tiredcynic:
You have my empathy, and my love for your feline friend. I hope your kitty comes through it okay. Our little ones ask so little, yet give so much.

Edited by author 11-20-2009 04:21 PM
Glad to hear the good news on the Major front--Beezer has had a horrible bunch of black gunk emanating from her nose for a while now and after my dad bitched and moaned to high heaven after it cost approx. $150 for MOT to get his shots, I dunno how the fuck I'm gonna come up with the cash to get my cranky old lady seen to. (For now I've settled for regularly cleaning it off with Vaseline, a process with which of course La Beez is utterly thrilled--for the first time in her thirteen years of life, she actually bit me the other day.)

And I sporfled at the virginal joke too, ya know.

Poor Jess, poor Major...sending thoughts their way. I'm going through the "how much money is too much, what is my breaking point" trauma with my cat right now. You feel like a horrible person even considering it, but you have to...

... and it sucks.

Thank you! He's doing as okay as he can today, but there are still tests to come back. Poor Jess has really gone through the wringer over his health lately, but not as much as Major.

I just had a nightmare about being trapped in a small town fulla Fundies (rather a flashback to living in Wyoming, that) and how one of the evil townsfolk took Sophie as a hostage until I returned the evidence of their predictably-corrupt leader's misdoings, so I'm sending {{massive hugs}} the lovely Jessica's way about now. You've mentioned Majoriam several times before, so I'm absolutely sick at heart to hear about this, and strongly second your sentiments about hoping the big guy will make it through this.

Hi, I've been caught in a time warp (which doesn't exist). Is this thing on?

Just stumbled across a long lost bookmark. And what the hell, Bill is still updating his New. Hooda thunkit.

Nice to see this again. I have to see if I can put the "new" in my RSS reader.

"Hot" is a damned fine album.

Woah, what the hell Lils. Me too!

I didn't know Squirrel Nut Zippers was a kind of candy. I'd only ever heard of the band!

New Lackadaisy.

Ew, Mouse.

I do know what's with that search string though. It's a riddle, but it's been so long since I heard it, I googled it. And found it with the simple string: "Riddle 3 people hotel bellboy" (which granted, could've produced porn results)

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Hotel Bill

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29.
Where is the remaining dollar?

Zef:

We have to pay a deposit of 5 cents on every carbonated beverage. Last month, this got changed so that we have to pay a nickel on bottled water, too--but still not iced tea, or alcoholic ciders, or...AHH, it's so confusing. We have that "The manufacturer really wants the bottle back!" thing that you have, on really the big, half-gallon bottles, and then the deposit is $1.50. It's good for the environment when people take their smelly, rank, even sometimes crawling-with-insects bottles back. But not for the guy who has to handle them! I did tell you all about the bottle someone returned to make sure that they got their fucking nickel back on, the one that included the rotting, moldy corpse of a mouse?

Lils:
Thanks! I haven't read the interview with Brain One yet, but I will do so over the weekend!

Zefster, it costs about $3 to rent a movie, the last time I checked. Of course cos I shell out $24.95 per month for my Netflix subscription, that might have changed in the interim. Here in CA we have a redemption value tax built-in with all recyclable bottles and cans.

Although it's a few years old, a friend at Twitter just passed along this article, so I thought I should do the same for my favorite Enophile. (The interview itself is great, though the intro made me go, "Jeezy creezy, and I thought that I was a wordy-ass writer? Get to the fucking point already!").

Wait wait, so what's this deposit thing? Here I have to leave a buck if i want to buy beer in a quart+ glass bottle, but otherwise there is no such thing. After I leave the buck, I can either give them back the bottle and get my buck back, or keep it and give it to them whenever i buy a new beer.

Both. I've added bunny ears and a fluffy tail to my Frank N. Furter costume.