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I’ve just spent the past couple of hours browsing a cool website that I found called livescience.com.  It has a lot of cool stories about technology, health, nature, the environment, history, “strange news” and a few other categories.  I’ve been clicking around on different stories, and found each one very interesting.  I was just reading an article about a robot “named” “Gordon” that has a real biological brain that controls its movements.  The brain is from a rat, so I have to wonder what the intentions of the movements are, but I find the entire concept of a brain kept alive in a robot to be very exciting!  Is this the first step to people living forever?  Could it be possible that a person whose body is too ill to survive could have their brain transplanted into a robot and continue to “live” through a robot?  I can only imagine the huge controversy that this would create! 

Teri was showing me the discount furniture website that she found that sells Carolina furniture at deep discounts.  They sell such brand names as Ashley Furniture, Pulaski, American Drew, Hooker Furniture, Universal Furniture, Hekman, Kathy Ireland Home, Pulaski, and Michael Amini Signature to name just a few.  They ship anywhere in the US and Canada.  I never realized until very recently that North Carolina was such a major manufacturer of furniture!

Teri found a really nice looking canopy bed made by Ashley Furniture from their Berringer Collection that they are selling at a really reasonable price.  She wants to buy it for our master bedroom.  I told her that I’d have to take a look at our budget and I’ll give her an answer by this weekend. 

I was reading on the BBC.com website that Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is blaming the US for provoking the conflict in Russia, to benefit one of the presidential candidates.  He backs up this claim by saying that there werw US citizens in the area that were following orders from their leaders.  Say WHAT?????  Sounds like they’ve got another nutcase in a position of power over there! 

Teri has asked me to help her brother with his DUI troubles.  I’ve told her that I want nothing to do with the bum; I’ve really unhappy that she has allowed him to essentially move in with us.  I told her that he needs to get a good lawyer, and I told her to go on the Internet and click on this link: Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys | Frequently Asked California Criminal Law Questions and see if that can help him out any. 

I was looking at my appointment calendar a few minutes ago and realized that my mother’s birthday is rapidly approaching. I haven’t figured out what to buy her yet! She is one difficult lady to buy gifts for – she proclaims she likes whatever it is that you give her, but when you go over to her house you never see any sign of it, so you never know what she did with it! She has everything she needs, and buys whatever she wants. When you ask her what she wants for her birthday, she’ll usually say “nothing.” This is going to take some serious thought – or a restaurant gift card!