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1. CSI: Master Bratak! medie and I had our squee on this morning over it. *g* Who knew Jaffa masters rocked the handwriting analysis?

2. Smallville: Squeeee!!!! Oh, and ( some info that makes me way too geeky )

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3. Survivor: Someone please shut. Jamie. up. Now. And preferrably let Bobby Jon do it with a large rock. Thanks.

4. Working on NASCAR slash again today. Now that work is being slow again and my head is in the game.

5. My grandmother is going to rehab today. This is after we get to the hospital last night (me and my sister) and they've told her she's checking out while she was doped up, and didn't bother to call Mr. Power-of-Attorney My Dad. Oh, and she's in a room with a call button that doesn't work AND a phone that can't call out. Sister and I raised hell. Sister got to raise hell on the drugs. I got to raise hell that the caseworker is consulting a woman NOT in her right mind about serious decisions without notifying either of her doctors or her son. As of today, she's going to rehab near her house, but any time she needs to see a doctor (the doctors in her town are incompetent - small towns suck sometimes) an ambulance has to bring her to Greensboro. Ha! We win!

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In a bit will be a post on the freakiest thing I've ever seen to do with a natural disaster. Freaky! Beats tornados, category 5 hurricanes, earthquakes equivalent to the big one, tsunamis...I swear, it's the freakiest damn thing I've ever hear of. But deserving of it's own post.

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The freaky natural disaster thing that I alluded to earlier? Okay, let's talk about it. It's lake overturn. This occurs in conjunction with volcanoes, so I'm sure you can see already how freaky this is (let's face it, volcanoes are freaky by nature, what with the lava and the magma and the exploding and raining of fire).

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Now, reading the scientific explanation for lake overturn is freaky enough. But picture this (lay explanation courtesy of PBS)...

Volcanic lake exists in Africa. CO2 is heavy, so CO2 laden water will be at the bottom of the lake. The balance is delicate, but if there is enough CO2 water at the bottom and the earth becomes unstable, with earthquakes and shifting of fissures, then it can cause the CO2 heavy water to actually "overturn" with the normal water in the lake, thereby causing the CO2 to be released.

CO2, of course, is carbon dioxide, and of course living beings can't breathe carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide spills over from the lake into the surrounding land, killing people and animals where they stand. This happened at one volcanic lake in Africa, killing 1300 people and livestock. When they were found, there were no signs of struggle. They'd all just dropped where they stood. (Boy this sounds oddly familiar.) Because by that point the CO2 had dissipated, and because this was the first time anything of the sort had ever happened, no one could figure out how the people died.