There is a corner in NYC where you can sit at the window in one Starbucks and look at two others (one is a B&N).

That's like Dunkin Donuts in Boston. I pass 2 in the commuter rail station and 2 on the way to my office, which also has a Dunkies in the lobby. There's another one an admittadely large block away the other side of my office building.

I like making a house a home--but only if you define that as using power tools, arranging furniture and picking paint colors, and not as making beds, mopping floors, or cooking meals.

reminds me -- in house/library news, I've unpacked all of my fun books. I still have three boxes of legal stuff and reference books. Unfortunately, I have no more space. I'm gonna have to get more bookshelves.

I think I am good at making a house a home. I want a warm welcoming house. But it is far from the be all and end all of my existence. I just like being home. And my brains - have kept minor domestic crisises ( like plumbing) from being big problems. So even the idea that making a home = dim, is stupid.

Of course today the living room looks like a rummage sale.....

is it me, or there has been a bunch of shooting recently, or is the national news just reporting things more?

It seems like it to me too.

I'm pretty good at making a house a... what do you call it? a place where you take care of cats....

I saw that article (with both the astoundingly offensive headline and the new "unoffensive" headline). Please someone take Charlotte Allen's pink fuzzy topped pen away from her, and stab her with it.

I mean, if they have the same confidence in their pills as a guy has in a guy

I think ita's Freudian slip is showing.

Tipping: I just had a $7.50 salad from a salad bar with a bottle of water, all of which I had to fetch/fix myself. (The salad also had questionable spinich, which I'm starting to not so much question as regret) Then, I went to a counter where I paid for all this. There was a sad little styrofoam cup, decorated with "TIPS" written on it. Yeah. I'll get right on that.

Awesome doggie Fail site: [link]

I like this one: [link]

And this one: [link]

I swear, if the cat in that photo was siamese it would be a GET FUZZY come to life. The dog looks quite a bit like Satchel when he's getting schmacked by Bucky.

That's so not a left cross. A left hook, more like.

And that dog is certainly massive fail. Bred to take down lions, pussywhipped by a household cat. For shame.

Man, I just ate all of my savoury lunch. Down to the last grain of brown rice. Did I mention how much I liked the stuff? I hope it doesn't turn out to be something contributing to migraines, whenever I do my stupid cleanse and diet.