'suela, I am so relieved that it's up and been fixed. I will be absolutely homicidal if a vet just happens to turn up who has that lighthouse experience required. HOMICIDAL.

I always feel sorry about the retail people who have to listen to the same Christmas carols over and over.

When I worked for K-Mart back in high school, there was a loop of about 10 Christmas songs that played for about 6 weeks. And since it was K-Mart, it wasn't well-known Christmas songs; it was weird cut-rate songs about Mrs. Santa Claus washing the elves' boots or some such. Over and over and over.

I worked in the kids department at Penney's when the Teletubbies were big. We had a tape of one episode that we played all day for several months I thought I was going to go insane!

As for Contagion, my brother the infectious disease guru says it's the most accurate representation of ID he's ever seen.

I'm not a guru but I dabble and it's scary accurate. People think it was exaggerated horror? That was reality. So, you know, get the vax that you can. And wash your hands.

Timelies all!

After being offline for two days, am trying to catch up before I go away for the weekend.(Annual FSGW Getaway- lots of music-folk and related)

I always feel sorry about the retail people who have to listen to the same Christmas carols over and over.

yes. I worked in retain during christmas season for about 5 years. to this day, I can only take christmas carols in small quantities. And no muzak carols at all.

That sports one would make more sense to me if there weren't humans involved in the random number generation. If you can see that guy break his leg and still finish the race and think "weighted random numbers" then, yeah, sports are not your things, but I don't know how 'random' applies, as opposed to 'meaningless'. People, man. People strive, and people excel. That's never not made sense to me, even in sports that leave me entirely cold--they're just excelling at something that doesn't get my knickers dirty.

I worked at a retail video store when Jurassic Park came out and that's all my manager played for at least a week. He had 2 tapes open so while 1 was rewinding the other could be playing.

We didn't have corporate tapes to play so there was a lot of random stuff played including Red Dwarf and Black Adder. One assistant manager really liked the sound track for Silverado so that got played a lot.

Then I worked at Blockbuster when Titanic came out on video. Blockbuster had specific tapes that you had to play with previews and fake news segments. And during that time Celine singing My Heart Will Go On.

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Summer I was a nanny, the kids watched Star Wars, the Phantom, Independence Day and Jurassic Park ALL SUMMER LONG. It took me a long time to forget the dialog I involuntarily committed to memory.