Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 12, 2009
The 1918 swine flu started in the United States and spread quickly, helped in part by thousands of troops being shipped back and forth across the Atlantic. That was an H1N1, just like this one, and just like the last one, it spread world-wide, was mild, albiet with some resulting fatalities, but so it goes [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: November 14, 2008
Haven’t posted for a while due to dilemma interuptions. After evicting a tenant who hadn’t paid rent for three months, I discovered upon return to the house, by unexpectedly splashing through water going downstairs, that a metre of water in the drywalled basement meant I had an unexpected indoor swimming pool. I hadn’t re-rented the place [...]
