Ugh. Just went to watch Amazing Race on my TiVo only to find that the local station had cut in for FIFTEEN MINUTES of live coverage of the "riots" here for May Day. Which as I fast forwarded through, was basically "Look! Lines of cops, with some folks in black milling around!! LOOK, our annoyingly loud helicopters that have been going all day are showing you footage from above!!!" GRRRRRR.

Matt, I'm so sorry.

I was thinking the Buffy font, but I don't know -- I don't think it looks right.

Strix, speaking as someone who has a couple of text tattoos, I don't think the Buffy font would work unless the tattoo was large. All the scratchy, drippy parts of the font would just blob together at a small size.

I am personally dedicated to the "Ink in the Meat" font: [link] Ridiculous name, but gorgeous font, and works really well for tattoos.

Strix, I think the word Captain in Buffyfont would look messy and indecisive on skin, rather than strong and inspiring. I'd prefer either Viking or Cardinal off this page. I like Van Helsing and Stonehenge on the next page, too, for the one word, and the shape of the letters.

Just my prefs, but maybe you can find something that appeals there.

Earthquake in Kalamazoo?!

grr. I worked today, am on call this weekend and have already done 2 things wrong. boss is not happy. ok, must do some work to try and salvage this.

Well, the farmhouse was gorgeous, but not for us. It's been maintained, but not updated, and there's a LOT that needs to be done (foundation, roof, floors, stairs...) that's outside of our budget. But I really hope someone handy buys it and restores it, because it really is a lovely old house.

We also saw this one, which was notable for having Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty porn trilogy on one of the bookshelves right outside of the bathroom in photo 13. This was also clearly a house owned by an older couple with cats but no kids, and I say good for them with their crazy jacuzzi sex shower. (This house could have been The One, except the bedrooms were all pretty small.)

After two hours of waiting the bee that's been buzzing around my central window finally tired itself out enough for me to move it near an open window and let it escape.

This would have been so much easier if it were a wasp or fly; just spritz, swat!, and into the trash.

My parents oldest son is not going to jail. Fuck.

He's doing an outpatient detox program, whoopty-doo. He charmed the judge with a song and dance and they bought it. I'm not surprised, this is the guy whose arresting officer back in the nineties who gave him a character reference in court.

Balls.

You guys, remember King Peggy? I totally met her at the Ghanaian embassy today! (and she's worth googling if you don't know her...)