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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Working and looking at my Christmas tree. We bought it last night but I don't think it drank enough water overnight so I want to take it outside and cut off another inch from the bottom. It should be soaking up more water.
But I am continuing to work instead because sitting at the computer is less effort.
Timelies all!
Tried to feed rice cereal to the little guy. More on him than in him, but that's normal for a first feeding.
I'm in an Uber, and the driver is deaf! He liked that I knew the sign for (terminal) A, but it's a good thing they only have the first few letters of the alphabet!
I was reading a thing that said that there are a lot of deaf Uber drivers. They usually have some system -- either keeping pencil and paper handy, or handing you their cell phone open to the Notes app -- if they need to communicate and can't communicate in spoken English.
The website of the goat caroling pisses me off. They advocate goats in climates too dry to grow crops. Totally glossing over that goats almost certainly helped destroy the original ecology of Greece.
The Greeks inherited a land covered by rich stands of oaks, pines, and other trees with thick, drought-resistant leaves . . . Soil erosion on the slopes of the rugged Greek hills helped prevent reforestation . . . as did grazing and browsing animals, which killed the seedlings before they could establish themselves. Especially prominent in the latter role were goats . . . the "horned locusts" that have destroyed so much of the vegetation of the Mediterranean region and other areas where they've been introduced. (In fact it's not unfair, today, to describe much of that territory as a "goatscape.")[link] The effing goats are part of the problem, not the solution. There are other ungulates that don't do as much damage!
Good luck to your brother, Consuela.
I'm enjoying your travelogue, shrift, as I do all travel stories, but also -- I remember when you were working in a basement with some idiot coworkers and writing some of the funniest posts *ever* but yay for you for how far from that this is!
First solid food is a very exciting milestone, Sheryl. Yay for the little guy!
I had to run the AC in my car. For cooling. In December.
I had to run the AC in my car. For cooling. In December.
It's 70 here. I have shorts on and a window open. I was wearing jeans (because of December leg hair) while shopping earlier, and I thought I was going to combust. INSANE.
And I just looked at the forecast, saw High of 36 and low of 24 and thought "Well, that's not too bad."
We're having winter here, such as it is.
We're at about three inches of snow and still coming down steady. I just saw a coyote running through the snow and, I shit you not, there is a road runner sitting on my front step.