My apartment, though messy as hell, is where you ALL want to be right now (except maybe the vegetarians). It's 48 degrees outside, grey and rainy, and my apartment is all cozy and warm, with some candles lit and jazz on the stereo, and a humongous crock pot full of chili bubbling merrily away. Mmmmmm. Chili.

However, I have to leave in about 90 minutes and take the chili with me, as I offered to feed my friends, and I was too lazy to go over there early to start the chili. Meals on wheels. Yum. I make GOOD chili.

Good Boondocks.

Julie is practically HOMELESS!

The dangerous thing is that Aidell's now makes their sausage in a little smokies size.

Really? Excellent! I'ma have to look for those. I love love LOVE the chicken apple sausage.

The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. [link]

as the house and outside get warmer... we seem to be heading toward naptime...

I was looking for Winter Olympics info since Figure Skating season started and I saw this short "cartoon" that the Olympics committee put together:

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(the links for the short are near the top - 2 bandwidth options) and I think this is really a weird cartoon. Is this supposed to get kids interested in the Olympics? I can see the opposite reaction.

Lily is amazingly gorgeous.

Pre-Annabel I did three loads of laundry once a week. Now it's twice a week, and averages four loads per cycle.

Help! Firefox isn't recognizing keyboard input! I thought it just wasn't letting me scroll with it, which isn't a big deal, but it turns out I can't type into the posting box (I'm typing this in Word to paste into the box). Anybody know anything about this?

Also, mmm, chili. I can't complain – just had leftover scones with clotted cream and raspberry jam. Still, chili...

Oh, now you're taking input. I see how you are. Crisis over, apparently, but... how weird?

Lillian is indeed a beautiful child.

so I've been doing my own since I was about 11.

Oh good. Now I don't feel bad for making the boys do theirs. I do the whites though because otherwise their socks would stay black.

Emily, I've found that closing and reloading Firefox works most of the time for that

Oy. World Series or no, I'd hate to be sitting in a stadium tonight. We're getting hail right now.

I do laundry every two weeks. Usually 2 loads ($5), though it expands to 3 during the winter or if I decide it is time to launder the comforter or futon cover. There are some items I have no problem with wearing twice, considering they only get worn for 9 hours while I sit on my ass and are put on a clean body. I have an appalling amount of clothes I don't or can't wear. Need to go through and goodwill a bunch of it. Maybe next weekend.

In my quest to actually get out and Do Something, I went and saw Good Night and Good Luck. Audience demographic was interesting. There were probably 3 people under 60, and all manner of canes, walkers and wheelchairs. Partly the neighborhood, partly the subject, I'd guess.