Month: July 2006
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Beer Bottle Bricks. Huh. These would have solved a lot of the Snook’s homebrew storage problems!
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Happy birthday to my little sister, who is celebrating her 27th birthday today. It’s also the last birthday she’ll ever have without also being a Mom. (That is so weird.) I’ve arranged a little surprise for her… Later: Success! Three half-gallons of Cold Stone Creamery ice cream were just delivered to her office… courtesy of…
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Differential diagnosis… I have a suspected case of gastritis. I’ve got a prescription for super antacid and a proscription from spicy foods, ibuprofen, and alcohol. But on the upside – I’m definitely not pregnant!
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Sydney by Night. Whoa. (Link courtesy of the Snook, who adds: “Zoom in all the way and you can even see people eating in Aria.”)
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We are officially booked in for lunch at Melbourne’s Flower Drum on the 22nd, and I am getting excited. (Thanks to Michael for the suggestion!)
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10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Will Ruin Society. My favorite is #5: “Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.”
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Last week was my last pottery class, so I got to bring home most of my pots. (There are still a few big bowls left to be glazed.) Here they are:
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Beyond “D’oh!”: Simpsons Quotes for Everyday Use.
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Because I was talking about it at the Guild meeting yesterday, here’s a worthwhile blog post about the turkey slap debacle. I keep returning to the author’s description of being humiliated in school, and her spot-on analysis of the aggressors’ defense (that what they did wasn’t sexual, because they weren’t interested in her sexually). She’s…
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Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Suck! (Here Be Spoilers.)We joined Amy and Rob tonight for a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It was… eh… okay. I was entertained. There were some good fights and some exciting action sequences. The digital effects were amazing. (I love the sound the Kracken’s tentacles make.)…