I approve of Parisian udon. I hope you feel better before too long. Bummer about the phone.

I just dropped my Friday hotel reservation, trying to figure out how I would get everything done in time to leave at a reasonable time on Friday was stressing me out, leaving early Saturday seems way easier so that's what I will do.

It's just a power cord with a powercon connector on one end. Somewhere along the line our industry started refering to the cords coming out of moving lights as whips.

So, not the flogger attachment for a Makita drill. Which I once saw, being used, at a fetish night at Ye Olde Goth Club.

It's pork, Cindy. Don't know where the name comes from.

"Al Pastor" = "In the style of the priest" So presumably named for a priest who really liked pork with pineapple?

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.

That makes sense. I thought lamb, because shepherd translates to pastor in Spanish. It's also why some clergy use the title of pastor.

And pastoral, and pasture. That's a lot of meaning all packed up, isn't it?!

Pastoral care! (Which is not, as I thought as a child, caring for the pastor.)

Per FB the objective of Buffista World Domination has been advanced by one thanks to our dear DebetEsse. 8 lbs 15 oz!! That's a lot of baby.

meara, I wouldn't call it a bad choice. It's impossible to get a bad meal in Paris. I think it's national law.

8 lbs 15 oz!! That's a lot of baby.

Labor was three hours, and it was one day after the due date. He's a very prompt baby.

Yay, Debet!

I winced when I read it. My first was about 24 hours and the second one was 2-1/2. All it did was compress 24 hours worth of pain in a shorter period of time. Worse! That whole childbirth thing is not for the weak. Why we are not all only children remains a mystery.