The pilot of my plane tonight made so many radical last minute adjustments in preparation for landing that most of us sensed this would not be described later, in any fashion, as 'textbook'. Except possibly in the way a textbook lands after being hurled from an improbable height say into the path of a speeding train. In the resulting moments around ( Read more... )

I've almost managed to recover from what I thought was the most severe bout of food poisoning I've ever had which completely nailed me on thursday night. mandellebrotte being the awesome woman that she is has nursemaided me through the past few days as I was able to do almost nothing for myself. And now it seems the fates have decided to punish her for her ( Read more... )

holy crapola, I was just lying here on the couch feeling sorry for myself when I found out that the mega brainiacs at Loreal have invented 'pore seeking technology'! Ladies you better get your hands on some of that lickety split before the stampede to the chemists gets too dangerous. Too dangerous!! Here I was thinking that most of the time you ( Read more... )