Since I am staying home tomorrow, I am going to try to make slaw (use up some mayo and vinegar), muffins (can of pumpkin and baking supplies), jello, and probably get some beans going. I think I have a good shot of getting through the canned goods and most in the fridge/freezer, but there is stuff in the pantry that there is no way I will get through, like unopened bottles of syrup and unopened boxes of hot cereal. I am going to bag stuff up in triple ziplocks, not tell the movers, pack it myself and hope for the best.

I moved a whole box of pantry stuff, including all my spices from Sahadis. I wasn't going to chuck those. I can't remember how I packed them, but I'm sure I had plenty of opened stuff, as I had the spices and my labeled plastic tubs of different grains, etc. Honestly, if it was perfectly good, not liquid, and could survive a week in a truck, I packed it. I doubt I used Ziplocs, but I might have used a bunch of plastic bags. Just pack the box tightly so stuff can't shift around.

Is this the same leak that originally was thought not to exist?

I've heard that there are now two leaks -- the main one is spilling something like 40,000 barrels a day, and yesterday they announced that another one is spilling something like 5,000 barrels a day.

But I could be wrong. Just because I have the Weather Channel on at 6:00 a.m. doesn't mean I'm paying very close attention to it.

Good luck, Theo!

I'm sure many mothers would be happy to get a Hitachi magic wand as a gift....

God, I can't even process what's happening in the Gulf right now.

So I'ma whine about the temperature in my office instead. It's normally way too hot here, and it's supposed to be around 70 today so I decided to go bare-legged under my skirt. So of course today is the one day the AC seems to be working. Brrrr!

Today's Thursday, right? I'm not loving it.

I'm sure many mothers would be happy to get a Hitachi magic wand as a gift....

From their kids? So not ever going there.

Okay, now to find a presentation to update for the next meeting.

I've heard that there are now two leaks -- the main one is spilling something like 40,000 barrels a day, and yesterday they announced that another one is spilling something like 5,000 barrels a day.

I believe the initial estimate was about 1,000 barrels a day which is about 40,000 gallons, but that's now been upped to about 5,000 barrels a day.

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Good Luck theo!

So basically, something that we are running out of and is increasingly rare is just POURING INTO THE OCEAN and POISONING IT.

Great.

From their kids? So not ever going there.

From their husbands/partners, I'd assume.