Also, hi Jesse! Forgetting a book for the plane bites...especially on a cross-country!!

As a Chicago resident, I have to say that the pancake question was a pretty sick burn.

It is as if CJ knew that (I forgot). That was utterly random. Or was it...

Separately - does anyone here give their cats glucosamine chews? Have you found them helpful? If not, any suggestions. I'm worried about Miss Kitty and the stairs.

I'm loving Dear NSA.

Oh, yeah, expense report, mother fudger. I hate paperwork. Even when it gets me money.

Lisah, bask in that last-day freedom!

I give myself glucosamine chews. Okay, capsules. I think they're great. I'd give them to my cat.

I don't know whether to ask you to tell us something only the real Matt would know, or to suggest you add in a few more details and submit that to the next Bulwer Lytton contest.

Both! Both is good!

When I walked in to Joann's that day, they had 13 yards of Exploding TARDIS fabric. When I walked out, they had zero.

Now I'm seeing WS leaving Joann's in a slow-mo power walk, All The Fabric slung over her shoulder like spoils of war, while random TARDISes explode behind her.

I came in here to say something specific, but I've forgotten it.

Suzi, I started giving Harvey these [link] not quite three years ago. Pet Naturals Hip + Joint for Cats has Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM. Three years ago, we noticed he was grooming less, playing less, and even got to the point where he was not able to jump up onto my lap. A coworker bragged on the dog treats she gave a dog at another job she had, that she could see when she was not there to give 'em, the dog could barely walk but after she worked a few days in a row, the dog would be running and jumping happily. So when it was time for his annual physical in June, I asked the Vet about it. By means of watching Harvey walk, the Vet diagnosed him with osteoarthritis in his hips and recommended a dosage level of glucosamine and chondroitin. I went to my local awesome pet food store, and the clerk helped me find the Pet Naturals - the dosage of stuff did not match the Vet's recommendations perfectly but was the closest they had. Within a week of starting on these, we noticed a difference in how Harvey was walking. Within a month, he was back to chasing his tail up on the 8-inch wide ledge by the stairs. Once when the store was out of Pet Naturals, I tried a different brand and those seemed to help less. No further problems until last December, when x-rays revealed a collapsed disk in his spine - a cortisone injection got him back on his feet. At this point, at the age of 17, he walks like he needs a rear-end allignment, but by gum, Sammie wishes he would start acting his age and quit chasing her around.

Mini-meara:

Nice curtains, Windsparrow! I so get the handsewing as a better alternative than wrestling with the machine.

some nameless horror that sneaked up behind Matt beside those darkened fields and hitched a psychic ride and is now wearing a cunning Matt disguise

"Tear-assin' around town in a brand new Edgar Matt suit!" (Which is always my immediate association whenever Fisk is onscreen in Daredevil)

ASSCAP SEXPO with no food, that's just not right.

No, no it's not.

Over the weekend I heard gunshots in my neighborhood for the first time in ages.

Have I told you this story about my old neighborhood in transition? Former farms fast being converted into housing, flight paths for three airports overhead, new six-lane less than a mile away, streetlights, cats and dogs living together, etc., and between the growing Hispanic community on one side and the diehard dove and rabbit hunters on the other, well...

We now live downslope from the gun range where city and county LE qualify and train with various weapons, and still? Less gunfire than we'd grown used to in the old place. Emergency sirens are conspicuous by their absence, as well.

Woot, lisa! I woke up gasping from nightmares of standing in front of my office door, hand reaching for the knob, for months before my last day. Yay to moving on.

Pet Naturals Hip + Joint for Cats has Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM.

This is actually what I bought a couple of days ago. Miss Kitty loves them. I haven't seen a change yet but I am so glad to hear such a glowing report. She is 13-ish (I can never remember).

I need to find someone local who can sew. We have one of the litter boxes in the downstairs powder room under the counter next to the toilet. It is big enough for the box, but awkward enough that a lid wouldn't work. Instead we want to put up a curtain because they like their privacy too. Since that is in the Harry Potter bathroom, we were thinking of a brick patterned fabric. Only cats can go to track 9 3/4. I doubt this is something we can find ready made...

I am going to be really glad when this weekend is over, because all the Mother's Day ads still make me sad.

some nameless horror that sneaked up behind Matt beside those darkened fields and hitched a psychic ride and is now wearing a cunning Matt disguise

I'm sure that didn't happen. Totally sure.

Hey "Matt", I need to talk to you about some summoning spells ...

I was always terrible at remembering Mother's Day in time to do anything. My sister would always have to remind me. Now I have a smartphone that could remind me, but no need for it anymore. That sucks. I'll be glad when all the advertising hype for it is over.

I used to make a brunch for my MiL on mother's day. Some years Franny decides to make me breakfast.

shrift, Dear NSA is hilarious. Thank you!