Aw, Em is adorable!

My throat hurts something fierce. :(

Baby toes!

Who is the non-Buffista couple holding elfin Em? They're quite attractive.

They're very nice even though he's a you-know-what-lican.

Trudy inferred the R-word, and it brought the thread down!

Timelies.

It's snowing and has been for hours. Stupid weather.

I have the opening theme song to "Fullmetal Alchemist" running through my head, and it's sung in Japanese.

The weather here is weird. There was a huge amount of rain last weekend, then two gorgeous days in the 70s, then two more days of heavy rain. Now it's in the 40s and very windy and there are reports of snow in the northern suburbs. It's too warm for the snow to do anything but blow around, but March seems to have come in like a lion and gone out like a bigger mutant lion.

For posterity:

Chevy Chase: Last week we made the comment that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Now here to reply is our chief meteorologist, John Belushi, with a seasonal report.

John Belushi: Thank you Chevy. Well, another winter is almost over and March true to form has come in like a lion, and hopefully will go out like a lamb. At least that's how March works here in the United States.

But did you know that March behaves differently in other countries? In Norway, for example, March comes in like a polar bear and goes out like a walrus. Or, take the case of Honduras where March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a salt marsh harvest mouse.

Let's compare this to the Maldive Islands where March comes in like a wildebeest and goes out like an ant. A tiny, little ant about this big.

[holds thumb and index fingers a small distance apart]

Unlike the Malay Peninsula where March comes in like a worm-eating fernbird and goes out like a worm-eating fernbird. In fact, their whole year is like a worm-eating fernbird.

Or consider the Republic of South Africa where March comes in like a lion and goes out like a different lion. Like one has a mane, and one doesn't have a mane. Or in certain parts of South America where March swims in like a sea otter, and then it slithers out like a giant anaconda.

There you can buy land real cheap, you know. And there's a country where March hops in like a kangaroo, and stays a kangaroo for a while, and then it becomes a slightly smaller kangaroo. Then, then, then for a couple of days it's sort of a cross between a, a frilled lizard and a common house cat.

[Chevy Chase tries to interrupt him]

Wait wait wait wait. Then it changes back into a smaller kangaroo, and then it goes out like a, like a wild dingo. Now, now, and it's not Australia! Now, now, you'd think it would be Australia, but it's not!

[Chevy Chase tries to interrupt him]

Now look, pal! I know a country where March comes in like an emu and goes out like a tapir. And they don't even know what it means! All right? Now listen, there are nine different countries, where March comes in like a frog, and goes out like a golden retriever. But that- that's not the weird part! No, no, the weird part is, is the frog. The frog- The weird part is-

[has seizure and falls off chair]

We're having lots of rain. The snowbank at the edge of our drive is holding on by the skin of its teeth, and I do mean teeth. I hope the sidewalk by the house on the end of our street, finally loses all its snow this weekend. The people never cleared the snow off of it all winter. At the beginning of the week, the snow on the sidewalk was still ~ a foot deep, for the length of that property. Once it's gone, we're walking our fat little, winterized behinds up to the school and back, when we have time. No more driving 2 tenths of a mile.

x-posted from natter:

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