David Goldfarb, #337, I sent mine to Locks of Love. I know two people with alopecia. It's nice to give wigs to people with cancer, but their hair usually grows back (like mine did after the renal failures), but people with alopecia will lack hair their entire lives.
We had bookgroup today and during the part when we purposely bring stuff up (doesn't keep us from doing it the entire rest of the time, of course), I said "I have to tell you something about Harlequin" and it took them two minutes to stop laughing. And when I explained, they were serious. (Had to explain vanity press to some, too.)
xeger, #248, I have to fall to reach the floor and I don't do stairs because I tend to fall down them. The washer & dryer have the pedestals, but it's just not high enough to work very well for me.
Carol Kimball, #252, Mine are stacked because I have a tiny utility room. Even with both having pedestals and being stacked, dealing with the washer's door & loading/unloading has been difficult. There isn't room for a chair in there, either.
xeger, #211, you probably won't have the bending, lifting, and not-falling-down problems that I have with my front loader, but you'll have the mold problems. Mine seems to have been fixed (for a week so far) by running bleach through by itself, but I've heard of other models that require much more work.
And in the ongoing argument between DC's upcoming gay marriage law and the Catholic church, the WashPost suggested a compromise and the vice president for political affairs at the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance gave them a good response.
I saw that on Velma's LJ, Soren. I hope they find the problem and get you back home.
Andrew Willett, #176, I think I liked the original rock version better, but if you add in a choir, yours did well.
Silken Turnip Soup.
A Washington Times editor says he was fired because he refused to attend Moonie events.
I'm glad you're both home and I expect Soren will start feeling better when he's out of the hospital and more stable on his meds.
Craig R., #30, my guess, and it's just a guess, is that they want to get part of the big "you don't actually have to have a good book to get published" market. They probably didn't realize RWA would react like this, or think they can talk RWA out of it.
Andrew Willett, #164, I'll tape it, because I'm not that fond of the rest of Letterman.
A batch of country-wide conservative Christian ministers assembled in front of the Justice Department on Monday to see if they could demonstrate well enough to be arrested. Well, it didn't quite turn out that way.
Remember Jim telling us how to make emergency bags? Well, last night on NCIS, Gibbs had an emergency bag.
I had my first mammogram when I was 18 because my mother died the year before of cancer starting in her breasts. I've had one every year since, which does expose me to radiation, but now I've had almost as many CTs and MRIs, so if I got cancer, we probably wouldn't know why.
Mother would have been 74 today; she's been dead as long as she was alive.
The "Washington Blade" -- a 40-year-old magazine for gays & lesbians here in the DC area -- closed unexpectedly today when their parent company shut down.
SylvieG, #7, I'm so sorry to hear about your puppy. I know that I usually want more cats when mine die, but some people would rather not.
albatross, #912, no, it was the church that went to the council and said, hey, we have to back out if you pass this law. The services are DC services, not Catholic Charities services. CC is paid by DC to run/manage them.
P J Evans, #913, this is how a fair number of Boy Scout troops had to move to lesser places or get less money -- they won't accept gays.
Earl Cooley III, #907, well I'm glad a relative of yours hasn't died, but the name was so similar I wondered.
Joel Polowin, #798, I asked the tech about thinking today and she said I could think about anything I wanted. And then I went to sleep in the machine and my head moved so she woke me up and we had to redo that section.
Terry Karney, #891, oh, my crockpot was one quart and I was thinking of that, which would barely hold the cabbage.
heresiarch, #901, the thing is, the Catholic Charities are getting almost $12M to do that work. There's already an amendment that lets religious organizations & people refuse to rent halls or do weddings (they can do that now), but I don't expect the council to say "Oh, sure, we'll stop the law because you don't want to make money and help the poor." Also, Catholic Charities only does about 10% of DC's service work. (I read the WashPost everyday and this is local.)
Earl Cooley III, are you related to this smoke jumper?
No! I'll be thinking of them.
Joel Polowin, #798, I'll ask the tech when I get my MRI on Saturday. I've had other MRIs, though, and never been told to stop thinking. I have been known to go to sleep while inside.
janetl, #764, Obama says things like "god bless you" almost all the time he addresses groups. What upset me was that almost certainly, non-christian soldiers were required to attend a christian memorial service and there was almost certainly not a non-christian memorial service. (And you know, in my background, catholics aren't christians.)
AR, #685, I don't think so. The instructions on how to make sauerkraut in the WashPost specify a much larger container.
janetl, #706, if Obama really believes that, why did he attend a Christian memorial service at Ft. Hood today? He mentioned god, and a soldier sang "Amazing Grace," but another soldier read from the bible and preached a sermon. I wonder if the non-Christians at the base were required to go to that service. Were there other services for non-Christians and were they as elaborate? No wonder a Muslim soldier felt harassed.
Xopher, #719, I'm glad your layoff can be handled well.
Speaking of the Mason-Dixon Line, I just finished a really good book where the Line is critical.
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