Thanks, Ginger. Unfortunately their store locator doesn't seem product-aware, so I will email. This I will do for the tropical sweet potato, because it's so fucking delicious. I can't believe I'm under the spell of that and the plantain tart at the same time. Apparently Sandy hit crops of both foods, but I still had at least 2 plantain tarts a day, and sweet potato in whatever form I could find it (one store in the airport didn't have enough US$ change, so I took it in sweet potato pudding instead).

I had a vague idea that I'd knuckle down and learn to cook Jamaican food properly, but I don't cook any food regularly right now. However, baking sweet potatoes is nice and simple and just about my spoonage.

she married the space driving guy instead, even though he was kind of a jerk to her sometimes

Doesn't it just look like Firefly curtain fic? That's no archetype!

bt, did you click on the solo link I posted a few back? I think you'll either like it the most, or find it the most boring and redundant. I hope the spirit in which it's given helps a little.

Vortex,

I'm so sorry. I remember him too. Man.

Re: contact lenses

I used to wear them when I was a teenager, but around my mid-20s, my astigmatism became so bad that contacts don't work. This became disastrous when I went for a fitting at my optometrist and leaving his office, a contact lens slipped and tore and came out of my eye. A piece was left in! I couldn't get it after eye flushing and an ophthalmologist thought I was crazy when I said something was in my eye and thought I just needed to clean my eyelids more (!!).

2 weeks after that appointment, the other piece fell out of my eye.

The optometrist was using contact lens samples that were expired and I think that may have contributed to the contact lens behavior.

Was Mike a MoBeefer? The name sounds familiar, but it's been so long since I was in those parts.

Randomly, pretty much, I stumbled upon a fan-suggested new WW costume (in light of the really stupid Jim Lee rework, and ... whoa. I don't go around pissing in people's cereal, but part of me wants to tell him that women don't voluntarily do that, and Wonder Woman is more autonomous than most.

bt, did you click on the solo link I posted a few back? I think you'll either like it the most, or find it the most boring and redundant. I hope the spirit in which it's given helps a little.

I had not, but I have now, and I like it. "Go home, evolution, you are drunk." However, it does feel redundant. There are plenty of sites devoted to odd-looking animals (such as my sister's wedding photos on flickr). This really needs an additional reason to justify its existence. The humour, for the most part, isn't sharp enough to do so.

My preference would be for more detail. The anole entry, for instance, was interesting because it wasn't obvious. That's unlikely on a site being played for laughs, though. Another option is given by the pelican picture, which has some photographic interest. (Contrast with the blobfish, which is - in the way of blobfish everywhere - just sitting there.)

I will use this as a segue to spruik Nature's Best Magazine, which publishes some of the best wildlife and nature photography I've ever seen. [link] I feel the latest edition (Fall/Winter - it comes out only twice yearly) exceeded even its usual standards. It also has (which is what brought it to mind) a particularly striking photo of pelicans, which you can find by browsing in the gallery here: [link]

Does anyone else watch Parenthood?

is there going to be no mention of Drew and the pregnancy/abortion? So weird to have this huge issue and no mention of it.

Yeah, it was completely ignored. Granted, we didn't see him at all. But, yeah, we need some follow-up.

Helps to notice that the bag of coffee you just opened is decaf. After 3 days. Explains A LOT.

Remedied.

Stupid Target and their minimalist labelling.

Now to figure out how to get Devi out from under the bed. She was not impressed with sharing the bathroom while I showered and is in High Sulk.

Aw, cranky Devi.

I have decided to be late to work. Because my boss is out and I am moving slooooow. It's weirdly freeing!

Another round of (new!) antibiotics and saline spray (oh, that's a BLAST, let me tell you.)

If it doesn't clear up, next step is knocking her out and xrays, to check for obstructions. Like, tumor. Uhg.