marylou

Okay I can only feel pity for this poor sot now.

Why does this guy insist on this sort of crap? He really does ruin every discussion, doesn't he? Back to the topic, or one of them anyway: What's the likelihood of the Boogey Man showing up at your door? Does this happen so frequently in our world that we need to be armed to deal with it? I've been burglarized a couple of times and the like, and it's really nothing more than an inconvenicence, and nothing a gun would have helped with anyway. Even if I had walked in on the burglars, there's no way in hell I'd have shot them. Get real!

I live in Ballard and it is not so scary as to make me think I need to arm myself against the Boogey Man, who is going to come to my house and do lots of bad things. Where do people get these ideas about needing to protect themselves and their families against the Boogey Man, anyway? Seriously!

Leave me out of this.

Well, yes, this is a universal truth. Try the curry though, seriously.

Don't go skiing in the rain. DUH!

I saw on the news the other night that Darrington is being considered for a new NASCAR racetrack. Thoughts?

Butter, salt, and CURRY. Yum, baby, yum. Use a good dried curry. I use "Sun Brand Madras Curry Powder" which I think to be the best of its type.

The worst part is, it *should* have been a halfway pretty decent movie.

Correctamundo on the roasting versus slicing and soaking of the eggplant for the Baba. Incorrectamundo on the notion of soaking in salt water overnight. Why on earth would you do that? Ditto that on my personal thoughts on bolting.

Not unless of course that middle class white person happens to be female, homosexual, or handicapped, to give a few examples.

Actually just slice peel and salt, let stand in colander 30 mins, rinse. Moussaka.

anyone still awake?

Sphinx, what if it's in a place that is not a real campground? Does it count then? Sometimes I go places where they don't have an actual Campground Host....but it's vewwy skeewwy, and you have to go poop in the woods. Sleeping in ALL of your clothes is not better than sleeping in a CLEAN single layer of clothing. Doy. PPS. Iodine doesn't do the trick! Do your damn homework!

Assparrots unite!

Now I'm no alpinist, just a regular girl, but I've been lightening and lightening for the last few years, and I've learned a couple of things: Taking a lighter sleeping bag rated *right* at the temps you might encounter will lead you to freeze your butt off. I had a few shivery cold nights this year by trying to save a little weight on my choice of bag. Maybe it's because we women don't stay as warm as men, I don't know, but I'm starting to rethink that part of the system. Last night I slept under the stars in a 10 degree bag and the weight savings versus a tent was a good thing. It was a synthetic bag and only for one night so it was a good way to try that out. Wasn't half as bad as I expected, and it was a little chilly last night. Hats and gloves are way lighter than coats. I think a Primaloft vest might also be a good addition. Food always weighs too much. I wish food could both taste good and be light. A water filter weighs the same as a half liter of water. Even if you never get sick from Giardia, if you carry it, you spread it. Same with dogs, though if you bring them in the backcountry they are going to get into the water no matter what. Softshell stuff makes a reasonable sub for rain gear if you don't expect a lot. They make a lot of stuff out of softshell fabrics these days other than coats.

You know, if I didn't have real parents, those two did do some pretty incredible things! I'd be proud to call Jim and Bets P and M.

37 minutes in to my birthday. Oh yeah, and what'shisname got some Democrats wearing turbans in his avatarpictureguy. Let the festivities begin.

Long day of being berated by a hack, made the entire department cranky. Show opening tonight, as usual under a bit of pressure to get it all finished. Day ended with me hauling ass to get one last project done shortly before curtain, at the behest of the road guy, just to be berated by the local lead for basically working hard and doing a good job. Been through a lot with the hack, but felt today that enough is enough and I don't really want to do the guy any favors. Put this in a context of a live performance though, and no matter how you feel, a show is a collaborative effort, so if you are a pro, you always come back to the fact that the show, to be the best it can be on any given day, has to get the best work you can throw at it. That is what it takes. So, at the end of my day, I felt a little philosophical about the whole thing. The guy is still a hack, and we still have a show to do. Just the way it is some days.

in order, all work related Binky Spike Cupcake All stagehands seem to have stupid nicknames. I can tell many entire stories about dumb backstage antics that never use the names Mommas gave us.

chattertime!

Does this mean you consider the occupation of Iraq by the US to be "nation building"? That's simply not what it could be....in the 2000 presidential debates, George W. Bush repeatedly ripped the Clinton-Gore foreign policy record. In Boston on Oct. 3, he declared that he and Al Gore "have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation-building." And what was Bush for instead? "I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place." And so, he continued, his focus wouldn't be nation-building but rather "rebuilding the military power."

Hm, that reminds me of the beers we stashed four days earlier in the Miller River the other weekend....came back to find the bottles smashed by the side of the river and the beer all gone. You sure those beers were homeless...or were they just home alone?

I just got another PM from him offering me a job as speechwriter in the offices of Beck's Superfantastico HubrisCo (nicknamed the Tool Shed by the staffers)...alas, I am already employed....