Oh and brenda? Congrats!

My parents have a roomba. It was purchased for novelty value, but has proved useful cleaning around litterboxes. And to crack me up when dad refers to it as "nursing" when it is recharging (its light pulses like a mac does.)

I moved my bed and vacuumed up years worth of Devi's hiding.

When I get my new mattress delivered next week, I'm going to make sure I prop the old mattress next to the bedframe and vacumn underneath before they arrive with the new one. It'll only have 14 months of cat hair, etc., under there, but definitely needing a vacumning.

In dinner news, that poor boy was mmmm so good, even though I did end up with some butter dripping on my shirt and had my brother tell me there was some still on my chin after I thought I wiped it clean. And it was fun chatting with him and my stepmom (who is normally very quiet when she's not chatting with her own family--I'm being slightly bitchy here, but it's true!), and catching up on his family stories, including stuff about his in-laws.

I have to admit, I'm very envious of him and my SIL--as public servants (he's a parole officer, she's a teacher), they're both union members and have really good retirement packages waiting for them to reach 25 years of service, which will happen within a matter of 2 1/2 years for him (he'll be 48 when he retires), and 7 years for her (she'll be 53). I'll be lucky if I can afford to retire when I reach 70.

I can't really imagine what a Roomba would do in my environment. Stroke being top of the list. I may have to consider a swarm of Roomba to have a chance of survival.

(huh, that's kind of a blessing, isn't it? Lack of awareness that there was anything that might be seen as unusual?)

I think that is where I came from. My family and neighborhood included same sex couples so I didn't know some people thought it odd until I was an adult. Same thing with racial bigotry. I didn't really know it existed until I was an adult. Ah, for the ignorance of youth.

Same thing with racial bigotry. I didn't really know it existed until I was an adult. Ah, for the ignorance of youth.

Sophmore year in High School I took endless shit because we were studying Merchant of Venice and I was bewildered... having never heard of the sterotype of Jews being cheap. (mostly from Jewish classmates, interestingly enough)

I may have to consider a swarm of Roomba to have a chance of survival.

Sophmore year in High School I took endless shit because we were studying Merchant of Venice and I was bewildered... having never heard of the sterotype of Jews being cheap.

It is such a shock when you encounter this stuff for the first time if your parents and tiny circle of youth hasn't prepared you. When I consider it, I hope it always continues to shock me.

One of the things about being an older parent is seeing how differently my kids see the world. They have a hard time even believing that there was ever such a thing as White Only rights. When I was on a jury in Fort Lauderdale the judge was telling us about how only men were allowed to serve on the jury when he was first on the bench. (he noted that we giggled more) My kids don't get why there is the fuss about gays getting married.

My mom was a kid in the depression, born in 1921. I was a kid in the 50s and 60s. My kids born in the 90s. Our eyes see things in different ways while our hearts have pretty much been on the same page.

We have YouTube evidence that a Killer Whale bitch slaps and kills a Great White Shark with minimal effort.

Didn't the shark tagging biologists find out that a killer whale offing a shark also made all the other sharks for dozens of miles around suddenly remember that they left the oven on at home and swim doubletime for a few days without rest to turn it off?

I had an incident of the invisible-next-to-attractive-friend thing today, as two different girls came to chat up Smoking Hot Bartender while blithely ignoring my existence and the fact that we'd been in mid-conversation. But there are benefits as well as drawbacks, since my gaydar accuracy increases to approximately 100% when in the company of such a friend—I just have to watch other guys' reactions to him.

mac is doing animal wars and wants to know what can beat a whale?

Well, baby whales can get eaten by a shark. But generally the answer is humans to that question. I all nerve-jangly right now. Overtired i'd guess.

I've had Jump in the Line as an earworm for a good two weeks.

Is this my doing?

mrphf.

Awake, and Tom has no coffee.