Sadly, I don't like wine.

And for some reason I suspect Jesus would be kind of a buzzkill. In a nice way and all, but still.

I'd think he could come up with a nice lager for you.

Is Cincinnati chili controversial?

Not if you leave out the nasty cilantro...

Yeah, I like the stuff, but I'm not sure there is cilantro in Cinicnnati much less Cincinnati chili.

Score! Naptime has lasted long enough for me to upload & name a bunch of new pictures.

Heh. "You too other turtle!"

Dyl's a busy boy. I see an early walker here.

The Onion exactly nails my opinion of Big Shots: Finally, a show that boldly confronts the problems of wealthy white men.

Happy birthday Allibelle!

Accomplished this weekend:
Picked up friend from airport
Got friend to her family's RV
Sent bottlecaps with friend to my mother
Cleaned out closet of clothes and shoes
Cleaned out makeup drawer and jewelry drawer
Attended Buffy sing along.

Now I just have to get dressed and make the anniversary party.

Well, my goal for today is missed. I'm getting a cab home from krav since I'm too light-headed to teach or drive.

Awww, fuck, Matilda's birthday cake has suffered a total collapse of structural integrity. And I had the top layer all nice and together! But when I poured the chocolate icing onto it, everything startled to fall away.

But the butterscotch icing in the middle is very tasty. It'll taste good - it'll just look like a train wreck.

It's a yellow cake. Yellow cake may taste yum but it's not a strong as chocolate! Emmett's cake was far sturdier.

On the bright side, Matilda's still young enough not to much notice cake aesthetics. I suspect it is the mission of all toddlers to smear as much icing on their faces as possible.

How did it get to be 4 PM already? Without, you know, me taking a nap or getting very much of anything done?

On the bright side, Matilda's still young enough not to much notice cake aesthetics. I suspect it is the mission of all toddlers to smear as much icing on their faces as possible.

I'm not worried about her so much as the in-laws. Oh well. JZ will have her frosting decoration kit. I suppose we could plug rosettes into the gaps.

76-Year-Old Man With Purple Urine

You encounter some fascinating stuff reading the New England Journal of Medicine. Take NEJM's Image of the Week this week -- yes, yes in fact that is a bag of purple urine. Since you asked:

Purple discoloration can occur in alkaline urine as a result of the degradation of indoxyl sulfate (indican), a metabolite of dietary tryptophan, into indigo (which is blue) and indirubin (which is red) by bacteria such as Providencia stuartii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and enterococcus species. The clinical course is benign, and the urine typically clears with resolution of the bacteriuria and acidification of the urine.

Who knew?

Make it into parfaits!

Mmm...delicious cake.