ToriBear and I are going on a school trip tomorrow for three days, to Port Townsend, Wa. It's close to the area where 'Twilight' takes place, so she's pretty jazzed. It's for three days, and it should be fun if all the fundies in the home school program don't ruin it. I'm reading 'The Golden Compass' during the trip- I figure that should keep anyone I wouldn't like away from me. Kind of like religious wolfbane.:D

Awww, I was gonna ask if you wanted to borrow my copy of "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Serial Killers"

Now, that would be useful. I like how you think, CM.

WB, I can send over the dustjacket of "The Joy Of Gay Sex" if you like... Wrap any book in that and watch the fundies squirm. Fool your friends. Fun at parties.

If you put the appropriate er, opening, in that badly sewn gusset, she'd make a good impersonation of a Tron Lovedoll. :eek:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :p
Duly added to Quotes. hehehehehe.

How is the county allowed not to have a health inspector ?!?!?!

This made me verklempt. Really. I love it when life is good.

I had the good fortune to get an all-clear for my shoulder from the specialist, and the first day of scooter training went really well. I felt like Gina Lollobrigida buzzing around the streets of Rome on my little Vespa !!

Which reminds me:

Awesome news! :snap: So what color is your little scooter?

Dear Steph...

It's lipstick red. It's also gone. Bear and I tried and tried to start it, but because neither of us could get Learner's Permits (until now) it felt unloved and got constipated (or whatever the mechanical equivalent is).

So the nice man we purchased it from came and took it away for rehab...and it will have been in and out of the CBD twice and still has no km's (miles) on the clock.

Bear is currently organising a folding ramp so we can get it on and off our truck. This has to be the most spoiled scooter on the planet, as we seem to always be carrying, pushing or rolling it somewhere. I've even charged its battery twice, but have yet to see it light up.

We hope to actually ride the scooter one day. A bit.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

What he said... LOL.

(btw: for the learners course, they loan you a scooter... mine was blue. But the Red ones go faster. :D )


.....and the real reason we chose Red was because it is statistically more visible to motorists than other colours. Not because the red ones go faster. No, really. I wouldn't make this up, ya know.

Oh, what now you Socal'ers!

Sure I don't have A Disney Theme park, In-and-out or Sees Candy but you all will die an early death. That's right I'll be tooling right along well after the rest of you are gone. :D

Money Magazine rates: Best places for a long life.

I love Bethesda! Commuting from there, horrible, but a great place to be!

Moonie, you have The Beltway, that will kill you! ;)

LB I bet you look just like this:

Last night, I toasted the fall equinox (Mabon) by finally opening our bottle of sherry that we picked up in Spain last year. It was a wonderful evening. :)

YAY! Me too. I'm #12. Although how Overland Park could rank #9 on CNN's list of 100 best places to live is beyond me. I guess "boring" wasn't part of the ranking.

Can't you die of boredom? Or is that just a phrase??

that sort of depends. does blowing your brains out from it count as 'bored to death'?

A picture taken yesterday of Paul Pressler's stone at the Esplanade:



Aww. Poor Paul.
Not.
:evil:

Wasn't me.

Wow, it looks worse than when i peed on it.

That's Klassy, all right.

It gets defaced on a regular basis: chewing gum, paint, etc.

OMG: it's as though you were there with a camera !! :cheers:

I expect to see you in that outfit on NYE!

Perhaps your bewitching personality? :)

So, did we miss anything?

Outside of the political threads? Not really.

Between Obama regaining momentum and the economy collapsing, I was surprised to see only 1800 posts in 10 days. Slackers.

We were busy preparing for financial ruin and doomsday.

Wow, I'm, on hold with T-Mobile and they are playing Technotronic Move This for their hold music.

The new National Geographic just arrived in the mail. The cover is a replica of a Neanderthal woman and I can't stand her skin!

They gave her blackheads, people. Get that Neanderthal a facial!

Hi. Even at only 1809 posts, I'm not going to even try catch up...

oh come on - where's your dedication?

On another note, what the frack are you doing in your avatar?!??!? lmao

Punishing CP for leaving her camera unattended at a pub with several pints already consumed. Here are the rest from the series (our friends we were visiting in Edinburgh):

On another another note - accidental bunny progress!

So our bunny sitter apparently took a day to get the hang of clipping the bunny cages closed. She came back after her first visit to find that both had escaped :eek:! But no injuries were incurred. Lito has gotten older, wiser, faster, and bigger it seems. So we're starting to let them both out.

Munchkin's still bullying Lito, but it's remained bluster and chasing, no biting and scratching. Lito's still dumb enough to walk right into Munchkin's cage, but even in there Munchkin just chases her out.

So they are hardly fast friends, but we're no longer worried about serious injury.

Small step but an encouraging one.

My iPod has flown the coop. Oh where oh where can it be?

looks a little like Ron Jeremy, doesnt it?

He was Giiiirthy too, right?

I just realized I forgot to put on deodorant this morning. :blush:

This post works great with your current avatar.

I used to keep some in my car just for days like that!

It's the pornstache...

Newsweek article about the National Enquirer. Kind of interesting.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/160082/page/1

I could make the obvious "too much time in France" joke, but -

... aw poop, I just did :p :D

Thank you Lord for Big Bang Theory.

It is the best comedy on television....hands down.

:D

I think I ate a bad cheeseburger...

It taste even worse the second (and third) times. :(

Robert Goulet lives...

Apparently this nursing home thinks so.

(I'm movin' to Ireland when I'm old :D )

Your article linked me to this one wherein Ricky Gervais lists the 8 things that annoy him which includes this quote:


What's up with breast milk lately?


On a side note, Ghost Town was really enjoyable...

Oh, I'm happy to hear that! I enjoyed the preview. Maybe we'll see it this weekend. :cool:

Soooo... my shipment of 5 lbs. of pumpkin spice decaf coffee beans arrived. Here's the good part: they threw in three giant honkin' Ghiardelli dark chocolate bars. I know!

Ooooooo! :snap:

In case anyone still had a doubt, Clay Aiken is gay.

See and I would have said lesbian. You learn something every day.

