I'm tired and hungry. Please to be making me a yummy dinner, then, while I'm resting in a comfy chair, please get my children to bed, and then please be preparing an oh-so-warm chocolate-y dessert. For me. Please. Thanks.

So far my rule of 8-mph-above-the-speed-limit has let me avoid any speeding tickets.

For years, I've used the 10-mph-above-the-limit rule. But when driving a car without cruise control, sometimes I go down to 8 to allow for fluctuations in speed.

I have gotten a ticket once for going 8 mph over the limit. It was at night, and there were no other cars in the area. I was violating my "don't cruise in the left lane" rule because the pavement on the right lane was all rough (the top layer had been stripped off).

Does it make it more funny that part of the reason for the ruling was that "Bush and Cheney did it"? (i.e. swore on TV)

And @@ but Bush and Cheney have that effect on me a lot.

There was a ruling that networks can't get fined by the FCC for spontaneous utterances like that. I'm not sure about cable channels, but I assume that it would be the same.

didn't it come about after the FCC tried to fine CNN when they were doing a live shot and an rocket came in and exploded right behind the interview. The soldier that the reporter was interviewing ducked and said "shit!" The FCC tried to fine CNN for that.

I do a lot of highway and interstate driving, for someone who lives ten minutes from work, and I've pretty much always used those same not-ticket-getting rules. Seems to work. The last time I got a speeding ticket was four years ago, when I was doing 74 in a 35 zone, and I couldn't really be upset at that one! Hey, I was in the last 15 minutes of a 7-hour drive and I really wanted to get where I was going.

I knew I should have split up that quote to make CLEAR which parts I was having which reaction to!

Let it be known that I am a major b/B shipper.

I think it's sort of like sow-DA-jee.

A little late, but this is exactly how I would pronounce saudade. It is an awesome word - and it's exactly how I feel about Brazil and my friends there.

Okay, Juan Pablo Montoya just won his first NASCAR race. A Columbian national, Indy 500 winner, Formula One world champion just won a NASCAR race.

I am so glad I kept watching this. Way better than a nap.

I know hilarious people. I just got invited to "Drink and Craft." The email says:

I have stitching, knitting, painting, beading, photoshop, and some stuff you can freaking glue together.

Heh.

I am sorry, but the surname Montoya is forever ruined for me.

"Hallo, my name is Juan Pablo Montoya. You have my trophy. Prepare to race."