Buffy ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ticklish Noah
OMG, that made my ovaries ache. I do so love the sound of giggling babies.
Fellow Florida ~istas feeling a mini F2F? (assuming this isn't the same weekend at Drama Districts!)
Orlando in January? I think I could swing that with enough warning.
I'm going to have to stop off at Just Desserts with Matilda to get an eclair of sulky vengeance, or something.
I think this needs to be created into a Buffista dessert. The Eclair of Sulky Vengeance.
Am on my way to TX to see the family for the weekend. Just for the record, there is almost nothing scarier than mac going into an airport bathroom.
Boarding in 10 min. Yay!
If I could send you a slice of the birthday cake the office got for me today through the internet I would, JZ. I think my co-workers weren't thrilled with a plain white cake instead of the gooey-fudgey ice cream cakes we usually get, but I much preferred it.
Congrats Allyson and Barb and Jilli - so many books!
I think this needs to be created into a Buffista dessert. The Eclair of Sulky Vengeance.
Oooooooo, sounds yummy. I'd eat that.
Warms the cockles of my black little heart, this does. Only pity was that my neighbor's lawn people were nice enough to set it back upright earlier today. (These are the same neighbors right across the street who have the corner lot, therefore, they felt it necessary to get two signs. The temptation to swerve, I'm telling you...)
From mac - ohhhh mom, you are SO immature.
From the mouths of babes... Oy.
Nah, the economic news has got oil speculators thinking demand will drop steeply. I have confidence that OPEC at some point will cut production to stop the free fall.
An interesting consequence: Crude oil is the largest single component in your basic commodities index. Not so surprising. So when the price of oil drops, commodities indices will also fall. Now, the Aussie dollar is IIRC the fourth-most traded currency in the world. That's way above what you'd expect from the size of our economy; people trading in Aussie dollars aren't just buying Aussie products. It's a speculative currency, is the thing. Investors view it as a play in the commodities market - because our exports are dominated by commodities. We have a lot of coal, a lot of different kinds of metals, even some gold, and we dig it up and ship it out; so our currency gets affected by commodities prices.
What we don't export is oil. We have some oil fields, but they're a lot smaller than our own demand. Nonetheless, the price of oil is dropping, and so the commodities index is dropping. And so the Aussie dollar is also dropping. We're down to US$0.654 now. Apparently the speculators haven't noticed that we don't export oil.
He learned the word immature from the Captain Underpants books, the irony it burns.