Gotcha! Makes sense from there. Thanks

Just to enliven my bout of insomnia, while I was up at 4 AM playing solitaire on the computer, my cat silently coughed up a big fat WET hairball right in the middle of my bed, so I had to change the damn sheets before I could get back in and attempt to get to sleep again.

She should be damn glad she's so cute that I have to forgive her.

For the first time this week, my cat was too tired to wake me up at "God, what the hell time is it?!?" o'clock in the morning. I can always tell when fall arrives, because that's when she curls up at my feet and sleeps on the bed (she never does that during the summer).

Have people here had good luck finding restaurant websites?

Chowhound's a good source, and you might want to see if there's an LA equivalent to LTH Forum in Chicago. They're a great source for restaurant recommendations here in town.

Just to enliven my bout of insomnia, while I was up at 4 AM playing solitaire on the computer, my cat silently coughed up a big fat WET hairball right in the middle of my bed, so I had to change the damn sheets before I could get back in and attempt to get to sleep again.

Look at it this way - if you HAD been sleeping, she might have coughed the hairball on you.

Chicago also has something called Delivery.com that acts as sort of a clearing house - you can scan menus for a gazillion restaurants and place your order through the site. It rocks. I'd bet LA and other big cities have something similar.

Oh, dear.

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To some Oklahoma football fans, there are things that just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.

That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas-shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.

Some states used to ban interstate wine shipment, but that was ruled unconstitutional within the last couple years.

A former student of mine was one of the lawyers who worked on the case for a vineyard. Another librarian and I helped her get her hands on some documents, and we got a thank-you of a case of assorted reds, each.

That is a pretty nice gift!

I can't check from here (BB) to make sure they service LA but two related restaurant sites may be helpful. I know seamlessweb.com works in other cities and is another consolidated delivery site for neighborhood restaurants. I love it. Also, a more elite site than chowhound for finding resto reviews is egullet.com-- that has more of a professional posting base. Chowhound's recs have been a victim of its own success.

To some Oklahoma football fans, there are things that just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.

That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas-shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.

I was in a church service down there where we gave thanks for the Friday night victory of the high school football team. I looked around for the cameras, but I wasn't being punk'd.

My alarm did not go off this am, but somehow I woke at the correct time, which is an hour earlier than usual, despite getting home at 9:45 last night, and drinking a couple of glasses of wine in order to fall asleep! Thank god because we have a class today.

Relately, how many sheet pizza pieces do you allow per adult person? I have 18 people, so I am thinking 2 pizzas? We also will have salad.