I usually don't give a crap about news reports that discuss "testing on mice", but this one has implications that are so far-reaching that it might be worth mentioning prematurely.
Richmond exemplified on November 28, 2007 at 09:20 AM
I keep saying... coffee and chocolate - they were meant to be together!
Teresa exemplified on November 28, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Hah!!
I thought I was the only one who put cocoa in his coffee. Glad to see there are more of us out there. ^_____^
Fast Eddie exemplified on November 28, 2007 at 10:33 AM
I used to buy fancy coffee, chocolate-almond or chocolate-macadamia nut until I was completely retired. Now I stir a heaping half-teaspoon measure into half a cup o' hot water and pour it into the pot as the drip coffeemaker starts.
Peter exemplified on November 29, 2007 at 12:38 AM
That looks pretty freaking good. I might have to give that a whirl.
ChrisA exemplified on November 29, 2007 at 02:19 AM
If you liked this, just click on the YouTube vid screen outside of the central "play" box to take you to YouTube, where you'll find more like this in the "related videos" sidebar.
Sometimes it seems like I have some sort of magic touch (black magic that is) with comments. I don't comment very often on other blogs but when I do, more often than not, my comment will be the last one.
Huh... and all this time I thought *I* was a comment-thread-killer, because I'd noticed the exact same thing.
Anyone else feel like they "always leave the last comment"?
Ironically, if you leave the last comment on this post, then you're right.
vw bug exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 11:11 AM
It used to be the in thing to say 'first' on a post. We should make it cool to be 'Last'. That being said...
LAST!!
Mrs. Who exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 04:10 PM
Thread-killahs unite!
Joan of Argghh! exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 06:12 PM
First! Last??
Richmond exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 09:15 PM
Okay - the dang strike out of "first" didn't work... Grrrrr....
Richmond exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 09:16 PM
Blow me... Happy Turkey Day... DickHead!!
Madfish Willie exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 09:18 PM
That would be me... as I leave this Happy Thanksgiving comment... heh.
Teresa exemplified on November 22, 2007 at 09:55 PM
Not me, there is almost always somebody coming along afterwards calling me some kind of name.
Peter exemplified on November 23, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Peter- You are really a some kind of name.
I thought I was the great comment killer...Oh and happy "Black Friday" now get up real early and hand over your cash to your local dept store, because this is the only way they can make a buck til Xmas....After thanksgiving day sale....GOD and people wonder why I hate the holidays "BUY..BUY...BUY..gimme..gimme..gimme...I'm going back to my cave wake me mid January.
Contagion exemplified on November 20, 2007 at 08:04 AM
Who would you rather piss off? Lumberjack with chainsaw (range +- 6') or fat guy who can cut a playing card at 15 paces with a gun that fires with a rock!! (range=hundreds of yards). Paper recycling is my family's business, among others. Just find other uses for wood.
Petey exemplified on November 20, 2007 at 09:16 AM
"And do you REALLY want to piss off a guy with a chainsaw?"
No - not really.
And the world needs more lumberjacks! How I love those flannel shirts and boots... ::swoon::
Richmond exemplified on November 20, 2007 at 11:48 AM
One night, I thought an angel appeared to me in a vision, but it turned out that I'd just woken up and seen you lying next to me. A very understandable mistake.
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vw bug exemplified on November 13, 2007 at 08:21 AM
I, of course did not find this so funny that my sides hurt even though I'm certain that my wife will never read this comment, and even though I'm certain that she does not know I use Fast Eddie as my nom-de-plume, and even though she has the most wonderful sense of humor, and even though she knows not this list of which you speak, and even though she would never keep such a list even if she did.
Fast Eddie exemplified on November 13, 2007 at 09:33 AM
The best humor is always grounded in truth...which is why that was hilarious!
Susie exemplified on November 13, 2007 at 01:12 PM
That was humor? I thought he was writing the script for a documentary.
physics geek exemplified on November 15, 2007 at 07:51 AM
I really liked the apology comment.
ChrisA exemplified on November 18, 2007 at 01:14 PM
[P]roducts exist for a reason, and it’s not because I’m brainwashed by corporations. I buy stuff because I’d rather pay people to build stuff for me than try to build it myself.
I wish I could find the magic words that would finally make you believe how beautiful you are once and for all. Meanwhile, I'll just keep using ordinary words repeatedly.
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Anaklets exemplified on November 08, 2007 at 06:20 PM
Do you continue to do this because you want to or because you promised yourself or someone else you would?
Also, do you ever force yourself to write one because either we (your readers) or your wife or you might be disappointed if you don't?
Actually, I wrote 365 Love Notes between July and October of 2006 when I was still working at the pizza place & had a lot of "sitting on my ass time" to play with. I planned to publish them here every day in 2007.
