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.
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Sheryl - Dec 12, 2015 6:32:13 am PST #11325 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Hil R. - Dec 12, 2015 9:05:30 am PST #11326 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Java cat - Dec 12, 2015 10:06:49 am PST #11327 of 30003
Not javachik
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!
Burrell - Dec 12, 2015 10:10:05 am PST #11328 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
First solid food is a very exciting milestone, Sheryl. Yay for the little guy!
sarameg - Dec 12, 2015 10:15:41 am PST #11329 of 30003
I had to run the AC in my car. For cooling. In December.
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2015 10:24:26 am PST #11330 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2015 11:58:52 am PST #11331 of 30003
brillig
And I just looked at the forecast, saw High of 36 and low of 24 and thought "Well, that's not too bad."
erikaj - Dec 12, 2015 12:02:48 pm PST #11332 of 30003
Always Anti-fascist!
We're having winter here, such as it is.
Liese S. - Dec 12, 2015 12:06:52 pm PST #11333 of 30003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2015 12:12:22 pm PST #11334 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just saw a coyote running through the snow and, I shit you not, there is a road runner sitting on my front step.
If you see a tunnel in the side of a mountain, do not try running through it.