my cell phone is dead. in my mind that means mac is sick at school and I am missing there calls RIGHT NOW! I guess I go buy a new charger for work at lunch.

Wow, Aimee, that pot roast sounds really good (in inverse proportion to it's complicatedness, as in non-)

Sparky, from even farther back:

We're hoping to send Sass to daycare tomorrow so we can do a big push on getting the last boxes unpacked at home. Perhaps we'll even hang a picture! That would mean we're picking her up and will be in the car right about the time you and Bartelby would be getting ready for your talk!

Go you with the unpacking! And smart move to have the Sass in daycare while the pushing and the shushing is going on. Must less agro and potential for accidentally tossing her out with a load of packing peanuts.

In related news, I had my very first paid doggy lama session this morning (I'm thinking of making a color copy of the check and framing it) and I'm off to do my second right this second.

Wish me luck!

Theological necessity of goats to be vetted in Fort Worth courtroom

Santeria priest Jose Merced filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the city of Euless in December 2006 after officials told him he couldn't sacrifice goats at his home for a ceremony initiating a new priest. Followers of the African-Caribbean religion consider animal sacrifice as essential to Santeria as Communion is to Catholics. Euless says the killing of goats for whatever reason would violate its city-wide slaughtering ban. Last year, the city proposed a settlement that permitted the killing of chickens - which is also involved in the ceremony and allowed under the city ordinance. Mr. Merced rejected the offer, saying that Santeria would cease to exist without the sacrifice of goats as well.

Don't you hate it when whales explode in the middle of a crowded city?

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A 56-foot, 60-ton sperm whale died on a beach in Taiwan in January, 2004. Researchers wanted the carcass to perform an autopsy and for research, so they loaded the whale onto a tractor-trailer and set out through the city of Tainan, heading for the Shi-Tsau Natural Preserve. It took 13 hours, three cranes and 50 workers to get the whale loaded on the truck. Unfortunately, on the way through the city, gasses built up to a critical level in the whale and it exploded, spewing whale guts in the street, on the cars and over pedestrians. According to witnesses, the smell was pretty bad. Residents and shop owners put on masks and tried to clean up the mess. Eventually the whale continued it's journey to the research center.

The pictures are rather gory, but whale guts are so much larger than people guts that it didn't squick me as much as I thought it would....

Even before the explosion, a dead whale being hauled down the street is not something you see every day.

Um... the woman at work is telling someone else how she now needs size 0 jeans!

The same woman who was telling you she's a 20? Is her notion of "size" something that you pick out of a hat and write on with a Sharpie?

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The same woman who was telling you she's a 20? Is her notion of "size" something that you pick out of a hat and write on with a Sharpie?

No.... this is another woman at the start of the conversation! I work with a whole bunch of size obsessed people, right next to a "Nutrition and Weight Management Center."