Invaders Vans shoes ended in failure; they were apparently a Japan only very limited thing.

None of them knew they were robots

Theodore Berger, a USC biomedical engineer, is working on an artificial hippocampus. The microchip goes in the brain and routes traffic properly to improve patients with Alzheimer's, strokes, epilepsy etc.

Crazy shit. Right now they have a test bed for a "cortical prosthesis", and Berger estimates implant use in 10-15 years.

local news: Old Balboa Fun Zone rides for sale

Yup, they're selling them off: the Laughing Lady, the Dark Scary Ride, most of it.



Register article: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1175876.php

I found Bree's sentencing info.

I spent 75 cents or so at the federal court website because I wanted to know what happened to her, what her sentence was etc. They took her in May of 2004 and she didn't get sentenced until March 2005. One count of armed bank robbery and one count of using, carrying, or brandishing of firearm during crime of violence.

Looks like she got 18 months for the bank robbery and 5 years for using a gun to do it.

She pled out on 3/25/2005:

Docket Text: MINUTES OF SENTENCING held before Judge Cormac J. Carney as to Brianna Catherine Cery (1) count(s) 1, 2. Bureau of Prisons for a term of 18 months on count 1 and 60 months on count 2, to be served consecutively. Supervised release for five years on count 1 and three years on count 2, to be served concurrently under terms and conditions of the United States Probation Office and General Order 318 and 01-05. Special assessment of $200. Restitution in the amount of $108.00. Defendant is advised of appeal rights. C/R: Maria Dellaneve (tso)

For those who aren't local and/or are confused by this, I'm referring to this bank robber, who was a regular at the Diedrich Coffee we all hung out at. She also worked at the local Kinko's and as a bagger at the grocery store.

She was always an odd person, very much obsessed with the occult and "magick," and willing to bore almost anyone with lectures on the beauty of Crowleyian thought. I got along with her okay. After the grocery strike she was the only worker at the market who didn't get the raise/good benefits deal on rehiring. She blamed this on her transgendered status and I have to agree. I'm not sure what led to the bank robbery but she wasn't doing too well after the strike and fallout afterwards.

Whoo, 5 years in federal. Gun bad.