Our idiot tech support company says it has to come in tomorrow to update us for DST, a process that will take four hours, during which our computers will be "unavailable."

This is a total crock, right? Isn't that what Microsoft AutoUpdate is for?

Unfortunately, not a crock. Particularly if your organization uses MSOutlook. From the little I know and having to change all of the meeting times between 11 March and 1 April it is a pain.

We only use Outlook for email, as the tech idiots know. I think they have us (well, some of us) pegged as clueless suckers.

I have to ask.

Was it a brand-new leopard-skin pillbox hat?

The lady's hat looked new but covered her ears too. (I think pillboxes are small hats but i am not very sure). Do you think this is someone you know? (I passed this pair of leopards on West 10th near Bleeker)

Ah, youth.

ghostrider, I was going to ask the same thing as you too but then saw you already had.

(I passed this pair of leopards on West 10th near Bleeker)

Daughter Nataly insisted on buying this HUGE bag of fortune cookies at the Chinese market two weeks ago for $3.99, so I've been sneaking cookies on and off. Here's my latest fortune: "You'll accomplish more later if you take some time for yourself."

In bed.

Kidding!

Porkwah is right, I think. You have to nourish yourself before you're too depleted to accomplish your goals.

I've lived by that ever since.

Indian Calf Makes Meal Out of Poultry

CALCUTTA, India (AP) -- When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame - until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.

The farmer and his 1-year-old calf have since become local celebrities, with the carnivorous cow appearing on television in India's West Bengal state and hundreds of people flocking to see them in Chandipur, a village 145 miles southwest of Calcutta, the state capital.

The farmer got up early to catch the culprit "and to his disbelief found that it was his calf which came out from the cow shed and was eating the chickens alive," Debjyoti Chatterjee, a local resident who filmed the calf eating a chicken, said Thursday.

The local veterinarian was at a loss for an explanation.

"I've never read or heard about cows turning carnivorous," said Mihir Tripathy. "They eat grass and other vegetarian food but not fish or other non-vegetarian stuff."

We were going to get some things at this local shop by us..

Actually I think that that sign is some sort of Zen koan.

As opposed to the local shops that are not by you?

Actually I think that that sign is some sort of Zen koan.

Wait a minute, is "Zen koan" also redundant?

Hoo boy I want that hour of sleep back.

And then she said something else that was kind of strange..

Meaning it is not a chain store.. Like a local shop which has no other branches..

She was the Rudest Buddist I have ever met.. I was expecting here to be all spiritual and peaceful especially because she is a Buddist from Tibet.. She actually mocked this one customer behind her back..

I havent.. But would certainly like to, as long as they stayed where I could see them..

So they wouldnt mock me behind my back..

She was so smitten with the idea that she came home and dug her own pit (or "lair," as we call it) to sleep in, in her own yard.

Well, it's not "everyday" life, because it involves Bob's X, but.

She has long been into tracking wild animals. She has taken several of Tom Brown's tracking classes in the Pine Barrens and elsewhere. On her most recent foray, one of the exercises involved digging a deep pit, which includes a shelf for sleeping.

She was so smitten with the idea that she came home and dug her own pit (or "lair," as we call it) to sleep in, in her own yard.

Her girls think she's insane. They are not alone. (The pit's just the tip of a very big iceberg.)

Can her reflection be seen in a mirror?

Well, she's dessicated but not THAT dessicated. For the record, this is a woman who changed her last name to Lillith [sic]. Goddess of rage, alienation, abortions, still births, and toenail polish. (I'm not kidding.) She slapped that on the kids and sent them to elementary school, never caring what they would endure until they took their own names back.

This is pretty much why I left Northern California.

This is pretty much why I left Northern California.

I would like to see what her checks look like..

Chicken Fat Spill Shuts Down La. Highway

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monroe, La. (AP) --

Chicken fat clogged a major traffic artery Tuesday, a day after a leaky truck left a stinky, slippery trail along a one-mile stretch of Interstate 20.

The vacuum truck crossed the Ouachita River before it was pulled over about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

The truck's owner, Dixie Hydro-vac Specialist Co., an industrial cleaning company from West Monroe, tried to clean up the mess with a chemical, but then it started to rain, said John Kelly, district administrator for the state Department of Transportation and Development.

Crews spread sand over the gunk, which was mainly in one eastbound lane, and worked Tuesday to scoop up the mess and keep it from oozing farther on the concrete bridge deck, Kelly said. Traffic was able to use the second lane.

"The stench was overpowering," Kelly said

He said the crews couldn't just turn fire hoses on it because that would have sent the smelly pollution straight into the river. The time for finishing the cleanup depended on whether it rained again, he said.

A second truck was brought in to transport the remaining fat. The spill was considered noxious but not toxic, according to a hazardous materials officer, Monroe fire officials said. It wasn't immediately clear where the fat originated.