George Pataki? Really???

It's one of those "if everyone else were jumping off a cliff" scenarios, isn't it?

Love the idea of a Good Parts By My Reckoning cut of oh so many movies

I guess I could just go by the Scene Selection menu. I also want a Production Number Only version of The Mask .

Today is my official 24th anniversary at my job. My boss sent me an extremely nice e-mail with congratulations. My imposter syndrome keeps trying to kick in but my logical mind keeps countering with - if I've made it 14 years, I must be doing something right. I'm letting them battle it out while I try to ignore them.

Definitely scary, Kate--I had something similar happen a while back and it freaked me out all night (until the next morning when I realized the dude had puked on my front door before leaving!)

Ok, time to buckle down. Have done the important work, have many things just waiting on someone else to get back to me. So it's time to tackle the boring filing-type stuff. Tunes are on, and I wanna get this done before its hot this afternoon. Told myself I'd get started once I post this, and if I work until noon I can then do some other stuff I want to.

Argh. People are making my easy Mexico account complicated. Stop it, people, we want to make Latin American customers simpler to ship not more complicated!

I am freaking out. Just had Salvation Army come and pick up the furniture that we weren't able to sell. This included my china cabinet that I've been holding onto since we moved from California, hoping to have a place for it. It has been in the garage, wrapped in pads from the initial move.

They moved everything else into the truck and were loading the bottom half of the china cabinet when the bottom drawer tilted open a bit and spilled out bird seed, upolstery fluff, and dead mice. WTF!!!!! Why did we have a drawer full of bird seed and upolstery fluff? Yes, perfect home for mice, but we have never owned bird, never purchased bird seed. EVER. And, if by some odd somehow, we did have a drawer full of this stuff, why didn't it spill when we moved from the old old apartment into the more recently old apartment? WTF!!!! Salvation Army, of course, refused to take the cabinet but helped get it over to the garbage dumpster where lots of other residents dump furniture. If it was just general sloth that led to the dead mice, I'd just be embarassed. But where the fuck did the bird seed and fluff come from. Why? How? What? Why?

Suzi, it sounds like a critter got into the garage and made itself a cozy nest and pantry in your china cabinet.

You probably have neighbors going "What the hell is eating the bird seed?" and "What gnawed that hole in my couch and took the stuffing?"

I often wish I could rewind the universe like a video just to see what sequence of events lead to the bizarre thing I'm looking at.

Yesterday I found a twisted-together jumble of about five shiny-bright never-used ruined wire clothes hangars, lying in my side yard between my neighbor's fence and my heat pump, where no one goes. What the hell? Who did that, and what for, and how did it get there? It looked like something a tornado would have dropped.

a twisted-together jumble of about five shiny-bright never-used ruined wire clothes hangars

And in his underground lair a block away, Dr. Nefaria is rooting through his workshop muttering "Where did I put the Universal Discombobulation Antenna? It was just here."