Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Short tail? Black hair on the tips of the ears? You've seen a rare-as-shit lynx. Consider yourself very very lucky.

Though Chicago is a first-tier music city, the study says most of the world doesn't identify the city strongly with music the way it does smaller cities such as Austin, Nashville, Atlanta, Seattle, Memphis, New Orleans or Las Vegas.

Surely more people associate music with Chicago than with LAS VEGAS? Who associates Las Vegas with music?

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=61103&rendTypeId=4

Celine Dion?
xp: heh, nvm

Wow, that is very cool, colette!

Who associates Las Vegas with music?

Prince?

that cat is a lynx, no?

But yeah, musicians go there to work for $$$, who ever heard of a great band or musician FROM Vegas.

this is making me giggle it just gets better and better as it goes on. i mean, the band is called bearforce one. that's just so great.

thanks, mattt-- i'm glad to have it IDd at last! it was lucky it was a deserted road since i slammed on the brakes and just kind of jumped out of the car to take that photo. i was pretty bummed i didn't have the big lens on, but it turned out ok.

WOW!! That lynx is amazing!

We saw wild sheep in Colorado. No bears though. I always miss the bears.

I saw a fox run across the road yesterday. It moved like a dog-sized cat.

oxen, foxen, boxen

That's beautiful, colette! I'm so glad you were able to take a pic!

http://images.wikia.com/wikiality/images/Bearbig.gif

foxes are v pretty little guys.

xpost bears are not pretty

that bear is singing very enthusiastically

who ever heard of a great band or musician FROM Vegas.

http://www.chicagogigs.com/images/content/the-killers_the-killers__tickets_137779.jpg

Great is debatable, I guess.

I'm a beeeeeeaaaaaarrr!
Suck my diiiiiiiiiiick!

there are also pictures of bears from that trip. the UP is the land of wild creatures!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1063/1127981501_e3bb40e4e2.jpg?v=0

hmm. that one kind of goes with kenan's statement above. not intentionally, though.

The problem with Brenda is (bad to not-so-bad):

A #1: claws. EVERYTHING is clawed. I clip her nails, and I tried those caps (they fall off) and I tried a scratching post which she ignored in favor of the couch. But it's not enough to focus on the couch, now she's after my chair and the bed and she claws THE WALLS in the bathroom!!!!!! If it weren't for knowing that I would never hear the end of it, I would declaw her and we would live happily ever after.

2. Shedding. Wow. She sheds a LOT.

3. Vomit. I can deal with vomit. Actually this doesn't even belong on this list. We all vomit hair on the floor every now and then.

What I would like is to have a friend have her where I could keep tabs on her.

Aren't all those things just part of having a cat though? Nothing listed is surprising.

Thanks for reminding me why I don't do pets.

Clawing the walls?

Jenny and Jeff have 3 cats and a nice couch without claw marks.

hairballs are not bad, but my cats always ALWAYS do it in the middle of my rug, where it never quite comes all the way out, so there are faint little light spots

my #1 is the shedding. Sometimes even washing my clothes and sheets fails in getting the cat hair off of them.

My criteria for getting a cat were 1. DECLAWED (by someone else), 2. short hair. But then ding dong Brenda walked into my yard and wrapped herself around my feet.

Oh, there are claw marks. most along the top of the back, they pull the cover down and go at it when we aren't there sometimes. We also put sticky tape on all the corners and cover the arms.

Hair is kind of a big deal I guess. I have to run a lint roller over all my clothes as a part of laundry to remove the little wads of hair that form on every fucking thing during washing and drying.

Oh, and #2 should actually be that Courtney can't visit me for more than a few minutes. It makes me sad.

you are not a cat person, perhaps. not everyone is.

I'm not a cat person.

I love cats. But Brenda is extra special catful.

Plus, she gains weight to spite you.

I have no immediate plans for her relocation but I'm keeping my eyes open and if I find the right parents for her, then we're both better off. Kenny will probably be sad though.

haha--YOU did that to her!

No. It was to punish you.

Speaking of punishment, I've been trying to sneak in sentences of INNOCENT TRAITOR (about Lady Jane Grey) today, but it's been too busy here, so Lady Jane has been waiting to be beheaded all day.

I feel bad for prolonging her anxiety.

http://www.willitblend.com/

Brilliant.

Ha! I had seen that a short time ago, totally awesome.

http://chicago.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=26&restaurantid=44274

Has anyone eaten here? who wants to brunch here?

Sometime in February.

BREAKFAST:
Tapsilog
Longsilog
Tosilog
Dasilog

Pancit is yummy.

I don't think I've had Filipino food. There used to be a place near Nick and Sarah's place called Rambutan, which was very highly regarded, but I never made it there. Ditto Little Quiapo, which was at the exact same cross streets as Fishpond, but it always looked a little too hole-in-the-wall for me. Seemed like the kind of place where if I ordered wrong I'd end up with balut (fertilized duck egg) on my plate.

On the blender tip:

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/bmw.htm

BMW vs. PRI-MAX shredder

I composed an email about 15 minutes ago and have been waiting as long as possible to send it because I don't want this woman to get back to me with more questions before I leave for my minibreak.

Oh yeah, and LJGrey was finally put out of her mortal misery.

poor lady. Barely got to be queen!