Whee! I found this by accident and snatched it up. I am old enough to have watched TOS at it's original showing. I never got into the books seriously, but I do own 4 or 5 of them -- which are now lost somewhere in my stbx husbands junk, possibly never to be found. Ishamel is a Star Trek/Here Comes the Brides crossover, with Spock being thrown ( Read more... )

Overheard on Fox News in the hotel breakfast nook -- "Now that the US is making such enormous strides in Iraq, Al Queda is reduced to trying to recruit on the internet.  Who could possiblly object to US efforts to stop these terrorists on the Web?  Coming up next."

Fair and Balanced.  Right.

When he is out in the open, Malcolm is a mild mannered, pudgy, sedate young adult (3 yo).  He is generally sweet and cuddly, although he has a tendency to push around his much smaller (but same age) sister.  However, let him get under cover (under the bedcovers, under the throw on the old recliner, under a tee-shirt on the floor) and he turns into ( Read more... )

Apparently, you can train cats. And it takes a while to un-train them ( Read more... )

My eldest fur-baby, Heckle, crossed over the Rainbow Bridge yesterday. He was 18 and suffering from failing kidneys and a failing heart. He kept losing weight, no matter what I tried, and when he had no more fat to lose, he was losing muscles, especially from his back legs. He got more and more unsteady on his feet and sometimes his back legs ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just because it's 3 in the morning, but This is oddly tempting. Now they just need to add a timer to it so you could fill it up at night and wake up to fresh hot donuts for breakfast. Mmmmmm Donuts!

I've finally gotten broadband after being on dialup all this time. I spent this weekend exploring some new areas of the net not pracically available to me before. I have only one thing to say:

DAMN, people will put ANYTHING on YouTube, won't they?

lolcats + postsecret = lolsecretz

Probably the whole world knows about this before I do, but I loved it.

I can't resist quizes!

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I have taken steps recently to fu.fill a life long dream and I find myself distinctly ambivalent about it. When I was little, every Saturday my mother, my sister, and I would clean house. I made up my mind that I was going to get a job that paid well enough to pay someone else to do the housework. I hate it and I am crap at it, because I just ( Read more... )