These two Jansports bags are carried on (the larger placed above, the smaller under the seat in front of me) and have been just fine for trips overseas for over a month at a time. I do not do checked baggage. There are laundries pretty much all over the world, and clothing shops if I am desperate for something I…

My travel Netbook uses an SD card for ReadyBoost. The Netbook was formatted (to strip it's crapware) and then loaded with Win 7 Ultimate. The added ReadyBoost gives it the oomph to run quite well when I'm away from home.

It would be notable to tell us which, if any, YMCA or YWCA has communal showers for use by both men and women at the same time. "Mixed company" means a group of people in which there are males and females.

This is why the codpiece was invented.

We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

How about death, or as the Russian Times newservice reports: "A Russian man was brutally beaten to death for being gay after coming out to his friends, investigators confirmed, stating that he was a victim of a homophobic gang. The victim sustained serious injuries in the assault, including to his genitals".

Back in 2009 it was announced "The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers."

I was thinking bobbling bollocks.

Ah, but every four years it get a little longer.

How about Rocktober?

Bananas? If you like Thai food, then the next time you're in a That restaurant ask if they have Banana Fritters for dessert. With luck they will, and if you're very lucky they'll make them with those little finger bananas with some vanilla ice-cream on the side.

I just got back from the auto-da-fé
Auto-da-fé, what's an auto-da-fé?
It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway

Let's put this into perspective, OK?

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Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!

When I buy glasses it is for the quality of the frame, not the logo. Just as when I buy a car, I tell the dealer I do not want the dealer name on the trunk nor do I want their license plate holder.

Erecto Patronus!

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur.
Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr.

Ah yes, Prince Albert ... in the can.

I guess the skeeters don't like living in town as I've never encountered one over twenty years we've been living high atop Queen Anne Hill (and with all that climate change, someday we may be beach-front property).