Earthquake 1: 7.0 off of Okinawa. Little to no damage, since they build solid for flippin' typhoons. I lived there for three years; first reaction: "Shit, I hope there's no tsunami ( Read more... )

The powers that be have officially decided that it's OK to let the ladies onto submarines, beginning with the larger (and easier to modify) boomers. G and I talked about this years ago after the (extremely brief - one weekend, if I remember correctly) tryout out of Georgia. While I'm all in favor of letting women fight wherever they damn well ( Read more... )

Or at least of 2010.

Click to view

1. Plain soy milk tastes like green beans ( Read more... )

Me: And the subtext is...?

Roger: I don't come with subtext; I'm from Belmont! You've met my parents.

I couldn't stop giggling for ten minutes.

Do you think it would be a bad idea to just call in sick every day of this last week so I can just stay home and skip the nonsense and pack?

Or would that fall under the "burning my bridges" category?

EDIT: Enough lectures! I wouldn't really do it!!!!

Roger and I have decide to welcome ourselves to the tiny, 98.2% white Kentucky town of Burlington by planting the following in the front yard to make ourselves popular with our neighbors ( Read more... )

Jean,

Thought you'd like to read this article about a local teacher at one of our biggest crisis schools here in town who does roughly the same thing you do.

And trust me, if you've ever had Hollyhock Hill's fried chicken, you'd know it was a helluva reward.

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!ELEVENTY-SEVENBBQ ( Read more... )

I'm probably seriously jinxing myself, but I'm 95% sure I got it.

EDIT: How the HELL am I supposed to make it until Monday (Tuesday at the latest) without collapsing into complete hysterics from the wait????