Once again it's time to review our talking points, goals, warnings, key initiatives, and do-its. It's more important than ever to keep a laser-like focus on our bullet points and remain at a nose-to-grindstone status. Below are some non-negotiable items from the 100,000 foot level:

• Steroid and doping scandals in scrapbooking: zero tolerance.
  
  
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1. I apologize for barely reading any of you lately. A new job and shoulder problems aren't conducive to plowing through LJ posts and RSS feeds. If you've announced something to the world via LJ that you assume I know, I don't!
   
   
2. Shoulder. Ow, still, I had to get forceful with the internal medicine guy about the fact that the pace of investigation is ( Read more... )

• Driving down Chapman in Orange today I saw a woman in a witch costume. By "witch costume" I mean the full Wicked Witch of the West outfit with conical black hat, flowing black garments, weird shoes. I could not figure out what this meant on the day after Thanksgiving in Southern California. As a bonus, the entire effect was ruined by the large ( Read more... )

This is a series of random observations or questions. They're short because my ADD-like symptoms are bad and I can't comprehend big ideas right now. Which pisses me off to no end! But anyway ( Read more... )

The dunes are on the moveIn the market tonight a sixtyish man in one of those store-provided handicap carts was buzzing around the aisles, followed by a clerk who was helping him. (They're really nice there.) At one point he lurched suddenly around a corner at me and I saw that the entire front basket on the cart was full of the largest possible ( Read more... )

• Tonight at the table there was a pause in the conversation, and berg74 suddenly turned to the two twenty-something Newport party guys sitting there and said "So. You ever been in a car with a nun?"
  
  
• I recommend guruphiliac if you like weird stories about cults and their leaders. It syndicates http:// ( Read more... )