One of my clients just bought a 5000 sf, 6 bedroom/5 fireplace Victorian on acres with a pond in Maine for $205k.

Holy cow, sign me up! No wonder those people in flyover states can afford to have a million children.

Maine you say? That's a purty part of the country and not all that far from here. Please get them to join Lot so I may woo them with my charming online demeanor and wrangle myself an invite for a long fall weekend getaway.

Thanks.

Main is a "flyover state"? May I ask where it is you are flying to? ;)

Where do I even begin, Morrigoon? Never mind, I'll go back to wrapping my mind around Clay Aiken is a man, baby.

Wow. I can only imagine what it will cost to heat that place in the winter.

It costs my mom close to $2k Canadian to keep the house there at the bare minimum needed to prevent the pipes from freezing.

No kidding. Heating costs in the winter are major.

And don't get too excited, the market here is a total joke. Nothing I would want to buy for what I can afford. I guess we get too many second-home buyers from
NYC.

And Lindsay Lohan is bi. (I know you've been wondering)

Main isn't, But Maine is :p

And Maine is a flyover state on your way to a relaxing vacation in beautiful Greenland.

I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes.

thats only cuz she's already done 90% of the GUYS that would go anywhere near her.

blech!

Are we even sure Lindsay Lohan is Human?

Re: cheap cheap cheap real estate in flyover country

You always wanted to move away from the rat race, admit it. Got $186,000? Then you've got yourself a potential b & b in Oshkosh b'gosh.

You don't really mind Januarys with temps to 20 below, now do you?

Maine itself is not a flyover state, but if great homes like that are that cheap in Maine, then imagine how cheap they are in the flyover states.

Lohan, just needs to spin it right.

For years as a teenager she knew she just wasn't quite was everybody was expecting of her. She was being pushed into a idea of the teen queen and it just didn't fit with the way she felt.

So once she discovered them she found that drugs and alcohol gave her a looseness that let her forget her discomfort and only coming out the other side did she finally recognize the source of her issues and accept the fact that she is, if not completely gay, then strongly attracted to women. Now that she isn't fighting this on a subconscious level she can proceed with a calmer life of happiness and fulfillment.


Certainly wouldn't be the first case of a teen unwilling/unable to accept their sexuality fleeing down a bad road in a misguided attempt to escape it. I have no idea if this is true, but if presented with care and a good PR agent it would almost completely redeem her reputation I bet.

Hey now - I'm in a 'flyover' state and the homes here are that price and UP!

Your salary/cost-of-living ratio mileage varies wherever you go, too. (Though I readily admit that Southern California is patently rediculous in its high cost-of-living versus what most people make).

Pirates and Pastafarians, go together like peanut butter and chocolate.

So some banshee just accused me of having an affair with her husband. I wonder if she does that to all the telemarketers or if I'm just lucky like that?


Gotta find something else to do... stat!

Well, I'm outta here for the day. Heading to an editor group meeting up in Hollywood. Good networking opportunities, as well as some educational discussions! :snap:

I think Alex's identity was hacked by the "Leave Britney alone" guy.

I'd like to say to all of my friends here on the LoT, just how much you all mean to me, and how grateful I am for all of you.

:cheers:

such a nice sentiment....

why does it scare the sh!t out of me?

That was teh aweseome.

I love this comment from that page:

Hell, just keeping her naughty bits under wraps has helped a lot.

I've been abandoned for the third evening in a row. It's all horses and boys now. I'm merely the chauffeur. Sigh.... I don't even warrant phone calls just texts.

Who am I kidding - hurray the DVR all to myself!

CM's identity has been hacked

Thank you, but today I got a reminder to appreciate just how good life is. Even when I have a "bad" day.

Even if I bring more Vegemite with me ?? :evil:



....and of course the lashpair heart the Coaster-Monkey's a whole heap too, dude. :snap:

Same to you :cheers: Visible mojo!

Is it weird that I found my MRI to be oddly soothing?

Not at all, I weirded out the techs one time because I was so calm.

Soooo.... Knight Rider really, really, really sucked. After the pilot last spring, we decided to give it a chance. That chance lasted one regular-season episode, and we deleted the season pass.

Enjoying those Suite Life episodes? ;)

We survived our school trip to Port Townsend, and it was actually really fun. Cold, but fun. The kids were for the most part great- very polite, kind to each other and appreciative of everything the Elders did for them. They learned tons about marine life in this part of the world, and all were sad when the trip came to an end. I'll post some pics later- it was really a beautiful place, and a relatively unspoiled one at that.:)

I fell asleep during an MRI once.

Here comes fall. More people are wearing coats outside today than not. A sure sign of what's to come....

Wow. My morning radio drive guys were talking about this today. Apparently there is quite the uproar about this. For years Clay fans have been staunchly defending him from "the haters" who called him gay. Now that he is out there is devastation in the ranks. A few are still in denial. Rather sad really and on so many levels.

I regularly fall asleep in the dentist's chair.

Armageddon?

I was thinking colder weather, but sure we can go with the end of all life in the universe as a backup.

Hey! Remember the woman I danced with at the show and ended up going out with? Well, things are going great. We've been dating since then and enjoying each other's company. I've stretched my comfort zone and have learned a lot. This may turn into something. But...

Tired of the winters in Portland, she's taken a job in Puerto Vallarta. She's moving to Mexico tomorrow til May. And I was just starting to get good at this!

On the plus side, she says this gives me a place to go for a real vacation.

Damn! Now I have to get a passport!

Once you learn how to fish. You need never go hungry again.

In other news...
 

At long last, I'm moving out of food service at the zoo. An opportunity has arisen to work with the Events Coordinator, helping to plan, organize and run everything from weekend events like the upcoming World Animal Festival to ZooLights and the Summer Concert Series.

I'm very excited! It's entertainment, and a lot of stage management. Most of all, it's a chance to grow, and to have a real impact on the visitor's experience.

I feel like I've come home.

ron

Congrats on the job and the relationship, ozron! Get your application in for that passport ASAP! :cheers:

Sounds like you're on a good path, Ron. :)

That's so awesome, congratulations!!!

