Sox linked me to those shoes a week or two ago, Cash, and we wished they came in our size.

I had a terrible scare this morning when I thought I was a week closer to a deadline than I actually was. Does that mean I have started working to meet that deadline? Of course not.

There is no such thing as cow tipping. Cows do not sleep standing up.

She basically prances around solely on her toes. She literally looks en point all the time and the ped is worried about it.

I had a friend who was like that when we were kids, always walked barefoot on her tiptoes. I saw her 20 years later and she was fine.

I don't mean to be snippy about the cow tipping thing, but it amazes me that that rural myth is still around. So I've been on a one-man crusade to refute it.

It wouldn't bug me to be proven wrong, but after all these years no one has ever offered me evidence that cow tipping happens, beyond the "my cousin used to do it" type stories....

I never tipped a cow. But I could see rural residents being bored enough to try it.

I have never personally tipped a cow, but I can say with authority that cows can sleep either standing up or lying down, much like horses (it's a survival instinct of many prey animals that allows them to start running from a dead sleep if a predator shows up). Horses almost always sleep standing up; I'm not sure if cows have a preference.

As to whether or not cow tipping is an urban myth, I'm not sure. I certainly have heard enough stories from people claiming to have done so, but I don't have any firsthand evidence.

Edited because I really can conjugate the verb "to do," even early in the morning.

Eee gads, I'm hot. I hate how I have absolutely no tolerance for heat. It's gonna cool down after tomorrow, so it's totally stupid for me to try to put an air conditioner in by myself. But, oh, how hot and miserable I am. And none of the places in the square that have WiFi also have air conditioning, so I'll be just as miserable at any of those places.

The physics of cow tipping.

Ah ha! Cool, Ailleann. Score one for tommyrot!

Morning, Kristin!

Cash, I am SO sorry about the constant battles you're having to have with Owen. I sincerely hope that he outgrows the militant naked stage soon.

but I can say with authority that cows can sleep either standing up or lying down, much like horses

Huh. I've never seen it myself, and I've seen a bazillion cows sleeping lying down....

From Ailleann's link:

Another problem is that cows, unlike horses, do not sleep on their feet — they doze. Ms Boechler said that cows are easily disturbed. “I have personally heard of people trying but failing because they are either using too few people or being too loud.

What does that mean? What's the difference between sleeping and dozing?