KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.

Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.

The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.

"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.

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Noah is really cute! He just grows cuter and cuter every day.

My annoying cow-orker is back from vacation, and I am longer to scream and tell her that cc: does not mean COVER copy!!!!

I think its plain that the problem was a pissed off sky god.

Octopuses are my favorite invertebrates!

The animal sacrifice story, on the other hand, has about a 50% chance of being untrue.

Any reccomendations?

can you go wrong with the Jack LaLanne juicer?

Note to self: Full coverage bras do not always go with V-neck T-shirts.

I love those paperdol party pictures! Yay!

My annoying cow-orker is back from vacation, and I am longer to scream and tell her that cc: does not mean COVER copy!!!!

It does seem funny that we still use the abbreviation for carbon copy, though, huh?

Good work news this morning, and stupid staff "outing" this afternoon, so I'm feeling pretty good.

I have a problem. Well, not really because I know what I'm going to do, but I'm feeling really conflicted about it.

Saturday is LSU's first home game against Virginia Tech. One of my best friends, who I haven't seen in a while because he's always working or has his daughter, and I made plans to watch our favorite team together. I was told to rally the troops so it became a football party with gumbo and blackeyed pea cornbread. I think Kev is making bratwurst or Jambalaya.

This morning, as I'm leaving for work, Mr. Jane groggs at me that our friend from Baton Rouge who is going to the game for her birthday had the girl going with her flake out, so did I want to go down to Tiger Stadium and sit on the 50 yard line at the game on Saturday.

It does seem funny that we still use the abbreviation for carbon copy, though, huh?

It does to me too, but the funniest thing about it is this woman is from the carbon copy generation!

Love that octopus story!

"Not every tank gets Mr. Potato Head."