You're feeling: loved

To your left: a sleeping cat

On your mind: hair

Last meal included: a really awesome omelette

You sometimes find it hard to: quiet the noise in my head

The weather: could use a bit more thunder.

Something you have a collection of: blankets

A smell that cheers you up: Festival after a thunderstorm

A smell that can ruin your mood: artificial scents (perfume, scented candles, etc.)

How long since you last shaved: 16 years (it kept growing back. I gave up. Apparently it wanted to be there.)

The current state of your hair: in the process of air-drying itself

The largest item on your desk/workspace (not computer): the other cat

Your skill with chopsticks: not as cool as my brother

Which section you head for first in a bookstore: bargain shelves!

Something you're craving: garage sales

Your general thoughts on the presidential race: overly-discussed at work

How many times have you been hospitalized this decade: none

Favorite place to go for a quiet moment: trails behind work

You've always secretly thought you'd be a good: dog walker

Something that freaks you out a little: The Cap'n Crunch mascot

Something you've eaten too much of lately: sweets

You have never been: one to let good chocolate go to waste

You never want to become: mundane

Because I'm apparently THAT out of the loop, I only just learned of the 35W bridge collapse over the Mississippi.

So - anyone who knows me, and knows I'm in Minnesota, and might've wondered... me and mine are all accounted for.

Good thoughts and comfort sent to those who were not so fortunate.

So... I don't have a TV. I'm sure I've mentioned this before. Even so, I guess I'd forgotten just how annoying the things are. Then there I am, trying to have a nice dinner with my partner at a favored hole-in-the-wall Oriental place. They have a huge flat-screen on the wall, and it's blaring.... well, I think it was supposed to be the news.

It looked like a cross between Jerry Springer and a televangelist conference. This kind of pudgy guy going into great detail on this story

I think we can all agree that this sucks to epic proportions. But... the sensationalism made me almost as sick as the actual crime. The "reporter" going on and on about how the legal system failed and the fabric of Our Great Nation is unraveling. And - I kid you not, his exact words, complete with clasped hands and dramatically upturned face - "I just pray to God
that it wasn't the eleven-year-old that was molested!"

... what... because if it was just the 17-year-old, that makes it all okay?



I think I'll just be getting take-out from there from now on, if that's the forced entertainment. I mean, if the wait staff want to watch that kind of dreck, fine... but do it in the back room.

Food and current events should never be mixed.

Pentacle Okay for Soldiers' Headstones

List of Acceptable Symbols

.... granted, you'll notice there are about a million varieties of symbols for Christianity and only one for all the varying sorts of Paganism (apparently we’re all Wiccans)... but it's a start!