It has never been a problem until now. But, when I went to get a new driver's license, they flipped out that my name didn't match my SS card even though I've gotten DLs since I've been married and you don't have to have a SS card to get a DL that I know of.

So off we trudged to the SS office who needs a marriage license. What if Jon and I were common law like his boss and her late husband?

Meara, I met a girl last night that looked EXACTLY like Clea Duvall. So much so that when I mentioned it, she told me that she had seen a picture of herself on a website claiming to be a candid snap of Clea Duvall. unfortunately, she likes boys, or I would have chloroformed her and shipped her overnight to Seattle.

OMG, so sad. But I appreciate the thought!

I worked out my one The GIMP task. That will do for today.

In the meanwhile, my brain is leaking out through my ears.

Oh dear god.

This is NSFW: Erotic Falconry

"Is that a falcon in your pants or are you just happy to see me? OK, it's a falcon in your pants."

a falcon in your pants

That seems unsafe.

Talons! Talons in new places!

That seems unsafe.

Talons! Talons in new places! [BWAHAHAHAHA XPOST]

Also, thank god for french fries. My blood sugar fell off a cliff about half an hour ago, but I am slowly reviving.

Two of you went there. I'm pretty impressed.

Not surprised, though.

Okay, I am home and have booked the plumber to install a new pump. The shop vac and I will spend the rest of the afternoon together.

How does my DH manage to be out of town for these things? During the snowstorms, he was in Vienna, and I had a new-ish baby and 100ft of driveway to be shoveled.

ION, our long national world nightmare that is World War One is finally (about to be) over!

First World War officially ends

The First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies.

The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.

Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.

The initial sum agreed upon for war damages in 1919 was 226 billion Reichsmarks, a sum later reduced to 132 billion, £22 billion at the time.

The bill would have been settled much earlier had Adolf Hitler not reneged on reparations during his reign.

That bastard!