Ugh. This week feels like it's been an eternity.
From a ways back:
No, the Pope is scary, and were I a small child, his Death Beam Eyes would make me cry.
I looked at that picture of Pope Benedict and thought, "Why did someone PhotoShop a Santa Hat onto Emperor Palpatine?"
These both made me laugh, as some of my friends refer to him as Emperor Popetine.
I only recently heard that some people tip their mail carriers. I know I have a variety of them, so it would be hard to do. Also, aren't postal employees notoriously well-paid?
I've heard of that, but I wouldn't have a clue how to go about it. Plus, there's the whole thing where they tend to either deliver my packages to my upstairs neighbor, cram them into the newspaper prongs under the mailbox, in full sight of anyone on the road, or simply leave a "Sorry we missed you" notice in my mailbox, even though I'm normally home on lunch when the mail is delivered.
I'd leave a lump of coal in the mailbox, but getting my hands on one would probably require more effort than I'm willing to go through and I seem to recall doing something like that is technically a federal crime.
Weather's lovely here, without being Bahamian (I hope they're in the 80s, not 70s like LA).
Goats will never be supplanted.
In my tummy.
In my tummy.
In my head, ita is now talking in Fat Bastard's voice.
In my head, ita is now talking in Fat Bastard's voice.
Certainly beats the inverse of that image...
The puppy was so cute that I would have puppynapped him, except it's Christmas and you probably shouldn't take puppies from children.
shrift, what are you doing early next week?
Heifer International now lets you sponsor llamas and alpacas....
Emily, I have Monday and Friday off next week. Otherwise, I'll be at work.
Just got an email from my algebra teacher:
Congratulations on an excellent final exam! You had one of the very highest scores, and of course you've received an A for the course.
Man, what a nice guy... okay, he was really emailing to ask if I could do the math for middle school teachers thing later in spring, but it was just such a nice thing to say...
The war on Christmas claims another victim, this time in Rhode Island...
A new Christmas tree now stands in the State House rotunda, replacing an 18-foot Colorado blue spruce removed yesterday because it had turned brown and lost its needles.
The original tree, a Colorado blue spruce, apparently turned brown and lost its needles because it was sprayed with a fire retardant.
By last night the original tree had lost so many needles, it was a brown skeleton of the grand tree erected in its leafy glory on Tuesday, Nov. 29. It would have made Charlie Brown's tree look like a thing of beauty.
The tree was taken down for safety and aesthetic reasons and ended up in a Dumpster outside the State House.
As of last night, the governor's office had been resigned to life without the classic holiday decoration.
"That's it for this year,'' said [governor] Carcieri spokesman Mike Maynard as the tree came down. "Luckily, the public and the employees have been able to enjoy it for almost the entire Christmas season.''
Maynard said "the tree-growers' association warned us'' that spraying a tree with (No-Burn) fire retardant dries it out more quickly, but the decision was made to spray the tree anyway because it was going up in "a place of public access.''
A possible contributing factor: The tree was blow-dried when it was first brought in from the rain.
Someone heard about it and donated another tree, so all is well.
