To avoid mechanically separated meat and assorted organs, go with "all beef" or "all turkey" hot dogs.

I try to go with Kosher dogs, since I figure smooshing everything through a sieve wouldn't fit any of the definitions thereof.

re: pets and cooler weather. I've hauled out my thermal blanket the last few nights, and my cat is in heaven. He adores that thing. The fact that his person is a warm lump beneath it is merely a bonus or a minor inconvenience, depending on how restlessly I'm sleeping.

The new Bay Bridge will look like this.

When? The plans started right after Loma Prieta which was in 1989. Crazy.

I suppose the Zmayhems have already bought Matilda a birthday present, but just in case....

Robotic exoskeleton for kids

A very interesting New Yorker article on procrastination: [link]

I promise to read that later.

Love the new curtains, msbelle. Might need to stop by BB&B myself.

MiL is in surgery right now. I hope to hear from DH in a few hours. Fingers crossed please. Poor DH, he admitted to me this morning that he keeps thinking about my dad's final surgery. Yeesh. I hate to think of him carrying that around with him all day.

Good luck to your MiL, Burrell!

All fingers crossed, Burrell, with ~ma on top.

I promise to read that later.

Me, too.

Procrastination, in this reading, is the result of a bargaining process gone wrong.

I never was any good at haggling.

Procrastination, in this reading, is the result of a bargaining process gone wrong.

I never was any good at haggling.

The key to haggling is being willing to walk away from the interaction. Rather difficult when it's all taking place in your head.

My dad has said the same about seeing a hot dog factory. I told him NEVER to tell me.

One of my Dad's best friends, who is in his mid-60s now, worked at a Kraft marshmallow factory when he was 19.

To this day he will not eat anything Kraft makes, or anything with marshmallows in it.