Hubby is very pleased with his latest pun and asked me to share. I love the man and am indulging.

He's watching some nature special, and he came back to my office with a big grin. "How is a polar bear attack like baby food?"

I sighed. "How."

"Well, a polar bear growls, so that's Grr. And he's in a cold place, so--"

I groaned. "And that's Brr."

He cackled delightedly. "Made you groan!" And went off.

And, in an unnecessary addendum, he wants it pointed out that he is on a lot of drugs.

Duly noted, Connie. "On a lot of drugs" is a pretty valid pun defense. He owes you some smooches for indulging him on that one.

ION, our pastor just dropped the shilly-shallying and beating-round-the-bushing and just out and out bluntly stated in his homily that we should all be hoping and praying for the day when the Church accepts the spiritual gifts women have to offer and honors the lifelong commitments made by its LGBT members. Which is pretty stunning, considering he comes from a very theologically conservative region and has only been in the US for about five years. And now I'm worried that one of the archdiocesan tattle-tales who periodically make the rounds of all the inclusive parishes to snitch to the archbishop's office was here today and is going to Make A Report and Stir Some Shit. If not today, then sometime in the foreseeable future, because now that he's said it out loud I doubt he's going to never say it again.

But, man, I'm glad he said it. Ridiculously, heart-burblingly glad.

I've never gotten one to work anywhere.

Huh. My sister has had good luck with them, even though she ended up with a tape deck in the end. I think she even had one working in DC, which surprised me. I've also used the technology successfully in New Orleans, but in LA I'm not sure where I'd even try and start.

That's amazing, JZ.

Good for him, JZ. I hope that sort of thing happens more and more.

bluntly stated in his homily that we should all be hoping and praying for the day when the Church accepts the spiritual gifts women have to offer and honors the lifelong commitments made by its LGBT members

Oh, that's marvelous, JZ! I am so impressed.

That's good to hear, JZ!

I use an FM transmitter all the time, but I am not in a dense market. Works okay. It's supposed to find the best frequency to transmit on with the push of a button, but I'm not sure that feature actually works. The cassette thingy only works okay, too, although I guess the shortcomings are different, so it's nice to have both options. I was able to plug an iPod cable into the stereo of the Volvo and then control the iPod with the stereo buttons, which was very nice but required a special cable and only worked because a previous owner had put in an aftermarket stereo. It supposedly had some kind of bluetooth capability, but I never did figure out how to make that work.

Talk about The Good News, JZ!

Several people I went to high school with are posting photos of their children dressed for prom. How are we old enough for that?

I've never gotten one to work anywhere. City, highway, dirt road in the middle of nowhere - IME they need constant fiddling regardless.

I had pretty good luck with mine, even in Chicago. The only place I had trouble was NW Lower Michigan. I think it was picking up Green Bay signals in addition to local ones.

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