You're really running the gamut today.

I already shared this on the Forum, but I know everyone's clamoring to know what my iPod played today, so I can't deprive you all.

I got an enormous Berkshire pork loin from a local farm last Friday and roasted it up on Monday with a bunch of root vegetables. It's such good meat that it's delicious without much special treatment, but I did make a pan sauce with some chipotle cherries to go with. It would have been the perfect dinner if it…

It's certainly more badass than owning several bushels of homegrown, rotting apples, that's for sure. :)

That sounds incredibly badass.

Well, judging by who's in this conversation here, I'm not going to say normal people wear them. But cool ones definitely do.

That's going to be SO awesome!

I'm glad to see you're prioritizing. The day you put hanging out with us ahead of masturbating to your celebrity crushes is a sad one, indeed. In fact, I think that's how we measure whether the terrorists have won.

Exactly! The instructor was totally wonderful, and would even demonstrate simple poses, and then ways to make them more challenging for the more advanced people in the class. And of course my boss would be killing the challenging stuff and then nagging at me to do the same. I was not at all sorry when she left the…

The lesson here is that a person should NEVER look at the nutrition information on M&Ms. Because a serving size of M&Ms should just be "a bag", whatever size bag you have. Those enormous 56-ounce bags they sell at Costco? Yep — that's one serving!

Okay, none of that has helped to assuage my fears that this is going to be a terrible, terrible mistake. :)

Star City, in Russia. It was on a school exchange trip when I was in 10th grade, and I'd only had two years of Russian classes. One of the people in my group was being hosted by an Army muckety-muck, who was all excited to send us on a tour of the space museum there. I have a hard time understanding what tour…

Your son is a wise man, Lil' Jo. Doug is a funny name. ::chomps pipe thoughtfully::

As of this morning I've dropped 33.2 pounds since June 1, and discovered that eating half a batch of cookie dough over the course of one weekend actually didn't derail my weight-loss trajectory nearly as much as I was afraid it would. So take note, fellow weight losers — cookie dough is absolutely a health food. …

My recommendation with yoga is to make sure you're not doing a yoga class at your company gym with your boss. When I did that (it was completely by accident; I showed up the first day and who should be on the mat next to me but… BOSS! Sigh) it was so embarrassing and awful. I'd never done yoga, and was in horrible…

You're kicking ass and taking names! That 4 mile race isn't even going to know what hit it.

That's adorable! You definitely should lose neither the costume nor the sidekick — those should make the running much more tolerable.

Congratulations on being all better! And on gaining weight! You can have some of mine, come to think of it…

My knee-jerk response was "DEFINITELY BLACK!" but then everyone else here is all staid and boring and saying taupe. Which makes me feel like maybe I just have horrible taste? Nah. Everyone else is WRONG!

Definitely wear the Burberry jacket! If just for solidarity with me, because I discovered this morning that my Burberry jacket, which I bought ten years ago and which has not fit me in about 9 1/2 years, totally fits again. WOO HOO! for getting smaller! (I realize you have the opposite problem, of course…)