Aye, like the Big One of aught-three: check on the kids, check on the elderly neighbors, and all’s well? Then drink the beer ‘afore it gets warm.

Aye, and nine months on, there’s baby showers. Literally.

Rumor is, hospitals gear up to handle ‘nine months on’ events. Probably just an old wishful husband’s tale.

P.S. love the pic – my 10 year old still plops on me like that.

Wimp. The internets tubes server on campus here in LALA land was down for three hours today. THREE HOURS! Do you have any idea what horrors we endured for THREE EFFING HOURS?????????

They must have forgotten to water the gerbil.

From the exceptionally soggy state of Vermont we send our heartfelt condolences on the power outtage in the Land of Snark.

Hopefully Rick Perry will refrain from praying for you.

If this is what it takes to keep you from posting that Malkin video again after getting all liquored up, then so be it.

And the guy fiddling with the server in Yuma is rilly, rilly sorry about it all.

As an Easterner, I say this is divine retribution. Leviticus 72:98 makes it clear: “Nor shall thou wear short trousers at thy labor twelve months of the year, for it is an abomination.” God is not mocked.

Yes, it was too, too hideous. My neighbor had spaghetti and sauce a-boiling on the camping stove next to the table with the Coleman lantern, chips, dip and plastic tableware. People who haven’t really spoken in a long time catching up on kids, grandkids, animals, pets, etc. Flashlights and dogs (no cats). Loved the dogs getting to know each other, especially since mine is very ill and can go any minute. She was in heaven with all of the attention.

Sooooo, very REAL American-ish in San Diego, CA. The mayor, chief of police and anyone who could find a microphone was proud we didn’t all go out and kill each other within the first 5 minutes of ‘dark’. So, “Hello!” from the Southwest. We are a hearty bunch.

We are ate a hearty bunch brunch.

FIFY

and you realize because of that power outage, you were deprived of the exclusive performance of joe scarborough’s ode to 9/11 (reason to believe) performed by joe scarborough — with fangurl meeka holding the lighter… i’m sure youll want to add it to the rotation… ;-)

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-releases-song-to-commemorate-911-anniversary-video.php

Off topic, but….

Tim Tebow Is Like a Black Quarterback Because…He Gets Criticized and Stuff

(Snark from Jack & Jill Politics.)

We have power here in Northern Michigan and I’m sitting around drinking beer on the deck and will enjoy the best sunset between Key West and San Diego as the sun goes down over Lake Michigan.

Nothing like a Great Lake; no salt, no sharks, no problems.

Hope everybody gets their power back soon.

Aren’t there a lot of little sucking things barnacling onto all the boats on the lake?

Thank god! I was worried folks would be forced to drink their own urine to survive (but if it was Coors – well just sayin’). So, I guess it wasn’t at all like getting stuck in an elevator.

the best sunset between Key West and San Diego as the sun goes down over Lake Michigan.

We here in HippyTownUSA, Oregon laugh at your puny wolverine sunset.

Half our state being ablaze, in addition to the normal 4:20 ganja combustion-a-palooza, has rendered a remarkably iridescent heirloom tomato-flecked bacon grease sky omelet….

Mmmmm, bacon….

Bacon? Did someone set Rush Limbaugh on fire?

No, wait, that’d be a flaming bag of poo. I stand corrected.

It’s not the sucking barnacling things I’m worried about…it’s the LAMPREYS.

In Michigan that “sucking” thing goes by the formal name of Governor Rick Snyder

Go BLUE!