"One of my favorite examples of the slant was how certain states I've lived in taxed feminine products, but not shaving cream, because shaving cream was a necessity (like food), but feminine products weren't. @@"

W. T. F. Like having a beard makes a man's life entirely unliveable, but it's totally acceptable for a woman to go walking around town with blood running down her legs? Or do they just expect us to stay in the red tent for a week every month?

The creepy right-wing guy who stared at me in the computer farm and came on to me with transparent statistics questions left without further communication.

I can see the headlines now: "Standard deviation not enough for perverted statistician."

I can see the headlines now: "Standard deviation not enough for perverted statistician."

That should be on a t-shirt.

Yay for getting the statistics homework done, Shir!

Last night's pizza discussion never happened because we took the dog to the park, like we always do, and she met her first skunk. Fortunately, she got hit in the chest, not the face, we got her into the bath quickly before the oil had a chance to spread much, and we were able to wash the worst of it out with dishsoap. She's still a Stinkyfras, but it's not as bad as I fear it could have been.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is the annual trip to Maine with our family dog who had been sprayed by a skunk the night before. P-U!

Sparky, sponge her liberally with Listerine. It'll evaporate and dry quickly and it reduces the stink immeasurably.

Re: skunk. Tomato juice.

I'll try to install ubuntu, GNOME type next week instead.

Shir, have you discovered the Buffistechnology thread? The collective spicy brains have helped me many times.

THanks for the ideas! I've also been informed that feminine deodorant spray is supposed to work well on skunk odor.

If I'm lucky the rain will hold off, and I'll be able to do some of this shopping at lunch.

Ginger, our vet told us that the Listerine actually worked better than tomato juice with the added benefit of the quick-dry/evaporation and the times we've used it, it's certainly been effective as all get out.

That's good to know, Barb. The tomato juice is effective, but does look like reenacting the end of Carrie with the dog as prom queen.

Last night's pizza discussion never happened because we took the dog to the park, like we always do, and she met her first skunk. Fortunately, she got hit in the chest, not the face, we got her into the bath quickly before the oil had a chance to spread much, and we were able to wash the worst of it out with dishsoap. She's still a Stinkyfras, but it's not as bad as I fear it could have been.

And people think Australia's animals are weird.