msbelle, I think your snow days are actually power shortage days. Seriously, what's going on in Texas and NM is BANANAS. Rolling blackout because coal generators' water pipes burst, low gas pressure (citywide in LC, patchwork across the whole state) due to above affecting delivery into the state and too high demand. Mexico stopped selling them extra power because THEY were running low. Water mains and pipes bursting everywhere. Oh, and cable is going out because of the blackouts and the UPS batteries being so cold as to be useless.

It's illustrative of how fragile the utilities infrastructure down there is. This is sort of a once-a-century thing, but still.

Liese, you think maybe your propane tank got so cold as to not have enough pressure? Or a valve froze?

I find it tastes like fizzy water, not soda water to me. I like both but I can taste the diff.

Thanks. I may consider the investment.

I would totally do that via hulu.

Does hulu have chatting capabilities? I've never used it.

I told Calli we should have a watch-n-bitch.

And we totally should. When's the next episode? I'll tivo it and we can watch it with bourbon and ginger soda. Only instead of making the show itself a drinking game we can play ourselves. Every time you say, "Oh, that's totally bullshit," we'll drink. Every time I say, "Seriously? Public health in resource limited countries doesn't work like that," we'll drink. Every time one of us goes into completely inarticulate "arrrrrgh" territory, chug!

No. Just commercials that are timed differently to tv ads, so it would be hard to sinc up for a w&b on different media.

I make mine with filtered (Brita) tap water and the only hint of anything I taste is the bit I can taste in the unfizzed water. But I am totally a water snob, I know.

home improvement update:

This was the closet doors my room had: [link]

These are the new closet doors I installed today: [link]

YAY!

Oh, and the curtains in that first pic, I have enough of those for 2 double windows and one single if anyone is interested. I know we have had a few people move into new houses in the last year.

Also, the panels in this pic are available: [link] I think there are 4 of them.

I make mine with filtered (Brita) tap water and the only hint of anything I taste is the bit I can taste in the unfizzed water. But I am totally a water snob, I know.

This is totally me, except that I have a counter-top Honeywell filter. I've taste something subtle in the unfizzed water, but the fresh stuff doesn't taste like anything but yum.

And we totally should. When's the next episode? I'll tivo it and we can watch it with bourbon and ginger soda.

Well, there was one last night and I've got it recorded. Feel like leaving the compound?

Only instead of making the show itself a drinking game we can play ourselves. Every time you say, "Oh, that's totally bullshit," we'll drink. Every time I say, "Seriously? Public health in resource limited countries doesn't work like that," we'll drink. Every time one of us goes into completely inarticulate "arrrrrgh" territory, chug!

I love it!