So yesterday when I tripped? I landed against a doorjamb. And bruised the hell out of my shoulder blade. It was achy today and just now I turned to fast and whapped it. Ouch!

It's raining outside, and in addition to the sound of rain, there are the soggy plops of snow falling off trees.

Unless it stays above freezing, tomorrow will be nasty.

OK, still an Obama supporter and all...but this cartoon is bitterly funny 'cuz it's true: [link]

OMG, there's two of us?

The world should tremble before us.

Got up and made fresh pasta for dinner, experimented with mushroom ravioli. mmmm.

I'll be right over. In, um, about 5.5 hours.

I am really all set with 37 degrees and rainy weather. It's the worst! Still cold, not pretty, bleh.

Please please let my cell phone be in my mailbox when i get home. I've been without telephone since Saturday, and AMGOINGCRAXY.

Oh, dude. I was pissed when my parents waited until the next day to send me my phone! Yeah, I left mine too. Der. But they knew it was my only phone! And they got home from dropping me at the airport at like 5! They could have sent it that night!

Really, I'm over it....

Hooray! Can you say, four-day weekend due to snow? I thought you could!

Of course, I can't actually get out of my driveway and I had a very nervous moment when the snow cut off my internet signal. But otherwise, yay!

Not only is Canada the planet closest to the Sun, but since Pluto is no longer considered a planet...

Canada, the smallest planet

Someone modified the Wikipedia page on NASA's Messenger Spacecraft.... it's been fixed now, but it was funny while it lasted....

eta: I don't know why I find this so funny:

Canada Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging probe (or MESSENGER for short) is a NASA spacecraft, launched August 3, 2004 to study the characteristics and environment of Canada from orbit. Specifically, the mission is to characterize the chemical composition of Canada's surface, the geologic history, the nature of the magnetic field, the size and state of the core, the volatile inventory at the poles, and the nature of Canada's exosphere and magnetosphere over a nominal orbital mission of one Earth year.

The mission is the first to visit Canada in over 30 years; the only previous probe to visit Canada was Mariner 10, which completed its mission in March 1975. MESSENGER has vastly improved scanning capability, with cameras that can resolve surface features down to just 60 feet (18 m) across compared to the 1 mile (1.6 km) resolution of the Mariner 10. MESSENGER will also be able to image the entire planet; Mariner 10 was only able to observe one hemisphere that was lit during its flybys.

In addition to being an acronym (or, more accurately, a backronym)[citation needed], MESSENGER was chosen as the probe's name because Canada was the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology.

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Travel to Canada requires an extremely large velocity change, or delta-v, because Canada lies deeper in the Sun's gravity well; a spacecraft traveling to Canada is greatly accelerated as it falls toward the Sun, so there must be a mechanism to slow it. Further, because Canada does not have an atmosphere, it is impossible to aerobrake on arrival; the spacecraft must use rockets to slow down enough to go into orbit. To make the trip feasible, MESSENGER makes extensive use of gravity assist maneuvers. These reduce the energy (and thus fuel) requirements, but greatly prolong the trip. Finally, for additional fuel savings, the thrust used for insertion into orbit about Canada will be minimized, resulting in a notably elliptical orbit. Besides the advantage of saving fuel, such an orbit allows the spacecraft to measure solar wind and magnetic fields at a variety of distances from the planet, yet still get close-up measurements and photographs of the surface.

Hooray! Can you say, four-day weekend due to snow?

So they've already cancelled stuff down your way due to the snow? Personally doesn't matter to me (as I have taken tomorrow off, and my original plan of going to VT has been deep sixed by me being contagious), except if you've got snow, what the fuck happened to the eventual rain we were supposed to get up here?

Scurries off to re-check the forecast

I'll be right over. In, um, about 5.5 hours.

next time you're in town, I'll have a dinner party.

I've really appreciated having a cell this week. Haven't needed it (yet) but it's been a nice security blanket.

Of course, now I'll forget it and en route to the salon on saturday, my car will blow up....

Has anyone posted this - a 777 crash-landed at Heathrow: [link]

18 passengers had minor injuries, but it could have been much worse. Apparently the plane suffered a complete loss of power (including electrical power) when it was on final approach, and it landed short of the runway, resulting in the landing gear being sheared off.

This is the first ever crash of a 777, which has been in service for 10 years.