Abandoned Power Station at Emiquon
south of the loop
View From My Window, Fall Edition
Taken through my extremely dirty office window.
Lab Rat
I had an early doctor’s appointment this morning, and my doctor wanted me to have some blood work done. As the technician was preparing everything, I asked her if she had any fun band-aids.
Tech: No, but we should, huh? For people with a sense of humor?
Me: Totally. You really need some Batman or Superman band-aids or something.
The tech yells across the room to the other lab technician: Hey John, we need some Batman bandaids.
John, who hasn’t heard our conversation, but doesn’t miss a beat: Aw, man. I know we do.
Parque Internacional La Amistad
Farmers who were already in the park were grandfathered in and allowed to keep farming. The problem is that nobody enforces legislation, meaning that their lands aren’t being monitored, and the farmers can easily overtake park land. The problem is that most of these farmers don’t know anything besides slash-and-burn techniques, which degrades the land within three years. One thing Organization and Partners are trying to do is teach farmers other techniques that are kinder to the land but still yield profitable crops.
33 Search Terms in 80 Days
Wordpress allows you to see the search terms people use to find your blog. It’s fun to flip through them sometimes, although I worry a bit that reiterating them here is going to invite all kinds of unusual blog traffic. Move along. No pictures of intersex people here, and certainly no cat lady jokes.
- images of people stealing liquor trucks
- sucking paw kitten
- walking on an incline/up hills is the
- potter loop
- small british birds
- marathon not dressed like a runner
- stiff joints after running miles [Yes... that does happen. -lmb]
- shin splints and electrolyte balance
- grammatically incorrect songs
- grammatically incorrect signs
- short satanic poems
- funny sob story
- “lost in a dream” “don’t know which way to turn”
- aunt wrestling with nephew
- pregnant Britney costume
- oops down shirt
- noisy birthday cards
- roadkill bingo
- cat lady jokes
- up the catholic skirt
- best way to loop Indianapolis
- complaints against bluebell ice cream [How can there be such a thing?!?! -lmb]
- nymphatic pimps
- pictures of intersex people
- everything is bigger in texas gay bingo
- cute hermaphrodites
- wonder of south
- 100 things to tell snape
- fun copyediting [Oxymoron. -lmb]
- harry potter and the deathly fallows
- blue bell ice cream lyrics ["The best ice cream in the country." -lmb]
- south boob
- how to alphabetize the old fashion way
Best Pre-Marathon Gift Ever
jaq made me promise that if I posted this video, I would say something to excuse away her bad singing. She seems to think that bad parental singing is really sweet. I think that if you have ever been subjected to my Happy Birthday con gusto song, you will know that there isn’t a thing wrong with the tune she holds here.
Incidentally, that tune is from the Sandra Boynton book Your Personal Penguin I got Emmit for his second birthday. jaq sings an unofficial version; you can hear the official version (accompanied by bass hippo) by following the above link if you are so inclined (Davy Jones is pretty good and all, but he lacks Emmit’s charming penguinish wings. If you watch it, watch to the very very end).
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