Finding $50 bills in the bathroom, awesome killings, botched executions

Went to the 7-11 near the townhouse to see what they had there - I used the garbage can to dispose of miscellaneous junk, and found some brand new Sara Lee strawberry cheesecake ice cream. It was over a dollar cheaper for twice the amount than Ben and Jerry's ice cream, which had a way better selection than last summer! (for some reason, my family was surprised that I bought it :P) Got to the townhouse and found Eric's and my knapsacks in the corner by the door - sweet! Found a $50 bill in the upstairs bathroom later, and gave it to my grandma: it had to be hers since nobody else would carry around that amount of money in the house! She thanked me a lot, and my mom said that it was very honest... er, yeah. I wasn't about to take it home as unexpected "compensation" for annoyances, after all. :P

24 was awesome! Jack killing Fayed with all he had at his disposal, Palmer bluffing about the nuclear strike, Palmer also getting addicted to adrenaline shots (GO TO MEDICAL OR YOU'LL DIE! NO THIRD SHOT FOR YOU!), CTU bluffing Fayed with the Arabic team, Nadia detecting "Samir" as a duress code albeit a bit late, Milo being jealous and stupid, Doyle securing the remaining two suitcase nukes, and the music made it all good! I have no real emotional investment in Cheng calling Jack to tell him that he had Audrey Raines as a hostage - maybe she was the high price that he mentioned in the first hour. But the nuke storyline is over, so we'll have "Jack rescues his girlfriend from the Chinese!" for the rest of the season. Jon came home after it had ended, and asked us about show developments, but we told him about those after CSI had a commercial break. THAT show had Indian reservation casino money, a bellman scalping a guy for revenge against his people, hypnotic drugs in food, a girl from Horatio's past, and other such niceties. (blood and hairspray in confetti WILL get you later on down the line...)

I told Eric about the timing of the red issue, and we were reunited with our knapsacks. He wrote a cheque for the bumper parts (not brand new, since that costs $400), ate grapes and pineapple, and told me not to touch him since I wasn't his sibling. Hey, I was just passing on the playful hits from my Funshine Bear-loving sister... but I did draw the line at touching his face! After we both got some TINY mandarin oranges from my mom (who also gave me plum lime tea and told me not to be difficult - I wasn't! :P), he drove me home. For some reason, my parents think Steph or I should treat Eric to dinner - we'll see about that! On the way home, we discussed death threats / my dream with blue ink and pads / our friends: Karen's afraid that her mom will put her on a diet after the cruise like she did to Vivian when she got home from France! Apparently, my grandma's going to Hong Kong for a few months the day we leave for the cruise... man, that'll be a BUSY day!


Today's Botched Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

Since 1983, the number of botched executions involving lethal injection have been more than double the number caused by the electric chair.

Culled from: Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals From Death Row

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I am a very angry and most distressed Comtesse tonight. I just received notification from my mailing list provider (YMLP.Com) that they will be changing their billing policy so that I will now have to pay based on the number of emails I send per month, as opposed to a flat rate based on the number of subscribers on the list. This means that during a 31-day month, my fee will go from $20.00 to around $115!!! Ridiculous!!

I've voiced my dismay about this policy change, but I doubt it will do any good, and even with your generous donations and the money I make from merchandise, I can't afford to pay over $100.00 a month to send out the newsletter. So, I am on the lookout for another mailing service. In the meantime, I'll continue to use YMLP.Com, but if I don't find another service by April 13th, I will need to quit sending the Morbid Fact Du Jour via email for a while until I find another solution. It will, of course, still be available online and on My Space.

If anyone out there has a suggestion for a new mailing list provider, please send it my way!

By the way, I haven't forgotten about the Ruthless Rhymes contest. I will be announcing the winners within the next couple of days. Sorry for the delay...

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Epitaph Du Jour!

Culled from:
Over Their Dead Bodies: Yankee Epitaphs & History
Authors: Thomas C. Mann & Janet Greene
Date: 1962

Unbolstered by dates and reported as in Vermont or Iowa:
Here lies our darling baby boy
He never crys nor hollers.
He lived for one and twenty days
And cost us forty dollars.

Thanks to Miyuki for the contribution.

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Morbid Link Du Jour!

Have you seen the Merry-Go-Round of Death yet?

Kids these days! Why, back in my day, we used to do sensible things, like jumping off roofs into gravel pits, not crazy stuff like this! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out if the girls were injured. I can't imagine that they *weren't* injured, at least somewhat. Anyone have a scoop?

I did find this ridiculous news story that suggests if we don't show this sort of thing to kids, they won't do it. Yeah, sure, and if you don't provide kids with sex education, they won't ever have sex either.

Thanks to Sandy for the link.