I grew up in a town with a large reservior, and they never salted.

Our water comes from reservoir, and hello! salt.

Kat, Fox is showing last year's Chrismukkah episode tonight.

I know! I was going to Tivo it until Lori said, "We have it on DVD you know." Which is true. But there's somethign neat about it being broadcast.

MMMMm..... Summer dressed as Wonder Woman. Anna before she becomes super irritating.

How's the healing coming on the outside, juliana. Are you recognizing the woman in the mirror?

Oh yeah. She’s the same, with the addition of a little eye-scar and some swelling (and concomitant numbness/stiffness) that should hopefully go away. Someday. It’s really only noticeable to me, but it is there.

Allyson - that story is horror beyond words. I wish peace to everyone affected, except those as are, you know, GUILTY AS FUCK.

What ita said. Fucking hell. The poor family.

Does ballet really get prettier each and every time you see it, or is it just me?

It’s not just you. I sit and gape in awe and wonder every time. So pretty.

Poor flea and family!!!

Slide projectors are so 1970s and I can't find one at my school to use and I don't want to buy one. Nor do we have a scanner that can scan slides.

Kat - check with a larger theater. They tend to have them. If you seriously can't find one, well.... I could ship you ours, but I'd need to know by Tuesday.

Juliana, you are a total doll! I'll let you know by Monday iffen I can't find one, but I'm somewhat (falsely?) confident that I can. I just emailed my friend who does theater work here.

AND, FTR, it's too damn cold this morning. 48F is just wrong.

I am not working today. The shuttle comes to get me in 40 minutes and I still have to walk the dogs and go to the bank.

I woke up to find the heat blasting. Turns out it was because the wind blew my front door open during the night, and I was heating all of the East Bay. Joy.

I'll let you know by Monday iffen I can't find one

Kewl. Ours is a newer model, so it's not amazingly heavy.

AND, FTR, it's too damn cold this morning. 48F is just wrong.

HA!! Pffffft. It's on record as being -7 here, with a "feels like" of -24. I'll bet it's actually more like -14. And no snow to insulate any of it. I mock your 48F. (But with love, and much envy.)

AND, FTR, it's too damn cold this morning. 48F is just wrong.

It's like 10 here. I was all excited, thinking, "Finally, it feels like winter for once." Winters in Chicago usually feel too mild to me.

Slide projectors are so 1970s and I can't find one at my school to use and I don't want to buy one.

Heh. I have a standard slide projector (bought in the 70's), so when we found a stack of slide carousels of my grandfather's slides amongst my late aunt's belongings, I took them home to sort through them all. I didn't take the projector, because I already had one. Turns out these carousels are from a time before slide carousels were standardized. None of them fit my projector. I have to pull them all out and transfer them to my old carousel to view them.

My microwave oven just died. It started making funny noises, and I look to see big clouds of smoke coming from the kitchen. So I have the windows open and a fan blowing the smoke outside, despite the cold temperature....

Tommyrot, have you done anything with this?

Generally that symptom means that a piece of food or some other material has gotten inside the small flexible screen over the magnetron inside of your microwave.

If you look in there, you can sometimes take off the screen, clean off the screen by scrubbing the charred stuff off, and put it back in. Then test the microwave briefly with a piece of bread or something else which you would be able to 1. find out if it still smokes or 2. find out if it works.