Happy birthday, brenda!!

Congrats on the new job, Sue!!

Am very happy I skipped ita's link and the attendant whitefont.

Joe's mom is fine, though they don't know *why* her heart went racing at 200 bpm for about 6 hours. Enzymes and other blood work came back normal and she'll have a stress test and other stuff with her PCP.

That's great news, Aims.

So when do we find out it was somehow all your fault?

Not long before Mary Queen of Scots had her own head chopped off, she had this bone chilling silver skull watch made. The case is opened by dropping the under jaw, which turns upon a hinge, while the watchworks occupy the place of the brain.

Likely one of the earliest examples of horological "Memento Mori" (artistic reminders of ones mortality).

It is believed Mary gave this watch as a gift to Mary Seaton, one of her maids of honor. The skull is of silver gilt and is engraved with lines of Horace, figures of Death with his scythe and hourglass, Adam and Eve, and the Crucifixion. The lower part of the skull is pierced to emit the sound when it strikes, being cut in the form of emblems of the Crucifixion. The works occupy the brain's position in the skull fitting into a silver bell which fills the entire hollow of the skulL The hours are struck on this bell by a small hammer on a separate train..

Jilli, NO.

Nobody get me a freaky fish cat, mmmkay?

t Whistles casually, hides Brenda's b-day present behind back

Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000

Well, gosh, that just seems too unweildy to be useful at all.

thanks guys. I am freaking out a bit. I start the new job on Nov 13th. I don't think there's enough time between then and now to clean out my cubicle, let alone wrap things up!

Definitely don't read the whitefont, Kathy. I really, really wish I hadn't. I'm hoping for hysterical amnesia, but I fear that the whitefont is BURNED INTO MY EYES OH GOD WHY.

Natter 55: Don't Read ita's Whitefont.

I knew better. I only have myself to blame.

There should be whitefont for the whitefont. A proto-whitefont, that warns in rather ambiguous terms what the actual whitefont will be.

Sign my name on the inappropriately angry all the time list. I described myself to a new friend as tiny ball of rage all the time. Sometimes I restrain it. But really? Not that often.

Yesterday I was doing like a toddler, trying to use my words to get a handle on myself. But all I could work up was, "Angry! Angry angry angry! I am very angry! Why am I so angry? I would calm down, but I can't because I don't know what's making me so angry!" Words were not helpful. But fortunately, Douglas Adams was.

Sorry about the impending ER trip, ita. Hope it gets you sorted for a bit and logistics work out.

There should be whitefont for the whitefont. A proto-whitefont, that warns in rather ambiguous terms what the actual whitefont will be.

Something like: It involves poo. Bad bad poo. In bad ways. And (possibly) hot lesbians... but they are not worth the poo.

There should be whitefont for the whitefont. A proto-whitefont, that warns in rather ambiguous terms what the actual whitefont will be.

Well, in ita's defense, she did say it was worse than goatse