Congratulations!  That's wonderful news!  And a very lovely name, too.

I can confirm that Hugs looked killer in her kilt.  As one should, since it's right there in the name…

Oh god, Sharepoint is THE WORST.  EVER.

I've long thought that was the primary purpose for candy corn, and the notion that it's also "candy" is a weird after-market, off-label use.

I would love some potato, leek, and celeriac soup!  We've got buckets of celery from our CSA right now, and I'm thinking of trying a celery and blue cheese soup I stumbled over a recipe for a few weeks ago.

I've been meaning to try the Pork Braised in Milk for ages.  Now I definitely have to do it, in memoriam.

HAHAHA!  Maybe I need to get a few more months of working out under my belt, get my muscles good and ready, and then give this a try.

I'm going on vacation next week!  Hugs and Hisses and I are going to Dallas to visit a friend and to eat deep-fried Nutella at the State Fair of Texas.  Not necessarily in that order of priority.

Synergy!  And I have to apologize for my radio silence on the Dev front — we were so busy this weekend and then so exhausted recovering from it that I only just now got around to checking my email.  So many thank yous to you!!

It was, without any exaggeration, the best weekend of my life.  Just fucking AMAZING.  (And we were five feet from the stage for Song Project and Moonchild.  I'm still kind of trembling from the awesomeness of it.)

Good luck!  Don't forget to pack your formal galoshes!

In a bit of a Food Thread and Fitness/Weight Loss Thread crossover, I'm struggling this week with an assignment from my team's coach for the "Biggest Loser" sort of competition my gym has.  I decided to sign up just because I'm getting fit for the first time in my life and losing a lot of weight anyway, so why not try…

That sauce is pure perfection.

Wow, learning to change a tire?  I'm impressed!  I got a flat tire on my way to work a couple winters ago; it was a bitterly cold morning and sure enough, my phone was dead.  I ended up pulling over in the parking lot of the local orchard, which wasn't going to open for another hour.  I had to wander among the barren…

I also love "El Condor Pasa"!  Why is that not on my iPod?  Why did you leave it off?  Did you do that on purpose???

Oh my god, that is a seriously depressing Wikipedia page.  I spent a slow-moving afternoon about a year ago here at work reading it.  I don't remember what I did to cheer up; maybe go home and be in a sad funk all evening?

First off, @PugsMalone:disqus , a hearty like for "Golem II"!

Same here.  I read Red October, Patriot Games, and Cardinal of the Kremlin when I was 13 and at the time felt like that was about as kick-ass a reading experience as a person could ever hope for.  I haven't revisited any of them since, but why would I want to?  The memory of them is perfect.

Yep.  I was Jack's mother.  I had an adult-sounding singing voice when I was a teenager, so I got to play all the "old lady" roles.  Jack's mother; Ruth in "Pirates of Penzance"; participant in some stupid old-lady sort of Greek chorus in that horrible, horrible musical that only my high school's music department head…

Craig T. Nelson was the actor who introduced me to the phenomenon of "when a fairly lousy mystery movie has three main characters, two of whom are the protagonist detectives, and one of whom is not one of the protagonist detectives, no matter how friendly the odd-man-out's character seems, he's The Guy."  Which is why…