I love gold, and I have PMS too!

And I retrieved my lost hotmail, though Hotmail itself still won't cough it up.

I downloaded a tricksy little freeware program that lets my Apple Mail program check my Hotmail. Apple Mail still shows my missing messages, but Hotmail doesn't.

I downloaded all the saved messages to my hard drive. And I am going to keep the promise I made in another thread, and switch to gmail as my primary e-mail.

Ooooo...I forgot to give my good news! I got a 93% on my first exam of the semester. Wooo and Hooo!

My mom's porn name is Goofy Lester.

I don't know which disturbs me more...that you figured out your mom's porn name or that now I want to do the same.

ETA: vw!!! Woot!

first pet plus street you grew up on?

Heh. Tutu Pilgrim, the Tecond.

I'm Cinnamon Brookhaven.

I just saw a commercial for Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is played by Halle Barry. That is just wrong, wrong, wrong.

vw scores another one!

Go, vw! I'm not a bit surprised, mind you, but it's still way cool..

You didn't make me uncomfortable. I just wanted to stop the 50 to 100 posts that would inevitably follow yours.

Funny how that spurred a lot of posts (can't say if it was 50 or not, since I was too lazy to count). I find that attempts to detour a conversation that wants to happen usually causes a conversation about the conversation wishing to be avoided. I think 'tis the buffista way. *shrug*

If I see a conversation coming down the tracks I don't find palatable, I go away for a while--I wouldn't want to gently nudge someone away from a topic they feel they really need to post about.

I used to call my boss an asshead on a daily basis. Truth was, he was an asshead. Unprofessional of me to call him one here, maybe. But it was either that or implode.

As for your comment, brenda, since you also seem to take offense at my desire to avoid a long conversation on a topic that I didn't want to read about, in future I shall keep my opinions to myself on the subject.

It seems to be the prefered response.

IME, this is the case. I'm not happy about it, but there it is.

Burrell, and anyone else, if what I said came across this way, I'm sorry. I didn't take offense at anything - but I'll admit to feeling that "keep it to yourself" was the jist of your original post, and that it took me aback. And it seemed to me (though of course you may have read it differently) that I was asking for your opinion, not suggesting you shut it down.

Sorry for opening this back up, but I left the office right after that exchange and just caught up. So I'm done.

For Hec, lexine, and other baseball peeps, it's the Generic Spring Training report article! [link]

Some quotes:

"My hands hurt," the second baseman joked. "But I understand what the skip is saying. There were a lot of games that could have gone either way, and the difference ended up being one play that went for us or the other guys. We have to make those plays."

A bad player, who has suffered from nagging injuries, weight and attitude problems, including his vocal demand to be traded to a city where dancers are allowed to touch patrons, has reported early, and seemingly has left his problems at home.

"It's a new season," the bad player said. "Every season's a fresh start. We had some problems, but that's behind us. I'm going to have a great year."