Video of icy streets in (I think) Portland: [link]
It's amazing. Accident after accident after accident. I think the first car suffered five or six different collisions - it just kept going/sliding on....
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2007 6:21:36 pm PST #3773 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
sarameg - Jan 17, 2007 6:27:34 pm PST #3774 of 10001
One of the childhood cats was afraid of the dark den. She'd sit on one threshold and howl (she was siamese) until a person came from one of the bedrooms to escort her across.
Mister Kitty routinely howls at 5 am. I suspect he can't see well (based on how he startles and the diabetes) and wakes up and freaks out. I don't get up mostly and eventually he makes it to my bed to sleep the rest of the morning out on a pillow.
ION, the whole loading up my music for my ipod? Still making me discover stuff I love.
Kathy A - Jan 17, 2007 6:29:00 pm PST #3775 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Awww, what a sweet kitty story! (ETA: That's for Zenkitty, not Mr. Kitty so much--sad to hear about his vision problems!)
My father's theory of children dining was "you must clean your plate, otherwise no dessert." This, I think, is one of the main reasons I am now morbidly obese, combined with a very sedentary upbringing and naturally lazy tendencies, as well as genetic proneness to obesity through my dad's mother's side. Which makes my dad's blaming my sister's and my weight on my mom rather ironic, and really pissed me off when I found that out some 20 years ago.
Anyway, I still have a very hard time leaving anything on my plate. I'm going to replace my cheap and ugly dinner plates with some very pretty salad plates eventually--much smaller surface area, and will help me with eating smaller meals.
quester - Jan 17, 2007 6:34:27 pm PST #3776 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
When I was in high school and babysitting, I had one kid who was very self-sufficiant and didn't really need a babysitter. I was supposed to watch the dog, an ancient daschund wienerdog, who would sometimes have nightmares. Her family were afraid she would have a heart attack in her sleep. I had to wake her up if she started to moan.
JZ - Jan 17, 2007 6:38:41 pm PST #3777 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Allyson, I can check with my bookstore manager mom, but I'm fairly certain she is just going to confirm what everyone else has said: that news is made of awesome.
sarameg - Jan 17, 2007 6:38:48 pm PST #3778 of 10001
sad to hear about his vision problems!
I'm not sure if there are problems or not. Mind you, when I got him, his eyes were pretty cloudy due to a fever way back when he was a 2 yr old cat (he's 14ish.) It's also possible he's like me and easily startled, or that Devi has made him paranoid. In any case, he doesn't have any problem getting around and if it is the diabetes, he's taking it better than me (I'm somewhat paranoid.)
Liese S. - Jan 17, 2007 6:40:22 pm PST #3779 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh! I wasn't going to admit this yet. I wanted to wait until I had some more evidence. But I've been doing the smaller plate thing, and it is totally working for me! I gave myself no rules, no restrictions, no calorie counting. I just use a smaller plate. I can still get seconds if I want. I find that I don't, as often as I would expect. Oh, and if I eat out, I try to split the dish in thirds, and only eat a third.
It gives me time to eat, enjoy, digest, relax. And in the end, it's a simple reduced calorie diet.
Scrappy - Jan 17, 2007 6:41:50 pm PST #3780 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We do that too! We use luncheon-size plates and it really does work. Portion control, bay-bee!
sumi - Jan 17, 2007 6:43:22 pm PST #3781 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Liese, that's totally cool. I must try it.
Cass - Jan 17, 2007 6:45:24 pm PST #3782 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Video of icy streets in (I think) PortlandE from my friend P on the snowpocolypse
Oh, don't try the driving in snow.
It's not so much you as the idiot who will slide into you.
Although, actually, thinking about your car...... the person who will be doing the sliding is now in question.Which? Less patronizing than it sounds since I have tires that need to be replaced even for non-icy conditions on my Mustang convertible and my last time on a skid pad at a driving course was over a decade ago. I know more than the drivers in that video but I don't harbor any fantasies that I am going to make the drifting highlight reels anytime soon.
That video? Damn, we don't have the smartest drivers here, do we?