However! In good news, I friended someone I've been estranged from for about ten years, and he friended me back. I invited him to coffee and am practically on tenterhooks like I asked him out for a date.

Ya know, "some sites that sell "exotic" salts" is hard to say three times fast.

Oh, mended fences can be nice, bon. I hope all goes well.

finger foods and Zombie games.

I thought zombies wanted braaaaaaains, not fingers?

Zombies lose fingers here and there is where I think I was going with that.

Oh, I'm really sorry to hear about Rip Torn, he named by the same agent who named Tab Hunter. Ahem, neither here nor there. I always think of Torn in Cross Creek--he was wonderful. And then I think of him in Beastmaster, and my giggles become unseemly.

Also, so much better than those old-fashioned reindeer games.

How would the reindeer keep score?

I really don't know. Maybe this is why Rudolph was ostracized--he couldn't keep score accurately?

Good luck, bon. With both the foot and old friend.

Loki's positively drunk on heat. He'd sprawled across the covered radiator in the front room, and I went to pet him and he squeaked and positively lolled. Devi is the same way when she's up there. I totally get it, which is why earlier I'd been lying on the floor in the middle room with my feet up on the radiator there...

Some random thing sparked a memory of the drive from Kathmandu to the ...suburbs? Anyway, it was just so random in this snowy day, it's really stuck in my head. Tuk-tuks and the crazy traffic and cows and dogs sleeping in the middle of it and the exhaust choking you and the flirty banter and somehow it became familiar and yet foreign and my goodness, I miss it. Every since I've been back, I've eschewed coffee for trying to find the spiced tea (chai) I enjoyed at every seller who I entertained. Coming close, but still not quite the right mix.

Connie, how would it be labelled?

It's called "sea salt" around here, but that's not a good name. "Redmond sea salt" would be the full name.

Emmett quote of the note, while juggling a lime, lemon and apple: "I'm awesome at ill-proportioned fruit!"

re: salt again

I think the Hawaiian or Peruvian red/pink salts look the closest.

What's amusing about the Utah salt is that it's primarily used for road salt around here, because no one could think of a way to make money off of it, until a local company thought of marketing it as gourmet salt. 'Cause nobody wants pink salt, do they?

bon,

I'm hoping maybe to make San Diego in June...we'll see. Sigh.

We're entering the lottery as a group (well, me, K, Grace's OT and her PT) for the Woman's Marathon is SF in October if you are interested in joining.

huh, just went and checked my email and when mac was "looking at stuff" on Amazon today, he ordered over $300 worth of pokemon stuff. I've been able to already cancel all but one item. FUCKING FUCK FUCK, he totally knew exactly what he was doing. no computer for him for a while.

bon, I hope you're healed up for San Diego.

Kat, speaking of things you are doing, Colin is going to be at the Winter Olympics too. Not at your event, though, I don't think.

He's going on NBC Universal's dime, the bastard. They're even kitting him out.

I don't get how someone could put this up as "beauty of the day". It has to be a photoshop job.

eta: msbelle, damn. I hope you can cancel or return the last bit too.