'Origin'
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.
Bah. There's a somewhat nasty fire in the three-flat three buildings down from me. No visible fire, but the entire building is filled with smoke. Firefighters on on the roof smashing things, and going through the whole building looking for people. It's weird - I could see their flashlights through the smoke, but not the firemen.
Then I went to the back alley to check things out there. That's where all the smoke was going. Now I stink of smoke.
Mmmmm. Smoked tommyrot!
It's possible I should go get some food.
Mmmmm. Smoked tommyrot!
It's possible I should go get some food.
Heh.
But seriously, I think I'm gonna have to take a shower. And um... how do I get this awful smoke smell out of my nostrils?
Go sniff coffee grounds. Hey, it works at Body Shop!
I keep coffee grounds in my purse to ward off migraine triggers. Works if I'm quick.
Sometimes you just can't, and if the fire's that close, you may be able to smell it from there. When the church about a quarter of a mile away was on fire, we smelled it as if it were in our house.
Also, did they mean to use "Money" as The Apprentice theme song?
OK, I took a shower, but the smell was still there. So I figured it was the perfect opportunity to clean the cat box. OK, so there's really no "perfect opportunity to clean the cat box," but for the first time in a while I could actually smell something else. And the cat box smell is pretty benign compared to that smoke smell.
So I was actually happy to be smelling the cat box. Weird, huh?
ION, I am reading The Guns of August - about the the lead up to and the first month of WW-I. Gawd, I knew that the royal families of some of the European monarchies were related, but I didn't know they all were.
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So I was actually happy to be smelling the cat box. Weird, huh?
It's a slippery slope, tommyrot. Pretty soon we'll be finding you behind the dumpster at the 7-11, huffing kitty litter. Sad.
Yeah, when that ammonia smell hits your sinuses it burns, but then the the rush, man....
Pretty soon we'll be finding you behind the dumpster at the 7-11, huffing kitty litter. Sad.
Nah - I'd just get more cats.
Also, I was googling and...
But if the soiled litter isn't replaced and urine begins to collect at the bottom of the box, bacteria found in feces will convert the uric acid in cat urine into unpleasant-smelling ammonia.
so that's where that smell comes from....
Did you really have to google to find out why the cat box stinks? I mean, I know google knows everything, but...