Valentine's Day 2008

Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 - 1:36 a.m.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my readers.

Thank you for continuing to visit and share and interact.

I may not say it often enough, but I do appreciate your presence here. Again, humbly -- thanks.

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The McLaughlins celebrated Valentine's Day ahead of time, with Chinese takeaway, because John is having dental work later this afternoon, of all days!

He is getting a crown replaced during lunch hour. Today they take the old one off, clean the stump and the gum, and then put one of those temporary Jackie Kennedy Pillbox Hat Crowns on the affected area and send him on his way until the new crown is ready.

Then after that, he gets to go back to the office.

Good luck with that, darling!

And I'll cut the leftovers into eesty beetsy pieces if needed.

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Hey, the mysterious slash in front of the apostrophes in the comments section have ceased.

Andrew fixed it, and Scott Hysmith tried to explain what was the matter in words of low syllable count, but it's still a nice big Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to me.

He said it was something called an exposed escape character with a bug in a string. Which sounded like an idea for a comic strip to me.

Coming soon: The Adventures of Exposed Escape Character With His Faithful Sidekick, Buggy String!...

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Last night, my husband informed me that I am the only woman on the face of the planet who enjoy the taste of orignal Listerine.

Not 'tolerates', not 'likes', not 'doesn't mind'... ENJOYS.

Yeah I know. Ick. yeah, I *also* understand that it's not delicious.

I like it because my grandfather used it and the scent reminds me of him.

Maybe a more correct thing to say is that I'm emotionally attached to the flavor of original Listerine.

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Wow, yet another Big Barge Boat in the Bay incident.

This one was adrift, but was finally anchored and stabilized before anything bad happened. The engines were restarted and the ship was escorted to its destination.

There are probably more than a few local marine traffic officials who are still nursing the grill marks on their asses, which is why this problem was solved quickly.

Three great big problems with barges in the space of a few months, though?

Hm. Just... Hm.

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Okay, there we go. Have a LOVEly Thursday!

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