1. Look in the dictionary to find out what [x] is
2. ????
3. Profit

Oh, that's damn funny!

Too bad the kid isn't working to his/her potential....

How are half-sour pickles not dill? Aren't they just in the brine for less time and retain their crispyness because of this?

The crispness is because of the time thing, but they also use different brine recipes -- half sour brines have lots of salt and garlic and onion; dills have dill.

No one liked my baseball golfing at work? Sad now.

I loved it. Genius.

Also loved Trudy's zen bartender.

Happy birthday, Mal!

Team Zmayhem has two (count 'em, 2!) working computers now. Hence JZ tapping away at home and me tapping away at a cafe in Berkeley bogarting WiFi from a nearby Staples.

JZ's got a follow-up interview today, and I have to do an outline for my new proposed book over the weekend (which should result in me getting a contract). Saturday is the baseball parade and opening day ceremonies (which will include Emmett getting an individual introduction as a member of the District Champ all-star team), our second game (we played an official game a week before Opening Day), and team pictures. Matilda will be busy eating raisins, doing her inimitable head-bobbing dance to any music with any rhythmic thrust and dragging books to us for to be read.

No one liked my baseball golfing at work?

I did!

Trudy, I aspire to that level of Zen in bartending.

We have a company dinner (belated holiday party) at Yoshi's San Francisco tonight. I expect to be stuffed with sushi until I roll home. Nomnomnom.

Too bad the kid isn't working to his/her potential....

I don't know - I think they're achieving their potential in smartassery.

Although of course I wish he were concerned enough to actually get the notes, I rather like his lack of concern about getting it wrong. "Hmm, I don't know this one. How can I make Ms. [Me] laugh?"

ETA: I wrote, "If you were graded on wit, you'd get an A from me. Alas... -4."

Aren't Australian opossums different from the North American kind?

Yes, they are upside down.

"Hmm, I don't know this one. How can I make Ms. [Me] laugh?"

Hee. I know that mindset well.

I wrote, "If you were graded on wit, you'd get an A from me. Alas... -4."

One time I did get a +1 from the grading TA for writing something like "It must be Harvard keratin, cause Harvard keratin sucks!" Or maybe it was for the jokes I wrote on my cell biology tests when I didn't know the answer. I know there was at least one time where I got one point of credit for being funny.

Yes, they are upside down.

But do they swirl clockwise down the toilet?

But do they swirl clockwise down the toilet?

Yes.

And they have summer when we have winter and vice-versa.

And they have summer when we have winter and vice-versa.

Nonsense. Possums can't change the weather!