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Twitter lends itself to serious understatement.
I read Rachel Maddows tweets pretty regularly and she mentioned something about John McCain being in an odd place with a link. So I clicked over to John McCains twitter feed which says:
Had a great visit to Erbil - met with Kurdish leaders and visited the Citadel - still a lot of issues between the Kurds and Arabs.
Uh... yeah. Big surprise there.
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Help!
We need someone who groks javascript to look at something because it's not breaking at seemingly random points. Anyone ?? -
I need more coffee
All the rain recently has given my 100 year old rose bushes LEAVES! Maybe this means they'll survive the winter after having been transplanted. As all they've had all summer is a little green wood, I'd pretty much figured they were not going to last the winter and I'd have to dig them up next year ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, antisorbate , many more!
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Favorite Teen Movie?
Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.
When I was a teenager, I thought it was THE MOST romantic movie. After I became the mother of a daughter, I had a significantly different opinion. I once wrote a paper "Romeo and Juliet. Someone should smack those kids."
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Little followup
Got M into a SYP class for next week, due to some errant scholarships "left over". YAY! (and thanks Dan and Hester for the heads up!) Also told my sister with the foster children and she'll be getting a call back this afternoon to see if some of her kids qualify (also told other sisters, in case there were programs for their kids ( Read more... ) -
Pulled Pork
Made pulled pork for dinner, except I don't know how to make pulled pork. So I faked it-- did a dry rub with brown sugar, kosher salt, chili powder, cumin, lots of fresh cracked pepper. Rubbed the pork roast, put it in the oven for 7 hours at 250 degrees. Then I used the fat separator to degrease the sauce , shredded the pork, then poured the ( Read more... ) -
Long day
It was well over 80 today. Spent a goodly chunk of the day in the dentist office for the boys. P had a serious issue and will probably end up with braces in the long run, and possibly a root canal before he's 16 ( Read more... ) -
Name Dropping in odd places.
So I was talking to one of the nice old ladies who volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul store. I mentioned that they have the wrong pope on the wall (they still have John Paul II) and the lady says "Yeah, we don't have a new picture yet. That's ok, St. John Paul was my favorite. Oh, wait, he's not officially a saint yet." I said "I have a friend ( Read more... )