Oh, and Hec? Ducking doesn't really help you avoid a car door, unless you're really short and/or it's a Hummer.

I wish I could consider you an expert on the subject, Li'l Miss Gave Herself A Blackeye But Not At Krav. But your credentials on not hurting yourself with the car door are suspect.

I caught bits of The Unit (before my power went out!) and liked it.

My apartment smells like cooked brussel sprouts. Gross. Not my fault, my neighbors'.

I'm not pointing fingers, but it sounds like some people need to don one of these: [link]

I encourage you to do many experiments, Hec, and report back.

The problem with replacing all the bulbs in a fixture at once is that they all die at about the same time. 3 in 3 days.

I'm 6' 3" and I manage to get in and out of small cars without hitting my head.

Hitting my knee on the steering wheel - now that's a problem....

chocolate?

Fun fact about Shelbyville:

The city of Shelbyville was founded by Shelbyville Manhattan in 1796

Hee.

ION,

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.

They don't know how they did it.

Rubbing two sticks together?

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I'm told it's illegal to transport an unembalmed body across state lines.

Three of my grandparents died in one state and were buried in another, with no embalming. (Two died in NY and buried in NJ, one died in Connecticut and buried in Massachusets.)

I know you are all waiting to hear how my form filling out is going. Tonight working on them was delayed not from working late, but from dinner with BFF (YAY! yummy!). Anyhoo - since I had exhausted past address info from my "leases" file, I dug into my "medical/IDs" file and my "utility letters" file. I now have full addresses back to 1994.

Hopefully the parental units will have the 93-94 address, then I have from memory the 1979-1993 addresses and I know the parentals will have the 1973-1979 addresses. DONE!

of course, the next form is the financials form which asks for balances on everything, so that is another night of file digging.

I don't want to be burned or embalmed. You can give the good bits away though.

Maybe find me a Jewish funeral home? "she's a gentile who skeeves on the other stuff. can you give us a hand?"