Back to pill containers for a moment, I got us these. If you click on "product" in the header and "engravings" in the dropdown, DH's has a biohazard design on the lid, StY's has a lotus. This is mine.

The thing I like about them is they are absolutely odor-proof. If you need to carry smelly pills (garlic, cinnamon), or just want to keep smells away from your pills, this thing works great. Plus--flying saucer! abducted cow!

I spent 4 hours today 30' up on an extension ladder lifting and reaching and maneuvering and pretty much making damn certain that I will really hurt tomorrow. And that was after 6 hours of similar activity on more reasonable footing.

I also saw Paramedics patrolling downtown on Segways! How long have they been doing that?

Isn't the Joshua Malina character on Numb3rs an attorney with the Dept of Justice?

Hey, have you guys seen the ad for that movie with the Lilly Kane actress, Vincent Kartheiser AND Justin Timberlake? It's like some weird confluence of fandoms.

wrod...

Beverly, thanks for the link! Those look lovely and perfect - I will buy a couple.

Scrambled eggs were amazing.

What did you do to them that prompted amazement?

I hadn't noticed Vincent Kartheiser. Now there are two movies coming out soon that I don't really want to see for content that tempt me because of the actor(s). The other is the one coming out with Sean Bean. I don't really like horror movies, and that doesn't even look like a good one, but Sean Bean is looking especially fine in those ads.

I know that the bauxite mining companies in Jamaica blatantly flout the environmental laws, being as much as 50 years overdue on rehabilitating land that they've scoured. The laws have no effect on them--but something must. I mean, something external. I remain adamantly too naive to believe they're in such control of their worlds that they can fuck up my mother's home town and no one can make them even pay lip service to redressing the damage.

Now, I'm not saying that anyone cares to do it--just that there must be someone outside the company who can. If not investors, then who? Purchasers?

Anyway--just because the investors are separate from the grant-endowing people doesn't mean they still can't try to make a better world with their money. There's only so excited I can get about a charity that invests in ruining health and land. Not that they care, but I am also adamantly of the naive belief that charities and grant-givers should care.

Separate, as is its due:

Requested: Gin gimlet, straight up.

Received: 1) News that they didn't serve gin. 2) Vodka straight up. 3) Vodka with homemade lime syrup (with freshly squeezed lime) straight up.

Conclusion: Tasty! The rest of the table promptly ordered their own gimlets. Just lightly sweet, nice and juicy.

This would be the bar of Il Moro on Olympic in West LA.

And wow, this makes me seem like quite the lush. Well, I promise no gimlets tomorrow. It's just that people keep inviting me to dinner, and my migraines are concentrated early in the day.

Isn't Moro a bad word? Or is that Morro?