Robin, that is an excellent idea! Perhaps I shall...

77 inside the house. weather.com says it is 77 -- whihc menas we've hit the low 80's

I have two baby kittens sleeping by the computer right now AIFG. I have so much fun watching the fascination and repulsion reactions of the adult cats. They can't help being interested in everything, even when they're appalled by all the immature pouncing-on-tails business.

Anxiously awaiting news of whether the books are terribly smoke-damaged. Files away storage-and-bags-of-charcoal data, just in case (goddess forbid) that I should ever have a house fire to contend with.

Cannot wrap brain around concept of buying really expensive designer merchandise, however collectible. Thinks about clicking over to the Dharma Fabrics site to do a little impulse buying but heroically resists. Won't somebody think of the budget????

Yay for baby kittens. I love kittens. I wish Sammie had stayed two months old forever, she was so, so little. Harvey, I remember I used to wish he would grow much larger, to end up the size of a spaniel. But I realize now that it would be exceedingly uncomfortable to have a 40lb cat draped around one's neck.

Also, double huh. On looking over the auction more closely, it turns out that $1,350 for this umbrella is a bargain, as when brand spanking new (in 2003-04) it sold for $2-4,000. The rich are not only different, they may be an entirely different species. A crazy species.

Ok, for quadruple digits, I want my parasol to come with a very stout, custom-made steel shaft, that can, as Amelia Peabody Emerson's did, serve as a weapon.

Nyeeeaahh!!! He mentioned his penis! I so did not need to read that! That's it, from now on, I am not so much as glancing at non-work e-mails. But Jesus, whyyyyy is this shit IN here?!

haha juxtaposition's funny

I want my parasol to come with a very stout, custom-made steel shaft, that can, as Amelia Peabody Emerson's did, serve as a weapon.

followed by

Nyeeeaahh!!! He mentioned his penis! I so did not need to read that!

Nyeeeaahh!!! He mentioned his penis! I so did not need to read that!

And that, my dear P-C, is the real reason it is wrong to eavesdrop. Nevermind what might be said about the illicit listener, bits about body parts are the problem.

In other news, this is me, chortling more or less continuously due to lisah's post. Yes, I am blaming that on her.

ETA: two periods. Punctuation hates me today.

Yes, I am blaming that on her

So much better than most things that get blamed on me!

So, I was driving Em to school and passed by a couple pf work trucks with the name on the side. I thought I misread, so on my way back, I slowed down to read them, and then almost crashed for laughing so hard. I wasn't wrong the first time.

Asplundhers.

A friend of mine used to pass by a truck with the following written on the side:

ERECTION SPECIALIST