Dagnabbit! I'm wrapping presents, and find that a stupid little statue thing I got my parents is broken. I knew shoving it in my purse was a bad idea, even after they wrapped it in bubble wrap. But I didn't want a bag! t /converation theme I think I'll still give it to them, because I think they have super glue at their house....

Oh, Prince, how far you've come and how much I miss the old you.

OK, he did keep his clothes on, but did they miss the whole silhouette guitar/phallus section of his routine??

I have a pot roast in the oven and all of my presents for tomorrow wrapped, so I'm feeling cozy and accomplished. I need to buy more wrapping paper.

Remember that guy who did that cool steampunk keyboard? (At least I think it's the same guy.)

Yep, Jake von Slat. He's a sweetie.

There's so much Steampunk stuff now, it's not quite as exciting to me as it used to be, but this is very pretty....

I am just getting tired of people randomly slapping gears or goggles onto something and proclaiming it Steampunk. But then, I'm one of the crazy people who keeps saying "Look, if you want to dress up, dress up. You don't have to pretend to be an airship pirate or anything, honest."

I am just getting tired of people randomly slapping gears or goggles onto something and proclaiming it Steampunk.

::cancels order for cat goggles::

smonster, your office bin is a webcomic?

Doh! Right, copying in my iPhone doesn't magically transfer to my computer. Let's try this again. [link]

One half hour to go...

FCM, silver fox edition:

Alan Rickman
Anderson Cooper
Anthony Bourdain

Huh, I've got nothing (and the Weather Channel says it should be icing here.)

According to the radar, it looks like you might be in merely cloud cover.

smonster, your office bin is a webcomic?

Doh! Right, copying in my iPhone doesn't magically transfer to my computer. Let's try this again. [link]

We recycle a crapload of paper/cardboard/boxes/etc. here. (And I felt that we *were* recycling a crapload of plastic until today. Damn you, Rumpke!) It's amazing how much we recycle. I think we have an actual garbage load maybe twice a month, and a lot of that is cat litter.

Lauren Graham does nothing for me. Ambrose does only a little more, not enough for bed.

M Bourdain, for the cuisine of the whole thing, C Cooper with regret, but I'm not his target audience, F Rickman.

We can recycle pizza boxes as long as they don't have food bits stuck to them; that was added when the "all plastic bottles" thing was added. But honestly, how often do pizza boxes not have food on them?

Our flyers explicitly said no pizza. So no pizza! And, yeah, there's almost always food or grease soaked in.

::sigh:: My cousin died this morning, I just read. Ten years my senior, growing up her mother was my mother's nearest sibling. So we spent a fair amount of time together, even though she's older. She leaves behind a son, and a sister and mother in her immediate family. She will be sorely missed.

I'm feeling distracted and not much like working. More FCM. Stat.

::cancels order for cat goggles::

You go right ahead and put goggles on the cat. Take pictures.

F Anderson Cooper
C Anthony Bourdain
M Alan Rickman

eta: I am sorry about your cousin, ita.

More FCM coming up shortly.