A bunch of old products that contained radium: [link]

Back in the day when radium was good for you. I think my fave is the "Radium Emanation Bath." Also, the jug of "Pure Radium Water - Remedy for... Eczema, Stomach Troubles" (can't read the other thing it's for).

And the radioactive spark plugs. Oh, and if you have grey hair, radium will fix that for you. (Nope, your hair don't fall out - it returns to your natural color.)

Best of all - Radium Chocolate! (more info here: [link]

Would that sloth slounge?

Surely this is a rhetorical question.

I can slounge on bar stool, Frank. Asking me if I slounge is like asking me if I breathe or require coffee or hate people and want to stab them in the face.

Poor Sue, Pico, Josie and GC. Not a good day for kitties here.

I also find Billy Drago strangely Hot, but really not surprising considering my lust for Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler.

A new thing to call in sick for! Uncombable Hair Syndrome

Pili trianguli et canaliculi is a rare genetic disease also known as "uncombable hair syndrome" and "spun glass hair." From an abstract in the medical journal Ultrastructural Pathology (photo from The World's Fair blog):

Both inherited (autosomal dominant and recessive with variable levels of penetrance) and sporadic forms of uncombable hair syndrome have been described, both being characterized by scalp hair that is impossible to comb due to the haphazard arrangement of the hair bundles.... Most individuals are affected early in childhood and the hair takes on a spun-glass appearance with the hair becoming dry, curly, glossy, lighter in color, and progressively uncombable. Only the scalp hair is affected.

Hmm...sounds like something people would notice when you got back...

Thank goodness I finally got off my ass and finished a couple of the things I've been putting off for no good reason. I swear.

I finished what I NEED to do for today. Granted I wasted a week of my boss being out where I could have made a lot of headway on some neglected projects, but at least I am not behind in the deadline stuff.

At lunch I got giftcards for the afterschool teachers and a haircut (opinion withheld until I live with it a few days, but at least it was back down to my cheap neighhood place price level) - so my day has been super productive compared to the rest of the week.

I'm starting to understand what my boss means when she half-jokes that another coworker has a second job. She works from home, and regularly won't respond to emails all day long. I sent her one a while ago just asking her to forward something, and no response.

Is your boss her boss? My boss is on people's ass if he can;t reach them or get an answer when they put in for work from Home time.

Sorry about Josie GC.

Much ~ma for Pico.

On the ancestry front, mine is enitrely European, though some from areas that may have suffered invasions from Asia over the millenia. I do know someone who tells a family legend about a mysterious male Indian (tribe unknown) who wandered through the area, stopping just long enough to father a child on the person's great-grandmother -- creating just enough Indian ancestry to qualify for minority set-asides.