what_made_you_chuckle_today no reason this dream exchange: my aunt walks into the room with a dog on a leash. me: "that dog is so cute!" her: "he has a disease. me: "what?" her: "misanthropy." both the idea of misanthropy as a disease, and the fact that a dog could ever be misanthropic. much more likely for cats, i would think. 141016 ... nr my friend/"little sister" called me a goob (actually this is technically what_made_you_chuckle_yesterday) 141019 ... nr (what missing-bracket fail. 141019 ... nr wait, that is incorrect! if only you could edit blather edits. if only red_wine didn't do what it did (actually, let's not wish that). 141019 ... nr "are you reading a book?" he asked in surprise at the bar. "yep," i replied. "nothin' wrong with that!" 230701 ... nr i got a flu shot and am trying to move my arm to help spread the love out of my arm and into my body (that may be the first time i've ever said that). so i've been on-and-off conducting symphonies with my left arm. most are in 4/4, but there is an occasional 3/4 or 2/4. admittedly i don't know how to conduct in any time signature other than those. 241113 ... nr i sent a voice message to you today ending with "roger. over." in homage to airplane and related inside jokes. or so i'd thought... you sent a voice text back and said you're glad i'm over roger. i realized then i'd accidentally reversed the order. 241121 ... raze this bit of random internet wisdom: "statistics are like bikinis. you see most of the things. but you don't see the most important things." 241203 ... raze (i took it to mean, "you don't see the heart and soul of the person/place/thing," and not the racier interpretation some might have. but maybe that's just me.) 241203 what's it to you? who go blather from