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3am July 8 across the pond, so you know what that means ...

Okay, now this is just weird.

If you live outside North America, you might not have heard about the current scare with pet food - a vast quantity of pet foods (mostly the pouched variety) have been recalled due to contamination with melamine.  Scary stuff indeed.

But a different product has been recalled due to threat of salmonella:
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01600.html

That's American Bullie A.B. Bull Pizzle Puppy Chew and Dog Chew (made from all  American beef pizzle).  And if you're like me, you tittered and thought 'hahahaha, "Bull Pizzle"... that sounds like it would be a bull's willy'.

It is bull willy, as it turns out.  Moo-cow schlong.  Angus dick.  Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenis.

I'm more creeped-out by the idea that people voluntarily feed their dogs DICK on a regular basis than I am at the thought that it might be contaminated.

GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

And are we supposed to be comforted that it's 'All American beef pizzle'????  Yeah, we wouldn't want any of those foreign dicks working their way into the canine food supply, heavens no...

*swoon*

Carl Barat doing a solo, acoustic version of Time for Heroes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSR5VYmSCk

I'm torn between 'wow, look at him play', 'how cool to hear him singing a song Pete normally did',  and 'wow, look at him'.  No one that handsome should be that talented. ;-)

I'm going to say it for the billionth time - it is brutally unfair that I was born on the wrong side of the pond.

Not only is the Dirty Pretty Things album probably not going to be released out here for centuries, not only does it cost a fortune to order as an import via Amazon.ca, not only is eBay charging a mint for the fxcking thing... if all that isn't insulting enough, look what I could win if I were a UK resident and pre-ordered it (inexpensively too, damn it - but Amazon.uk charges a mint to ship to Canada):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/747901/ref=ed_qpe_dp_1_1/203-5093569-9996728

I am well and truly inconsolable.

Bah, just as well ... imagine me owning a guitar that had been pawed by Carl Barat.  I'd probably end up performing some bizarre mating ritual with the damned thing.

Actually, that doesn't sound half bad, does it?  Where's the webcam????  ;-)

Ahem.

You know you spend too much time online when...

This kind of cracked me up - from a poll on the http://www.mytelus.com website:

Which celebrity couple is most likely to last?

7% Brangelina 3% TomKat 31% Bennifer 2 (Affleck & Garner) 1% Britney and K.Fed 56% They're all doomed

Okay, on a slightly less surly note, what else is new ...

New car's still good.

Kitties are hanging in there - Martha had to have NINE teeth pulled (eep!), but she's feeling much better.  Morris has had a relapse of his fungus problem (the vet says he's still pretty stressed), but it slowly improving.

Work sucks ass.

I'm turning into an eBay addict.  I had two arrivals today - Babyshambles' Down in Albion (you can only get it here as an import, at a painfully premium price... a new copy through eBay, WITH postage, was a whopping £9.98.  I can live with this!), and a 1970 vinyl copy of the Who's Live at Leeds... complete with the original glorious heap of inserts.  That's a happy thing that the $40 ultra-deluxe CD didn't have.

And after however many years of trying to grow my hair out, I had it lopped off on the weekend.  *grin*  Pictures forthcoming soonish, when I'm not looking like grim death from a painfully sore shoulder that doesn't want to get better.  The hair had been a pisser for months - breaking off and falling out everywhere, no matter how much I babied it ... shortly before my birthday, I came across some webcam pics I'd saved of myself from about 4 or 5 years ago (with short hair) and almost fell over when I saw how very much older I looked.  :-(  Haven't been doing so well in the self-confidence department lately.  A week ago, I had a good couple of inches lopped off to hopefully make it a bit healthier (it was shoulder-length before the first cut), and that felt great for a couple of days... then back to falling out/breaking.

So screw it - I look old, I'm spending a fortune trying to keep my hair healthy, and it just doesn't suit me.  So OFF it all came on Friday evening, and it is now quite short indeed (although not the buzzcut some of you might remember from a few years back, thank goodness - I do still look like a girl), and I love it.  My only gripe with it is that all the really blonde bits are gone, and since the majority of the remaining hairs have never seen the light of day, they're pretty much the colour of mud, rather than the goldyness they once were.  (dianer would say it's 'sandy blonde', bless her, but it's mud-coloured, it really is.  But it's good to have a friend that's willing to brave the slime to find the pearl in the oyster *grin*)  But that's okay - even a bit of light will make a difference there.

Now I just need sleep, and for my bloody acne to clear up.  I am far too old for this foolishness.

*yawning*  Oooh yeah.  Muscle relaxants are finally kicking in.  Joy.  ;-)

Toodles, dears - I'm off the clamp on the headphones and put Fuck Forever on 'repeat' for the next couple of hours. ;-)

... of all the loathesome holidays. ;-)

Valentine's Day blows goats.

Babyshambles' Fuck Forever 0wns.

That is all.

The roofer called at something like 9:30 last night ... to say that he'd wanted to phone last week, because he had today free and wanted to come over and put a new roof on whether we had the cash on hand for it or not (Mum's been saving for it for a while, but is only about halfway there) - he wanted to give us an interest-free, pay-when-you-can loan, bless him.

So we have a new roof. 8-)  The roofers - a bunch of 'em - arrived at 8:15 this morning and they've been going great guns ever since.  I think they're almost done.

Imagine, folks - after 2 years of reading my paranoid whingeing about the roof, it's finally going to be nice and safe and solid.

I am a very happy girl.  :-D

President Bush goes to a primary school to talk about the war.  After his talk he offers question time. One little boy puts up his hand and the President asks him what his name is.
"Billy."
"And what is your question, Billy?"
"I have 3 questions. First, why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Second, why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? Third, whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?"

Just then the bell rings for recess. President Bush informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

When they resume the President says, "OK, where were we? Oh that's right - question time. Who has a question?"

Another little boy puts up his hand. George points him out and asks him what his name is.
"Steven"
"And what is your question, Steve?"
"I have 5 questions. First, why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Second, why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? Third, whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden? Fourth, why did the recess bell go 20 minutes early? And fifth, what the fuck happened to Billy?"

My marks so far in my OS class:

Assignment 1 98%
Assignment 2 100%
Midterm 85%


YUSS!!!! :-D

Right, it turns out that you can't give people a link to your photo gallery, but you CAN (after a lot of messing about) post the pictures to your journal.

So, without further ado...( Here's the pics! )

It works now! Honest! Try again, please! ;-)

We're off to a rip-roaring start ... the instructor is four minutes late (so far ;-) ).

Not an auspicious beginning ... I gave myself an hour and 5 minutes to get here (on weekends, it takes 20 minutes), not remembering there's construction underway at the Queensborough intersection ... so I coasted into the parking lot with 10 minutes to spare, discovered the cost of parking has increases $1 to $3, and in the parking lot closest to the school, they have old meters that only accept $1 coins (I had a $2 coin and a $1 coin) ... had to move to another lot. %-)

Roared off to the other end of campus to get my student ID card made up, only to find they aren't open. HOW I get my card this term, then, I don't know. %-)

Whee. 8-)

And the instructor arrived one minute ago ... darn, so much for weaselling out of this evening. ;-)

Toodles!

Poll #304804 What book should Deb read today?
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends

What book should I read next?

And of course, now that I've said that I'm moving to a different email address because mine's being a dink, THE ONE THAT WAS BEING A DINK IS FINE AND THE NEW ONE WON'T LET ME IN....

I give up. %-)