I'd also like to state, for the record, I'VE NEVER BEEN TO MALIBU.

Photo essay of families and their week's worth of groceries from around the world. [link]

Of course there's a noticable lack of fresh stuff in US diets.

I'd also like to state, for the record, I'VE NEVER BEEN TO MALIBU.

Are you saying that you can now set fires with the powers of your mind?

No, Sue. It's just that fire follows in Sara's wake depending on where she visits. I fear for my house

I am still at the in-laws, but am packing to go home. I am ready to go home. Home has my bed. Home has my media. Home has nice humid air, which may even be warm. My hair will be better at home. My skin will be better at home. All better.

I just have to hope that weather doesn't screw us over on the flight home.

fucking verizon

Just looked at my phone bill. 55 local calls last month at nine cents a minute. Really? I don't make calls on my land line. Huh.

I DO have voice mail on my land line. Turns out any time a telemarketer calls it, even if they don't LEAVE a voice mail, I get charged.

Fucking A.

It's the principle of the thing that bugs, not the eight bucks or so a month I've apparently been eating since I got my cell phone two years ago and stopped making outgoing calls on my landline. Oy.

May your home be better than mine, Dana.

So far on today's recovery checklist: mgmt notified of bad kitchen light (now when they get around to it is another issue, but yes, they are the ones who fix/replace those bulbs.) Happy, non-high-sugared cat retrieved from vet. Still not bleeding all over my keyboard. Found external monitor connection dohicky so in theory I can grab an external monitor tonight. Grocery list made out.

Had to park in Siberia and garage ate my free ticket in & out. However, I got a new one, so I don't have to pay, in theory.

Still behind in email work.

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instant gratification, overwhelming pleasure,

This sounds like a cat vibrator!

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So on a scale of 1-10, how funny is the pseudo-science being espoused? I'd give it a three - it's OK, but nowhere near as good as the quantum mechanics stuff I posted last week.

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