Allyson, that's super cool!

I got mad at a student who wanted to quibble about her grade -- I told her she was on my time not hers now and if she wanted to argue about why I should change it, she needed to sit down and write it out. She got mad and huffed out.

Okay, it's important enough to argue, but not enough to write it down when asked. Well, okay.

Reading up on Kim Philby and the Cambridge spies I couldn't help but think that there's a great Black Adder to be done set in the Cold War.

Because even though the KGB had lucked into securing the spy services of several extremely well placed spies - they never trusted them at all because it came too easily. They almost completely wasted the resource by trying to catch Philby et al at being double agents. They had a very cunning plan.

In all fairness the book seems to suggest that flushing bottles down toilets doesn't end well.

Not that Dylan can read yet, but I have complete confidence that he would absolutely not read that far before trying it out himself.

I would also just like to say that I was sad when I finished all of that racism blog.

Skipping ahead to thank Burrell for talking about chicken broth and poached chicken the other day (yesterday?), because I now have some poached chicken and some homemade chicken and rice soup. Yum.

Allyson, I think I will be purchasing many of those books. The Peter Sis, for my father, most definitely! Thank you!

I wanted to do something. mac told me he could handle it. he could not. we had been doing so well since Sunday, now we are going on 2 hours of the silent treatment. good times.

ION, garage sale tomorrow and pretty much nothing is ready. more good times. The garage is cold so I kinda don't want to go there. WAH.

Not the first spy this happened to. There was a famous spy for the Nazis in the U.S. who got just about every key U.S. military plan to the Nazis. They never acted on any of it because they did not believe it. (You would think they would have noticed the accuracy after a while.) Paid him in counterfeit money cause they thought that was all that counterfeit information deserved. Bit of luck for the world that this happened. And there are other cases like this. You could do a whole Blackadder series on spies who were not believed because their information was too good.

Video of Virginia O'Hanlon reading the "Yes Virginia" editorial to some kids, in the late sixties or so. [link]

There was just a blur of feline that came down the stairs, looped around the couch and over me, back up the stairs, through at least 2 bedrooms, down, around the living room, and then into the purple sink in the corner of the living room to roll about it like a marble in a bowl. Well, that last part was *just* Pumpkin. The rest was first Pumpkin chasing Loki and then Loki chasing the 'kin until she got in the sink.

Devi tried to get in on it, which is how it ended.

But holy cow. If Loki doesn't lose weight, I'll be shocked.