Nobody yet? I guess I can post it.

The Federal government relocated an entire building of employees while the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (across the park) was gutted to the studs and completely renovated. Relocation and leasing of temporary space would be included in the project budget.

I read Brian's blog regularly and have come to the conclusion that there is not a single building out there that doesn't deserve historic preservation (in his opinion). Not sure where the money to preserve these buildings is going to come from.

How about something from the dry side?

Would like to recommend looking for rescue dogs even if you want a particular breed. We weren't specifically looking for a lab when we got our dog, but lucked into a wonderfully sweet pup that had been badly abused and abandoned.

A whiff on the Northwest. Oregon is much more hostile toward Californians:

Agree completely! I don't care what the hell the Cross Blue looks like as long as it comes with the plug-in hybrid diesel that they showed last year. Heck, I would even go with something with only 5 or 6 passenger seating with that power train. And be quick about it already!

I enjoyed Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords books as a teen:

Required reading:

Would like to nominate two:

You don't have to go all the way to China, plenty of stuff like that in the US:

Agree 100% on the mayo. Spread some on the outside of the bread and you will have the best grilled cheese ever!

I am just going to leave this here:

What are you doing in the ocean, Lowly?

Actually, Harbaugh did not "stop the Oregon option at Stanford." Shaw did last year, but Harbaugh (and Luck) only won in 2009 and it was a track meet. 51-42 is hardly solving the offense.

Au contraire, there is always at least one 9 volt in the house:

That is actually a pretty big source of water for a nice small bucket like that. If there aren't any pools convenient to a fire, wildland firefighters set up these little beauties:

and we are supposed to believe Crichton when he disses Global Warming?

That's "Smokey Bear" to you, Andrew. He does not have a middle name, and if he did, it certainly wouldn't be "the".

Poor cat, he just wanted to catch a... fowl ball.