Is your city in the top 5 for most aggressive drivers? According to a new report New York has overtaken Miami to be voted the U.S. city with the angriest and most aggressive drivers.
Miami topped the annual poll for the last four years but voters in 25 major metropolitan areas gave New Yorkers the prize for angriest, most aggressive drivers who tailgate, speed, honk their horns, overreact and lose their tempers.
Dallas/Fort Worth came in second as the worst road rage city followed by Detroit, Atlanta and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Miami ranked a distant seventh.
Baltimore, Sacramento and Pittsburgh rounded out the top five cities with the most pleasant drivers.
Portland and Cleveland were voted to have the most courteous, considerate drivers.
I was surprised that Los Angeles wasn’t on the list, with a city that large and all the commuting one would think the drivers would be aggressive. Maybe it’s all that gorgeous weather, makes you in a better mood even when the jerk in front of you is driving like an idiot.
Don’t you just hate weird little computer problems/mysteries that happened for no apparent reason? I sure as hell do! This morning I get up, get my coffee and boot up my laptop and all is fine. After a little while I notice that some of the icons in the task tray are missing, specifically the bluetooth,, sound, battery, and connection were all gone! I tried bringing up the task manager notification area and those icons were grayed out. So like most people I go to google type in my problem and lo and behold there are a lot of people with Vista that experienced the same problem. After reading some of the solutions by various people I decided to try the one that did not involve messing with the Registry Editor.
So here you go folks…simple and it works!
R click by task tray to bring up task manager
On processes tab find “Explorer.exe”
Click End Process
Click on applications tab……>File……>New Task
Type Explorer.exe
By restarting this executable corrects the settings.
Icons are all back and the area that was previously grayed out in the task manager notification are now working. Still wish I knew why this happened though.
Most of you have heard me complain all winter about the frigid temps and constant snowfall. Then came spring…well sort of, in name only. It never really did get warm except for a few days. Now we’re almost half way through June and it’s still not warm! Our heat hasn’t been turned off yet, in fact it’s still kicking in some mornings. Yesterday I was back in jeans, long sleeves and a light fleece INSIDE the house! Makes me wonder will it even get warm enough to switch on the AC this summer? Should I start a poll? What day and month?
Below is a map that was on an evening newscast discussing the colder than average temperatures and what to expect this summer. Of course I’m in an area of VERY COOL, duh, like I’ve haven’t known that for the last few months this summer was going to suck. How depressing.
For all of you in a warm place this summer, want some company? I promise to be a good guest, quiet, neat, will even help with cooking :-}
It’s about time! Will it make a difference in how people order? I don’t know but maybe one would think twice about ordering a dish with 47 grams of fat at Olive Garden (lasagna classico), or any other similar restaurant. Approximately two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, and almost one-third are obese.
Large U.S. chain restaurants, criticized for their role in the country’s obesity epidemic, agreed on Wednesday to support legislation that would require them to disclose calories on their menus.
Chain restaurants with 20 or more locations would have to list on their menus the number of calories per item and would also have to make available upon request other nutritional information such as the amount of sugar, salt or cholesterol.
Plants and flowers though beautiful can be deadly for our pets. Here are 10 that are most common and toxic when consumed.
“A rule of thumb is that the prettier it is, the more likely it is to be toxic,” says Dr. Sharon Gwaltney-Brant, a veterinarian and board-certified toxicologist who is vice president of the Animal Poison Control Center, based in Urbana, Ill.
Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory Inc. of Roy, Utah, is voluntarily recalling skin sanitizers and skin protectants sold under several brand names because the products may be contaminated with bacteria that could make users sick, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
The agency issued a news release warning consumers to refrain from using all products made by the company. It said an analysis of several samples revealed disease-causing bacteria, some of which are associated with unsanitary conditions. The germs could cause dangerous infections of the skin and underlying tissue, the FDA added.
The products — promoted in some cases as antimicrobial agents that can prevent infection in open wounds — should not be used and be disposed of in the household trash, the agency said. A partial list of affected products includes:
Citrushield Lotion
Dermasentials DermaBarrier
Dermassentials by Clarcon Antimicrobial Hand Sanitizer
Iron Fist Barrier Hand Treatment
Skin Shield Restaurant
Skin Shield Industrial
Skin Shield Beauty Salon Lotion
Total Skin Care Beauty
Total Skin Care Work
To report adverse events associated with these or other consumer products, contact the FDA’S MedWatch reporting program at 1-800-FDA-1088.
(CNN) — If your pinkie and ring fingers tingle or feel numb, you might not want to pick up that cell phone to call the doctor.
Too much cell phone use can lead to overextending nerves, causing what doctors call "cell phone elbow."
Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of "cell phone elbow," in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long.
When cell phone users hold the phone to their ears, they stretch a nerve that extends underneath the funny bone and controls the smallest fingers. When talkers chat for a long time in that position, it "chokes the blood supply to the nerves. It makes the nerves short-circuit. The next thing you know, there’s tingling in the ring and small finger," said Dr. Peter J. Evans, the director of the Hand and Upper Extremity Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
When that happens, the advice is simple: Switch hands — before it gets worse.
People who have this condition, called cubital tunnel syndrome, can feel weakness in their hands and have difficulty opening jars or playing musical instruments.
I am back from North Carolina, Memorial Day weekend. Unfortunately I picked up a nasty URI from my darling Granddaughter that hit me like a ton of bricks. The good news it didn’t start until the end of our visit. The bad news I’ve been home for a week thinking I could suffer through this and all would be well. Of course I should know better with my allergy/asthma history. Finally went to the doctor yesterday and now on 14 days of antibiotics. Moral of the story…
“When you know you’re not getting better… don’t sit around waiting to magically feel better tomorrow, get your ass to the doctor!”
Hi everyone, time again for the Willie Nelson, ‘On the Road Again’ song. We’re leaving quite early tomorrow morning for the long drive to North Carolina to visit daughter/family/ and Cora This will be our last visit in their NC home since they are moving back east next month. For any of you that follow me at Twitter or Facebook I will probably update from there since that can be done via my phone (and I can also send pictures).
Wishing you all a safe and Happy Memorial Day with friends and family. I’ll be back next week.
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.
• Herophilus (335-280 BC) Greek Physician
Swine Flu
U.S. health officials said that they are considering a swine flu immunization campaign that could involve an unprecedented 600 million doses of vaccine.
Still to be worked out is finding enough health-care workers to administer all those shots, and determining ways to record side effects if the vaccine is given at the same time as the seasonal flu vaccine. That could make it difficult to figure out which vaccine was causing the side effects.
Dallas/Fort Worth came in second as the worst road rage city followed by Detroit, Atlanta and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Miami ranked a distant seventh.
This will be our last visit in their NC home since they are moving back east next month. For any of you that follow me at Twitter or Facebook I will probably update from there since that can be done via my phone (and I can also send pictures). 
