I heard an interview with the dealer on the radio yesterday. He didn't mention his motivation as far as I recall, just his surprise at the proper little old lady who was all "Hell no I don't want a gas card! Gimme my gun!"

ION, I knew some smart highschoolers. But none quite like this: [link]

I'm getting my hair cut and colored today too, just like Scrappy (only, uh, you know, not just like her because hair will likely stay brown and bobbed although I HAVE been fantasizing about going shorter and redder).

Do you know how hard it is to get a kid to understand how to use a straw?

ha! I find the biggest issue with the straw was getting the kid to STOP tilting the cup backwards. My sister claims her first child learned to use a straw when he was faced with a milkshake--he learned out of sheer desire. My daughter learned by watching her cousins.

I'm at home, the moving dude is tallying up numbers to give me my third estimate. Oh, FUN.

Need to survive the three hour layover in O'Hare first.

Aha. Me=skimmer.

ita skims the threads?!?!

My whole worldview just shifted. (I almost typed "shrifted" on accident.)

Hivemind question. Is a burst blood vessel in the eye anything to be seriously concerned about? WebMD is not helping.

ION I'm getting old.

(I almost typed "shrifted" on accident.)

What kind of verb would I be?

What kind of verb would I be?

I can think of two possibilities: 1) to slounge, 2) to porn

What kind of verb would I be?

Sloungey, smoking, drinking, slashing, squeeing.

So it's the kind of thing you'd do against the bar with a rarely seen internet friend most likely at a Con.

To wit: "I grabbed Ple and we shrifted at the bar for about an hour."

A cranky but amusing one?