I'll see your 5 and raise you one.:rolleyes:

gah! even the post-whore comments are too scintillating for my brain before coffee.

I've been pleased with the story line for Chuck over the last half dozen episodes or so. It had stagnated at the beginning of this season, with boiler plate episodes, and I was considering dropping it, but the writers are really moving the plot forward. It's a fun show again.

Is that, like, the opposite of "pre-whore?" :p

Me too! I'm calling to invite potential clients to a seminar tomorrow night, but who'd wanna invest with someone as stupid sounding as me? Think I'd better take a breather before I settle in for more rejection.

This morning I was sitting with an Rx bottle in one hand, other holding the phone as I was ordering a refill from the pharmacy. A spider with a body about the size of my fingernail and legs all bent and spidery danced onto my wrist & growled* at me. After my little freak-out, it disappeared. I have showered, changed clothes, etc., but I can still feel it in my hair, crawling over my ankle, etc., and see it out of the corner of my eye preparing to spring at me from every surface.:thepain:
*Well, it sure seemed like it growled!

OK

I reckon most governments must be happy about swine flu. It really seems to be taking the attention of the media well and truly away from the financial crisis.

What I am now 99% certain is the tail end of a snake's discarded skin is sticking out from under a large mass of cement. I can see about 8" of it. I don't know if the remaining bunches of inches of the snake skin are empty of live snake, or not. I need to borrow someone's boychild, maybe 8 to 12 years old to gently pull on the tail skin and see what happens. Anyone?

I am required by law to fill out a thick questionnaire the Census bureau sent to us today. It's the "American Community Survey." 28 pages long. There are 48 questions for each of the members of the household. And the questions have subquestions, sometimes up to a dozen or so. Interesting.

How did they select you? How can they require that sort of thing?

Ali you don't get it, if no one survives the crisis is solved. :)

They claim my household was selected at random, and while there is supposedly a law saying I have to fill it out, I wonder if it has any teeth.

It asks for things like how many people live here, number of rooms in the house, plumbing, utility bills in previous year, and even my income. It will take a while to fill out if I have to look up all that stuff.

I'll fill it out though. I'm usually pretty obedient that way. Besides, they use it to allocate resources, so in theory, it's important that I get counted so the schools and stuff get federal money.

Not sure what thread to put this in, but my mom just emailed me to tell me that she has made contact with my long-lost brother, who she gave up at birth. He lives a few miles away and his name is Bob.