WG: [British co-worker], guess what? Jasper has to wear an Elizabethan collar!*
BCW: Is he wearing a doublet also?
WG: No, it's actually one of those cone-thingys around his head. They just call it an Elizabethan collar.
BCW: I thought maybe he'd been in the dress-up box.
WG: We don't actually have a dress-up box.
BCW: I may have been watching too much Little Bear.** The cat in Little Bear goes in the dress-up box.

*I had to take him to the vet on Wednesday. He'd been chewing on his tail until the point that it was bloody, elciting the following excellent questions:
Aquamama: How did you end up with such high-maintenance cats?
TRgirl: How did he manage that with no teeth?
The vet doesn't know why he did that, and says we may have to amputate his tail. Apparently, Jasper is not so much going to pass away as have body parts removed until nothing remains.

**He has a four-year-old daugter.

He made me ice cream. Ice cream! It was extremely difficult to leave for the beach. But leave I did.

The beach was fabulous- it was in the high 60s, so near perfect weather. They made me blueberry pancakes.

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Henry J. Tillman

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I got into work this morning and spent an hour trying to get my computer to work. I tried to call our support desk (located in Sacramento) (Sacramento! Closer than India!) , only to learn that they fixed our phones by cutting off our long distance service. (We've just moved offices. Our switchboard was installed in the wrong building.) When I did finally get a hold of them (I used my cell and had them call me back) they agreed that there was in fact a problem, but they didn't know how to fix it.

Then I went to meet with a vendor. Who stared creepily at all of us. But most creepily at me, as he was staring at my chest. (This is included in the list entitled, "How not to get me to buy things from you.")

Aquamama and I won ye olde pub quiz last night.

Five of the six questions we missed (the sixth we missed so badly we can't remember it):

1. Which NFL team drafted Brett Farve?
2. What is the chemical symbol for Vanadium?
3. What does "SKU" stand for?
4. What Country is Cape Horn in?
5. What movie is the following quote from: "You're a dirty pirate hooker. Why don't you go back to Whore Island?"

The one that we made a wild guess on and got:
6. What is the most populous state capital?

The one that I pulled, somehow, out of the deep recesses of my mind:
7. Which NBA player holds the record for most points scored in a game?

The one that I somehow knew but really had to convince Aquamama of:
8. Which album was on the Bilboard 200 for the longest time?

The one that I am really embarassed that I knew:
9. Name the artist and title for the following lyric: "She's so lucky/she's a star/but she cries cries cries in her lonely heart thinking/if there's nothing missing in my life/then why do these tears come at night?"

Answers after the jump

1. The Atlanta Falcons
2. V
3. stock-keeping unit
4. Chile
5. Anchorman
6. Phoenix
7. Wilt Chamberlain
8. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
9. "Lucky", Britney Spears
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We've had workers in the office all week, finishing up punch-lists from the move. Yesterday, one of the workmen was going on and on about how he shouldn't have to do something- the drywall guys should.

His boss very calmly explained to him, "Yes, but they're going to expect us to do the painting, because we're the painters."

I have a place to live. I have a move to address even. Apparently, I really am moving to Richmond.