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.
I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 61*
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 10, 2008 3:39:42 pm PDT #4033 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
msbelle - Oct 10, 2008 3:43:16 pm PDT #4034 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Congrats Allyson and Barb and Jilli - so many books!
Gadget_Girl - Oct 10, 2008 3:44:38 pm PDT #4035 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I think this needs to be created into a Buffista dessert. The Eclair of Sulky Vengeance.
Oooooooo, sounds yummy. I'd eat that.
Barb - Oct 10, 2008 3:57:02 pm PDT #4036 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
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...)
msbelle - Oct 10, 2008 3:57:36 pm PDT #4037 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
From mac - ohhhh mom, you are SO immature.
Barb - Oct 10, 2008 4:05:08 pm PDT #4038 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
From the mouths of babes... Oy.
billytea - Oct 10, 2008 4:06:44 pm PDT #4039 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
msbelle - Oct 10, 2008 4:08:17 pm PDT #4040 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
He learned the word immature from the Captain Underpants books, the irony it burns.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2008 4:13:54 pm PDT #4041 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
From mac - ohhhh mom, you are SO immature.
Ha ha ha! It's funny cuz it's true.
My current obsession is how to get to the airport on Wednesday. I want to be there by 5. So do I take a cab, which is expensive and could end up stuck in traffic, or do I take the train, which is kind of schlep and will take longer than a good-luck cab, but possibly less time than a bad-luck cab?
sarameg - Oct 10, 2008 4:34:39 pm PDT #4042 of 10001
Ahahaha! I just got your note today, msbelle (&mac!) I loved having you here. Farty McFarter.
Am trying to let go of the sheets. Took me months to decide on them. Bitter.
Have sleepy kitty. He's clucking in his sleep. I think being stoned last night is catching up with him. Devi only got stalkery for a short period tonight. Maybe shutting her in the bedroom when I'm gone is a good thing. (I had just been shutting Loki in ther.)
I want to go to her [link] guesthouse. In another lifetime, I thought I'd be her, without the shopping and blog.