Quick News
Tuesday, Jun. 10, 2003

Virginia got the check, so if you know what I�m talking about, that�s now (hopefully) taken care of. I�ll buy a Gamecube this Friday with free Metroid Prime. We have to be at the church at 4:45 in the morning on Sunday. The plane will land in Mexico City at 2:30 in the afternoon. Our new Olympus Stylus camera came in yesterday. It�s beautiful. A piece of photographic jewelry. I�m playing GTA3 again after finishing ZOE in 6 hrs 43 min (with 9 continues and 9 saves, or so it tells me) with a rating of D (think grade system). Last night we packed lots of boxes of lots of medicine for the medical mission. And I�m about to add code to keep google out of here.

In other news� (quoting)

A swarm of bees attacked residents at a southeast Houston home and killed a dog Monday evening. The homeowner called 911 after the bees started attacking him and his family inside their home. Firefighters arrived and tried to help the family. They sprayed water on a Rottweiler that was being attacked, but the swarm of more than 100 bees was too much. The dog did not survive.

Residents in a Kingwood subdivision said that a pack of 15 to 20 wild dogs are attacking people and killing animals, News2Houston reported Friday. The dogs killed a cat Thursday and a killed dog a few days earlier, neighbors said.

TAMPA - The flap over the former mayor's wife heaving hot coffee at her health club manager might be drawing to a close. The episode at the posh Harbour Island Athletic Club & Day Spa last month was reported to police after the manager placed a warning sticker on the windshield of Linda McClintock Greco's Jaguar, which was parked in the club entrance's fire lane.

For more than a month, dead and often bloody chickens and roosters have been turning up at the Lake Hill Cemetery on Orlando's west side. They've been hung from trees, left on grave markers and otherwise strewn about the 5-acre reminder of days -- and people -- long gone and buried beneath Orlo Vista. Bewildered residents have theories -- such as voodoo rites and cockfighting leftovers -- about the birds generally found inside knotted plastic bags. Sometimes they're decapitated or missing feet. The birds were first noticed in late April, and up to a couple of bags a week have been found since. There have been up to three chickens in a bag.

The federal government will release a pack of Mexican gray wolves into the Gila Wilderness later this month. The state Game and Fish Department says the release of 11 wolves would more than double the current population that has been reintroduced to New Mexico wilderness areas. The new pack includes male and female adults and four of their offspring.

Lawyers seeking reparations for African-American descendants of slaves say they have located a 104-year-old man in rural Louisiana who says that he and his children were enslaved throughout much of the 20th Century and even during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.