I’m going away on business for a while. When I come back, I’m hoping to install a new message board (a real one, like you see on other sites) and I have a video to post as well.

In the mean time, enjoy the 45 or so new photos I’ve posted over the past week or so.

Happy New Year to all the cicada maniacs and cicadas! Hopefully 2006 will be a better year for the world than 2005 was.

Yes, I know this is a cicada site, but I have to post this:

I borrowed from CNN.

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The United Way.

The Red Cross.

American Red Cross (800) HELP NOW (435-7669) English; (800) 257-7575 Spanish

America’s Second Harvest (800) 344-8070

To donate cash or volunteer

Adventist Community Services (800) 381-7171

Catholic Charities, USA (703) 549-1390

Christian Disaster Response (941) 956-5183 or (941) 551-9554

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (800) 848-5818

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Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (800) 872-3283

Salvation Army (800) SAL-ARMY (725-2769)

Southern Baptist Convention — Disaster Relief (800) 462-8657, ext. 6133

United Methodist Committee on Relief (800) 554-8583