Has it really been a year since I posted? Does anyone still use this or is it all Facebook now?

Sorry that I've been completely MIA on LJ. Many of my friends have migrated to Bookface, which I loathe, which meant that I'm not certain that anyone's reading these posts.

And my life has been...odd. So call me or text me if you wanna talk. I'm not online so much.

We FINALLY got around to bottling the Belly Brew ( Read more... )

Totally going to see Camper Van Beethoven in Wisconsin. CanNOT wait!

"...this is the part that never ever gets acknowledged by people who know better, even though they will acknowledge it and then renounce that they have acknowledged it moments later. We can't make people thin, okay? There's no empirical proposition in medicine that is better established than this. There is no known way to produce significant long- ( Read more... )

Welp, we brewed up a batch of something I'm tentatively calling "belly beer", as its main medicinal use will be to calm tentative tummies ( Read more... )

"If Timmy had been with a pitbull, he wouldn't have ended up in that well in the first place."

Just read this paragraph from the excellent blog theotherendoftheleash.com, and couldn't resist quoting it here. The context is the author's (a learned ethologist and scientist) response to individuals HORRIFIED, just HORRIFIED, that she's choosing to use "alternative" methods like acupuncture and chiropractic alongside conventional veterinary ( Read more... )

I've heard tell that your dog, if it is the enterprising sort, will give itself a job if you do not find a job for it to do. I believe this is largely used as a warning for people that insist on trying to keep so-called "working breeds" as lapdogs, and it's a good warning for someone that thinks a Border collie is going to have the same sort of ( Read more... )

I will probably write a really long expanded version of this at some point, but I threw this together for a friend-of-a-friend type person, so here you go ( Read more... )