Yeah, I'm secretly terrified of it, and of watching anyone use them either IRL or televised.

Purty, but I'm biased. (Mine's a black 2.0T - an engine I never thought I'd love but my god, it's awesome - with the S-line package "sport" interior.)(Yes, non-Audi owners... this is just how we do. Can't be helped, sorry.)

ARE YOU ME? Yeah, seriously tho - the heart wants what the heart wants, and all. And I'd never wanted anything more than that car after my first sharp s-curve. ;)

Ha, yup! But also a rube who also owns an A4. So a rube with some taste, anyway, for things other than chicken-fried-steak and coldbeer.

Yeah, literally one stoplight here. My own mister recently had possible transfer in the works to Long Beach and I was so, so torn. I grew up all over the Eastern seaboard (VA, FL, CT, NY) so there was definitely a part of me that was looking forward to being back amongst actual civilization (and restaurants, and big…

I definitely should've clarified with a YMMV sort of thing and was really trying to lighten the mood (whose? mine? Tracy's? whatever) a bit, because really what this comes down to is how much of a badass Tracy is to be like "Hmm, pro's/con's... yeah, whatevs, we got this."

I was just thinking about when we lived "in the country" and used to lock our doors at night.. but leave the car keys in the car. The idea was "here, take it.. and go away" just on the off chance.

Yeah, of course. (Ask about my daughter's rape in her tiny college an hour away.) But in my town (less than 2ooo people) you're more likely to see "Cows out in road" in our local Sheriff's report in the newspaper than anything else. (Which, granted, can also be bad shit if you hit one...)

Holy shit, I have chills racing up and down my entire body right now. I wish deeply and fervently that this was a start to some "catfished Halloween series" on Jez, because it is fucking terrifying.

This is such a good point. I mean, look at the hit counter/number of comments on this post. Hardly "panic" numbers, if you ask me. (I mean, that Nick Jonas article probably had double.)

2 out of 2 Kanye's agree on the need to be prudent, without panic.

Well, yes, I'd say the years of schooling which involves how to minimize risk of contamination and spreading disease throughout a hospital is somewhat dissimilar to the training one receives in keeping airport facilities clean.

And, of course, the human being.

Tell that to the infected nurse in Spain whose dog was just euthanized. :(

Because one person's symptoms didn't manifest on his flights from Monrovia to Brussels to Dulles to DFW doesn't mean that any and all future cases will follow suit. I think it's a prudent move, to be honest, with the added bonus of potential job creation.

The housing is plastic, but the, uh, grinding plates? are metal, and the interior corkscrew that feeds the meat to the grinding plates is enamel covered metal. Very, very solid.

Yeah, so today's my day to be uselessly prescient. Or this is just life in these United States. Yay, us.

Um, I mean.... Don't you think there's kind of a class element at work here? If you're not getting Front Gate* or Pottery Barn** catalogs, how the fuck are you supposed to know what people pay for what looks to you like nonsense shit?

In my excitement over my apple peeler/corer thing, I totally forgot about my grinder attachment. It's the best, for sure.

I have one and LOVE it just for the two to three apple pies I make during the holidays. LOVE LOVE LOVE. We also use it during the holidays for au gratin - you lose the "core" of the potato, but it's worth it for the quickness. (And not having anyone bleed into the potatoes from the mandolin. Because everyone is a…