Three batches of gingerbread cupcakes; two full-sized and one mini, with lemon frosting. Nothing exciting to look at, although I did consider dyeing both the cake and the frosting black and calling it "ninjabread".

Apparently, I think this is much funnier than Spouse does.

The good news is that I can't get the system to fail.

The bad news is that means I can't test the error messages.

I am pleased to announce that Amy and I have already planned the first 2012 session Beat Lounge Yoga for Busy People class, which will start on 1/4/2012, and will be every other Wednesday night at 7:30 for eight weeks. Current Beat Lounge students have first dibs on the available spots in the upcoming class, but if there's enough interest, we're ( Read more... )

Today, two different people mentioned to me that the Pope declared that yoga is Satanic.

Well, not exactly.

It was not the Pope; it was Father Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican's former chief exorcist. According to London's Daily Telegraph, Amorth did say that “Practising yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.“*

And while I ( Read more... )

The Lion and the Viking Cat
Were fighting for the mouse
The Lion beat the Viking Cat
All around the house

Some gave them white bread,
And some gave them brown;
Some gave them tuna treats
and drummed them out of town.

And when he had beat him out,
He beat him in again;
He beat him three times over,
His mousie to maintain.

Thanks very much to DG for sending this my way.

Memo

To: Feline members of the household
From: Food person

Henceforth, a maximum of one cat will be allowed to "supervise" human visits to the powder room.

There is a time and place for feline conflict, and that is NOT it.

As unlikely as it may seem, I found a new home for the Sitcom Cheese. One of my friends graciously accepted it for use in a work-related practical joke. On the surface, I'm sure it sounds a) juvenile, and b) unfair to the cheese, but when you consider that one of the alternate suggestions involved stuffing frozen shrimp into a curtain rod, it's not ( Read more... )

Cake of Cthulhu


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For today's Elven Special Forces game:

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