This is in fact correct.

That is very cool to know.

hub's birthday dinner:

Ooo, yum.

You know I never knew Utz was a real brand until last weekend.

Growing up in PA, we could get Utz potato chips fresh bagged at the Lancaster farmer’s market. It’s still my favorite brand of regular potato chips, and I mourn the disappearance of their Carolina Barbecue flavor. That and Cheerwine used to fuel my driving stints for rugby road trips.

Used cats are good cause someone else can tell you their personality. Foster agencies are good that way.

I changed my cats’ names. Emma and Scruffy? No and no. They live up to their new names, though. Xusa is a total Russian peasant kitty, bossy and demanding affection: Bella is dainty and graceful.

Has anyone ever had any dealings with Keane, the lost property recovery company?

Yeah, they keep sending me letters about how I have unclaimed assets and I need to call them. Sounds like a scam to me.

That is very cool to know.

It is rather. I will note, however, that Wallybee hadn't noticed it before, which makes me think the 'kill' radical is contributing phonetics rather than semantics. (It's pronounced 'máng', and a number of other characters with the same or similar pronunciation have that radical too.

Incidentally, the 'heart' and 'kill' radicals are also combined (differently) to form the character for "to forget".

Incidentally, the 'heart' and 'kill' radicals are also combined (differently) to form the character for "to forget".

Chinese is poetic in ways that are totally unWestern -- that you can make what amounts to visual (nonfunny) puns with characters is so very cool.

Jesse, the digital camera is the renters' friend.

Yeah, they keep sending me letters about how I have unclaimed assets and I need to call them. Sounds like a scam to me.

Yeah,it did to me too. They sent a letter to my parents, who asked me to look into it.

You can get Utz in the paper bags at the city markets here! (um...evidently you could also get a gun until recently at the utz stand in Lexington Market.)

If Keane says so-and-so owes you money, contact so-and-so directly. You can probably get it back yourself. It can be a bit of a hassle, but you don't have to pay anyone a fee, either. I found out from one of those companies that HUD owed me almost $2000 from a house I sold in 1997. I contacted HUD, and once I proved I was me and it had been mine, they sent me the money. No middleman needed.

What day is National Writing Day?

Chinese is poetic in ways that are totally unWestern -- that you can make what amounts to visual (nonfunny) puns with characters is so very cool.

I love the way Chinese writing works. (I still struggle with listening comprehension, though I think it's improved a little with Wallybee's parents here, and I'm setting aside time to practise again; but the writing is all kinds of cool.) Incidentally, the Chinese for America means "Beautiful country"; for England, "Brave Country". France gets "Counry of law".

Meanwhile, the Yangtze river translates literally as "long river" (in Mandarin it's actually Chángjiāng). Beijing means "northern capital". Chinese makes utterly prosaic terms sound good too.

Problem is Keane didn't say who owed them money, and we know it doesn't involve the California state lost property people, because I checked there.

Like I said, seems like a scam, but Keane also seems like a legit company.