Stupid fire alarm

Yet another reason to be glad for an Eee!  I’m sitting on the sidewalk next to a terrified kitty waiting for the fire department to come and turn off the silly alarm.  On the bright side I *did* grab my Eee as well as our Kindles, and Mike was kind enough to pour my freshly-brewed coffee into a travel mug.  Try THAT with a desktop!

Busily preparing for the Second Annual Bloggershoot

‘Cause if I can’t bring guns, and I can’t bring ammo, then I better make sure my cookies are good.  I can’t say that Mike minds my practicing . . .

Why yes, I do put chocolate chips AND peanut butter chips AND M&Ms in my cookies, why do you ask?

Fun with webcams!!

done

Why, yes, we do say greetings like Kim Jong Il.  Why do you ask??

Happy Independence Day

Thank you to those who came before and those who will come after.

Thank you to my folks, who decided to make their home here.

Thank you to the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our freedoms.

God* bless America.

*Or the Goddess, or Buddha, or Shiva, or whomever you happen to think runs this crazy world.  If anyone.  You get my drift.

Rajah demonstrates why Netbooks are cool

Because you need room on your lap for a laptop AND a kitteh.  Duh!

UPDATE: Busted!  Yes, Alan, that’s why I got an Eee

SquEEE!!!!

Like many others of good taste, I’ve just run home squealing with a spankin’ new shiny Eee!!!

SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

The best line I’ve read today

A snippet from the (fictional) romance book being written by Sanford (highlighted from the original Ace post):

“Her bosom heaved like a college freshman on dollar beer night.”

I laughed so hard a jelly bean almost came out my nose.

Oh, and what do I think of Sanford?  I pray God it gets less sustained attention than when Brad Pitt hit his mid-life crisis, ’cause I’ve had my fill of the trainwreck called Brangelina.  Seriously though — I know a lot of married couples have problems and liaisons and stuff, but if you’re MIA and you’re a governor, that is a PROBLEM. 

I think he should resign because he unforgivably neglected his job as the governor of South Carolina when he ran off to Argentina and was unreachable for days.  I really, really, really wish he would resign quickly because his selfish o-poor-me-without-my-soul-mate melodrama is disgusting.  It disgraces himself, his wife, his children, his mistress, the position of Governor, the state of South Carolina, the Republican party, and every poor sot unlucky enough be caught within range of ABC without earplugs.

UPDATE: Seems like a good opportunity to link one of my favorite funnies.  My two personal faves?  “She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.”  And “The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.”  Enjoy!

Hey, you know what sucks?

Soaking chicken breasts in buttermilk . . .

coating them with a mixture of Panko, breadcrumbs, toasted sesame seeds, Italian herb seasoning, salt, and pepper . . .

baking them at 350° for precisely 25 minutes . . .

storing leftovers-for-tomorrow in the toaster oven to shield them from your cat’s gluttonous depredations . . .

and, of course, forgetting them.

Until your husband goes to toast his English Muffins and finds them, sad and forlorn and abandoned, the next morning.

Dammit!

Sigh.  Guess we’re going to the Lissaville (Home of the Evil Conservatives) Mexican Restaurant tonight!

Things I didn’t know about the fracas in Honduras

It’s not as bad to steal a comment as it is to steal a post, right?  I hope not, ’cause this is taken wholesale from Mike Devx’s comment at Bookworm Room:

First, some direct info about their Constitution. Regardless of whether any of these articles are good ideas, they do exist:

-Article 42 strips citizenship rights from those who call for the re-election or continuing (beyond the term) of the President of the Republic.

- Article 239 not only prohibits the re-election of a President of the Republic, but calls for the immediate removal from public office and disqualification from any political office for 10 years any person who calls for a change in that prohibition.

- Article 373 gives the power to amend the Constitution solely to the National Congress, with no role for any “referendum”.

- Article 374 prohibits any amendments to the prohibition of a multi-term President of the Republic.

- Title VII, with two chapters, outlines the process of amending the constitution and sets forth the principle of constitutional inviolability. The constitution may be amended by the National Congress after a two-thirds vote of all its members in two consecutive regular annual sessions.

There’s more, too. 

I don’t know that kicking Zelaya out of the country was correct or just.  But for the rest of it — it doesn’t look like the Honduras to-do was an old school the-military-decides-to-take-over-the-country deal.

Another really bad joke

For the math geeks out there . . .

Once upon a time there were these two charming puff adders who lived in the woods.  Being faithful and romantic puff adders, they yearned for little baby puff adders to raise and love and cherish. 

Their first winter they mated under the back porch of a house.  But come spring?  No little baby puff adders.

The next year, they mated hopefully in the depths of a dry cave, secret and secure.  But come spring?  No little baby puff adders.

The year after that, they tried a den among the rocks by a riverbank.  But come spring?  No little baby puff adders.

Finally, as a last hope, they tried mating underneath a great fallen tree, a former giant of the forest. 

And come spring?

They found themselves blessed with a whole litter of little baby puff adders!  Joy!!

 

And the moral of the story is . . .

 

With the help of logs, even adders can multiply.

 Thanks Dad!