that house is so ridic and over-the-top.

I think mac is in troublew at his summer program. ugh.

I missed the Quiddich player and one other, but still good enough for 82%.

First pictures of Apollo landing sites revealed

Whatever happened to all those priceless artifacts on the moon's surface, left behind by the six Apollo missions back in the late '60s and early '70s? Well, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter just sent back shots of some of the landing sites, showing tiny pieces of evidence that humans indeed walked on the moon, beginning with Apollo 11 almost 40 years ago.

Take a look at the gallery for closer shots of three of the sites, which we wish could reveal even more. Let's hope better pics are on the way. However, on one of them you can see footprints. Take that, you crackpots who don't believe people never walked on the moon.

I don't see footprints. I see arrows pointing to nothing.

Damn.

Man given six months to live discovers tumour is harmless abscess

Phil Collins, 61, quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out after being told he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer.

He fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a Triumph motorbike, bought wife Isabel a car and made financial arrangements to ensure she was secure after his death.

But when the six month deadline passed he went back to hospital - where further checks revealed the growth on his liver was in fact an abscess.

However, Mr Collins claims that complications from the cocktail of cancer drugs he was prescribed have ruined his health and he is now planning a legal bid for compensation.

"If you have spent two years thinking you are going to die, then you are told you are not, it knocks you backwards."

Mr Collins, who used to work as a lorry driver, first referred to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester in Dorset in April 2007 after suffering a loss of appetite, weight loss and anaemia.

A CT scan revealed an abnormal gallbladder which doctors diagnosed as advanced cancer which had spread to his liver.

He was advised to give up his job and his wife stopped her part-time cleaning work to become a full-time carer to her husband.

The couple, who have been married for 44 years and have no children, did not take holidays and chose to spend his last days at home in Yetminster, Dorset, together surrounded by friends.

Mrs Collins said: "Six months came and went, and it got to Christmas and we had what we thought was our last Christmas together.

"Then, in April last year it was Phil's 60th birthday; that came and went. The doctors said, 'You should not be here, I cannot understand this'."

The couple insisted on more tests and in April 2009 scans revealed that Phil did not have cancer of the liver or gallbladder.

Hospital chiefs ordered a review and doctors then said they believed the malignant tumour was actually an abscess.

Steph, I missed something -- your mom got fired!? I'm sorry for that, and for all the family distress now -- much -ma to all.

I had to wait nearly 3 hours, but it was worth it -- got my extended-extended-extended Unemployment benefits approved, which means I don't have to look for work where I ask if you want fries with that... well, for another 13 weeks. The economy's going to turn around before that, right?

Damn, indeed. That...is a story full of mixed emotions.

Note to self: if I get a diagnosis of 'terminal disease', remember to get a second opinion before sewing up my worldly affairs and/or blowing all my savings.

Steph, I missed something -- your mom got fired!?

She did, about a month or so ago. They knew that "restructuring" was coming, but she had always gotten rave reviews at work, and she had been there 9 years, and so the "worst" she expected was having to take on extra work, from the people who got fired.

She never expected that she was going to be one of the people who was fired. The dean of students got fired there -- after 33 years with that school (he started as an English teacher; I had him for American Lit). He was stunned. My mom told me that he's already been hired as principal at another Catholic high school.

It happens, but it's just so rotten when you aren't expecting it.

Liese, thank you for sharing your memories of Ellison Onizuka and his contributions to our history. When I remember the Challenger disaster in the future it will be a memory with another human dimension included.

Weekend: tonight is family movie night with the parents and sister. We are going to watch A Walk on the Moon and possibly The Dish if mom isn't too tired. Sometime over the weekend anyway. Don't know beyond tonight.