I've taken some old mix tapes that I love and made playlists from them. Usually I can download tracks that I don't already have on iTunes.

My mixed tapes are in a box under the bed.

But I had use for them fairly recently as the Geo Prizm we owned prior to this car only had a tape player. In fact, that's what got Emmett into listening to Harry Potter on audiobook with me, since I'd gotten those books on tape years ago when he was younger. And that's a fond memory I have, of Emmett and I listening to the whole series of books on tape with him over the course of a year or so.

Many was the time we'd sit there in the car waiting to get to the end of a scene before getting out, or him getting off from school and popping a tape into the deck before saying hello to me.

That's how I got him to watch Pushing Daisies with me too: "Jim Dale does the narrator's voice."

We also listened to Wee Free Men on tape.

Yikes! Model gets out of small airplane and walks into the spinning prop. Hand severed, face and shoulder badly mangled.

I'm pretty sure she just leaves them in the strainer and does the "second pour" the same day.

In my experience Canadian tea bags can definitely make a decent second cup but American ones cannot.

(Not by Tom's standards of course.)

Anyone ever had a telephone survey taker ask for their home address and first name before?

In my experience Canadian tea bags can definitely make a decent second cup but American ones cannot.

Oh, I wasn't even thinking about tea bags. Just loose leaves.

Those articles about the "model" irritate me. Not that she doesn't deserve sympathy for the horrible accident, just that she's not a model so much as a fashion blogger and wardrobe person who's done some modelling. But apparently we won't care if they don't lead with beauty.

But apparently we won't care if they don't lead with beauty.

It's our fault. Mangled Model definitely garners more hits than Traumatized Wardrobe Person. I'm sorry, Sophia, but it's true!

Timelies all!

Why am I so tired? I just don't know...

Real tea people don't brew in Fahrenheit.

See, that was my problem with the tea I got from Teavana. Well, not Fahrenheit. But that they claimed I need to make this particular tea at like, 190F. Which...I'm not going to keep temperature monitoring my hot water until it gets there but not to a boil (nor will I get it boiling and then wait for it to cool to 190!). Seemed silly.

Anyone ever had a telephone survey taker ask for their home address and first name before?

Hope you refused to give it...I had someone call once from the billing department at the hospital, say she was, and then start asking me security questions. I was like "Um, no. I don't know who the eff you are, you could be anyone! I'm not answering your stupid security questions if YOU called ME!"

I'm making a cup of tea now, and I did make sure the water temp was 194F before pouring it over the tea bag. Not because I can taste the difference, but because I have a new laser thermometer and take the temperature of everything I can.