Aw, thanks, tommyrot!
Every time I talk to someone in my church, we end up shaking our heads and saying, "It's definitely an interesting time to be a Catholic."
ICompletelyON, daily report of possible interest to Jilli:
Yesterday we went to a furniture store to get a new mattress for the guest bedroom (Matilda and I have been up in Reno visiting Nana), and it turned out to be a huge jumble store full of new stuff, books and crazy antiques. The tiny back room was dominated by one enormous, magnificent object: a glossily lacquered early-to-mid Victorian (1840s) hearse on sled runners for winter funerals, in full working condition, all the parts included. The owner admitted that it's really a museum piece, but he can't find a museum that wants it, so there it's sat in all its looming glory the back rooms of all the different stores he's owned for the past 20 years. GORGEOUS.
And on the way there and back we passed numerous cowboy bars, bars with their own distilleries, rundown motels with gorgeous decaying Atomic Age signs out front, and a retail liquidators shop whose front window was crammed with mannequin heads and dress forms. I'm seriously thinking about pitching Reno for the next West Coast F2F.
The only way your sister will get out of this is to get some major self-introspection going, probably with a professional.
Unfortunately, I don't see this happening any time soon if ever. This is just the most recent in a long line of really bad choices and destructive behavior. If I described all the men she had married/dated, your jaws would drop.
If you can normalize him with your family, that might help lose some luster on him too.
That's never going to happen. The rest of my family thinks 1) she dropped him when she found out he was married or 2) they "grew apart" and broke up which is why they never married. I'm the only one who knows she's still seeing him. And I'm the safe, non-judgemental one who just happens to live 600 miles away.
Next you'll tell me that ita ! isn't Batman.
Wait, does that mean ita ! is Abed?
Jeez, I'll Have Another is out of the Belmont, and now I read that the Car Talk guys are retiring in September.
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She doesn't like Cougar Town. Or so she says.
Eta: whoa, end of an era, re: Car Talk.
She doesn't like Cougar Town. Or so she says.
Sounds like a smoke screen to me.
For Hec:
Were the San Francisco Giants #1? « Math Goes Pop!
Last month, I posted a review of a new book titled “Who’s #1?” on the mathematics of ranking and rating – if you’re interested, you can purchase a copy via the Amazon sidebar on the right. Today I’d like to study the San Francisco Giants with one of the techniques used in this book: the offense-defense rating method.
Why the Giants? It’s really just a personal preference. For the non-Giants fan, though, it’s worth pointing out that the Giants won the World Series in 2010, but failed to even make the playoffs in 2011. Let’s try to investigate why this is the case. Baseball fans may have their own explanations for this observation, but for a moment let’s focus on the math.
Jeez, talk about going out stupidly:
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This US Army brigade commander in Iraq falls in love with a local girl, funnels tens of thousands of dollars to her family of US nation-building funds, then takes her to Montana and marries her--without first divorcing his American wife! Who only finds out when her medical insurance is cut off, because he enrolled the Iraqi wife instead.
People are amazing.
