Tried it. Proof will be in the swim tomorrow, I suspect.

Try it a bit (20 minutes to a few hours) before the swim maybe. Good luck!

Took me an hour and a half to do my half-hour commute this morning. Offices were closed, but I've got snow-duty (especially since boss lady was incommunicado). Saw that it would stop around 3pm, so decided to stick around and get holiday work stuff done before I tackled shoveling the walks. Boss lady swings by at 1pm and says she's done and is going home. I'm all surprised and WTF and "Okay" but she reads the first two reactions, and I have to explain that we need to clear access for fire egress, visitors, and tenants. So she stays to "help" shovel which involved me doing 75% of it while she then waited for me to clear a square foot of walkway and throwing down salt behind me, which equated to her watching me work. And then whined that we should close the grounds because this was all just a giant pain in the ass. I told her it was the job, OUR job, and since we were closed it shouldn't matter. I asked her if she wanted to be chipping ice tomorrow after everything froze overnight, on a day that we would be open.

After everything was done, she wouldn't leave, trying to be helpful and make up for being a fucking schmuck. She lingered, and lingered, not working, just watching me work, not getting any of the cues to take her leave (I was staying to do an evening workshop that she wanted to cancel, even though she wouldn't be the one running it, and would bring in several hundred dollars income to our sad budget). I've never worked with a "professional" so thoroughly disengaged from the welfare of an organisation. /tl:dr

Yuck, Juliebird. ust...yuck.

Wild rumpus just traversed my body. I should look for blood. What I get for acquiescing to their demands to go on the snowy deck. It is now cold enough that the snow crust can support Loki. That's scary icy, folks.

And it has blueberries?

Wear a muffin coat, whitey.

I've shared my sinus theory, yes? A few years ago I got kicked in the face in a mosh pit. It was dark but I felt the hot sticky all over my face... but then the lights came up it was clear. The next day, nasty sinus infection started. My pet theory is that they're shock absorbers.

I also recently got some straight tobasco on the roof of my mouth -- back towards my soft palate... it hurt like hell and my eyes watered like crazy, but my head was AMAZINGLY clear. I figure I'll try it out next time I'm stuffy.

Of the two the latter is probably your better option. :)

Who the hell is the Sheriff in Walking Dead?

Signs past bedtime, xmas shopping bedamned: Walked into the kitchen to prep the morning's coffee, do a last dish, shut off light. Instead, knock bottle of concentrate off the shelf and the lid pops off so all over the floor and while cleaning it up, knock over a bottle of (cheap, unlamented but sticky) booze.

5 am, you better be nice to me.

OK, if I were going to make some kind of Xmas dish out of roasted chestnuts and eggnog, what third flavor would tie it all together? Goose comes to mind, but presents logistical difficulties. Suggestions?

Egg nog ice cream with some sort of roasted chestnut sauce... so maybe caramel?

Is caramel christmassy? I want another Christmas flavor. Not necessarily sweet.