No Octopus or other octopus were harmed in creating this hat.

Octopuses? Octopi? Hexadeca-puses?


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At the memorial dinner last night:
Grandpa was so glad when he married Grandma, RIP, because no man is complete without a wife.
Cousin: And after marriage, he's finished.
Me :*considers bopping him with whiskey bottle*
Me: And before marriage, he was Swedish?
Cousin: *grin* Sweedish. Oy.
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Went to a memorial for grandma and met a new relative ( Read more... )

There's construction somewhere near work. From high on the train platform, I can see part of the tall, tall crane. There must be some kind of heavy hammer attached, going tick tick BOOOMMM tick tick BOOOOMM.

I keep waiting for the electric guitar to kick in, and I KNOW it's not a concert. Still. Really great drummer there, guys!

http://www.doempie.co ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will be warmer!

But for the last few days, I've been walking around with an airline blanket over my shoulders. Or over my head and wrapped around my shoulders, because darn this October was cold
Actually, that first woman is wearing an Irish arisaid.

So, who... liberated... an airline blanket, and how did you do it?

This is so weird. Christian nation? Does that mean me and all the pagans have to move out? Jesus came from my tribe, y'all, but I don't celebrate his birthday or his deathday.
Err, which is this, again?


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Like historical fiction? Like women working the system to save the day?
Take a look at my "Word of the Empress" page, to see what it was like to live when King Xerxes was partying hard and killing Queen Vashti... and letting Haman kill Queen Esther.

On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

Right on the first point, irrelevant hyperbole on the second, according to Slatecom.

The public voluntarily funded the vaccine’s incredibly expensive research ( Read more... )

My shoulder is hauling my books home from school. They are complaining, but too bad. My anti-gravity sled is in the repair shop.
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I'm not especially tall, but a wheeled thingy's handle does not reach high enough, and I end up walking half twisted to keep control of it.

Wheeled shleppys do not work well for 1.4 miles.

Woo hoo!  Morning sessions were canceled*, and I came to work with sand between my toes ( Read more... )

So I mosied over to google maps, and apparently the Neptune to J campus-to-campus walk that I never did before is 3.7 miles ( Read more... )