I really like that this is the a place where we communicate via words.

This is very true, and a good point.

If you right click, Zen, you'll get an option to open it in a new tab.

I just learned the purpose of spermaceti- it's a buoyancy device. They cool it by drawing in water to turn it to wax and they sink. Warm it back up, increases buoyancy. So frickin' cool.

There's some dispute about this. There are scientists who regard the impact on buoyancy as being small save for the largest sperm whales, and the biological structures are insufficient for the purpose.

The alternative theory is that it helps the sperm whale's echolocation. Organs filled with spermaceti are very sensitive to receiving sound waves.

I don't know how all y'all with regular jobs don't go about killing your coworkers on a regular basis.

This made me laugh. I work a pretty regular job AND I probably interact with the same people in larger numbers than most (about 200 a day) and I rarely have this reaction. Teaching is odd in that I deal with large numbers of people (like retail) but they are same people every day for a year. I always think I don't like people, but I must to be around so many of them all the time.

I had to take Grace to a radiology study to see if she is aspirating (I would wager not as she's been drinking water for 18 months and only had viral pneumonia, not pneumonia due to aspiration). The drive to UCLA at 1:30 took me 30 minutes. The drive back took closer to 70 minutes (less if I don't count the 10 minutes I waited in traffic in the parking garage for jackasses to figure that shit out). Sigh. I would consider different docs on our side of town, but I can't.

ita, is this the last official week of woo woo nurse? Or is it going perm?

Paging Polgara, are you doing yarn crawl this year?

About 30 minutes ago, someone called me from Athens. She left a whispered voicemail in Greek and then played Adele's cover of "Lovesong".

Dudes, I totally got a drunk dial from Greece!

When is it?

ETA: Nevermind, googled it. Looks fun, though huge--dunno if I could hit every one of those stores. Can't hurt to try, though. You?

Thank you, Amy! After all these years you'd think I'd have figured that out.

After all these years you'd think I'd have figured that out.

I only realized it about six months ago.

I did it last year and didn't get to every store. Sort of the usual suspects that I go to and a few others. But this year, the yarn truck will be participating. A yarn truck! whoa.

I also just found a Takhi pattern book with a sweater I love and adore. Mebbe in all my copious spare time (now that cookies are winding down) I should do a sweater?

If we want an image thread, that's easy enough for me to not subscribe to but if we're adding images to other threads, less easy to avoid

I'm trying to stick to the former--although any of you can turn images off any time you want (or have them off by default and you choose to turn them on), it's probably simpler to have them all in designated, probably new, places.