Great, just got an Howler email from my mom. "And NO, YOU CANNOT HAVE A TORCH!!!"

Nah, he's off at D&D!

He goes to D&D and you get pink hair or we both get gleeful at the thought of kitchen torches. I don't think prison will thwart him from D&D. D&D will find a way. Kinda like the boy dinos mating in Jurassic Park.

does your mom lurk on bitches?!?!

does your mom lurk on bitches?!?!

Only when I link her. If she's posting on her own, it's generally Tech.

I just linked here before we got off on the "Oooh, fire and I wants it allllllllllllll" train. And then failed to scream, "Noooooooooooooo!" before she got to the fire parts.

She's totally got a login though.

She just says she won't ever come into Bitches unless I ask her to. Apparently y'all are my juvenile diary with a lock that can be picked with a paperclip and no discernible skills and she respects that. Also there are random gay, necrophiliac Mallards. Those freak her out.

hey, you still haven't seen my new house! you should come over friday night. i do not have to work. we can plot various things that would lead to calling work...and then wisely not do them.

we can plot various things that would lead to calling work...and then wisely not do them.

I hear that a kitchen torch is an ideal housewarming gift...

Totally Friday. I want to see the pad, the kitties and you.

My dad had an adorable wee torch from his jewelry making hobby. I inherited it last year. I keep meaning to figure out how to refill it with butane and see if I can bruleé with it. But I'm slightly terrified of doing it wrong and blowing off my fingers.

do need one of those clicky things. i go through far too many matches and tend to burn my fingers on lighters.

Days when parenting stresses me out:

Ellie started puking yesterday morning and had stopped by about noon. Then she puked one more time last night at 6:30. She seems fine and I have a sort of work interview in Denver in three hours. I think sending her to school is the right thing to do. If I were going to be closer, I wouldn't think twice. Joe will be nearby but will also be pretty busy today.

I think Frisco and I both had the same bug and we were fine by about 18 hours. So I *think* she will be fine.

I also have a clicky stick that has no gas, it just sparks, and it uses Zippo lighter flints. It's like 30 years old.

That's what I thought they ALL were!

Newer generations have piezoelectric crystal for making spark.

I have one of those made to spark without gas, too.

I managed to melt the casing of one of my disposable ones, once. It was knocked into the grill and I wisely didn't want to reach in and pick it out with my hand.

I'm not making the enabling easier with that story, I guess.

My dad had an adorable wee torch from his jewelry making hobby. I inherited it last year. I keep meaning to figure out how to refill it with butane and see if I can bruleé with it. But I'm slightly terrified of doing it wrong and blowing off my fingers.

Easy peasy. It's a matter of holding it with the filler port upright, taking the can of butane and pushing it down into the port and it fills like a car tire valve. If there is a display glass on the side, you can check it as you go and fill it in increments. At the very least, it will stop filling when the pressure valve inside says "whoa!"