The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Calliope:

Caffeine #132:

The best book I've found so far about vegetable gardening in containers is "The Bountiful Container" by McGee & Stuckey.

Covers pretty much every kind of veggie, herb, fruit and edible flower than can be container grown. It's the bible for my veggie garden this year.

Abi @38: Please don't stop posting the quick, interesting stuff! Your posts are one of the reasons I read Making Light.

For example, despite all my tsuris about DHS, I find the twitter election feed to be strangely mesmerizing. I read a lot of blogs, but to have so many disparate views and bits of information flowing by at the speed of a conversation is fascinating. I've also followed some good links from there.

Thanks for posting this!

*sigh*. That's Ginger @35, of course. I'm @31. So much for my copy editing.

Lori @32: Intellectually, I know that the Service wants to hear about these things. It's reconciling my heart and my head that's the difficulty. Thanks for the support. And good for you about asking about that car.

Sean @33: Thanks for pointing out the chilling effect. I hadn't thought of that.

Jen @34: Good point!

Ginger @31: Yeah, I figured he'd was also verifying my number was real. It was more the mention of D.C. wanting my address that made my adrenaline spike. :)

As for the tweet generating the wrong vibes: I went back and reread some of his earlier tweets, and the one that states that Obama's not going to win, because our nutter "knows a secret" becomes creepy as hell in context with the tweet that started all of this.

Thanks everyone. I'm feeling less upset now.

Yikes.

At his request, I gave the agent my name and phone numbers. He just called me back, because D.C. wants my address as well. Apparently just to make sure that I'm not some nut who constantly calls in false threats. (One would think they could just look at the twitter feed to actually SEE the threat themselves....)

Of course, I gave it to him. Not that they couldn't get it from my phone numbers, or my rather rare name.

DHS scares the piss out of me anyway, and while I've done a lot of security work, I am an old lefty. Not too happy to have "D.C.'s" attention.

Now I feel like a rat who may have inadvertently brought down DHS on myself. Instant karma, perhaps?

Thanks, everyone. It felt very weird, but I called my local field office. I explained the situation to the operator, and that I wasn't sure if I should report this. Her response was an emphatic "Oh, you've called the right place."

She put me through to a very pleasant agent, who gave me his email, and I sent him the link, and my contact information.

I called the cops once when I witnessed a stabbing, and maybe two other times in 48 years for noise complaints, but I've never reported anyone for suspicion before.

It's not a nice feeling. And I used to do private security work. In my youth I was a uniformed guard, a plainclothes undercover store detective, and a credit reference investigator.

I still feel like a rat. I may have brought down the wrath of DHS on a harmless nutter, because of something he said.

Doesn't quite sit right with me. Even though what he said was...evil.

I'm going to stop rambling now.

Lori,

Thanks for the info. I think I'll noodle off to Treasury.gov.

Criminey! I just caught this on that twitter feed.

I've never thought of reporting anyone to the Secret Service before. Not that I'd know how to, anyway.

I feel sick.

Another lurker here chiming in with best wishes for Teresa's speedy recovery.

Thank you both for being sensible and calling 911 right away! When I had my incident a few years ago, I waited a couple of hours and then drove myself to the hospital. Stupid, I know. I'm lucky to be here. On the upside, my most recent stress test was entirely normal.

So I'm happy, but completely unsurprised, to find that y'all are smarter than I am. :)

Thanks, Jen! Uh, how do we go about this?

Wow! They are cleaning house on Palin, all right. I'd heard things were being disappeared off the net, but this is the first I've seen it.

The 2006 Eagle Forum Questionaire, (the one where Palin said if the "under God" in the pledge was good enough for the founding fathers, it was good enough for her), does not exist.

http://tinyurl.com/6kwcg8

It's still available through Archive.org. Anybody know how to save a page from there? I tried and it didn't work.

abi @ 441:

"Yes, voice coach. The evil laugh is important, and a lot of guys neglect that. What, do you think Bad Horse didn't need to work on his whinny?"

You mean, his terrible...death whinny?

It's all about standards, isn't it?

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