We have achieved climbing. I looked away for five seconds while she was on the love seat and found her standing on the back of it, leaning against the window.

Heart. In. Throat.

From the diary of Virginia lawyer and politician William Byrd, revealing a keen ability to prioritise:

Sept 26, 1712: "Rogered my wife, but I forgot to say my prayers."

Phrase of the day, from Capt. Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796.:

Take a flourish:- "To enjoy a woman in a hasty manner... To enjoy a woman with her clothes on, or without going to bed."

We have achieved climbing. I looked away for five seconds while she was on the love seat and found her standing on the back of it, leaning against the window.

Wow. I mean, props for getting back to her arboreal roots, but "Hey look! I've found another means by which I can cause myself serious injury!" is not the most calming message.

Both Julia Childs and Alton Brown prefer unglazed Quarry Tiles over pizza stones. [link]

My new band is going to be called The Pizza Stones. They'll do all the early Stones hits in a cheezy Italian accent. They'll do the "Ptui!" thing a lot.

We have achieved climbing. I looked away for five seconds while she was on the love seat and found her standing on the back of it, leaning against the window.

Heart. In. Throat.

Yup. I have the added challenge of what to do with our phone base. It's the only spot in the house where I can plug in the phone to the jack AND the electrical socket and the base is sitting on one of the end tables. Just where O can climb onto the sofa and slide on his belly over the side and onto the table. I've taken to removing the phone from the base so he can't call 9-1-1 accidentally but that doesn't stop him from playing with the buttons on the base until he's recorded several messages and paged every handset in the house.

Did Natter do 26 as a playing cards reference?

Because when we get to 9900, I want to propose Spike's Bitches 26: Only Playing with Half a Deck or Spike's Bitches 26: Enough for Kitten Poker

Or some variation therof.

Meara

> Eventually, some state is going to get fed up and implement it on its own. The state will be mocked and openly attacked by every conservative pundit in the country. But when it turns out that it actually works, it will go national.

Except a lot of people would move to that state, wouldn't they? And then it wouldn't work, so well.

Except that a lot of employers will move INTO the state. Between savings from reduced bureucracy, increased preventative care, and better on prices on things due to single buyer leverage, plus the net increase in employers, the state that tries it will come out ahead. Yeah some business people will get pissed and move out on ideologcial grounds. But more will move in that out. One of Canada's major cities just beat Detroit for a new auto plant because of Canada's lower health care costs.

Punk & pin-up linen designs!

Both Julia Childs and Alton Brown prefer unglazed Quarry Tiles over pizza stones.

That's where I got the idea from.

We have achieved climbing. I looked away for five seconds while she was on the love seat and found her standing on the back of it, leaning against the window.

I come home tonight and there's my daughter standing on the loveseat. It took me a second before I realized that she shouldn't be there.

Then she fell and smacked her head tonight. Big ol' bruise on her head. And yet, back on the horse.

My new band is going to be called The Pizza Stones. They'll do all the early Stones hits in a cheezy Italian accent. They'll do the "Ptui!" thing a lot.

Reminds me of the Italian REM cover band whose name escapes me. They did a decent version of "Talk About The Passion" on an REM cover album called Surprise Your Pig.