Awesome news! Congratulations Ron! :cheers: :snap:

Great news Ron, now go get that passport. I think a warm, sunny vacation will sound wonderful during our Winter rain season. I think the new position sounds right up your alley! It's about time they put your talents to good use!


In other news we have a new addition to the family. Her name is Gizmo, she is adorable and has fuzz coming out her ears!

Congrats, Ron. It sounds like things are going great on all fronts!

And, Jill, we need pictures please.

The end of the universe has been postponed until next spring. That way we get to die in more comfortable clothing.

Doh! Of course how could I forget about THAT!

No, they said the world is ending because the Myan, or was it Incan, calander ends soon. I just don't remember if it's this Decenber or next!



NA, I'll have Gary help with the pics. We still have two manx that need homes. Funny, I thought they'd be the first to go.

The Mayan calendar "ends" on December 21, 2012.

There is much craziness floating out there but it is the next big Doomsday date among the woowoo crowd. Here is a starting point for your descent into the madness.

Or closer to home, here on Lot. In this very thread.

Thanks Alex. I don't really believe it or anything.

I remember when I was young they kept saying the world would end in 1984 but we're still here! You know when it ends, it ends and I don't think we can do anything about it so why worry!!

I have always want a Manx. Maybe in 20 years when I don't have a house full.

Man, I feel like such a doofus. How could I possibly have forgotten post #17887. There's only 24,111 of them. Color me embarrassed.

I just received this email {I receive a lot of the same but this one I actually responded to by sending a link to a Time magazine article on his life and achievements.....}

" AB 2567 has passed the California Assembly and the Senate
and is awaiting
Governor Schwarzenegger' s signature or veto. This bill
will set aside May
22nd as a special day to celebrate the life of homosexual
politician Harvey
Milk in the public schools. Harvey Milk will be honored in
the same manner
as our Founding Fathers and Martin Luther King, although
the only thing he
is actually known for is being proud be a homosexual! If
you haven't heard
about this bill it is because the liberal media is
downplaying this bill so
that it will pass.

PLEASE CALL GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER'S OFFICE POLL AND
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
The Number to call is : 1 916-445-2841
Takes less than 30 seconds.
It is just a recording:
Press 1 for English.
Press 2 to voice an opinion
Press 1 for AB 2567 - Harvey Milk Day
pressing 2 is a NO vote.
Pl ease vote now!
Please pass this on to as many people as possible!"

This is from my father in law, I just recently responded to the final straw email about Obama {I didn't even respond to the one about Obama being the anti-christ} that we are dems and the response I got. Oye vey.

I wish I had the option to block his emails.....

ok, so since Im not at all knowledgeable about gay/lesbian culture (or any other kind really) or the political scene in SF (or any other kind really...wait, I already said that) is he such an iconic figure that he/his life would warrant a day of rememberance?

not for or against, its an honest question

If you consider the gay rights struggle to be of merit and cultural importance then I'd definitely say yes, he is worthy of some recognition.

And he isn't known primarily for being a proud homosexual. He is primarily known (outside of San Francisco) for being killed for being a proud homosexual.

But I would guess this particular bill is being driven by the upcoming movie (in which I didn't have much interest because of Sean Penn, but the trailer has changed my mind (and made Lani cry).

My English teacher was always on about not starting a sentence with a conjunction. Perhaps she had a point. Had my post been written as:

Would it have caused less stress in your life?

Yeah, I'm totally looking forward to it. I'm not a huge Sean Penn fan either, but it looks very good.

"highlight=KevyIsAllama"

Do you just like hiding this stuff or what?!?

Get it straight man: we can't have this kind of thing happening to desecrate our beloved Soooo.... thread

Alex leads a pretty stressful life. You would have been screwed either way.

I went and read the bill. I don't object to anything in it.

There is a section of the state Education statute that requires the governor each year to designate certain days as special and particularly of educational significance. Schools are then encouraged to integrate into the curriculum topics relevant to that date.

While I don't care that Harvey Milk was gay or if students are taught that the gay rights movement in California was a good thing, adding Milk to the list of existing dates does stick out a bit. Currently there are only three such dates:

April 6: California Poppy Day
April 21: John Muir Day
Second Wednesday in May: Teachers Day.

This will add a fourth:

May 22: Harvey Milk Day

So I can see an argument that with such a small list that Milk may not be the first person who should be added, but that is independent of what he did in life.

Since no stress was caused, I would have to say no.

Strictly speaking, the fun is not in the hiding. The fun is in tracking the percentage you find vs the ones you don't. Care to know your percentage to date?

well, theres also César Chávez day (3/31)

ok, good points.

Needless to say it's been a while, but I don't recall him being killed for being a proud homosexual but for siding with Moscone when he wouldn't let White rescind his resignation from the SF Board of Supervisors.

True, that was the specific cause. But I thought the larger reason they were at such loggerheads with each other was the gay rights issues (though I am certainly no expert on the history).

And regardless of whether it is technically accurate, I think it is fair to say that the legend (which is all that most people have in the way of knowledge) is that it was an ideologically driven assassination.

The REAL cause of the murders was Twinkies.

Twinkies are evil.

Thanks, Alex, for doing the research.

I haven't responded to my fil but I will respond, if he gives me grief, that I don't blindly follow what people put in front of me.

So, is it a day off for ever or is it just one day off in the coming year?

{sorry, I am late for work, I'll be back to see what has happened.....}

It's not a day off at all, ever.

It is just a declaration that it is a day of note. Schools are encouraged (though not required, I don't think) to use it as an educational opportunity.

Looking through the education code, the following holidays are recognized:

New Years Day (January 1) - Schools closed.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (mid-January) - Schools closed. Preceding school day to include exercises.
Lincoln Day (mid-February) - Schools closed. Preceding school day to include exercises.
Susan B. Anthony Day (February 15) - Schools open but with appropriate curriculum.
Washington Day (late-February) - Schools closed. Preceding school day to include exercises.'
Black American Day (March 5) - (in honor of Crispus Attucks) Schools open but with appropriate curriculum.
Luther Burbank Day (March 11) - Schools open but with appropriate curriculum.
Ceasr Chaves Day (March 31) - Schools may close if the individual district decides to.
California Poppy Day (April 6) - Schools open but with appropriate curriculum. Annual governor declaration.
John Muir Day (April 21) - Schools open but with appropriate curriculum. Annual governor declaration.
Teacher Day (mid-May) - Schools open but with appropriate curriculum. Annual governor declaration.
Memorial Day (late May) - Schools closed.
4th of July (July 4) - Schools closed.
Labor Day (early September) - Schools closed.
Constitution Day (September 17) - Schools open but with appropriate curriculum.
Native American Day (late September) - Schools may close if the individual district decides to.
Veterans Day (November 11) - Schools closed.
Thanksgiving (late November) - Schools closed.
Christmas (December 25) - Schools closed.

