:D

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Sorry that locked thread got so nasty. I came back this morning and was shocked at a couple of the comments made. Gosh, I remember my oldest as a wee baby literally screaming at me if I didn't want to read *another* book or (by about 15 months) talk for hours about letters and numbers and take dictation from her.

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'tis the season of cat vomit...

http://www.strangerinthewoods.com/shop/lost/l_plush1.htm

This is it, though our deer bears little resemblance to its former, cutesy self. The coax cable skeleton (I kid you not) worked its way out years ago, and seams and tears have been repaired so many times it gives something of a Frankenstein effect. Yesterday it was clad in a ball gown we made from felt, and today it's going to Park Day. I often wish I'd lived half the life this deer had. :tongue_smilie:

Cheap Trick on the WTM forum. Who'da thunk it?

Yeah... dildos, vibrators, corsets... that's what you expect to read about around here. ;)

Let's try this: Scarecrows, pumpkins and ghosts on the lawn mean we get candy. Big white spotlit crosses mean we get tracts.

Then we'll all know what the deal is.

Loved this. :)

Wayne: They're some religious group that believes in just one god.

Shuster: Only one god?

Wayne: They're this close to being atheists.

:D

I rather miss Wayne and Shuster, especially now that I'm old enough to use the Martini joke.

Black Adder couldn't hold his beer.

The art of boozing he's not mastered.

And I, your merry balladeer,

Am also well and truly plastered.

Black Adder, Black Adder, a bit like Robin Hood.

Black Adder, Black Adder, but nothing like as good.

Black Ad-hic, Black Adder. I thought that he had died.

Black Adder, Black Adder. Our writers must have lied.

44-clove garlic soup... here I come. :D

A few seconds of sun, quickly followed by more soul-numbing rain (it's a special kind). And now another hint of sun... toying with me.

A pound of bacon in the fridge with today's date on it. What to do? What to do? :D

Aack!

Aack!

About to put pencils up my nostrils and say, "wibble."

After years of neglect by US West, then Qwest, then Century Link, our neighborhood has finally been upgraded for high speed Internet: 40 Mbps, here we come! Though part of me is still expecting a "Ha, ha!" call tomorrow. (I'd still dump them in a second if Google Fiber comes to Portland.)

Ah, you know about the "sock gap." :D

Ahhhhh, combining the best of all worlds: Just poured myself an Overcast Espresso Stout. Nummy.

Been listening to Lorde all morning. Just can't stop. Is that a character flaw?

Bill, have you read Postman's End of Education?

Bought a Chromecast. Three months free Netflix, even for existing subscribers, drops its net price considerably.

Bought bath towels online. My Black Friday is done.

Brave or foolhardy: walking home with three dozen eggs, leading a dog, on black ice?

Buggity-buggity bug,

Wandering aimlessly, buggishly smug.

When all of a sudden, along came a shoe,

Out with another shoe, wandering too.

The shoes went on wandering,

Left, right, left, SPLAT!

Bugs very frequently perish like that.

K. Kuskin

Clarifying butter to make the last popcorn DD the Elder will be eating for two years. Tomorrow she is getting braces.