"At the Shiva, I told him he didn't sound like himself. And that was wrong. Because I don't know who he is, you know? I don't even know who I am! How could I? How could you? There's a new me every single day! And you know what? That's fine. I'm seventeen. How could I know who I am? Do you know who you are?"

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Strobist: Sigma 500 Super through a Morris softbox at camera right,1/2 power.

Lens note: Shot with a Canon 70-200L f/4 on a 1.4x Sigma Teleconverter as part of a close in follow focus test. The flower was waving a bit in the breeze.

i just discovered one of those little hershey's kisses tissue paper banners under my shirt.

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"And if this house would collapse on top of me, the space would still remain."

Looking down
speared by ten inches of hard flesh
all holes
no heart
harder
HARDER

-- which can lead to behavior disorders, learning disabilities, reproductive disorders, and obesity.

In this country, at this time, potential poisons are not administered to humans in order to determine if they are toxic or safe. Therefore, what we know about the toxic effects of MSG comes from animal studies. The first relevant studies were done between 1969 and 1980 wherein MSG was administered or fed to animals. By the early 1980s, the neurotoxicity of glutamate was accepted in animal models as glutamate was being used as an ablative and/or provocative tools(122,123), with which suspected pathophysiological abnormalities (obesity, for example) could be deliberately induced to facilitate study.

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Nat worked a few hours today and Cass was out with her friend April most of the day.
We did not get to the Christmas parade as we had dinner at Nat's mum's place. She cooked meatloaf which was very nice.

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artic, you guys make me incredibly jealous.
you and your significant others.
i want that.

Random tip I learned the other day...

In my bathroom, I don't care how rust proof the can of shaving cream says it is.... It's isn't. I was always getting rust stains on the tub shelf.

So I was thinking of the tiny rubber lids that come on the small cans of dog food that you find at PetSmart and PetCo. (Not the regular sized cans, the ones meant for tiny dogs) I used one as a coaster on my small can of shaving cream. It was too big, but it still kept the rust from getting on my bath.

Recently I changed to an 11 oz. can of shaving cream and the lid fits just perfectly on the bottom.

Thought this might help some of you out there with the same issue.

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Bought this about a year ago (with as snobby as they are, they gave me the evil eye when I hopped in randomly from my bike ride on the Silverado Trail near my home. And they also aren't part of the "Napa Neighbors" program, so they refused to give a free tasting or any discount to locals... lame. But they did end up pouring after we convinced them we would buy a bottle if they wouldn't charge us their ridiculous $20 tasting fee)

It's been a long week and I was really craving some good cab to celebrate surviving it, so I popped this open last night.

Very, very good (as well it better be for $75/bottle.) Complex but subtle flavors, tannins present but oh-so-silky smooth. This is not your typical "claw your face off" tannic cab. (I have definitely noticed that, when it comes to cabernet, you get what you pay for; in fact, most cabs under $50 are not so good, and almost all of the ones under $20 are horrendous. I can deal with Liberty School -- a good buy at $12 -- but this Chimney Rock is in a whole other league. However, I've also noticed that cellaring makes a huge improvement on many of the cabs, as well. They usually seem to be released too young)

I don't want to wholeheartedly recommend Chimney Rock, because their tasting room prices and policies are ridiculous, and their wines are expensive (in my mind, I'm still on the fence about whether any bottle of wine is worth spending more than $50 on), but I can say this is easily in the top 5 cabs I've had (and definitely the best that I've ever actually owned a whole bottle of.) If you don't mind parting with the $$$, you might want to give this one a try, even if (or especially if) you are not normally a cab person. Also, I remember their 2004 was also good, so that would be another safe bet.

For what it's worth, my gf said it was on par with the $30 glass of Caymus (also very good, and very expensive) she had at Ruth's Chris Steak House.