I am hoping that this is just a (completely understandable) typo on data re-entry for your post and not something that appeared on a government web site.

Again, I am not picking on your typing; just concerned about the ignorance of our government.

I had a deep-fried Twinkie once. I liked it.

Which raises an interesting question. If evil can be converted to good through the process of deep-frying, that could have wide-ranging effects.

No, that's my own typing while flipping back and forth between multiple windows.

I am currently addicted to homemade rice krispie treats.

Actually he is primarily known as the first openly gay elected official in California.

Such as raw pig is converted in to succulent bacon :)

Again, that is not what he is generally known for outside of the region. I'm not talking about the reality, I'm talking about the general familiarity, myth, and legend.

To the extent that most people in America (and even in California outside San Francisco) know who Harvey Milk is, it is simply that he was a gay politician who was assassinated. If it weren't for that last word, the majority of people who do know who he is, wouldn't have ever heard of the man.

I fully recognize this undersells the complexity and reality of the man, the times, and the events.

Why do I have purple glitter underneath my fingernails? When have I been anywhere near purple glitter???

Do you sleepwalk?

Congratulations

What happens if you get her wet? ;)

Maybe you were molested by Cher last night.

But Chocodiles are chemical creamy heaven. :D

*smacks forehead*

Silly me, of COURSE that's it.

Oh, now. You have it backwards. It's the bacon that is evil. Not the raw pig. The raw pig is terribly cute.

Now you're evil - that piggy is Cuuuuuute! (kinda resembles our Jack Russell terrier)

I was thinking raw pig in the trichinosis-laden meaty sense

Well whats the matter with a little worm? Why at Harvard and Yale they eat them!

Must

Resist

Another

The Women

Quoteathon....

Somewhere around here I've got pics of what happens when a piglet is launched over 13 story tall building and lands on concrete. That was pretty evil.

Babe 3 - the final trip to Dennys...

Mmmmm.... Ham and waffles.... :D

Hahaha nothing beats a Moons Over My Hammy for pure gastric queasitude.

Ok sorry but that piggy is very cute. I have to think before eating anything from a pig. I love the movies Babe and almost had my own piggy.

I used to get my mom REALLY mad at me when we'd eat at Denny's, and I'd give a name to each sausage I was gonna eat.

I once made rice krispie treats in an attempt to get laid

Did it work?



Have you ever tried that tactic with NA?

It was with me! And, if it wasn't, he owes me some of those treats!

There is a hyper black rat in the window sill. that is all.

OMG that is SO COOL!!!

What's funny is that there are WAY more quotable lines from that movie.... really it is so much fun to watch (if you haven't seen it, definitely put it on your netflix!)

On another note... Daniel Radcliffe started performing in Equus on Broadway. Supposedly Glenn Close was in the audience to watch... that boy has some balls. I mean, I could strip in front of strangers, but in front of Glenn Close? Yeeech.

Cool article on why the Earth's magnetic field flip-flops

I can't access YouTube from work. It'l have to wait until I get home.

Pirates! (the real kind)

Why are the "New Posts" buttons on the threads not working this morning?

Mine's working. Sometimes it will reset itself if you wait too long after logging in. Then I use the Posts from... link.

That's not it. When I click on the little grey button next to the thread title, I get a "page not found" error.

Hmm. You can always try the "empty your cache and restart the browser" option. Other than that I will defer to the people who are geekier than I.

New posts works for me

So. My Obama car magnet was stolen off my car Wednesday night. Saw it Wed coming home, didn't see it Thurs leaving for work. I'm pissed. I stopped at the Dem. HQ (walking distance from my home) to pick up a STICKER. Now you know I'm committed.

I get home and my neighbor happened to be outside at his car. I figured it could easily be them who took it, as they have seemed to skew Republican in my interactions with them...and they're also morons, and oftentimes, jerks. I couldn't help but test this.

I waved the new sticker at him and told him someone had stolen my Obama magnet. His instant response: "Well, can ya blame 'em? Aw, I'm just kidding." He then went on to say, "So, that one's a sticker?" and I swear, it sounded to me like he was figuring out whether he should try steal it as well. I said that I'd hate to think a neighbor would do this, and he didn't have much of a response for that. Could all be in my head, but seriously, these people are not bright, not good at hiding. (These same people put their place up for sale during the mortgage crisis and then said to me "it's crazy, for some reason, a lot of other condos are foreclosing right now - it's a big mystery! Just our luck, I guess."

Well, even if he didn't take it, he's a f'n asshole for making the crack about not blaming the theif.

I say you stick it on his car. :evil:

With a layer of clear epoxy :)

And a "No On Prop 8" bumper sticker, too

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

The Ducks announced today that they have signed right wing Teemu Selanne to a two-year contract.

So I went to the rodeo because Madz was riding barrels. And instead of cute cowboys I get a bunch of pre-teen girls gossiping like mad and some crazy lady from another country who literally scooched me over on the bench and then kept trying to chat with me. Where were the cowboys in wranglers? No I get the crazies.

Madz did great though. She and Nemo did a decent time and it was their first time out. I'm so proud of her.

Looks like Heather Locklear had a worse weekend than me.

Geez...I hope it was worse than yours. ;)

I can't figure out why I feel so sick. It's almost like motion-sickness sick. UGH.

Me too. And I overslept, woke up feeling like I broke a fever and missed a meeting. So I called out. I was going to go in until I got really dizzy while I was getting ready.

oh my tummy. :( not feeling well today either.

Went to the LA County Fair yesterday to see my Mom's small hairy ass. She was showing to everyone. We didn't take any pictures this year, but here is a photo from a couple of years ago:

Your mom has a nice ass.

