ow, it is so much fun to see places from a birds eye view.  This is above our home in Colorado Springs, Colorado; a place we hope to live again some day (well in the city not that specific apartment complex).

Our apartment complex in Colorado. Click this map to play around with the features.

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ot exactly sure where these stats came from, some study apparently, but it makes me thirsty.

Some thing wrong
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is
often mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%.
4. One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the
dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
5. Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could
significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with
basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus
it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to
develop bladder cancer.

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oor fat sex-less panda man.

Male Panda Said Too Fat to Have Sex, Thai Authorities Say Male Panda Too Fat to Have Sex With His Female Partner - CBS News

“Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him,” said the zoo’s chief veterinarian, Kanika Limtrakul, adding that Chuang Chuang weighed 331 pounds while Lin Hui is only 253 pounds.

The diet plan is the latest in an unsuccessful and often strange campaign by zoo officials to get the two bears to mate.

They have held a mock wedding, announced plans to separate the two to spark a little romance and even talked of introducing panda porn videos of other pandas mating to get the pair in the mood.

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esterday’s word of the day through Google home pages was “prohibitionist”. Somehow I wonder if this is a valid statement; using the word in a relevant sentence.

“She was a tireless prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet.”

The thing that I question most about this is the visualization of a woman during the time of prohibition (1920 - 1933) walking around with a hatchet and whacking things she doesn’t agree with, namely alcoholic beverages. Do you think this is plausible? I for one would like to see historical proof of this kind of behavior.

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veryday during the winter months I see these masses of birds outside the window. There are updrafts all over the area just outside that the birds love. I can’t get over how many hawks there are here. Some days, like yesterday, there are hundreds just flying and riding the wind in circles above. This video shows a group of birds that got pretty close to the house, you don’t really see the sheer enormity of all the birds, but it is fun to watch them just floating on air. The clip in the end of the movie was done with auto focus, so I apologize for the weird bit of zooming in/out.

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