Tuesday night as I left work, it was raining, then it was sleeting, then it started snowing. I toddled off late to choir practice and found the usual suspects had only just arrived; my favorite two British choir ladies (they are sisters) were dressed in identical lavender sprigged jumpers (translation: flowered pullovers in a thermal knit). Yes, winter has officially arrived, as my ladies are very particular in matters of dress. Had it been snowing any harder, they wouldn’t have been there. They are darlings. The next morning when I went to work, the snow had thawed, then frozen solid…
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But when straight people feel the need to flaunt their lifestyle choice in front of God and everybody, I simply have to draw the line! Heterosexuality tends to lead to excessive breeding and higher rates of divorce, neither of which I think ought to be encouraged. Why can’t they just be happy comprising roughly 96% of the population, and leave the rest of us to live our simple lives, unencumbered by the burden of birth control?? Is that so wrong?? (That last line ought to be read in the voice of Harvey Fierstein.) Song: Judy Garland: “You’ll Never Walk Alone”…
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If No Icelanders Admit To Feeling Blue, Are They? The premiere of TAR showed people tearing past gorgeous Icelandic scenery and pestering gorgeous Icelandic locals for directions to Seljalandfoss (waterfall) and Vatnajokull (glacier). In their interactions with some locals in a town, Don noted that everyone seemed to be “ripped” at 7 o’clock in the morning. An old Internet acquaintance who lived in Iceland had mentioned that there are a lot of problems with alcoholism, so I wasn’t as surprised as Don was. As a Nordic country with long, dark winters, you would think that there would also be a…
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Miss Alli’s Recaplet: Well, shoot. This week’s episode takes the teams to Sweden, where they get encased in ice and then go to — I am not making this up — a huge Ikea, because that’s what they have in Sweden. Of course, that’s what they have two minutes from my apartment, too. [Eye-roll.] Anyway, a brutal counting task proves too much for all but a few teams, so most of the group winds up slapping together particle-board furniture like there’s no tomorrow. Then, the teams move on to a punishing Roadblock in which hay bales have to be unrolled…
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There is no point to this image, other than I was checking to see if I’d set up the pre-loaded div up right at Mfop2. It seemed to come over to the blog normally, so…
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I blame my husband David. And he blames Dennis.
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A man who lived in a trailer in Kent, WA had a lava lamp that he decided to heat up on his stove (probably because the light-bulb heating element was busted, also probably because he salvaged it from somebody’s trash). So he put the sealed glass lamp – it’s actually a bottle, complete with bottle-cap lid that is normally covered by a metal topper – on the burner. After it exploded (an inevitable event) he was found dead by his parents with a large shard of glass in his chest. Our Lava(TM) lamp is quite safe and still catching odd…
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One of the “joys” of winter is that not only is it bleak and cold, it’s also dark. So today, 3 whole weeks until the longest night/shortest day of the year, it’s already fully dark by about 420pm. It didn’t help any that it actually was very gloomy and overcast at 3pm today. My favorite seasons, in order, are: Fall Spring Summer Winter Winter moves up in the rankings when it’s pretty and fun, such as during or just after a good snowstorm (so long as I’m somewhere warm and dry, rather than stranded somewhere). It moves down when it’s…
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David’s been talking about doing something with geocaching for a while. Turns out there’s a very active, very local community of cachers. Hmm. Looks like fun.
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I screwed around trying to figure this out before, and then I settled for setting slightly differently colored grey borders and said “the hell widdit,” because the best method required me to wrap an extra div around the image tags. Then I realized my husband David was using the exact same method, and that it wasn’t such a big deal learning to deal with the div, as it were. So here goes. Will it work? I don’t know. UPDATE: Holy CRAP! It works! I used the same method I’d looked at before, David’s does pretty much the same thing but…