Depends on what sort of leaning you need to do. If you just want to talk it out or need cheering up, most folks are never too broken to offer an ear to friend. It can even make them feel better. One thing NOT to do is to decide for them whether you have "asked enough" or "bored them with my same problem," since that isn't your call to make.

If it's money or stuff like, I dunno, helping a person move, that's a tougher choice.

Nah. It's just that sort of thing where my birthday is next month, and it's another year gone without a husband or some root, you know?

And my job is becoming dumber and more soul-sucking everyday.

It's all hurty.

I'd settle for a one-bedroom apartment and a decent date at some point when I'm 34. That'd get me to 35, I think.

turns the internet upside-down and shakes it

There's Lee Goldberg wank over at f_w. Also, the ex-coworker I angsted about friending? Posts over there.

Shrift! Imagine the antics Major Lorne could get into trying to convince someone to be the life model for his painting...

Mm. Did I ever mention how good-looking (and tattooed) Kavan Smith is in person?

I can't figure out if Lee Goldberg is batshit crazy or just never had a beer with Captian Logic.

There's Lee Goldberg wank over at f_w.

That'll do me for the next thirty minutes. Woo!

Mm. Did I ever mention how good-looking (and tattooed) Kavan Smith is in person?

You may have, but I wasn't present at the time. Pray, elucidate.

This is pretty cool--some guy got onto an Air Mauritius plane with two loaded pistols and hijacked it, demanding to be flown to France for asylum. Problem was, the dipshit didn't speak French, which the pilot figured out in midflight. So, soon before landing, the pilot got on the intercom and told the rest of the plane in French what he was planning to do to thwart said hijacker, and since the guy couldn't figure out what was being said, it worked and he was arrested after landing.

In fall of 2006, the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that New Mexico State University Regent’s Professor Paul Bosland had indeed discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper, Bhut Jolokia.

Bhut Jolokia, at 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), is nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the chile pepper variety it replaces as the world’s hottest. A New Mexico green chile contains about 1,500 SHUs and an average jalapeno measures at about 10,000 SHUs.

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Bosland reported that the variety has compelling potential in the packaged food industry as a food additive. The pepper could be pickled while still green, dehydrated and used as a seasoning. Because the heat is so concentrated, less would be needed and food manufacturers would save money.

“This isn’t something you’d pickle whole and eat,” Bosland said, “but it could replace dehydrated jalapeno as an additive.”

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One thing NOT to do is to decide for them whether you have "asked enough" or "bored them with my same problem," since that isn't your call to make.

This is coming from the perspective of an inveterate leaner, so filter appropriately: Of course you get to to decide whether you've asked enough, or bored them, or whatever. Sure, you may very well be wrong, but people do ask too much. And you can't be helped much more than you're comfortable with.

Which is not code to tell Allyson anything, just that I believe introspection and examination of your surroundings is a good thing.