The overwhelming proportion of the Daily Grail is…. uh…. hrm. BS? Arrant nonsense? A farrago of Byzantine and hallucinatory claptrap?
BUT. There are nuggets, and when you find them, dearest M0M, you will curse and shaky fisty.
Snow in Japan
Oddly enough, it snows in Japan, too. Dense snow followed by cold and steady winds under bright sunshine used to do things like this in Ottawa when I was growing up. Can’t recall seeing it since. There’s something rather… hobbitty about this pic, if I may say so. Fwd from Cousin Gerald.
Me and Granny
Celebrating her 95th birthday. She is the sweetest lady in the whole world, and I love her dearly.
Photo credit Lexi.
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Aaaarrrrghhhh
More snow. What is it with this winter?
Scroll down about a third of the way to get to a mildly amusing series of pictures called “We Also Dream of Flight“. Photos by a Russian pilot.
I’m glad they grounded this airplane….
The adventures of ACTION ITEM, SUPERHERO
All now rejoice, for Calvin and Hobbes
A searchable database of C&H cartoons. Woot.
More weather…
This time the weather is gorgeous. It’s just hanging on the freezing point and gloriously sunny. The sunlight is bouncing off what’s left of yesterday’s snow in a glorious way.
We ate dinner en famille last night (happens so rarely these days that I must comment… ) I baited the table with sushi.
I bought and tried an ammonia-free glass cleaner last night. It’s quite expensive, but it really works – the soap scum was leaping off the glass doors in the shower in a most entertaining way. The brand is Seventh Generation. Unfortunately for me, cleaning things is going to be my highest priority until the house is sold. Yeah, I know, cry me a river.
OoooH! A baby sloth
More proof, if more proof were needed….
Weather update
I think Paul is going to be sorry he loaned me the car. There’s 4 inches of snow on Burnaby Mountain; it only stopped snowing around noon.
There are TEA CUP SIZED SNOWFLAKES falling right now
I wish I had a camera, it’s pretty spectacular. And it isn’t snowing anyplace else in Vancouver. It’s amazing what a thousand feet can do.
Ever wonder how they move injured boats around?
This is the USS Cole after it was hit during an attack in 2000.
Katie’s talking up her next tattoo
A lily, from Strangers in Paradise.
A word about Strangers in Paradise. There’s Maus, V for Vendetta, Sandman and Strangers in Paradise. All have brilliance and beauty. Strangers in Paradise has the advantage of having lots and lots of nice looking females – the other books are thinner on the ground in the pulchritude department.