I was going to ask why the Oxford comma wasn't on the list - but are we all in agreement on that one?

That's it, NoiseDesign can forget having my support for Ruler of All Things. You are entitled to your opinion but no one gets to deny anyone else the right to hammock however they wish.

I don't think we are, Suzi.

Don't forget "how you hold your utensils."

This is one of the longstanding diehard disagreements in our lives together. ANY HAMMOCK IS A GOOD HAMMOCK.

One might argue irreconcilable differences, but I say sometimes you just have to agree to disagree.

Pix is totally right and ND is wronger than a thing that is wrong

Deep dive on the Sondheim.

Nathan Lane was a great Dionysos. (At least he sounded great—I never saw the show live.)

I think if you have room for a hammock, the desire for a hammock, and the resources to get a hammock, you should have a hammock. And now "hammock" has achieved semantic saturation.

Dick's made the same announcement in 2012, after Sandy Hook, but they say this time will be different.

They didn't roll back anything - they're expanding the stance they took after Sandy Hook for all of their stores this time, in addition to raising the age.

From: [link]

This is not the first time that Dick's has made changes in response to a school massacre. In 2012, after a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dick's removed assault-style rifles from its main stores. But a few months later, the company began carrying the firearms at its outdoor and hunting retail chain, Field & Stream.

As of Wednesday morning, the company said, AR-15-style and other semiautomatic rifles will no longer be sold in its 35 Field & Stream stores or on its websites. And this time, Mr. Stack added, the changes will be permanent.

My good friend's mom is a VP at Dick's and she says this was definitely a position based on ethics and not of publicity. Dick's isn't in need of the publicity and in fact is taking a risk since a majority of their stores are found in traditional Trump strongholds. I need to give my innate skepticism a break once in a while, and I am happy to do it now.

My one complaint about my safari bungalow was that it didn't have a hammock like all the others did. (Well, okay, if you don't count the scorpion in the sink all night.)

I do like a hammock.

I like a big strong wide hammock. For about 15 minutes.

But I've been in one nice hammock and two crappy hammocks in my life. I read and sleep on my sides so they don't really work for me.

Guys, we signed the lease and have keys to the new house! We move in the 15th but I started painting the kitchen today.This also means I finally have access to a washer/dryer after two months.

So the previous tenant died young (in hospital), and I didn't hear from my landlord for five days while hammering out the lease and I was freaking out and he had a minor heart attack.

Then I didn't hear from him for 4 days and his other rental property had a fire.

IOW, I'm sageing THE FUCK outta the house after I'm done painting. The landlord is a sweet, really amenable guy, and the house is well-kept, but...SAGEING.

Thank you, Nanita. I need to hear evidence of good things happening.

My one complaint about my safari bungalow was that it didn't have a hammock like all the others did.

One of the cruise ships parked next to the one I was on had hammocks on the balconies and I was immensely jealous. I would have slept on the balcony in a hammock every night.