Dude, erika, that is seriously uncool. WTF, people.

I am home. My car is stil at the airport, under a pile of snow, because I was just too exhausted to deal with it, especially without boots. I'll take another cab back to the airport to get it out tomorrow.

on the free wifi at the Detroit airport. Kind of bored. The Detroit airport, by the way, is oddly vegan-friendly. It's much easier to find vegan stuff here than at any of the NYC airports.

Hey, that's awesome!

I just landed back in Seattle, around when my original flight was going to take off. So worth the middle seat, I did not want to get home at midnight. Not that I have any Valentines plans but still.

"I do have super powers. Super shedding and super naps. I have the powers of a cat."

The cat super powers should stand him in good stead. Vikings and cats go way back.

erika, there is part of me wondering how old I was when I became mature enough to realize that something like that is the opposite of cute and fearing the truth might be "older than I'd care to admit".

bonny, I hope that the fostering goes well for you, that you and Cagney get more joy than fuss and bother or heartache out of it.

I think some of us may appreciate this: The NASCAR fan at work indicated to me that he loves Valentines's Day because it means racing season starts again in a couple weeks.

More important than that, 10 days till first Spring Training game. It's almost baseball season!!!

What Omnis said. To me the start of baseball season means there is an end in sight to winter.

It's snowing again. Which means I probably ought to wait until it stops snowing, and they've plowed the roads, before going to get my car, which will then be under even more snow.

So, Ryan was feeling brave today, and we watched an episode of Planet Dinosaur. This one featured Spinosaurus, the largest dino predator known, and Carcharodontosaurus, a shark-toothed carnivore larger than Tyrannosaurus rex. Remarkable having two such apex predators coexisting in one environment. Ryan enjoyed it a lot, and spent the rest of the day telling me he was baby Spinosaurus and I was daddy Spinosaurus.

In addition to these two giants, the program also showed a third theropod. This one was still big by our standards, but at 6 metres long was less than half the length of its two neighbours. Its skull was also weak for subduing prey, so it's assumed to have been a scavenger.

Ryan asked me at this point:

"What's that dinosaur, Daddy?"
"Oh, that one is called Rugops."
"Rugops? ...Oh! [starts singing] RUGOPS THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, HAD A VERY SHINY NOSE..."

And so, to the board I bequeath the image of Santa's sleigh being pulled by a bevy of these beauties: [link]

Yeah, it's just stupid, not a hate crime or anything, so I don't feel like eating his lunch over it(it's tiring, explaining all the time, and also? I already feel like a rotten-toothed spinster already this month. Nothing picks up the spirits like "Ableism Whack-A_Mole.)