AO, is the race on the 14th or the 13th? I can do the 13th but not the 14th.

mom, i have signed us up for the cooking class on thursday. it starts at 5:30.

Happy Birthday Alessandra!

Stupid political-thievery-toll-booth-making-counterproductive crap:

A bill that will create a tourism promotion organization for the United States has received its final passage in the Senate.

The Travel Promotion Act calls for a nonprofit Corporation for Travel Promotion that will promote the United States as a travel destination and explain travel and security policies to international visitors.

A $10 fee charged to visitors from countries included in the Visa Waiver Program will partially fund the public-private organization.

vo: If you're not in the darkest blue areas on the map, you can probably start them anytime now. Even in those areas though you could just transplant them into bigger pots when they start getting too big. (bury the tomatoes up to the original leaves and they'll form deeper roots all along the stem.)

rsj, there is race here in bloomington March 6th or March 14th. I think I'm probably going to sign up for both. Let me know which one works for you.

Everyone else, you are invited to join us. The day usually consist of a 5k, then some baking or shopping or some crafting project. Anyone else interested in joining us?

7 weeks before the last frost date for your area.

If I was going to start some tomato and pepper plants in the house before I transplant them outside when do I do that?

bit her own tongue or the instructor's?

Edgardo talked to Karina for a minute. She is in our apartment since her house doesn't have electricity. The relatives down south are ok. She said Tio Alfonso's house has cracks in the walls. Edgardo and I are scouring pictures hoping we don't recognize anything. The autopista in Santiago was VERY new and I'm surprised it didn't hold up better.

Sandy "lindsey vonn" Dougher had a collison on the ski hill today...blood everywhere, ski patrol and a ride in the snowmobile sled involved. Turned out to be a bloody nose and a bit tongue. Ski instructors do not give way like snow does.

For the U of I grads, there's an article about Dorie Byard in the latest edition of the alumni news. I didn't get to read it all, just saw the article and pictures.

Ed's parents are ok. Not sure about the family in Los Angeles yet. Hard to reach anyone. Watch Schmitz.cl if u want.

I think you can attribute "this guy" to my buddy Marcus(Silky). It usually precedes a chest pound.

I think I'm moving to Florida. Who's in? This guy! No snow, just hurricanes...I think that might actually be easier to drive through.

Oh geeze - thanks but no thanks TAOD. I already ate too many of my own. Ugh.

Who is going home... This guy

A seminar you don't want to miss:
Tuesday at Northwestern University. The event is titled "Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod Blagojevich."

This weekend! Sandy and I and tons of Girl Scout cookies.

RSJ has it. Who worked until Midnight and still had to be at work at 8am --- "This guy" I used that quote last night then I couldn't remember where it was from so I just looked awkward.

I think she means as in, "Who has two thumbs and enjoys ice cream? This guy"

do you mean the term "this guy"? as in, "'scuse me while I kiss this guy"?

can someone tell me where this comes from.... "this guy"

Which weekend? Maybe the one when your mom has the girls....

Girls' weekend at the Doughers....who's in?

eo, read the dictionary while waiting for the train to get fixed? Ugh!
More snow today. No school for the kids again. I think they will be going until July at this rate.

I thought you were doing really good if you were choking and could manage to type it....

it must have been really bad if I can't even type chalking

that whole article throws me for a loop. probably just because RPS is something completely different in my industry.

I am choking today(really yesterday) up to a really bad day.

Cool AO, you've got tenure already!

What the hell, I never said that. Who's posting under my name?

Its an inside INSIDE joke. LMLP, D.

Sex-y. And you've got the whole joke backwards.

Sexist? What's wrong with being sexist?

Given the negative view typically associated with the word, I tend not to use it so casually. When I painted Roman the color of the sky, it made him blue, probably because he's racist.

tulip mania

At the peak of tulip mania in February 1637, tulip contracts sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman.

In early February, as contract prices reached a peak, Dutch authorities stepped in and halted the trading of these contracts.

The mania finally ended, Mackay says, with individuals stuck with the bulbs they held at the end of the crash—no court would enforce payment of a contract, since judges regarded the debts as contracted through gambling, and thus not enforceable by law.

TAOD meant that women were discriminated against because they couldn't use the Dr. title, but their husbands could. Has nothing to with whether or not Dr. is superior (though it can have that connotation). So I did mean sexist.

I've read the whole damn dictionary, turns out the zebra did it.