I've got some fairly pointy tweezers, with which I tried to pull the left over bit out. A teeny bit broke off, but there is a black dot. Laga, does the article suggest that I dig the skin away to get the bits out?

It didn't say anything more explicatory than "excise" lemme see if I can find something better.

this article is a little more helpful.

and this one is kind of reassuring

here's one more

bonny, I've had to leave the head in a couple of times and nothing horrible happened. And that's weird about the Frontline not working. Iirc, Frontline works for ticks for a month and fleas for three months, or vice versa.

Lot o' help I am!

That IS reassuring and just what I needed to hear. Thanks so much Laga. I've disinfected the spot and clipped away the fur so I can monitor the spot.

Java, it is weird about the Frontline. I don't really get it...and the thing apparently being dead. Just peculiar. But I'm glad to hear you haven't had a problem with the left in bits. I'm voting for that in this case!

Does anyone remember the link to that lavender jam recipe that... somebody posted earlier today? I had it on an open tab, but firefox went funny on me at work and it's gone. I've found another recipe online, but I thought I'd like to compare them.

I think Plei was talking about lavender jam? But I'm too addled to remember a link.

I often wait until I'm on my last leg of the trip to work before getting coffee. It takes me a while for my stomach to wake up and not go "ewwww, you want to put food or drink in here?" But these days I am taking public transport--but I did that even when driving. I'm really enjoying the walking to/from the bus, though, wakes me up in the morning.

Because the 15 minutes it takes to make and drink coffee is 15 minutes I could be sleeping

Or, what Vortex said.

And count me as another one who was not real good at the adding/subtracting, but then did better with the abstract stuff--they gave us a test at the beginning of middle school, for an advanced math program (we took geometry at the high school in 8th grade), and I was very surprised to end up in the group (only girl, too).

I have my radio alarm set 45 minutes before a different buzzing alarm so that I can lie there and listen to NPR while drifting in and out of sleep

See, that leads to me having scary nightmares about Bosnia. Or probably somewhere else, nowadays, if I still had my alarm set to NPR.

it looks like I'll probably have a couple of trips to Seattle to design a show up there. I think probably January and March, but I have nothing definite yet.

WOOOT! Of course, I'm sure you meant that comment to me as well as Jilli. :)

Plei was def the one making lavendar jam.

It was Plei in Natter: P.M. Marcontell "Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter" Nov 18, 2007 9:16:24 pm PST

WOOOT! Of course, I'm sure you meant that comment to me as well as Jilli. :)

Of course I did, it was for all of you folks, Jilli just happened to be the one in thread at the time.