I'd even call your mom's ass sweet.







One question:

What's she doing with that donkey?

This is funny, since Republicans are supposed to be tougher on crime and criminals. Heh, you should advocate (to his face) the death penalty for the stupid thief that too your magnet!

Another GC's late to the party thing:
I really like Google's Calendar feature. I've actually been using it and I never use calendars.

Double-creme brie makes the day go by smoothly.

El Pollo Loco makes a decent burrito.
Good stuff.

I make a good burrito, too! In fact, I slow-cooked some beans Saturday and they came out this side of AMAZING. I am going to make the mass batch of burritos that will probably last me a few months tonight! WOO!

Do you take online orders? I have PayPal.

For some reason, my Blogger is all in Japanese now.

I've dreamt in Swedish the last few nights.

Do you speak Swedish?

If not how do you know it's not just some weird fetish revolving around the Swedish Chef? Does this make you feel "funny"?

Well, I am half-Swedish, and I can say a few things is Swedish - är det till räckligt bra?

tyvärr inte

Oh, and....

Jag är snyggare naken

I'll take your word on that Moonliner.

Ich bin ein Berliner

Which, by the way, does not mean you're a jelly doughnut.

I know. I HATE when people say that! Everybody knows that what JFK actually said translated to "I am a cross-dresser"

Weird. I did a google on that phrase and found a Myspace page using it for an ID. I think I stumbled on a Myspace prostitution ring. The girl is a college student working as a "Tennis Instructor" and is making more than $250,000 per year. Her "friends" are also, oh how should I put this, interesting.

hahaha

My eyes are all wonky from looking at that PINK page.

So what does the phrase mean?

I look better naked.

Duly added to the quote system for posterity. :D

Damn! You beat me to it!

Fy på dig!

jävlar, satan och helvete

You're just lucky the language filter does not understand Swedish you bad boy. :eek:

One of my teachers wants to use a chart I created for part of an assignment as an example of what to do/good student work. What's scary is that it took me less than 10 minutes to throw together using Visio.

Faboo!

[Guaca] BTD RULES!!! [/Guaca] :D

+1 "Emperor's New School" reference.

Soooo...

After I got my MRI last week, I was told the Dr. would call me with the results (my initial diagnosis was a torn meniscus and maybe a small tear in my ACL). Instead, I got a phone call on Friday telling me the doctor wanted to see me on Monday to discuss the results.

My immediate thought was that he wasn't calling me in for good news.

I went in yesterday and as he was putting all of the images from the MRI up he told me, "well, you don't have a torn meniscus and your ACL looks good."...pause..."however, a blown ACL would be good news."

I have moderate to severe arthritis in my right kneecap. I got a huge shot of cortizone and will have surgery which (including PT) will take 4-6 months to recover from. Did I mention I'm not quite 41? :(

I've had a crappy couple of days.

And after the 4-6 months it will be a lot better?

After 4-6 months it'll be a lot better for the next several years. Then in about 15 years, I'll need knee replacement surgery.

My cheese is sad.



On the bright side, my doctor says they are making huge leaps in treating arthritic knees. There is a lab right now that is growing a cartilage "slurry" that shows promise in regrowing cartilage on a damaged joint. They've also been experimenting with using some of the wrinkle fillers like Restilin and Perlane to provide cushioning where the cartilage is missing. So maybe in 15 years something better will come along.

Ooh, sorry to hear that. Knees are tricky; easy to injure and difficult or impossible to heal on their own. Both of mine are still messed up from injuries sustained in my reckless youth, though not bad enough to need surgery. I hope everything goes well with yours.

Well, I hereby send you good knee healing vibes.
:)

"Always look on the bright side of life..."

Thanks, Andrew. :)

I suspect mine is the result of a bad injury playing field hockey when I was 16, although it could be any number of more minor injuries over the years.

Thanks, GC. :)

Just look it as those 4-6 months will grant you 15 years of good motion hopefully.

I can sympathize I have bad knees too.

A beagle smooch to the knee for bewitched!

And now for the question that keeps popping up in my life over the years...If you stuff a 3 Musketeers bar into your mouth, does it fix everything that's wrong?

Yes.

That sounds so good right now.
:)

3894: If that's true, I have a vending machine to visit. Because lord knows a cheeseburger and a daquiri didn't do it.

You can never go wrong with a 3 Musketeers.

Maybe you should have traded the cheeseburger for another daiquiri.

And I just discovered that there are three "i"s in daiquiri. Huh.

Any one on particular?

3 Musketeers are practically all air. They hardly have any calories in them...











:D

Only about 7 or 8 calories per.

See? It should be pronounced "Day-Query" :cheers:

I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again. When in the hell will I learn to stop clicking on Kevy links at work?






Kevy is a link abuser!

Ok, I really want to know what sick and twisted biochemist analyzed it in the first place. :eek:

TMI, TMI, TMI...

Where is this magical vending machine that dispenses cheeseburgers and daquiris?!?

Three day drive from Seattle to LA? Check.

Delivery of household goods? Check.

Cats eating, drinking, and pooping? Check.

Premium AP purchased? Double check.

I need a 2nd TIVO. I can't fast forward commercials on my regular TV.

I feel ill, and I've been home for hours. Maybe I'm actually sick.

I can't find my PANTS!!!

(And yes, I checked the ceiling fan)

Well, if you turned it on they could be anywhere now

I'm not doctor but...the diagnosis "cheeseburger and daiquiri" comes to mind.

That's 2 old SNL skits that have come to mind tonight. I think Benny Lava has turned my contemporary brain into mush.

Bon Voyage Pru! :cool:

WoooooohoooooO!!! Welcome to California!!! :D

This is an awesome Halloween costume...

I was feeling sick before. I just thought it was from my undying hatred for my job. Now I think I might actually have caught something from the boyfriend, who ostensibly has a "sinus infection".

Besides the daiquiri calmed the impulse to stab the back of my hand with a fork rather than return to work. I went back to work and my hand remains delightfully fork-free. Of course, I ended up going home about 2 hours early owing to my feeling sick.