I started writing them again in July of 2007, but at the end of the month, I got this new job. The thing about this job is that, although it's not physically taxing, I have to stay sharply mentally focussed for the whole time I'm there, which is generally 10-12 hours a day, five days a week. Outside of that time, it's hard to find the will, much less the desire, to focus on anything at all, because I feel so drained.
I stopped composing new Love Notes in mid-August because they just weren't flowing right, and forcing it wasn't helping.
My original intent with the first batch of Notes was to publish them in a book and then buy an island in the Bahamas with the royalties, but I didn't know how to go about doing that (the publishing, not the island-buying), had no one to ask, and found that nearly all information sources on the topic dealt with publishing either novels or "how to" types of non-fiction. Self-publishing is out because I know my limitations, and self-promotion is not something I do well. So I contented myself with posting them here, just so I could have the satisfaction of letting other people enjoy them.
As for disappointment... well, there's certainly some of that involved. I've always believed I can write ANYTHING if I try hard enough, but after composing over 400 little love-bites, it's amazingly difficult to avoid repetition. Add in my mostly-missing energy level and my all-too-short time for recreational writing, and it's just not a mountain I can climb anymore.
So I'm not sure what I'm going to do after the end of the year. I may start posting the ones I have for 2008 and then start trying to write one a day to finish out the year. Or I may just let it go after December 31st. I don't know yet.
Not a very satisfying answer, but it's all I've got. We'll just have to wait & see.
Blog daddy, thanks for answering the questions. And for what its worth, I still think they should be positive loving notes if you do hand them off to someone.
Michele exemplified on November 08, 2007 at 09:48 AM
You're such a remarkable woman, I can't imagine that your equal exists in the world. Heck, sometimes I can hardly believe that there's even ONE of you. But I'm unutterably glad that there is.
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ChrisA exemplified on November 06, 2007 at 03:24 AM
Umm, maybe "Bench Never Seen by Smart Men"?
I always tell my women that if they wanna shop, they'll do it alone. Thankfully, none of my women (so far in life, & that's several) have shown the slightest desire to "shop". They've all been of my mindset--get in, get what you need, get out.
Tennessee Budd exemplified on November 06, 2007 at 03:57 PM
If I never spoke another word again, I would still tell you "I love you" every day - with my eyes, my hands, and an endless supply of kisses. You would always know that you are loved.
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Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely on electric power, blind people say they pose a hazard to those who rely on their ears to determine whether it's safe to cross the street or walk through a parking lot.
Funny how you're not hearing the self-righteous hippies bragging about THIS aspect of their green revolution.
But, what if she gets around to that "Harry Potter encyclopedia" she mentioned? The one with all the characters' back stories?
Would that be accepted?
(P.S. That would be the only kind of "sequel" I would wish to read.)
Roses exemplified on November 01, 2007 at 07:39 AM
I just wish she'd quit talking already.
sarahk exemplified on November 01, 2007 at 08:04 AM
Um, who cares? There is no evidence that Dumbledore diddled any students, either male, female or some in-between known only in the Wizarding World.
There are only two times when someone's sexual orientation is of interest to me, if that person is potentially a partner of mine or if that person has some sexual contact with my children, or now, grandchildren.
Since ol' Albus has never lifted his robes around me or mine, so what?
Peter exemplified on November 01, 2007 at 11:45 AM
Yep, when I first read that she said that, I was all like BFD, who cares? I mean, it's not like we all haven't wondered about Richard Harris anyway, right? (Who did leave the cake out in the rain?)
Susie exemplified on November 01, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Roses - I'd consider that every bit as Apocryphal as the Gospel of St. Thomas.
Harvey exemplified on November 01, 2007 at 05:17 PM
Well sure... but remember that scene in Book 6 on Page 164 where he taps his foot? He could have reached under the stall wall...
Don't you know better, Ogre! He just has a wide stance!
In all seriousness, let him be gay. What's it matter as long as he's not pulling Harry in a back room and... well, you know what I'm getting at.
Justin exemplified on November 03, 2007 at 10:33 AM
What Peter said.
Except that foot-tapping does have me a little bit concerned.
Mrs. Who exemplified on November 03, 2007 at 05:24 PM
I don't care one way or the other.
It's a book.
wRitErsbLock exemplified on November 03, 2007 at 09:04 PM
Hey Peter (et al),
Statistics bear out that if your child or grandchild is sexually molested, it will more likely be by someone who is 1) heterosexual and 2) trusted by that child.
The old "gay ppl! They molest the children!" is a stereotype that is blatantly false.
Prose Hack exemplified on November 04, 2007 at 04:42 PM
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Justin exemplified on December 03, 2007 at 02:19 AM