Timelies all!

I know someone named Eowyn. It is her legal name, though not the name she was born with. (She changed it when she got married. I guess she figured she was changing one name, why not both)

What this has achieved is making my whole house a battle zone. We keep getting strafed by them as we come out the front door.

I'm always kind of surprised at how scary that can be. Usually they are pretty benign towards me, but now and then they look at me like they coule, if they wanted to, drive their beaks right into my brain. I don't think the one that sits and guards the feeder in the backyard realizes there's another one in the front, though.

I think >1 hummingbird falls under the definition of war.

True. The funniest bit to me is when the male hummingbirds get so busy defending their territory that the female hummingbirds sit contentedly together on the feeder eating, and the male hummingbirds never actually get to eat.

Epic Win, Win, Meh, Fail, Epic Fail.

Love. You totally need to do this.

dear people: I understand completely that you want to have conversations that others are not privy to, and I am completely fine with that. Heck, I'm happy about it, since I am trying to work and, to be perfectly honest, you are talking about things I have absolutely no interest in.

However, surely there is a better place to have those conversations than directly outside my open office door.

Also, you aren't as good at whispering as you think you are.

Ha. That's great. I am so glad to be out of an office because of my mad eavesdropping skills. I don't mean to hear what you think you're saying privately. It's just that you're Right There and I have ears.

Working out of the house, so not an issue.

But this is why you folks get hummingbird updates. It should morph into songbird updates once we get into fall, here. Heh. But really, there's very very little else going on here, other than, you know, actual work.

I keep forgetting to bring my headphones. I need to fix that.

Hilarious and disturbing photoshop. [link]

(SFW)

(sigh)

Communications difficulties throwing red-hot knives into a new friendship. Not helping: current state-of-the-StuntHusband, and craziness at work (see: Gaming thread re: "Drawn: the Painted Tower").

I'm feeling my instinctive, unhelpful urge to find a big rock and crawl under it/let it fall on my head/use it to seal up the cave behind me.

Does anyone know where to find cool, cheap license plate frames?

Will Work For Bandwidth: [link] $5

Pastafarian: [link] $15

How's this for awkward? I go to Olivia's preschool class parent meeting and run smack into the woman that DH had to fire from her job not too long ago. Her twin girls will be in Liv's class.