Alec Baldwin was on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me this weekend. And the panelists made some Harry Potter slashfic jokes.

Holy fuck, that was a big one.

I didn't even feel the earthquake, myself, which is weird, because I usually wake up around then anyway. Quakes are weird.

I saw Sparky and her DH and her little girl last night! C was quite the source of entertainment, and exceedingly cute. And I got to see Lee's new house, which is also very nice! And I shared a somewhat-successful Shaker lemon pie. (Next time I bake it longer, I think, and maybe more sugar to cut the lemon.)

I only have two days in the office this week and I'm crazy busy and I just realized I forgot to invite one of the engineers to a 9:30 teleconference. Woops!

Man, we can't find a conference call line that works well with our Indian offshore colleagues. So much noise and disturbance on this second provider.

Spider-Man tie in nail polish from OPI.

Spider-Man tie in nail polish from OPI.

Man, I like that blue. That's a good toenail color for me. And I generally don't like greens on me, but I like the lizard green (and since I am not a nail polish-ista, I have no clue about the Chanel color it's supposedly a duplicate of, so the OPI is all new and awesome to me).

The quakes that are a BOOM are a different story.

Earthquakes can go BOOM?

huddles on the East Coast

But it's different when you're that close to the epicenter.

My co-worker in Berkeley watched her Maltese vase fall and shatter on the floor.

{{Sox}}

I like that blue! I have a Nubar blue called Indigo Ocean that looks a lot like that and I love it. Great on both hands and feet.

OMG! A dupe of Peridot, aka, the only Chanel color I ever wanted to buy.

ita !, I figured that the thing existed. I'd probably seen it once and tried to repress it or something.

Oh, BTW ita--I shared one of your links with a friend who is very kinky...and she still thought it was very wrong (the dildos that should not exist). Also, I couldn't understand why they were all red. It seemed odd. Also, gross.

Sounds like the Cinciditarod.

That was it, yes! Although we amused ourselves imagining that it was just the sort of thing that happens every weekend in Cincinnati.

But, since you're always going to be cold, and you're only sometimes going to be hit by a tornado, well--the choice is different for me. The cold makes me cry. Literally. That's part of my prep for the winter. Weeping.

Fair enough. I mean, I actually like the winter, so I'm obviously going to like preparing for it more than you are. Whereas tornado season just fills me with blind terror for my life and the lives of those I love, so even if it only happens five or six times in the span of a few months, to me that's still significantly worse than being cold for a few months. But again, I also don't mind the cold, so.

Much ~ma to you, Sox, and I'm sorry things have been so hard lately.

Man, this salad was so much better when I bought it fresh last night. Wishing I'd just gone ahead and finished it then.

I guess from having grown up in Indiana and South Dakota, I'm way more comfortable with the idea of tornadoes, where you usually have a little warning and it's more likely to hit a street or two than the whole city. Earthquakes freak me out. No warning! Sudden! Could make your whole state fall into the ocean!! Especially now that I'm a homeowner--how would the insurance companies deal with that?! The economy?