we watched a show that took place at SA"s college last night - about dulcimer makeing. I have decicded all woodworking shows are successful only if my DH yells at them for doing something stupid saftey -wise.

and gronk.

and ptui. booldsugar is not where it should be - back to fitday to see if I can get things back to where they should be when I see the doctor in February.

Great. Now it's Teflon.

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More than 50 years after DuPont started producing Teflon near this Ohio River town, federal officials are accusing the company of hiding information suggesting that a chemical used to make the popular stick- and stain-resistant coating might cause cancer, birth defects and other ailments.

Environmental regulators are particularly alarmed because scientists are finding perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, in the blood of people worldwide, and it takes years for the chemical to leave the body. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported last week that exposure even to low levels of PFOA could be harmful.

With virtually no government oversight, PFOA has been used since the early 1950s in the manufacture of non-stick cookware, rain-repellent clothing and hundreds of other products. The EPA says at this point there is no reason for consumers to stop using those items. But so many unresolved questions remain about PFOA that the agency is asking an outside panel of experts to assess the risks.

I think I'm going to take up smoking, mainlining bacon grease, and camping out in the Krispy Kreme lobby.

Hasn't that gone around before?

think I'm going to take up smoking, mainlining bacon grease, and camping out in the Krispy Kreme lobby.

Hey, just breathing the air can give you cancer.

So the smoking and bacon grease can be forgotten but not the Krispy Kremes. (I never said I was a saint.)

Things I did this weekend:

• Ate a muffaletta
• Avoided Bourbon Street
• Checked out the F2F hotel
• Neglected to give the restaurant manager at La Louisanne a Buffista business card (curses!)
• Tried on a gorgeous Edwardian corset at Trashy Diva that fit me perfectly (and would have been bought on the spot were it not (a) $395 and (b) in the wrong colour) and had the nice saleslady write down all the pertinent info for me so that I can order one when I have money again, possibly to be picked up in NOLA during the F2F.
• Ate dinner ten feet from Harry Shearer
• Drank a lot of martinis.

How are you?

How are you?

Jealous.

How are you?

Not as good as you.

IOW, jealous. But, at least I'm in good company. (Hi, Lee!!)

Oh, the spiffy. [link]

Before the Industrial Revolution, painters used Yellow Ochres or Orpiment (sulfide of arsenic). Occasionally painters found some Gamboge, a strongly colored secretion from trees that resembles amber. Gamboge was used for glazing before Indian Yellow became available in the middle of the 19th century. To make Indian Yellow, cows were force fed mango leaves and given no water. Their urine was collected in dirt balls and sold as "pigment." The resulting artists' color was a warm transparent glazing yellow. But Indian Yellow was lost somewhere between the decline of cruelty to animals and the rise of manufactured pigments.

And a thousand cows sighed in relief.

Ooh, and I just got an email telling me that the documentary I additional-edited back in August is premiering at Sundance! Supercool!

Scared.

I just put in the mail (yes, I remembered the stamps) an application to Central Arizona College and a transcript request for the app. to my alma mater, Cedarville University.