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Amelia. She acquired

Coworker's handwriting. (What, does she think we treat humans here or something?) Kyle MacLachlan

While that used to be true when smoking the hemp plant was the only way it was consumed, modern technology now gives us butters and oils and other concentrated sources, often intended for baking for later consumption in smaller portions. Veterinarians always believed pets could not die of an overdose of pot, but now there have been several documented cases of dogs getting ahold if their owner's (or owner's friend's) pot products, and suffering a fatal overdose. I don't know if there have been similar cases in humans yet or not, that's the one species on the planet I'm not allowed to diagnose or treat so I don't follow the literature as closely.

"I wasn't playing the hero -- I was playing the decoy!" -Weregeek "I never just derail a train of thought. I make wrecks that set the cars in fire!" -Sam, Freefall "Every princess needs a battleaxe!" -Zeetha, Girl Genius

Wow! As someone who is still the (proud?) owner of an appendix, I find that reassuring!

*pulls out Looney's list and adds a couple of tick marks* Elliot is so much of a boyscout he wouldn't be able to even *think* about doing it without huge pangs of guilt. No way would he be able to get so far as actually *doing* anything. I do suspect that, now that he has a willing and enthusiastic partner, Elliot will discover that he does not actually fail at perversion. However, he will likely still feel constrained, for the reasons Nanase explained to Sarah, when he's in male form and Ashley is in female form, or vice versa if Tedd and the TFG get involved....

catch-and-release

Whoa.

I don't know, things didn't turn out so well for the last woman to enter that blue phone box when there was unusual snow about...even if she did get a key, she didn't get to keep it long!

Flurries this morning, heavy enough to reduce visibility. There was still some snow lying in the shade of my building when I came home in the early evening, and a few little pockets of blowing snow flurries during the drive. Going back out now, to come home late, so no idea what to expect weather-wise.

The keys to the amphitheater at Cards Against Humanity headquarters, where they host public events, mostly geeky ones.

Night of the Comet

White tea, even though it's probably too late to be having caffeine....

Ah, yes, Undisciplined didn't sell very well and would have been forgotten completely, until Doctor Who and NCIS both used "Calibrated" as incidental music within a couple of weeks of each other. Suddenly sales went through the roof! Kindergarten Immortals, who play a mix of old-time folk and death metal on toy instruments and found objects.

Well, we either need a good number of people wanting to play here, or in the chat room (which also needs a big enough chat room), or both. Shall we do a roll call of anyone who wants to play? Say whether you'd be interested in chat or message board versions or both. demonhunter wolfb Aura Guardian Infinite Remnant Anyone else?

The first episode of Flashpoint, and considering how much of the series I've already seen, I am highly suspicious of the fates of anyone I don't recognize....

How exactly is that done?

Lions and giraffes and elephants.....

Had a little mini-monsoon in the early afternoon, but once it cleared we had a brief spell if sunshine and warm weather! Sky's gone back to gray now, though.

Highlander 2.

I'm happy about how happy something made me! I think I've mentioned that our local public library is closed for renovations. For the next year and a half, they'll be moving 40% of the collection to a temporary location, which will be opening in one week. Anything not in their top 40% (or checked out when the main place closed last week) will be in storage, completely inaccessible, and we'll have to request stuff through interlibrary loan to get any of that material. The temporary location happens to be directly across the street from our animal hospital. Pretty cool, to get to have the official public library close enough to walk to on half a lunch break! They're still putting the place together, and I went and peeped through the windows at lunch today. There were shelves, some full and some empty, chairs, computers, check-out stations, most of the necessaries were in place. I could even see stairs leading down to a basement area, which were prettied up and not blocked off, making me think there's more library down there, too. As I stepped away from the window to walk on to Subway, I realized I was grinning from ear to ear! I'm feeling so excited that we're getting a new library to explore right across the street! Books and movies and programs and magazines....it doesn't matter that it's less than half what we already had access to every day anyway, and what will be there is the same old stuff. It's still so cool! I'm happy that I still feel that child's excitement at the thought of what can't help but feel at least a little like having my very own special library, moved there just for me. That I can't wait to explore the new space, discover where everything is, stumble across new stories I haven't read before. I can't wait to see what sort of children's area they come up with, what sort of displays, how they'll work around having so much smaller a space. Maybe sneak over there at lunch when I'm not tied up in surgery, and just sit and read.

Well, my first bit of feedback is that our Tedd is named Tedd and not Ted....should be an easy thing to fix!

I have no idea of my tolerance because I can't stand the taste of alcohol and thus don't drink. It would be a great scam if it ween't true, because almost every time I tell people this, someone insists that they know of something that there's no way I'd be able to taste the alcohol, and/or that it's so great I won't mind, and a fair few offer to get me some to try. Thanks to the fact that my area's Regional Gathering has an event called Pretentious Drinking, I have had the chance to try a sip of quite a variety of alcoholic beverages, and every single one tastes like cough medicine to me. They're disgusting and I just can't manage more than a little sip, before making the exact same face cats make when they smell alcohol. I tried starting with watered wine, but that either has so little flavor to it that there's no point, or it passes the threshold for cat-face. The only thing I ever tried that was anywhere close to acceptable was a mead at a RenFaire, but I've tried other meads since then with no luck. At this point, I'm happy to just be a non-drinker -- I've seen how much other people spend on booze, and I've seen the stupid things people do when drunk. I grew up in a university town, and after every weekend there were blurbs in the paper about kids falling off balconies, getting hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, passing out at frat parties with tragic results, stepping out in front of cars, or whatever else. I can have fun without alcohol, so why bother?

A Scotsman on a horse!

I suspect my doc would consider that a *big* plus! He once offered to put me on an anti-seizure medication, with no history of seizures, just to see if I'd get the weight-loss side effect. Which was actually quite gratifying because at least he actually sees hyperadiposism (I just made that term up but I'm sure I'm not the first) as a medical condition and not a moral failing!