Going to try to go back to sleep now that I have blurted out all the things I was thinking about when I could not sleep.
Also, too- how do cold wet dog noses always find it to the warmest part of your body? I swear to Allah, Lily shot her nose into my armpit and it was like being hit with a defibrillator.
AnotherBruce
Animals generally have different agendas than Human Beans. Mostly their agenda is to be fed in the middle of the night when you are in your deepest dreamy REM sleep. It’s a bit of a comedy to think that you actually control your animals.
MikeJ
Yipes. I read a thread, went off to rewrite a rsyslog config file, came back and there were leventy jillion new threads.
Today I cut up half of a tree that fell over during our ice storm, replaced a UPS that went tits up during the ice storm, installed new monitoring software on a server for the ups and fiddled with syslogger (for the UPS and split some other stuff that had been bugging me in messages off to another file) and I made Thomas Keller’s chicken pot pie recipe for dinner.
I did manage to sleep for an entire hour and a half, which is an hour more than I’ve had at any one time for a week.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
@MikeJ: Jeebus dood, what have you been up to that only allows you a few minutes of sleep at a time? I couldn’t cope with that
hamletta
Miss Sophia knows she cannot wake me. Instead, she paws at my face and jumps on my computer until she gets satisfaction.
I was out at my weekly nerd night when the 1142nd Republican debate took place. I gather I missed a doozy!
I’m all into Smile, a movie all BJers should be diggin’ on.
It has Bruce Dern and Barbara “Agent 99” Feldon playing completely straight…Hell, everybody’s playing it straight: Michael Kidd plays the choreographer.
demkat620
I’m up, I swear. I gotta go to work one more day this week. So exhasted. Between the stress at work and the kids with school activities and homework, I feel drained.
I want to sleep until noon tomorrow but my body is so trained to be up at this hour, I never will.
dr. luba
Too much tea again?
MikeJ
@Comrade Nimrod Humperdink: The lack of sleep isn’t from lack of trying. It just never works for more than a very short period, after which I’m fully awake again. Partially the fault of stupid yurpian schedule and living on the west coast of the US. And every time I try to wrap around and get back to a more zone appropriate schedule something comes up.
pluege
this notion that there is a right associated with marriage is bad distraction that has only served to delay the ability of gays to marry. The issue is equality, not marriage, as in the government can not discriminate as in not deny the ability to marry to some citizens. Religious institution can deny marrying whomever they want (although they should not enjoy tax-exempt status when they discriminate, because tax exemption is a government benefit), but the government can not.
Equality under the law has always been the issue, not a non-existent right to marriage.
amk
Spain’s unemployment total passes five million (22.8%) under the ‘we are the austerity’ gobinment of right wingers which the el spanish foolishly voted in in a fit of pique. A warning for amurika ?
Lance Boyle
5 posts in 32 minutes! Cole on fire! We lovin’ it here on the left coast.
Friday Jones
My dog used to find the top of the crack of my ass and put her nose in it. And her nose was usually also covered with dirt. So I had that going for me. Nothing in the world like cold, wet, dirty dog snot. I miss that damn dog.
harlana
well, there’s cat slobber, you know, there’s always that
hamletta
@pluege: I hope you’re not a troll.
But I think you’re right. It’s not just about a right to marry, but accepting all the responsibilities of being married. The rights and responsibilities of marriage are woven throughout our fabric of laws.
I can conk some guy on the head and drag him to the Nashville courthouse, and we’d be woven right in.
If my gay friends want to express the same contractual lurrve to each other, they must be awfully fond of lawyers, and spend a lot of money.
harlana
we had another debate party – again, this race is turning me into an alcoholic
Raven
@harlana:
drink if you win’
drink if you lose
drink if you get rained out
JPL
If you scan the previous threads you discover, Newt is done. I find that unfortunate because I want him to wound Mitt.
The Republican nominee will be an anchor baby who hides his money in Swiss banks. Wow!
Sasha
I know what you mean. My dog had the most remarkable talent of sticking his nose into the back of my knee.
Crow T. Obot
Take a philosophical approach: muse on the marvelous engineering of Lily’s nose.
Calming Influence
Lily shot her nose into my armpit…while Tunch yelled CLEAR!”
Kola Noscopy
Dogs, which are awesome, love stinky, wet things.
Ergo the nose/armpit…thing.
Bill H.
Dude, you do know that an armpit is far from being the worst place that Lily could have put her nose, right?
phillygirl
Animules love them some armpits, along with sweat-infused gym clothes. It’s essence of owner. Isn’t that sweet?
muddy
I had a puppy who would jam his snout into my armpit and breathe deeply, well huffing really, when the big dogs scared him. Essence of Safety.
The other night one of my cats kept brushing his nose over my lips as I slept. That soft little nose is more prickly than you might think. I don’t know what his problem was, but he was certainly persistent. The next day I called my sister to tell her “it’s totally true” about her m-i-l’s theory that cats try to steal the baby’s breath. This cat has also been known to snake his arm under the covers and slit me under the toes if he runs out of kibble, so I am careful to check it before I go to bed. Good mouser though.
wobbly
Try a cat, John. My Mikey, removed by my mother from his mother at an early age, had a habit of jumping on my chest at 3 am and using his paws to pump my teats out, just as any kitten would. He lived to be fifteen, and that was his habit.
How he learned where my teats were, I’ll never know.
But seriously, don’t a lot of “animal lovers” remove kittens and puppies from their mothers way too soon? To turn them from animals into pets?