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.

Sorry for your loss, ita.

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

Awesome! My plan to become a millionaire by producing a Steampunk version of Laser Cats is proceeding nicely....

Thoughts to you and yours ita.

Thoughts with Cashmere's sister and family also.

It will be interesting for me to see how much garbage we actually produce since I haven't dealt with accumulation of trash in years. I love my trash shute and recycling bins on the floor that get cleared out everyday.

I do plan to have composting bins in the backyard though, so at least food waste won't go out like it does now.

Fluffy Mystery at Edge of Solar System Solved

Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't be there, astronomers say. And now the decades-old Voyager spacecraft have helped solved the mystery.

The cloud is called the "Local Fluff." It's about 30 light-years wide and holds a wispy mix of hydrogen and helium atoms, according to a NASA statement released today. Stars that exploded nearby, about 10 million years ago, should have crushed the Fluff or blown it away.

So what's holding the Fluff in place?

"Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explained Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. "This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together ["The Fluff"] and solves the long-standing puzzle of how it can exist at all."

The Fluff is much more strongly magnetized than anyone had previously suspected," Opher said. "This magnetic field can provide the extra pressure required to resist destruction."

I have Local Fluff... in my pants!