[whine]Luuuucky![/whine]

;) Have a great time!



LOL! ;)

Awww, I hope you feel better, whatever the cause.



:eek:
That is about the creepiassiest costume I've seen. WTH?

Is it Bert, in prison, 30 years after the onset of crack addiction and serial murder with a side of fava beans?

That Bert is worse then a scary clown I think. Wow.

I'm typing this post on my very first laptop. I have never before owned a wireless network device, but now, I can take you all wherever I go.

I bought a "netbook," an absurdly cute little mini-laptop, the Acer Aspire One. (It was also dirt cheap - 325 bucks at Amazon.) It's surprisingly easy to type on, given the size. Also, it has an international keyboard, so the € symbol is right there on the 5 key. This model runs on Linux, so I remain Windows-free. Whee! I just had to share.

Swanky! :cool:

Morrigoon, how are you feeling today?

What's really funny is I'd no sooner read this post than I got connected on a call to someone named Ernie.

That is some pretty sick synchronicity!

Feel better Goonie!

Improved. I slept a lot which helped. Took a sinus pill today, hopefully keep from getting the headache I had yesterday. Still no cure for the office getting too hot in the afternoon, but I just located the thermostat :evil: and around 2 or 3 (whenever it gets intolerably hot, aka 78 degrees in here) I will be asking to turn it down.

Flippy: can you link me to the cheapo lappytop?

Here is my new little darling. I am posting this while LYING IN BED! hee hee

What ELSE are you doing on that computer?

Ooh, SSD. Nice.

Can you expand your current TiVo? hacking a larger hard drive isn't that difficult. Here is just one of a gazillion how-to sites on the web. I am assuming you are on a standard Series 2 - I don't recall you getting an HD TiVo.

It wasn't me - I swear!

Because I like to contribute anecdotal evidence that will be interpreted as part of a pattern rather than simple coincidence:

This morning, driving to work, I was rear-ended by a pick-up truck three cars behind me.

Both me and my car are fine (there's a small scratch on my bumper but I couldn't say with 100% certainty it is new). However, the two cars between us (and the women in them) were more beat up.

/me dives under desk (aka "the Shocknek maneuver")

537 new posts.

Not spending 3 hours on the intarwebs is part of my new anti-procrastination measures.

How can I get the intarwebs faster?

I'm sure I could but I don't have the time right now. I also don't want to risk breaking it, I have a full lifetime subscription. I intend on using it until it dies.

My system is set up that I can watch one thing through the TV while recording something else via TiVO. I just can't rewind what I watch through the TV (and I know I can watch one recorded show while recording another - but this doesn't help when I have 2 shows on at the same time).

See, if you moved up here, not only is the job market better but I could help you hack your TiVo having done two of them myself.

Yup, Ya gotta love the new Netbooks. I picked up one for Moonie Junior. It easily runs everything he needs for school but is terrible for World Of Warcraft and it's ilk. Priceless.

Congrats on the laptop. I never knew what i was missing til i got my first one a year and a half ago. :) And it came in handy when i had to go to Bon Jovi and able to upload all my photos and videos off the memory card in my camera freeing up the space available without the laptop i don't know what i would have done lol...

Ya, but you're a Sharks fan and that is way to close to the Shark Tank for my liking ;)

I'm only a Sharks fan by geography. I'm here, they're here. If I lived there, I'd be a Ducks fan.

I would loan you our unused Series 2, but then you would have to add service to it.

That, and we have a few shows we need to pull off of it.

Don't let her fool you Andrew: she really IS a Sharks fan. Says so in one of the quotes!

Mmmm, I just found the perfect balance of sugar and creamer for a cup of chai from the fancy coffee machine at work. Happy me.

I feel very disconnected. Bah. And humbug. I miss home.

I can't wait to do my final written test Saturday so I can start buzzing around on my Little Red Scooter !!

Is it back from the scooter hospital?

Yes, and we've tested it to prove it works. :snap:

..Pics to come. :D

There was a 4.1 out near Yucaipa at 2:40AM. Barely felt it here, but it was enough to wake me up.

What did you do? Talk bad about Hockey?

Coffee this morning.
Hope today'll feel better.
I'm quite sure of it.

Soooooo... spent the week down in the OC. DP's bday fun on Saturday. Batchelor fun at DL on Sunday and another DL day on Tuesday past. Getting ready to head to Carmel/ Monterey on Friday for the big wedding weekend. I hope to go to the Aquarium while I'm up there.

That about covers the week. Now here's Kevy with the weather...

Got a window? Open it. Then you'll know the weather.

And now on to sports...

Ducks won, Kings lost.

In entertainment news, Amy Winehouse is miraculously still alive.

Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

I meant REAL sports

Kevy you ignorant slut.

You realize it turns him on when you talk to him like that, right? ;)

Don't I already turn him on? ;)

Soooo....

While we were in Sacramento, I bought a California Bear cookie cutter. Tonight, I decided to go all Debbie Domestic and make some gingerbread bears. I mixed the dough right after the debate ended. It has to sit in the refrigerator overnight. I have tomorrow off, so I'll roll them out and bake them in the morning. Yummmmm.....

Remember...it's very nice to share....

OMG - you guys just made me laugh really hard and I so needed it.

In 8th grade (when above quote came out) Dean stood up in Math and yelled "Darcy you ignorant slut" to my friend Darcy and got sent to the princpals office. I can't even remember now what started it but we were all dying. And I'm sure it's way funnier if you were there:)

I'm not wearing any pants, film at eleven.

I'm not wearing any pants, either. No film at eleven.

Still can't find them?

We need total concetwation.

Wow, how the hell did I get to 6,000 posts?!?

Loser.;)

I can't find the pants, but I found the alkeyhaul... :p

I declare that, as earworm restitution, you must pay me 6 gingerbread bears, to be delivered to my house tomorrow.

Just read a cool article on the Ig-Nobel awards for strange studies. Some stuff is kinda cool. Some stuff you'd guess at but someone's actually taken the trouble to prove it, such as strippers earning more when they're ovulating.

Anyway, fun read with a summary of the awards at the bottom:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26996167/?GT1=43001

You'll have to fight Bill for them...

I can take him.

