The upside is that Lewis shooed me out of the room and took on clean up duty because did I mention, the poor kid didn't make it to the bathroom.

Now for my 5,615 mention of the coffee ground trick:

When someone boots, baring some sort of white expensive carpet, cover it in coffee grounds. The grounds both absorb the mess and kill the smell.

Pix, what about at the Huntington Gardens? You are a member, right?

Wow...good to know, as often as I tend to, well...never mind.

When I was in college, the RAs all had a big bag of some sort of powdery stuff that we all called Barf Dust that was poured on and would absorb the mess until someone with a mop could be found.

Crap! I was behind a big box truck in traffic, and couldn't see the light change. Red lite camera says I crossed the line 0.16 seconds after it turned red.

That's lame.

Crap! I was behind a big box truck in traffic, and couldn't see the light change. Red lite camera says I crossed the line 0.16 seconds after it turned red.

argue the ticket. the photo will show that you were behind a truck, so you might be able to have the ticket forgiven.

I'm starting a new diet on Wednesday, and the description says to have a goal of one pound of raw vegetables and one pound of cooked green vegetables daily. Plus at least four servings of fruit, a cup of beans or tofu, and as much eggplant, mushrooms, peppers, onions, and tomatoes as you want.

I have no idea how to get in all those vegetables without resorting to green smoothies. (Which, actually, is how everybody I know who's done this diet has done it.) Green smoothies scare me slightly. Everyone says that, if you make them with about 40% greens and 60% fruit, then you'll only taste the fruit and not the greens, but I'm a bit skeptical.

Since it's a robocam, would the 6th amendment be applicable?

 to be confronted with the witnesses against him;

I started the low-carb diet again last Wednesday, after seeing photos of myself from the F2F... lost four pounds already. Hil, your intensely veggie diet would leave me sick at my stomach. I always find it interesting how people's reactions to food differ. Humans - not all the same. Weird.

Fanfic warnings: I wrote a Sentinel fanfic after the end of... whatever season ended with Blair's faux death. People wrote to me saying they liked what they read, but refused to finish it because they couldn't handle Blair dying. I couldn't stand people not reading my Special Snowflake, so I put a not-warning in the header: No character death! It didn't bother me to do that - the story wasn't about him not dying, it was about how and why he didn't die.

I don't quite get why a writer would rather upset, piss off, and drive away her readers than reassure them that some awful thing doesn't happen, or warn them that in this fic the awful thing does happen. Isn't the point of writing and putting it out there to get people reading it? If someone gets burned by one of your (generic you) fics, they aren't likely to read any more of them. You want your reader's trust. They've got to be willing to go where you're taking them. You can pull the rug out from under them and spin them around, but if you stab them in the gut, they won't be back.