Wait, your S&S sell beer/wine? I thought MA didn't allow that as I've NEVER seen it up here, but in CT they all did...complete, yes, w/ the canvas covers for Sundays!

I'm glad you're less dizzy!

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I think it's up to individual Massachusetts towns to allow it or not. We've been able to buy on Sundays for a while now.

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I understood.....and you should be more concerned about your health! I mean Mr. Jackson was already dead.....not much to do there!

My daughter has had that same bug. We live in Utah (where the highest incidence of swine flu has occurred) so I have been pretty worried about her. But she seems to be feeling better today, I hope you are feeling better too.

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If you go silent do you think CNN will talk about it non-stop?

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I think that comment wins the prize for "Most Succinct Criticism of What Passes for News These Days". You are awarded a virtual bust of Edward R. Morrow.

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We have one more service for the season at our UU. Tomorrow. I wish I were in Utah at General Assembly, truth be told.




Feel better, plz.
Also, now I want to make this. Yay foods that originated as a way not to waste food.

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tlcbird - I LOVE your coffee icon!

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Ooooh. Mutual icon love. :)

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ah, Tom. Whatta guy.

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A singer who does not have to worry about age degrading his instrument.

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well said, pr'fessr.

Tom Waits for no man...

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Ew, that bug sounds like no fun at all. Please feel better soon, then stay well. K? K.

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I never heard of religious services being cancelled during the summer. How strange. Almost as strange as regular attendance at such quaint vestiges of the medieval world.

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There is very little medieval about it! We kowtow to no jujus, we eat no dead gods. We ask, how do you live well in this world, and don't intuit orders from another world. ;)

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And the witches, am I to believe that you now let them dwell among you?

I have had a moral code instilled in me through my parents and culture, but at about the age of 13 I decided that if there was a God, He had it in for me big time, so I became a very skeptical agnostic. I'm superstitious more than religious, and as nice it would be to be able to believe in an imaginary sky buddy or a stern but loving parent, I can't manage to do that. If I had an alignment it would be on the cusp between Neutral and Neutral Good.

And if I _received_ orders from another world, I would follow them. Stuff that was presumably transcribed millenia ago and revised as thought best over the years aren't valid orders by my lights. Don't eat pork, or put Swiss cheese on that pastrami? Don't cast your seed upon the ground?? (I know, that wasn't really Onan's transgression)

Most religions are a mix of good moral precepts that allowed civil societies to exist, and bullshit.

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We do allow the witches to live! We are a Welcoming Congregation!

I think a lot of the belief in gods is the serious hope that someone is driving, preferably someone who has our best interests at heart. It's part, I think, of the liberal doctrine that one can have a moral code based on what's right, not what one will get punished for.

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Very odd to hear that this dizziness may be viral.
I have had severe wooziness on and off for the past month, but I eventually tied this to the parade of storms that have been besieging New Joisey. As the air pressure goes off-norm (even though I'm not Norm) the semicircular canals in my right ear go semi-wonky. We suspect the Eustachian tube to my right middle ear is inflamed and preventing any pressure equalization, so it's a good thing flying is not part of my current job. A friend had something similar to this happen several years ago and when he used his nailgun its sharp report broke his eardrum and damaged his cochlea. How he's saddled with a hearing aid, so I wanted to have this looked at quickly. My doctor has me on 16 days of Prednezone to see if that opens up my pneumatics.

I'll mention the viral connection to my physician, but I can't see the connection... unless its vector is... the interwebs itself!


Dum-Dum-Duuuum!

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Even if you're crippled without them .

So , children , TAKE CARE of your hearing ! .

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Well -- this was a two-day thing. Unfortunately, there are plenty of things that can derange the inner ears.

Years ago, I used to have a thing where I'd fall over with absolutely no sensation of falling -- just, suddenly, the world would tilt -- and it turned out to be a systemic infection. (That was the time I spent three months in hospital.)

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"Oh, he's no fun - he fell right over!"

Glad you cleared up so quickly this time.

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No anchovies? You have the wrong man -- I spell my name Danger!

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"I'm Artie Choke, and I'm just a joke..." (just a reference to your Meet the Robinsons vegatable close-call post)

yes! huzzah for old farts! or at least ones with functioning brain cells to rub together...

We saw Firesign live at the Keswick Theater several years ago on their reunion tour. What a rush it was.

We hope all works out with the home.
Your landlord has our sympathies too.

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