Random stuff for today

[apocalypsos]

-- Today I'm supposed to take my mom's cat to the vet for a check-up after his dental surgery last week. Now, they removed his teeth, but while he was at the vet they shaved his butt. My mom wants me to ask the vet why that is. Apparently my guesses that "maybe they just took the long way" and "perhaps Owen asked for a bikini wax after you left him there" aren't satisfactory.

-- I went to the cafe before, settled in with a pot of tea, and got the first three chapters of GPW edited, even though I still have to update the edits in the file. This could be a good way for me to get this done, though. Also, the Chinese restaurant opens tomorrow. Yesterday while I was at the cafe, one of the Chinese guys from there came in for pastries and when he confirmed where he was from, the cafe staff and the customers practically fell over themselves to say, "YAY!" Oh, good, I'm not the only one in this town thrilled we're getting a Chinese place.

-- The Family Feud moment discussed in this blog post is such epic fail I can't even ... I can't ... flames, on the side of my face ... What gets me is what somebody in the Pandagon post mentioned, which isn't so much that he believes that Ellen Degeneres doesn't like this country for whatever reason, but that he thought there were enough people for it to make the top reasons on Family Feud.

-- 5 Gourmet Foods That Used To Be Cheap -- I heard the lobster thing a few weeks ago on some documentary about Maine (it might have been a rerun of "The States").

-- Someone explain to Spencer and Heidi that they don't warrant a "secret marriage." I hate those two.

-- Nate Silver explains why maybe we should just let Texas secede. Heh. I changed my mind. On second though, let 'em. *pets the new map of the US* It's so blue.

Comments

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

But most Texans don't want to secede. ;_;

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

I learned about the lobster thing when we were in Maine. Apparently, it used to be fed to prisoners about every day. And then someone decided that it was cruel and unusual punishment and there's a law on the books saying that prisoners can only be fed lobsters twice a week.

...oh, they only wish now. :D

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ikr? I don't want to get rid of Texas, either, quite frankly. Not the least of which because they grow boys that look like this, for Christ's sake:

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

That's ... edible, right?

[shadowwolf13]

There's blue in Texas ... we're just fighting very hard to be heard.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I get the impression Perry's not going to make it through the next election, from what I've heard from other Texans, am I right? I can't imagine this doing anything for his appeal with the sane Republicans down there.

[shadowwolf13]

I certainly didn't vote for him. Most of the people I talk to and deal with around here are fairly blue too .. but that's choice of who I deal with.

I don't know .. I wish we could put the whole lot of them on a raft out in the Gulf and just direct toward Antarctica or something.

[shadowwolf13]

In some places. ;)

[leaveoutalltherest]

About the Owen thing, if he has medium to long fur, they more than likely did it to make it easier for the catheter insertion/removal and for less clean-up post surgery while he was still groggy.

Anyway, that's what they said at my vet about Mayhem.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

He's a Siamese, though. His fur's pretty short and sleek.

That's what I figure it is, though, but she wants me to ask. *shrugs*

[modillian.livejournal.com]

...what are Spencer and Heidi supposed to be famous for again? Are they reality tv "celebrities" or something?

[fyrdrakken]

So, yeah, it took living in the UK for six months for me to learn (among many other things) that how the rest of the US views Texas is how the rest of the world views Americans. And I've had to make my peace with that.

That being said, I don't see secession as happening -- that was just Governor Goodhair (tm Molly Ivins, and we all miss her as a Texan we could be proud of) playing to the crowd.

[fyrdrakken]

He only got re-elected last time because there were fifty jillion candidates splitting the potential Democrat vote across a lot of indy candidates.

[acetal.livejournal.com]

Maybe they didn't want him licking his butt and trying to clean the dags out of it since he'd had dental surgery and they didn't want an infection?

Complete stab in the dark there.