Holy shit! That sounds like an episode of House. Poor guy. I mean lucky in the end, but talk about a painful illness and recovery.

Holy crap, Dean Winters.

right?! it's weird that we never heard anything about it when it actually happened. if you look closely in the Mayhem ad where he's driving the car(the Becky's not hot one) you can see that the tip of his thumb has been amputated.

shit I did not say - "your employee told us to keep the service and charge it this way. you were gone for 3 weeks. now these bills are 5 weeks overdue and you need to approve them. if your guy made a mistake, that is your cost to eat, not mine. approve the g-d invoices, mf."

ending all arguments with mf makes my days a little brighter.

yesterday was day of errands/laundry, today I'd like to un-clutter the back livingroom and maybe organize books in the front room a bit. you know, in between work.

Oh for the love of...

I am now supposed to be in New York, London, Mexico City and San Francisco for varying reasons all in the last ten days of September.

Yikes, brenda! Although going to each of those places would be nice.

msbelle, it's country music week on Fresh Air, FYI -- yesterday's show had George Jones, Merle Haggard, and the guy who wrote D-I-V-O-R-C-E and a bunch of other stuff.

If I could do all that would be one thing. It's figuring out which and when that will be the challenge.

NY is definite. My order of preference for the rest would be probably London or S.F. (!) and Mexico last. If London happens it will trump S.F., unfortunately, unless dates shift around some. Not sure about where the others will fall.

NY is definite.

Yay!

If London happens it will trump S.F.

Boooo!!!

brenda, they should send you to New York, London, Paris and Munich. Just for the earworm.

Argh! I just talked to the IRS, and I shouldn't even think of looking for my Dad's return until October. I just want to get the estate finalized and go on with my life. This whole being fiscally responsible for things that affect other people in my family sucks.

Yes, even though she made it way more difficult than it had to be, I feel sorry for my sister having to be executrix for 10 years.

An article about the 7th annual World Testicle Cooking Championship

OZREM, Serbia — In a remote Serbian mountain village, they're cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch — and sometimes taste — as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles.

"This festival is all about fun, food and bravery," said Ljubomir Erovic, the Serbian chef and testicles gourmand specialist who organizes the bizarre cooking festival and has published a testicle cookery book.

The food — politely called "white kidneys" in Serbian — is believed to be rich in testosterone. In the Balkans, it is considered to help men's libido.

"The bulls' testicles are the best, goulash style," said last year's winner Zoltan Levai, stirring a metal pot heated by a wood fire and filled with vegetables and large testicles that he said were provided from a state-run slaughter house.

The festival — which includes dishes like testicle pizza and testicles in bechamel sauce flavored with a variety of herbs found in the region.

Yes, even though she made it way more difficult than it had to be, I feel sorry for my sister having to be executrix for 10 years.

At least she gets to be an ~ix.

Short of getting a whip and some boots that seems unlikely for me. It's the best suffix evah.

(OK, now I'm imagining the end of that word with a whip and some boots)