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Emergency 911-XL

Being a health care worker, I am completely 100% behind this type of service: A Las Vegas company is putting a new extra-large ambulance into service to handle extra-large patients. American Medical Response called the $250,000 rig its bariatric unit. It bought it at the request of the Clark County Fire Department. The vehicle looks like a regular ambulance. But it’s extra-wide, and has a larger gurney, a winch and ramps capable of loading up …

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Subscription Spam

Ok – so last night I upgraded my comment subscription plugin to the newest version. Apparently, I had the “subscribe to comments box checked by default” option checked and everyone has been getting emails anytime anyone comments on a post that you’ve participated in. It wasn’t my intention to spam you with the comment subscription – so now it’s set to ‘off’ so you can choose whether you want those notification emails or not. You …

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Back to Good

I‘m afraid to say it. . but I think things are slowly approaching normalcy around here. Mom seems to be out of the woods.. knock on wood, and all that. It’s been a pretty hairy past few weeks, but I’m thinking that perhaps I can breath easy. Man, I really hate to say that. But that is the way it seems, at any rate. My long lost friend has been found. I can remove his …

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Baklava in New York… Anyone?

Any NY’rs out there who would be able to give me a referral to the absolute BEST bakalava in the city?? We’re having a wedding cake done by Cupcake Cafe — but Chris, and a few others, are real Baklava fans . . . and after talking him out of having a full blown Baklava cake (not sure how that would be)… we compromised on a nice wedding cake, and a big tray full of …

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