My old, dead skittish cat, Solomon, and my coward of today, Gimlet, were both well able to squeeze their bulk under my futon frame in about 1.5 seconds.

There was maybe 4 inches of room there and they would commando-crawl all the way to the back.

If I were ever Queen of the Universe, one of my tyrannical mandates would be eyebrow grooming for everyone. You can fuck or marry whomever you like, rule your own body, worship the living Avatar of Wjjklmjnbjy in a flagellary speaking Na'avi, but you will go to jail of your eyebrow hairs are long than 1/2 an inch.

Oh, and long ear and nose hair. I have a few simple rules for my world, but they will be absolute.

Also, all citizens will be require to pay me 1 cent a year, so I can have a nice bathtub and a hot tub and I get ARC's of all books the day they are available. Other than that, I will be a kindly ruler. Unless you piss me off.

Actually, for all my faults, I can think of worse people to give god-like powers to. OTOH, now that I've thought that, that immediately takes me to Defcon 2 of Evil Overlordship.

Le sigh. My dreams of demonic dictatorly dominion are dashed.

But I retain my ability to teach alliteration.

At Meadowbrook? I've bought suits there and envy all their lanes, but not the cost. Happy with my Y for that. Though I'd love to try the 100 yd pool at Druid this summer. Just to get some color and see what it is like swimming outdoors.

I need to call the vet tomorrow, if they are open (they are at the crazy intersection on Kelly going into Mt Washington. The online autorefill program for food they are using is out of Devi food for 10 days. And I am out of Devi food. I need to see if they have spares. Ahrg.

She recovered fairly quickly, at least.

I am worried about my friend's bike shop thats down by that flooding. And my bike is there right now!

The one on Falls at the Kelly light? Yikes.

Hec, that link is AWESOME!

Cool beans, huh? I took Emmett to see roller derby at Kezar Stadium (which is basically across the street from us, and where the Bay City Bombers skated for years) when he was 2. We got to see Anne Calvello skate! And she was like in her sixties!

There's a lot of flooding around here, and I bet in Bucks Co. up by the Delaware it's pretty bad, too. It's been pissing down rain all. goddamn. day.

Perkins, was she stuck for a minute? Or just freaked out?

At Meadowbrook?

Oh that's a gray bike shop there - hope they are ok!

The last flood we were in was Isabel. Can't say I miss it.

the only Bucks Co. I know is in PA, and that's near where my stepson lives. Is that the area that you're talking about?

Stay safe, guys! I lived through the Flood of 93 and flooding is devatastating.

4 weeks of bathing and drinking out of water stored in a old pickle barrel. It made me WAY more compassionate towards people without plumbing, that's for sure.

She just freaked out, because there were maintenance men here, and they rang the door bell, and all sorts of other evil evil things, plus she kind of ran into me in her rush to get away from the evil men, and got even more scared.