It's shaping up to be a fairly awful day here, but at least it's in the high 40s!

We're supposed to be very sunny but still sort of cool with high winds. I'll take it over rain and cold.

I think the bacon costume needs a fried egg to compliment it.

World's biggest dog! Except maybe it's Photoshopped!

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Hercules was recently awarded the honorable distinction of Worlds Biggest Dog by Guinness World Records. Hercules is an English Mastiff and has a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds.

With "paws the size of softballs" (reports the Boston Herald), the three-year-old monster is far larger and heavier than his breed’s standard 200lb. limit. Hercules owner Mr. Flynn says that Hercules weight is natural and not induced by a bizarre diet: "I fed him normal food and he just grew"…. and grew and grew and grew.

It just didn't look real to me. Snopes thinks the photo is fake: [link]

I was appalled by how the crowd behaved, especially when someone had to walk for a bit instead of running.

Ah, gotcha!

I'm reporting to you one block from the finish line. The corner office here on the 6th floor (whose occupant told me I could stop by anytime) doesn't quite have a view of the finish line, but I'll probably stop in anyway to check out the madness.

[Edit: 2*7=14. It's been so long since I even had post # to notice, and then this one just jumped right into my screen.]

This recent xkcd comic reminded me of Nilly's posts. xkcd has to be in the running (with e.g. Dinosaur comics) for most Buffista comic.

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I am so tired. My weekend lasted approximately eleven million years.

Happy birthday, ND and CV!

Why do people try to drive through flooded areas? That trick never works. I saw two cars and an ambulance stuck up to their roofs in a flooded area of highway on my way to work. I never got to work; I couldn't find an open route, and the gov declared a state of emergency and told us to stay off the roads, so I came home. There are police cars and ambulances on every road and sirens keep going off.

My ex just emailed me a picture of the flooding near his house; it reminded me of when Hurricane Floyd came through. He said, "the psychic next door is underwater! You'd think she'd have seen that coming." Har.

I never got to work; I couldn't find an open route, and the gov declared a state of emergency and told us to stay off the roads, so I came home. There are police cars and ambulances on every road and sirens keep going off.

I don't think any of my NJ-based co-workers made it in this morning -- so many roads are completely closed from the floods. (Westchester & CT too.)

Is it wrong that I ilke Tiki Barber for no apparent reason?

The skin on my hands is painfully dry.

I should go pump but I'm remarkably unmotivated to do so.

On my to do list:

• call social worker re: getting kids hooked up for social security payments
• call insurance people at district to make sure they got my paperwork
• call case manager to see if I get a case manager
• call CCS to see if Noah and Grace qualify or not
• get more dish detergent
• return stuff to Target and pick up Flickr'd photos
• oil change
• call my doc to see if I can get permission to go back to work in the next couple of weeks or so.
• thank you notes

Ugh. That is all scheduled around hanging out with kidlets.

World's biggest dog! Except maybe it's Photoshopped!

I say photoshop. If nothing else, if you look at weights of large breed dogs, that thing should weigh a lot more than 282 lbs.

OTOH, googling to make sure I wasn't talking out my ass turned up the following:

Grudge Match: Rottweiler v. a-Rottweiler's-weight-in-Chihuahuas. Who wins? [link]