We saw some strange things on a walk at the arboretum on Thursday.

Ah yes, the infamous “utility corridor” habitat. They’ve been trying to increase the range of that one.
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“Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

flibbertigibbet \flib-er-tee-JIB-ut\ noun
: a silly flighty person

fartlek noun [mass noun]
Athletics a system of training for distance runners in which the terrain and pace are continually varied.
origin 1940s: from Swedish, from fart speed + lek play

I’ve been posting a lot of word association games on Wedesdays, so here’s something different: open thread, talk about whatever the heck you want to talk about.

The sofa (metaphorical or not) is comfy, there’s brownies on the table and Michael has beer in the fridge (Blue Moon, Circus Boy, and three other kinds I’m too lazy to open the fridge and see.)

So make yourself at home (while remaining fully clothed thank you–this isn’t THAT type of place) and maybe someone who doesn’t usually comment will take this as a sign to introduce themselves. If nothing else, once they have, maybe we can get them to play the next game of word association.

How on earth did I end up on a mailing list for a Barbie catalog?

Seriously.

Michelle: (surfing mindlessly)
Woman on Marketplace: …the point at which we all just give up and decide to put our money into canned goods and ammunition.
Michelle: Wait. What?

That’s right. I’m 100% heathen and proud of it!

(via Jim)

I got nothing. So that means you get a game of word association.

Today’s word is…

Defiant

I think I’m more geeky than that, but I can accept Nerd.
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Go stare at Janiece!

O.O

Commentary on the Technology Poll here, including “other” if you chose it.

Michelle: Have you seen my sorts? I seem to be all out of them.
Michael: You left them on the floor and Kit was playing with them.
Michelle: Why would Kit want to play with them, they’re not fun.
Michael: Like we know what looks like a fun toy to a cat.
Michelle: Sure we do: a milk ring.

What is it about the middle of the week? And what is it about this week that everyone so far as been perfectly miserable. Can we get past this already?

As always, to get around WP Spam Free, old word = your word

rain

You may have noticed last week my complaint that the soles broke on my favorite pair of work shoes. I’m not complaining that she shoes finally wore out–I wore them on a regular basis for five years (maybe more).

Luckily, I was able to find the exact same pair of shoes at Amazon. The shoes at the right, only in black. (Of course they were in black.)

They’re very comfortable, and they go with almost everything I wear. And all you people that like stylish shoes with heels–that’s fine, but I’ll stick with my comfy shoes.