Shir, the best thing about that sort of storm is that it is over quickly - now it's who knows where northeast of us and we're okay.

It was moving 58 mph when it was west of me and after it went through my town - 63 mph. Fast moving storm and that was just the storm - not any tornado that may have formed. I've heard conflicting things: one that no tornado actually touched down and another that a tornado touched down in Elmhurst.

Not a big hot chocolate person, but I think it's one of those things that's so easy, I don't get why you would bother with packaged stuff.

Yeah, I mostly like it for hot cocktails. The mixes are waaaayyyyy too sweet for me.

I wonder if the front is the one that's supposed to bring thunderstorms our way today.

Oh, and that saturday morning storm that woke me up? Burned down a church around the corner from work. It was a doozy.

Happy Birthday Fred Pete!

I didn't know you COULD make hot chocolate with anything other than swiss miss etc until I was an adult. But I don't really drink it anyway.

Oh, and that saturday morning storm that woke me up? Burned down a church around the corner from work. It was a doozy.

It woke up everybody in town! I'm a little sorry I missed it.

hot chocolate

I warm up milk, then pour it over a piece of bittersweet chocolate. That's it. Best thing ever. Or are we talking about something completely different that I misunderstood?

Oh, sometimes I add vanilla sugar (I have no idea what is its name in English - this is the word-for-word translation from Hebrew. I add it pretty much to anything that has anything to do with being sweet, because I like its flavor). But I don't want this to be sweet, I want this to be chocolate-y, which is not contradictory, but also not the same.

Also, you guys have a much more interesting weather than we do. Then again, I'm glad to read y'all are OK.

Oh, sometimes I add vanilla sugar (I have no idea what is its name in English - this is the word-for-word translation from Hebrew.

It's called vanilla sugar in English, but it's pretty difficult to find in supermarkets here, and a lot of people here haven't heard of it. Usually when I buy it, it's from either a European or an Israeli company. My German grandmother used it in all her recipes, so I have to find it when I make things from her cookbook. She actually made her vanilla sugar herself, because she usually couldn't find it in stores, but I can't plan ahead that well.

Tornado siren just went off. As it always does on the first Tuesday of the month. But after last night? There was some panic.

Happy Birthday Fred Pete!

My resolve to come to work early today resulted in me walking in the door at 6 minutes to 9:00. Luckily (or perhaps unluckily), there was no word from higher-ups on the item I'm working on, so now it's the waiting game.

Um....

Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed, Russian judge rules

A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race.

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The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.

"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.

Well, maybe you wouldn't have children....

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Only two women have won sexual harassment cases since the collapse of the Soviet Union, one in 1993 and the other in 1997.

Damn.