Sure thing! Here you go!

Yum, those look yummy!:p

We should clone them

BTW, did you know the last bald president was Eisenhower, 50 years ago. If McCain were elected it would be quite the shakeup. (Biden has plugs.)

It would be funnier if Palin did

I'm ashamed at how true this is:

I'm there with you. My latest addiction is this crappy pool game.

OK Buster, cough up.
 

Allright,
We demand the recipe !!

...Please?

BTW: The bear in this pic Bottom Right looks "anatomically correct" - Did you manage to make Gingerbread Balls, too? :D

Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cookies

Oven: 350°

3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ tsp ground ginger
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cloves
¼ tsp salt
½ cup white sugar
½ cup shortening
1 egg
1 cup molasses
1 tsp baking soda
1½ tsp warm water

In large bowl, cream shortening, sugar, egg and warmed molasses. Dissolve baking soda in warm water and add to egg mixture. Beat until smooth. Mix in flour, spices and salt until well blended. Cover and chill for 24 hours.
Grease cookie sheets (or use parchment). Roll out dough to a thickness of ¼ inch on a floured surface. Cut out gingerbread men bears using cookie cutters and place on cookie sheets.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from baking sheet to cool.

NOTE: These will be soft and cake like, not hard and crunchy like most modern gingerbread.

Hey, Lisa!

You look like the guy from Mythbusters ya know.

That's not me, that's my partner Bill. (The photos were his idea.)

JW is the guy in his avatar... ;)

Oh, and:

I Got My Scooter Licence.

YAAAAAY.

....and now it's storming and I can't ride it.

BOOOOOOOO.

I wish!

I bet Bill wishes, too ;)

Gingerbears look really delish.

Sooooo, JW's gingerbread cookies WERE delicious! I got home from the Greek to find 2 yummy bears (the cookies, not the men) on my front porch. I would've taken pictures of us eating them, but they went REALLY fast! YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY I GOT BEARS IN MY TUMMY!

Thank you John and Bill!

Quoted. (naturally) :D

Oh, and:

I Got My Scooter Licence.

YAAAAAY.

....and now it's raining and I can't ride it.

BOOOOOOOO.

Now that I have an AP I have this urge to complain about everything.

I can relate. We finally get the jeep fixed and it's supposed to rain everywhere we want to go today. :( We woke up super early and got on the road and the sky just kept getting darker and darker. We turned around to come home and there's now blue sky outside. My cheese is so very very sad.

I'm glad they were still there when you got home. One of your neighbors was watching my every move as I put the bag on the porch. (Well, I assume he was a neighbor. He was standing in the front yard of the house next door, smoking a cigarette.) It was creepy.

The house to the North? Those neighbors don't smoke! Creepy indeed!

I'm still on a high from last nights David Byrne concert. While the Greek was a clusterfu<k, Byrne was wonderful. He did the songs on Byrne/Eno (and Burning Down the House) which included songs from Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts as well as more recent work. While there were not surprised in the band (no Eno, no Adrien Bellew etc) the group was amazing. He also had 3 dancers as part of the performance adding wonderful visuals to the performance.

However, I would still offer up my first child to see the Talking Heads "Remain In Light" tour again. I doubt anything could ever surpass that experience - but this was a good contender.

Yes. :eek:

So, I am heading off to Kernville today. It is a big Harley run. The weather has finally turned. I think I am looking forward to the drive through the Canyon more than the destination.

MG: you ride a Harley ? Awesome.

(Maybe you should ride an MG..)

Must. Post. Picture.

Please......

:cool:

Let's hope the weather cooperates next spring and we'll get a photo of the LB on the hubbys harley! I don't know if his scooter license works here but we'll research it :D!

I'm afraid it's only good for Manual Motorbikes - in other words, Scooters.

Here's a pic of mine:

Ok so we can still have the hubby pull his out of the garage and get pictures of you on it :D

I'm a Big Butch Biker Bear !!!


...Stop laughing, I AM TOO !!!

Really.

Grrrrr. *swipes paw in air*

I could see it now.

Lashbear and Stoat, in full leather regalia, revving into town while Judas Priest "Hellbent for Leather" blasts.

:cool:

I need a cookie cutter...
 

Hey - does that bear cookie have a ween?

I think it does!

Lash, you did a great job on the gingerbears with no cutter!

Lashbear, there's this biker game you might possibly enjoy. You'd have to go to the big, baaaad biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota in August to play. They tie hot dogs on clotheslines so they hang down. You're in your biker black leather with the chrome studs, you're on your Harley (vrooom vrooom) and you ride under the clothes line to take a bite off the hot dog.

Soooo.....Should I try to make a Halloween costume? Or no? So far, I have zero Halloween-themed plans, except to maybe check out the park in the morning for potential villain sightings.

You nearly had me then..

.....Now, if it was a Corn-Dog

For Halloween plans, I can recommend going to a haunt type event with Matt, Rose & Mark - What A Blast!! We had a ball doing it (even though it wasn't Halloween and the only real scary bit was House Of Horrors) - they make it a LOT of fun. :cool: :cheers: :snap:

One cold beer left in the fridge! Yay, me! :cool: (why don't we have happy cheese?)

So did that bargain beer you found get to tasting better after a few? :p

What the heck is happy cheese. . or dare I ask? :confused:

Our sad face actually looks l like a sad slice of cheese: :(

I think it was LashBear? that came up with that. Now - I know we just had a thread on where that came from - but I'm feeling too lazy to look it up so please correct me if I'm wrong on that. Fuzzy memory... bla bla bla.

Although happy cheese could also be what you order from McDonalds for your kid that wants a cheeseburger? :D

Close enough...the "I'm sorry your cheese is sad" came from the Stoat, when one of the LoTTers was upset. I looked at the icon and thought it was an unhappy cheese.

NOTE TO ADMINS: Could we also have a Happy Cheese Icon please ???

I know we have Happy Pancake Person with Beret Serif, along with Sunglass Pancake Person and Blushing Pancake Person, but Happy Cheese would be good as an option.

