is August 12th St. Andrew's Day?

I've read too many Anthony Trollope novels to forget this --

August 12 is the Glorious Twelfth. It's the day hunting season (for grouse?) starts.

We are so mainstream.

Buffy running after Riley, and indeed, Xander giving that speech to Buffy that encouraged her to do so, made me want to smash my TV with a sledge hammer. I understand, Alibelle.

Thanks, Cindy. And see, in order to protect myself, I have consciously avoided learning the names of many of the later Angel episodes, so I can't connect people to them. This habit started pretty much as soon as Cordelia turned into a saint. But I wasn't exactly obsessively keeping track of all the Connor episodes, either.

Has anyone posted that HoYay made Newsweek?

I wonder which state will be the first to ban HoYay.

As long as it's still legal in Canada, we shouldn't run out.

It is now the time when we ritually mock the southerners for their inability to drive in snow. I am home watching cars slide down my street, which is only very slightly inclined. We have had a scant one half inch of snow, and bare (wet) pavement is showing on parts of the street.

I heard that aside from the lack of snow removal equipment, one of the big problems when the south gets more than a dusting of snow is that the material the roads down there are made of gets much slicker than the roads in the cold weather state. I also suspect that they lack the pot holes, ruts, and frost heaves that are part and parcel with heavy duty winters, and which I've always suspected help with the traction as much as the hurt the suspension, at least at slower speeds.

On the other hand, too many days of high-nineties weather up here and the roads start getting gooey.

What we get is usually snow and rain mix, and plummeting overnight temps, which gives us large and lovely sheets of ice. Or sleet and rain, same result. We rarely get easy-to-drive-in ordinary snow.

As long as it's still legal in Canada, we shouldn't run out.

Ah Canada, source of cheap drugs, mounties, moose, and homoeroticism.

And legal liquor for College students. That was a big part of my impression of Canada when I went to Montreal at 2 am on a Thursday Night.

Representative from security hardware manufacturer will be out next Wednesday to try and fix our problems. I suspect, however, that no matter what he does the doctors won't be satisfied.

Shrift's bosses seem to be insane. I didn't realize Electronic Arts had an office in Michigan.

Speaking of doctors, one of them complained to me about his PC running really slow. I'm wondering if the fact that he seems to have downloaded every piece of spyware in existance (except Bonzai Buddy. His PC is surprisingly purple gorilla free) could just maybe have something to do with that. I've never seen Ad-Aware have to chug this hard trying to scan a PC.