That is kinda great, Jesse. I want to be your Big Boss.

DH was making fun of the President of Notre Dame for looking so happy to be standing next to Obama, but I have to say, if I were standing next to him I'd have a big ol' grin myself.

Timelies all!

It warmed up a bit today. Now it's more like typical May weather here.

Today was so long. Not enough hours.

lisah, I saw a post to the listserv about the Ride, but I hadn't realized it was your team! Cool.

That is kinda great, Jesse. I want to be your Big Boss.

She is awesome.

In other awesome news, I saw an offhand comment somewhere else about delivery.com, and they have stuff in my neighborhood! A medianoche is on its way to me now!

Hey, cool: NYC is getting a Nordstrom’s: [link]

The NCC-1701--"No A, B, C, or D" to quote Scotty from TNG--is the best ship.

Dibs on USS Defiant (NX-74205).

I hear amych as rhyming with sammitch.

I am having tv scheduling conflict, and find myself watching American Idol for the first time this year, out of indecision! My life is hard.

I hear amych as rhyming with sammitch.

Come to think of it, that's how I hear it too. Not the A-mitch previously reported.

Dibs on USS Defiant (NX-74205).

To me, the Defiant just says "tv spaceship," whereas the Enterprises (and their ilk) sorta' transcend that in their design.

Yeah, it sounds corny when I write it out, but that's pretty much how I feel....

Somewhat unrelatedly, a cool picture of the Enterprise (CV-6) taken before the war, when she was still in white paint and had her portholes (which were welded shut when war was imminent): [link]

eta: A famous still from a film of a bomb at the moment it detonated on the flight deck: [link] (This bomb was defective, and caused relatively little damage. But in the upper left, you can see smoke from a previous bomb hit that set off the powder for some anti-aircraft guns, killing about 30 men.)

::pets Jesse::

It's ammitch, of course. Add an s, you got sammich.

Um, Gunn, Moya, Mal, and the pirate the Uhura actor played in the Caribbean movies, 'cause, rowr.

Late to the couch talk, but I give a happy thumbs up to microfiber. Sitting on upholstery with a nap, like corduroy, chenille, or velvet, wearing shorts on a hot day? Misery. Sitting on a leather or vinyl covered couch in either hot or cold weather, even fully clothed? Unpleasant. Microfiber is damn comfy in all states of dress and un, and in all weathers.

One point: if you're buying a sofa with loose cushions for the back, for the love of puppies, don't buy one with knife-edged cushions. We did, and the damned covers skew and creep their way around the cushion form, and the cushions are always weird-shaped and saggy. Boxed-edged is the way to go because they keep their soft, cushy shape better.