A selection of B&B’s in Salt Lake… Wildflowers Anton Boxrud House Saltair House Ellerbeck Mansion Based on this review at Splendid Table…
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See? And about 10-15 years ago, I would have been able to keep up with them for a while (not the running, but the drinking)((well, maybe the running for a while, but I was only good for about 3-4 miles)) I wonder if my niece Holly would fit in with this group? Quite possibly. Must ask her about this.
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So, more tinkering with the stylesheet and main index, but nothing earth-shattering. After discovering the joys of RSS feeds and reading in an aggregator, I discovered the heartbreak of excerpts-only feeds. So anything that offers a full-text feed is now linked via the aggregator, and anything that offers excerpts-only is linked via Blogrolling. Also, some blogs are nicer to read directly rather than via…(hark at her!) Oy, I’m such a newbie still. COMIX! Oh, joy!! Mutts is online. Yesh. For now I’ll be reading via email updates, but an RSS feed may soon via available via Tapestry.
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I’m not kidding, this is what a woman caller said to one of the agents today. The call was evidently not going well, and the woman was balking on some point of the corporate travel policy. Then she interrupted the increasingly frustrated agent with this cryptic comment: “I’m not trying to be a jag-off.” So now we’re trying to figure out if she really said “jack-off”, which would be a a really weird and shocking thing for a woman executive to say in a business environment. The agent got a good laugh out of mimicking someone that sounded a lot…
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Oh, Wesley, you really shouldn’t take in a stray, even if it does look like your lost love. I reserve judgement on whether Fred will come back. As Spike and Angel admitted, it’s been done before, no big deal. Which is why now (with the series ending) it would actually be a surprise if Fred really was permanently dead, and not just mostly dead. (kudos to Amy Acker, who got to do something interesting for the first time in a while) Imagine if that was the series-ending episode…. yikes. I hope there are a few more eps in the pipeline.
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From Accordion Guy: a list of things we wish we knew how to say in Aramaic while watching “The Passion of the Christ.” Notably missing are translations for: Everybody, sit on this side of the table, or you won’t be in the painting. “Always look on the bright side of life…” Crucfixion? No, I’m here for freedom. (On the cross): I can see my house from here! Hey, Siddhartha! You just sat under a tree — I got nailed to one, yuppie-boy! Collectively, they all got a big “Hee!!!” from me. Only the other morning, I switched over the car…
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How To Survive An Attack By a Polar Bear With An Ice Pick And A Can Of Peas: If attacked by a polar bear, run away while simultaneously hacking open the can of peas with the ice pick. Then use the pick to chop a hole in the ice, and quickly arrange the peas in a single line around the edge of the hole. Polar bears are curious, and he will be intrigued. When the polar bear stops to take a pea, let him have it with the ice pick (no need to kick him in the icehole, he’s quite…
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When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to the airport to watch the planes land and take off. We’d drive out to the old Albuquerque airport and park somewhere along the access road near the end of the runway, and we’d sit on the hood of our green station wagon and watch for the liveries of airliners and military planes. There was nothing out there but us, the car, some tumbleweeds, the smell of aviation fuel mixed with the scent of sagebrush, and of course the planes. These days this might seem creepy; then it was…
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***Dave reports exciting Farscape news, in addition to previous exciting Firefly news and B5 news (a friend has the Variety article on the Firefly news here. But is this a real “bricks and mortar” production, or an online production? It looks like a project put together by former makeup/character production crew members… need to dig a little. And while I do, this article is pretty amusing and/or depressing if you’re a fan of TV science fiction (and yes, we have Scare Tactics triple thumbs-downed, thanks for asking)
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It was nice enough Sunday to get out in the yard and do a little cleanup. We have an ornamental trash-catcher bush in the front yard – I think it’s some kind of hawthorn, and I think it’s some kind of ugly nasty encroacher that’s going to see its last spring. Not only is it overgrown and ugly 11 1/2 months of the year, it shelters a merry little band of voles that have been feasting on the grass for a couple of years – I figured out what they were at the end of the summer, but then it…