dried with big giant blasts of heat.

Do you mean "in a dryer"? Or something else? (I'm not trying to be snippy; I think that tumble-drying can shrink jeans in a way that, say, hanging them in front of a radiator can't.)

If you accelerate the jeans to some large percentage of the speed of light, they'll shrink, but in only one dimension.

Sophia, I am not sure how groups on facebook work wrt sending email updates.

when I asked where my red ceramic bowl (I kept extra votives in it) was, it was stacked up on the side of the house with the "junk."

how did I miss this?! gnome-ing, yes!

Hi Shir!

Sparky's revenge mechanism is highly refined. We do loves that. As with all the rest of the package.

Just in a dryer. Phooey. They were jeans that I got during the inbetween post-baby/pre-regular belly state, and I was hoping to coax them into fitting properly without having to go out and buy a damn belt (they're so irritatingly low rise that none of my regular belts fit). Onto the freecycle pile they go!

Yeah, I was going to say even if you hadn't been drying them, they might shrink a bit, but I always find that even if they're small when I put them on, they expand as I'm wearing them.

Welcome, Shir!

Sophia, join facebook! Play scrabulous!! The way groups work, they CAN send a message to everyone, but there can also be stuff on the group wall that doesn't get emailed to everyone, it just depends on how they're planning to work it.

Facebook can send email updates if you configure your account thusly.

If Goodwill has a sign out saying they recycle electronics, think they mean working/saleable stuff? I have a printer that won't feed from the photo tray that I need to get rid of, but if they want to find it a new owner there will be disappointment abrewing.

I was hoping to coax them into fitting properly without having to go out and buy a damn belt

Can you believe I don't have a single belt long enough to be vaguely low rise but narrow enough to fit through jeans loops? And every time I think I've bought one, something else is wrong.

I think I'm going to have lunch. This is very weird, because I've been off my feed for days. But I think this is the result of taking the anti-nausea pill and not trying to eat right afterwards. Actual hunger builds up.

Must strike while the iron is hot!

If Goodwill has a sign out saying they recycle electronics, think they mean working/saleable stuff?

To me, "recycle" says you're taking "junk" and splitting it into discrete substances to recycle the raw-ish materials.

But for computers, etc. that usually costs money, right?

looks like they're trying to recycle

But for computers, etc. that usually costs money, right?

That's what I'm thinking. I'd give more saleable stuff to Goodwill.

I'm getting paranoid about my PC. If a chkdsk operation means that the BIOS can't see the drive anymore, am I well and truly hosed? I think I might have had more than the boot partition up there, but I don't remember.

Right. There was to be food. Iron. Hot.

I wish someone would bring me hot brown rice with baked beans and a dollop of sour cream, cheese and chunks of fresh tomato.

Don't ask.