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I am so saddened by the news that Rosie will be leaving the View in June. I think she has brought a change to the show and a voice that so many of us wish we had in the public eye. She says things I wish I could say to large numbers of people. I hope she gets her own show out of this and continues to voice opposition to the current administration. We need more honest talk like she provides everyday. I will miss her!

On Saturday evening the boyfriend made me a wonderful dinner. We decided to have our dinner out on my balcony. As you can see it was wonderful.



As we finished our dinner, the sun was setting in the west and this is the view we had. It was a beautiful day on Saturday and the evening turned out to be just as beautiful.

I recycle my plastic bottles and soda cans. I recycle my newspapers and cardboard boxes. I drive a hybrid that sometimes gets 51 miles per gallon. I don't think I run my heat or AC as much as others I think. I don't have as many lights on as I could. I think I'm helping our planet.



However, I think I could cut down on the amount of trash I put in the landfills, stop polluting the air with my smoking, and drink tap water instead of that fancy water in plastic bottles. I could also replace all my lightbulbs with those energy efficient ones. There are always more things we could do to help the planet.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of ArcherRadio! Thanks for all the support and for all my blog friends who continue to listen to the show!

I've been watching a lot of coverage of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I'm saddened by the lost of life of course. During the 911 tragedy I didn't have any direct connection to anyone involved. My brother was in the Pentagon when it was hit but he was on his way out of the building at the time the plane crashed into the building.

Today we found out more about the people who were killed at Virginia Tech. At work today we found out that one of the students who was killed was a former student at our school. We looked her up in the year books to see if we remembered her. In fact we sure did. She left her impression on our school. Her younger brother was a student at our school just 2 years ago. Our faculty was very quiet today, especially those who were teaching at the time she was a student at our school.

This is the first time I've actually known someone killed in a tragedy like this. I'm very sad about this and wonder why this was done. I'm sure in the days and weeks to come more light will be shed on the reasons behind this. The shooter also happens to be from my area of Northern Virginia. He lived just about 20 minutes from my school. He graduated from a high school in my county. I feel bad for Virginia. Not only do we now have the worst mass murder in the history of our country, but the murderer is from my area, and I knew one of the students killed. Not a happy day at all.

It seems that in the podcasting community everyone has joined all the social networking sites. Last week I joined MySpace and this week I joined Twitter. Twitter seems to be a useless site. It is fun, however, to see what everyone else is doing but sometimes it's just stupid. I'm not sure what exactly the purpose is but I've gotten on the bandwagan and joined. If you figure out what Twitter is actually for, let me know. If you join Twitter, add me as a friend. I'm Archerr over there as well.

Today the boyfriend and I went to a barrel tasting at Prince Michel Winery in Leon, Virginia. We had a great time tasting the wines right from the barrel. I wasn't as pleased with the taste of the wines from the barrel as the boyfriend was but then again, he has a better palate then I do. All the wines were really young and needed more time in the barrel.

After our barrel tasting, we enjoyed a glass of wine at the winery. I talked the boyfriend into playing a few games of checkers. He said he hadn't played in awhile. I guess he was right. I beat him in two games. Here's his reaction after the second game. We didn't play a third game.

I'm going to the boyfriend's this weekend. What are you doing?

Today is April 12th. Usually at this time of the year we have temperatures in the 60's. It's been in the 50's this week but it's supposed to get colder this weekend. And there is a chance of snow again. I doubt it will be anything measurable if anything at all. I can safely say that I am waiting for spring to begin. My body hasn't adapted well wide range of temperatures we've been having lately. Just recently it hit 80 degrees and now we have snow in the forcast. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.

I have assimilated. I know I'm way too old for MySpace but I decided, based on peer pressure, to create a MySpace page. I didn't do it for my Archerr site. It's for my ArcherRadio site. That shit is addictive. People send you friend requests and comments all the time. It's almost too much to keep up with. I'm sure over time it will slow down but once you start, it comes on like a storm. So, if you are so inclined, go over to MySpace and add me as a friend if you like. Or just check out what I have over there on MySpace.

I forget where I saw this but it's a new condom ad for the Durex XXL condoms. Ouch! The question I have is why isn't it a man with the little bandaids on his mouth? I think they should us a man's mouth for the ads in gay publications.

It's no surprise that I like sweets. I love candy. As I get older I know I shouldn't eat or not as much as I'd like to. Even though Easter is basically a religious holiday, I do enjoy the candy that is produced for his holiday. It's odd, I can get mad at seeing Easter decorations in state run stores but don't get upset about eating the candy. I'm weird that way.

I like these.


And these.


But I don't like these unless there isn't anything left.

I can't remember the last time it snowed in April. According to the weather man this morning it was 1990. I don't remember it. This morning I woke up early, looked out the window and saw that it had snowed about 1 inch during the night. I was surprised because the snow had pretty much covered the cars but not the roads and hadn't completely covered the grass. It kind of looks odd with snow on the ground and buds popping on the trees. It's now cold and windy and there are some snow flurries flying in the air. The snow was a nice surprise but I'm think I'm done with winter and ready for some warmer weather.



In other news, the boyfriend is in New Orleans visiting his family for the easter holiday. I am missing him but trying to keep myself busy. He'll be back in a few days. We always spend weekends together and even though I knew ahead of time we wouldn't be together this weekend, I still miss him.

Homer introduced me to Cute With Chris awhile ago. You have to admit, Chris is cute. Last night Homer directed me to this CD and his ad on Craigslist. He suggested I do a Cute with Archerr entry. So here it is. Who is cuter? This CD in black panties on the floor with the black pumps or my cute boyfriend with the wine bottle? Use the comment section to record your vote....just like Cute with Chris.