Ouchy Jesse. I haven't had a cramp in a long time. Might be vitamins.

Another at home day. Ernesto is hardly a storm, but the rain bands are heavy enough that driving is a bad plan. I went for a long walk with the dog after the last downpour. No damage really. A few branches here and there. Yay! Thank you Haiti and Cuba for chopping up the storm.

No annoucement on school for tomorrow yet. If they can close the shelters the schools can open. It was a nice trial run for the pet shelters that opened this year. People living in tin cans mobile homes in evacuations areas could go to pet friendly shelters. It makes a big difference. Even with a minor tropical storm several thousand people in my area need to go to shelters. They're not going if their pets can't go too.

I never know until I hit post if the internet is still up. On and off all night. And poopyhead satellite died after 33 minutes of Eureka. Grrr.

I hadn't read that before Sue. Colin is a total cutiehead.

I am at work and I am not happy about it.

How are you feeling? Did the cats eat any of the chicken too?

Colin is a total cutiehead.

He totally is.

How are you feeling? Did the cats eat any of the chicken too?

I am tired, but otherwise mostly fine. Just cranky. My cats, eat chicken? They'd never do that.

Ah, that boy.

I love trying to put names and details in my head to the things he refers to off hand. My memory sucks.

As does my head.

I dreamt of pizza last night. Hard core. But I never finished eating it. It was sloppy pizza with too much tomato sauce, and it was being reheated. But it was good. So good. Breakfast is going to be terribly disappointing.

So. We got all caught up in Meerkat Manor and they ended the season on a cliffhanger!

Funnily enough the season finale of RESCUE ME actually worked Meerkat Manor into the end of the episode which also ended in cliffhanger. Does anyone know if the show is definitely coming back next year? Oh, and Shelia on RM? Batshit crazy (not that we didn't know that already).

Glad there's no big deal there, Laura.

Glad you're feeling better, Sue.

BB-AS: Here's the thing. Of course Erika can't beat Danielle in the final two. But she can't GET to the final two with frick and frack!! I'm now betting on Chicken George to go all the way. I bet he can win the endurance challenge at the end.

Thank you, Ernesto, for petering out. May you stay small and let me have a day off within the next week.

What is this - a slight increase in sanity levels across the US?

Somewhere, Keith Olbermann is sticking pins in a Bill O'Reilly voodoo doll: Fox News' ratings, TVNewser reports, are down since August of last year. Like, way down. Like down 28 percent in primetime among all viewers, down 20 percent in primetime in the "money demo" (viewers aged 25-54) and down 7 percent in daytime viewership overall. In fact, the only place Fox is up is during the day, when they managed a ratings increase of just 2 percent, and even then only in the money demo.

And lest you think this is an industry-wide trend, consider this: over the same time period, CNN and MSNBC are up. CNN's up 35 percent during the day -- 46 percent in the money demo -- and up 21 percent in primetime overall, 25 percent in the money demo. MSNBC's ratings increases aren't quite as impressive -- up 6 percent in primetime overall, 8 percent in the money demo, and up 36 percent in the money demo during the day, 26 percent overall.

We, of course, are Fair and Balanced here, so there won't be any celebrating later tonight. Certainly we will not be opening any champagne. That would be wrong.

Ha-ha! </Nelson>

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Frankenbuddha- yeah how is it that Sheila on RM hasn't been put away someplace? Or at least been prescribed the good drugs?