I promise I won't call the new icon "Jack" (as that would be gender specific) ... but maybe "Philadelphia" for a whole bunch of reasons that you can ponder.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX - Father of the "Sad Cheese", and activist for "Happy Cheese"

It did. :D (Maybe drinking the 1st one after drinking really tasty beer ruined it. Also, it was the last cold beer in the house...that can up the tastiness quotient quite a bit.)

All I know is that cheese makes me happy. :) Unless it gets moldy. Then it makes me sad. :(

... I actually had a pumpkin spice latte... for whatever reason (which I now regret) I forgot to ask for it to be soy-no whip. Yeah. Great. Ugh... I save my lactose intolerance for cheese. Not... freaking milk.

But the lattee wasn't too bad... asked for half the 'sauce'...

I didn't get much unpacking done this weekend. I keep getting distracted by everything else that's not that.

Sounds like me...only cleaning. ;)

Just because I enjoy the irony of it, I offer up:

Wow. It is the End of Days. Alex used a smilie.
:D

The world continues. If you look hard you'll find the three (I think) previous occasions on LoT and/or MP where I've used them. Each time the world continued for at least 36 hours.

Yes, but he used it to make a joke. Not just to show an emotion.

I like happy cheese!

Thanks, Alex!

All hail the Happy Cheese! YAY!

Didn't one of them have something like 20 smilies all in a row?

I honestly have no recollection. I just know I've used them a few times, though I'm pretty sure none were simple unironic uses.

Smileys are cheats. If I am misunderstood then I didn't write clearly enough (or I did and the reader is insufficient).

Yay !!

Alex cut the Happy Cheese !!








.....and I note that Stoat hasn't commented on my GingerBears.. perhaps he's jealous that I have them, and he doesn't.... :p

Pru: A couple of us are going to hit Azteca for costumed karaoke, if you'd like to join us down in Garden Grove on Halloween night.

You dot your "i"s with little smilie faces, don't you? :D

I could not sleep. Took the train and slept some. Now, I feel like sh*t.

Monday mornings should be illegal... Blech...

I am a cheat.

signed, Ruthie, the smilie whore :D

ok- right now working in the financial industry sucks-

LET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!

Haunt was fun again - Rose got her picture taken in a casket, with me and a monster mourning by her side.

(I'll post it once I get the scanner hooked up out here)

Well, for me the last week has been kind of like the employment version of a Staycation.

Sure, I haven't gone anywhere but I'm not doing anything either. I feel like I work for the government.

Thank you, all, for the "happy cheese" explainations!

Nonetheless, we can't have a happy cheese because that would destroy the purpose of the sad "cheese." He's not a slice of cheese. He's just like totally square, man. And around these swank digs, squares are always sad. Never happy. Once they get happy, they put on a beret and are no longer square.


:) Dig?

Okay, I think this is over-analyzing the cheese...

No, it's exactly why the sad square was made. Squaresville, man, squaresville.

Things evolve. Your sad little square has grown into an occasionally happy piece of cheese. Even still, though, I agree that it should never be happy, this is be square cheese screams "American cheese" and I can't imagine how something so disgustingly inedible as American cheese can ever be happy.

Good to know the history though. Now every time I see it I won't see it as someone saying they're unhappy but rather as saying that they are uncool and therefore unhappy. I'm sure this will give an interesting subtext to many posts.

VPM for Alex.




this post smilie free for Alex's benefit

I love this image, had to share (eeeeevil squid)

http://www.livescience.com/imageofth...od_081006.html

Where's Seymour?

they look like Langoliers

:eek:

The world is so _ucked up in so many ways, why am I in such a good mood, and on a Monday?

And why must a happy cheese be square? Is slice Povalone Square? Are there not Cheese wheels? These are not square.

"Square" is a state of mind (cheese). ;)

Yeah, I think I'll pass. Our last visit there didn't go so well.

Because if you put a round happy cheese on a cheese toastie and toast it, the cheese runs onto the griller tray, or if it is smaller, then the corners of your bread remain un-cheesed, all of which makes your cheese sad, not happy.

...I think we should ask Jim.

...Bah, ThinKrisps are round. :rolleyes:

I still like square happycheese, but round happycheese is acceptable also.

How is my DrunkenSeamstress??

Sorry! :(

How is she doing?

She is recovering fine. Fingers are still a bit sensitive. Scaring should disappear soon.

Yeeeesh. :(

I know that feeling all too well from my many crafting accidents with an industrial hot glue gun prior to our wedding. Watching the skin literally boil and then peel off my fingers was soooo not fun.

She totally has my sympathy.

Dear Alex,

Thank you for the lovely gift. I'm sure it will be well used.

Hugs,

The Stoat.

For the 2nd week in a row the company I temped for a couple of weeks ago called and requested me again. Please keep your fingers crossed that this turns into a permanent job for me. It is the ideal place for me. I have my own office, no one watches over my shoulder, i am left totallt alone. Working independantly is something I thrive on. All I do is sit at a computer and input bills into the Chevron system. I love it. I sit there with my little cd player and can totally zone out, forgetting about all of the crap going on in my life.

On a side note, the appraiser comes Friday morning. The last house that sold around here went for $125k. At this rate, He may end up owing ME money!!!

[quote=Mousey Girl;244608]Working independantly is something I thrive on. QUOTE]

I too love that. It's a certain sense of freedom to just get it done. No one breathing down your neck. Good luck to you on making it permanent!

Soooo….

I pull into the parking lot a little before 8:00 this morning. As I’m parking my car, I notice that people are pouring out of the building. It turns out our fire alarm went off again on its own. Lovely start to my morning….

So... you all get to home for the day and still get paid. right? ;)

Wrong. We were back in by 8:30. :(

I would've said that "square" is a state of mind-grapes. But that would've only made sense to one or two hard-core 30 Rock fans.

That'll buy a fair amount of churros, BD- sock it away!:D

Just be careful which bank you put it in....

Can't you read? He's going to put it in his sock.

The bank of Under My Bed! Haha...

I'm mildly frustrated by those who live their lives out in the "Can't" mode. Try something new! Go for something bigger in this world!

I couldn't imagine being completely satisfied with doing the same thing day-in and day-out. I couldn't imagine life without a little competitive spirit...

As long as it's not THAT sock, heheh

At least three!