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The very first Write Here Write Now Open Mic is happening Thursday, December 1st, 7-9pm, at Unity Somerville, 6 William St., Somerville, MA! We welcome the queer and queer-allied community to join us as we create and hold space for folks to read their own words.

A sign-up sheet will be available at the event for 5-minute reading slots. People are encouraged to bring flyers for the community table; there will be baked goods for sale. We ask that you help us make this a low-scent event by not wearing perfume/cologne or other scented products.

This is an all-gender event for queer/genderqueer/transgender folks and their allies. The $5-$20 sliding scale door donation will help fund WHWN's pro bono work within the community.

Questions? Want to volunteer? whwnOpenMic@gmail.com

My Jeep needs a name! I'm horrible at naming things, so any suggestions people have to offer will be appreciated.


Side view


Front view

I spent 2 hours cleaning all my junk out of my car, vacuuming it out and spraying off the impressive accumulation of dirt that was covering its exterior. It's looking like it might snow now, so the timing was perfect. Hopefully someone will respond to the ad I put up on Craigslist so I can sell it quickly. Tomorrow I'm taking the Jeep up to Ouray to register it and transfer the title into my name, then all I have to do is... well... pay back the money I borrowed to buy it. Hooray!

Ingredients
8 tablespoons butter/margarine
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 cup rice flour
3/8 cup almond meal
1/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Mix eggs and sugar until creamy. Add vanilla, rice, and flours. Heat butter and chocolate until melted and mixed. Add this to the other ingredients.

Pour mixture into greased pan. Sprinkle nuts on top. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 400ºF.

Gluten-free oatmeal casserole, adapted from Bob's Red Mill recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cups Gluten-free rolled oats
2 cups Milk
1 TB molasses
1 TB butter
1/2 tsp salt
1 TB ground Cinnamon
1 Apple, chopped
1/2 cup Raisins or Currants

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350F
-Heat milk, sweetener, butter, salt and cinnamon in a saucepan to a gentle boil. Add oats, fruit and nuts.
-Transfer into a buttered, oven-safe casserole dish. Bake uncovered for 15 minutes or until moisture absorbed.

I'm generally not a fan of oatmeal. In fact, I hated it almost every time I had to eat it growing up. This however was really tasty and a welcome variation in what I've normally been eating for breakfast.

If you're not needing to avoid gluten, you can use regular rolled oats for a much cheaper meal.

First Responders save Log Hill man in cardiac arrest


Shortly after 1 a.m. last Sunday, Ouray County Emergency Medical Services Rural First Responder Corps members successfully told the Grim Reaper "Not Today!" for one north county resident.

EMS Chief Paramedic Norm Rooker said OCEMS was dispatched to an address near County Road 22 and CR 1 for a cardiac arrest, CPR in progress.

The patient had gotten up out of bed and collapsed in front of his wife, who immediately called 911. Their daughter began CPR.

The Ridgway ambulance was dispatched to the location, but due to the remoteness of the address, arrived 24 minutes after dispatch.

Fortunately, two members of the OCEMS Rural First Responder Corps, Kit and Randy Cassingham responded from their Log Hill Mesa residence directly to the scene.

Rural First Responder Corps members are trained to the First Responder level or higher, are equipped with medical aid bags, portable oxygen bottles and an AED, an Automatic External Defibrillator.

An AED is a device that for certain lethal cardiac electrical rhythms will deliver a measured shock in an effort to convert the uncoordinated electrical activity of the heart back into a perfusing rhythm.

Kit and Randy Cassingham arrived on scene 11 minutes from the initial call for help and were able to successfully shock the patient's heart back into a perfusing rhythm 13 minutes after the call originated. When the Ridgway ambulance crew arrived, they found a patient with a pulse and good blood pressure.

The patient was transported to Montrose Memorial Hospital where he was stabilized and transferred to St. Mary's Hospital.

Rooker said OCEMS is very proud of all of its 67 volunteers who staff the two front-line ambulances located in Ridgway and Ouray, Squad 11, the Haz Mat Team and the Rural First Responder Corps.

"Sunday morning's call is just the latest example of the service providing the best rescue and medical care possible for the visitors and residents of the county," said Rooker.

If readers are interested in learning more about the OC EMS Rural First Responder Corps, especially in the Log Hill, Pleasant Valley and Elk Meadows areas, please contact the OC EMS office at 325-7275.

I've had my journal on livejournal since I was nineteen and starting my first year at UVM. I think in my first ever post, I babbled about some "teenybopper" lamp that my roommate was so proud of finding at Walmart because it was pretty much the only thing I could find to say. I've moved ten times since then, dropped out of college twice, moved halfway across the country, learned to be a line cook, a breakfast chef, a computer repair tech, become nationally and state certified as an EMT Basic and this summer I'm getting married. If someone had told me seven years ago that seven years ago that this is where I would be today, I'd never have believed them.

So here's a new babbling post in a new journal for me to look back on in another few years to see where I've grown.

Here's just a little history on how well some Republicans have done at preserving the "sanctity of Marriage"......

So ... homosexuals are going to destroy the institution of marriage? Wait a minute, it seems the Christian Heterosexual Republicans are doing a fine job without anyone's help!

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7997123292584837686&q=michael+ja&pl=true

this totally just made my day