Ugh. If I had known they were going to be here I would have gone out of town for the week.

But also don't name your pet something where when you walk around your neighborhood yelling, 12 other pets (and humans) come running.

My cat's shelter name was "Jammie". Ugh. I don't know which is worse, "Jammie" as in "I'm a child who can't say pajamas" or "Jammie" as in "covered with jam".

I do this with my cat. He's an indoor cat so it's not like he's actually going to GO anywhere, but if I need him to come near me or come out from under some furniture I will look him in the eyes for a few seconds, and then walk away. He gets so curious as to what I'm doing and why I'm not paying attention to him that…

Asian Small-Clawed Otters are the best otters.

Some shoe stores (real shoe stores, not DSW) will stretch out your shoes (that you bought from them) for you for free.

There's no data service in the menstruation hut so it doesn't really matter.

Always good to see my alma mater in the news.

The Southwestern part (where like 80% of the population lives) isn't that cold. I went in mid-January this year and the high was 40 degrees F the whole time. (Though most of the day is cooler than that since there is less daylight)

Foursquare recently split up (really confusingly) into two different apps which are connected. So now the check-ins are in a different app but the ratings and reviews all go to the Foursquare app.

Google, Urbanspoon, Foursquare, Facebook. None of them is perfect, but none of them is worse than Yelp.

I've seen this sign in person, in Portsmouth VA! Unfortunately I did not get a meatball sandwich, terrible or otherwise.

Or anything for women. I've never been able to fit a phone in the pockets of clothes, but now that I have a Galaxy 5 I had to buy a new purse because the phone wouldn't fit in the pocket of my old purse. It also won't fit in the inside-breast pocket of my coats, or the main pockets of half of my…

I've been getting (some) groceries delivered in the Washington DC area for over a decade.

I was at a holiday lunch with some coworkers at a Belgian restaurant and one of my coworkers (very nice and not at all picky, but rather culturally inexperienced) asks the waitress for some tartar to go with his mussels and frites. The waitress is new there and is still learning English (she tells us later) and she…

I just bought the box set 2 weeks ago as well!! Now we know why it was so cheap.

Another free audiobook:

Another free audiobook:

Sucks for them, more books for me!!

I meant professional as in "this is his actual job". I've been to weddings where a friend/family member was bartending just to help out and that's totally excusable. This guy was middle-aged and had a name-tag with his name and "bartender" etched on it, so at the very least they did not pick him up off the street that…

I was at a wedding once which had three wine options - a red, a white, and a rosé. The bartender (professional, provided by the catering company) had no idea what I meant when I said I would like a glass of the rosé. I repeated myself to him 3 times before yelling "THE PINK ONE!!!"