This [link] says it's "in the style of the shepherd" and is from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico cooking pork as they had cooked lamb back home.

Timelies all!

Just once I would like a night with no interrupted sleep. This time it was Gary getting up at 4 to use the bathroom. Fell right back asleep. but still...

Laura, if you don't know/do this already, you might want to check with your vet to see if your pets need to be vaccinated against Lyme Disease.

That is why I use my NY vet instead of the FL one for vaccinations. They don't even carry the Lyme vaccine here and I worry like crazy about that one. The FL vet suggested doing it that way, noting that it was probably cheaper there too, which it is.

@@ forever at FB dude. I have been very lax about name changes, taking actual decades to change with SS. But they all say Holt now. This was never anybody's business but my own. I may change my Real FB name to something more entertaining at some point.

Sheryl, you have my sympathy.

meara, bon voyage!

I'm sick of always being sick, and not being the mom I want to be.

My mom had to be hospitalized for nervous breakdowns twice when I was a small child. I remember going to stay with my godmother. So I was clearly old enough to remember stuff. After I was grown up, Mom told me that she had been so sedated by the antidepressants she was given after her hospitalizations that she taught us kids to pull on her sleeve if we needed something so we could get her attention. I have no memory of that. I remember cuddling up on the couch with Mom to read together. I remember going for walks and reciting poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. I remember sitting on the front steps, blowing bubbles. I don't remember it being tough to get Mom's attention. (I'm fairly certain these things happened at times when she was not drugged up) Your job as a parent is not to be 100% all the time. Your job as a parent is to teach your child how to do the best you can when stuff happens. You are aces at that.

I'm just slightly irate because I got a $50 ticket because I hadn't put the year sticker on my license plate that I got with my registration papers. The registration is all in order, and in the car, but we had such a long stretch of wet weather last month that I put off putting it on until I could make sure that it would stay dry for 24 hours, and then of course I forgot.

So all on me, but still, annoying.

I think it took 30 years for the IRS to complain that the name my mom filed her taxes under (MarriedName) did not match her SSN (MaidenName) which she had never bothered to update after she got married. She was kind of pleased with herself for, without even trying, having an alias.

That's a drag, Theo. We don't get tickets if the state computer system shows the car as registered even if the sticker isn't there, or maybe just fix-it tickets, but not fines.

Ah, man that suck Theo. It seems like a fix-it ticket is more in order than a fine.

Just got contacted about a job with Sonic. It was just a few months ago I accepted an offer (contract) and was laid off before I started. Then I turned down another offer (also contract). I think this one might be direct hire though. Not sure what to think. I just started a new job, but Sonic probably will pay better.

I'm just slightly irate because I got a $50 ticket because I hadn't put the year sticker on my license plate that I got with my registration papers. The registration is all in order, and in the car, but we had such a long stretch of wet weather last month that I put off putting it on until I could make sure that it would stay dry for 24 hours, and then of course I forgot.

That does suck. But in California you will be pulled over within weeks of an expiry date on your registration, and some CHPs take great glee in impounding your car over it.

That's crazy. Here in Missouri, I'm surprised how many cars I see without plates at all. I mean, it's not like it's common, but still more than I'd expect.