A lot of them come from the Secret Service, which, I thought... they kept... secrets?

Yes, but they're also a service. So if you don't pay your Secret Service bill, your secrets don't get kept.

And I've heard this one

"You stupid fucking moron. How could you risk your presidency for this?"

before. So that one at least I figure is probably true.

I'm not surprised she has a potty mouth in general.

OK, so I'm reading the cnn.com story about the SoCal fires/evacuations, and come across this:

The winds driving the flames are expected to stay strong, coming out of the northeast, at least through Tuesday, according to CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano.

And all I can think is, "Boston Rob is a meteorologist now?!?"

Edit: Ah, google tells me his last name is actually Mariano, so I was close but no cigar.

Corwood, I am so sorry for your loss.

Corwood, very sorry for your family's loss. Knowing it's coming doesn't make it any easier upon arrival.

Timelies all!

Had a crown put on today.(actually, a temporary crown. I have to go back in two weeks for the permanent one) I took the rest of the day off since I figured I'd either have have my face feeling numb, or my jaw would be aching all day. Then I managed to smack my knee hard on the doorframe coming in, and no, I'm not sure how I did that one. Now it hurts.

I got some good news over the weekend. Two of my best friends, a couple, are expecting. The wife is four months pregnant. I'd love some general first-pregnancy-mah, as I guess they've been trying and had a complication last year.

I'm so not a kid person, but for some reason I'm kinda psyched about this. More than with any of my sister's pregnancies, quite honestly, but most of those happened at absolutely the wrong age (I was 8 when the first of the eventual eight niece/nephews were born, and the next six were within five years of the first, so this was during pre-teen/teendom - not the best time to have to learn to share your siblings' affections when you've been the baby of the family up to then).

The father of a friend of my sister's was voted into government in India, but didn't move into the official residence since monkeys had the run of the place.

Now, that's a third world problem.

The father of a friend of my sister's was voted into government in India, but didn't move into the official residence since monkeys had the run of the place.

You'd think they'd have monkey exterminators for that sort of thing.

Being India, "extermination" isn't an option.

There's a cool documentary called Cheeky Monkeys that shows up on Animal Planet et al -- it's about urban monkeys in Capetown, SA. Not only are they genuinely cleverer than raccoons, they have real opposable thumbs AND they will travel in groups of 10-40. And the monkey 'troops' (correct group name) get into territorial fights.

I'll take a skunk anytime, please.