I'm watching the Mighty Boosh backstage documentary. Charming.

I'm fighting to stay awake in the back of the studio. Please let dinner arrive soon.

I just got my Tivo working upstairs. Next is getting the DVD player to work, but not tonight. Actually I'm thinking it isn't going to work with this tv, but I'm going to try to work a miracle.

I miss my Tivo. I also miss my Kristin. Not in that order either.

I don't want to do dishes. Can someone magically do them?

ok. thanks!

(if only it was that easy)

Sparky, I'm glad it's just a cold. This extra-strength ick is terrible.

Fay, any relief in sight?

Heh, that was the crux of the Fernet discussion we had with our friends over the weekend. I guess it cured L's horrible ick.

I've found it cures just about anything. I tried to drink some last night, but it was too harsh on my throat.

Aimee, I'm sorry for your coworker. I say you hit him with the worst (best?), most painful smiting in the history of smiting. Making his pecker shrivel up and fall off is a good start.

DH had a come to Jesus phone call with our realtor.

I was wondering if she'd been impaled on the "For Sale" sign yet. I hope the mold issue resolves itself quickly.

Congratulations on DH's raise! It's always good to know one's appreciated.

MM, no killing of small children or animals. I don't want to have to kill you the next time I'm in Michigan. Dear Sister L might have something to say about that, as well. Do you really want to make two Italian women with tempers angry?

>Is that the one where Rupert Neve signed the mixing console? took me forever to figure out who it was. The whole time being "what idiot sharpied the mixing console?" Oh! The guy who made it. Cool!

::perks up ears::

Google and Wikipedia, here I come.

It might be, it's a Neve in this room.

::blink::

How? My entire family is on the East Coast or in Europe at this moment.

::blinks again::

Oh right, it's not always about me and mine.

Though I wonder why I've never heard of him. It's not like the last name is all that common.

Maria, are you feeling any better? I hope your -itises clear up quickly.

It comes and goes. I've been alternating napping with easy work stuff today. The evening's always the worst.

Rupert Neve is a legend in audio.

So I see. My surprise is that he never came up when I did the surname vanity google.

How goes the session?

according to Law & Order, men lie about their height in online date sites.... so should I be listing myself as 5'8"? No wonder I'm not getting that many pings. All the laides think I'm 5'4"

/snarky

My hostess in St. Thomas went on and on and on about that. As a matter of fact, she's so convinced about this that she's convinced herself it's all a conspiracy to turn America into a Muslim nation...that's the only reason the Muslim's haven't killed Obama, is because his "conversion" is a hoax and all part of the greater plan.

head explodes

See, this is the downside of having a female candidate competing with a black candidate. On the one hand you can say Yay, neither is a white guy! Broader perspectives and experience! Inclusion! Opportunity! But on the other hand - somebody's going to lose, and in the diss-the-opppostion fest the issues of gender and race are going to be used as weapons. Which is totally shitty.

Because this whole Muslim thing? Sure as hell wouldn't be going on, imho, were the guy not black, and did his name not sound reminiscent of Osama.

But the really stinking rotten thing, of course is - so bloody what if he were Muslim? Sure, I'd prefer that the next person to be elected Most Powerful Person On The Planet didn't have an allegiance to any religion (let's just look at all the atrocious acts that Bush has candy coated and justified with the language of faith), but if s/he were, Islam's no worse a choice than Christianity.

Apropos of nothing - I've been frequenting another board of late (God, I suddenly feel like a cheating spouse!) in relation to my whole Low Carbing thing. And it's a lovely place, but I have to say that I really really value (1) the clarity, simplicity and elegance of our board and (2) the fact that Buffistas care about grammar, spelling and punctuation. And do not resort to stupid fucking lolspeak. And do not resort to jiggling smilies in place of adequate expression.

Yes, we all have the occasional typing fuckup. No, I do not have some pristine moral highground from which to judge others' spelling and capacity to articulate. And yet - I do. I really do. Poor spelling erodes my respect.

t / awful, awful person

And, to demonstrate how utterly inconsistent I am, I must share with you the fact that my mother (whose spelling is quite as dreadful as her typing, God love her) cracked my shit up entirely when she e-mailed me about the earthquake that hit the UK yesterday, and told me that it was .5 on the Ricketier Scale.