Calm down Alison... not everything is out to get you

so what do you do when your plumbing (master drain pipe) starts making sounds like there are little pebbles tumbling down it? It sounds a lot like the noises of the ice rain falling on the windows, crisp little spots of noise, except you can trace a path with the ones in the pipe... because they tumble down. Isn't a plumbing pipe full of water? This shouldn't be happening. And if it's bubbles - our only plausible explanation - shouldn't they be falling up instead of down? I'm a little worried. Both the furnace and water heater are doing just fine. The noises of the rain falling on the furnace chimney are noticeably in a different location, so I know I'm pinpointing the right noise, but what the fuck is it? I've got my adrenaline going, but I think I'll just let it be and try to sleep tonight... ask people about it tomorrow. But I don't get it. I think I've heard it before, but I can't be sure. Do the master plumbing pipes have vents out of the rooves of houses? Yet even then, that ice rain wouldn't be falling in water, all the way through two floors of pipe.

I hate this kind of weather, not only for the icy road and sidewalk surfaces (I dare you to skate, Par), but also because all the little noises sound like sparks of electricity or coals from fires, and the paranoia in me (because I'm the "responsible one" at home now) is starting to act up. If I wasn't in charge, I wouldn't be worried. And if I didn't have such strange ears, I wouldn't have heard the noise through the wall in the first place. I don't get it.

okay, breathe... I'll be okay. But if any of you have any ideas, feel free to share them. I'd like to know what's going on.

ugh. Why is homework so much harder winter semester?

My tongue feels all funny after I eat grapefruit too Al.

I admit, I've never heard of August Strindberg, but these cartoons are amusing, nonetheless.

Another Mac cash in? Well they should do whatever they can to make money. This is the capitalist way!

so, does anyone else's tongue hurt after eating grapefruit? this is kinda weird

netPOD?

oh yeah, Taylor over at Wizards they have a copy of a new book that is a collection of Robert Crumb interviews

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=1560975644&itm=5

i think that's the one.

yeah i've seen Stupidity a bunch of times now, and there's always new footage- like in the first cut i'd saw there was no footage of Abu ghraib, and that Fubar riot in Montreal

Is that the new way of settling who gets shotgun now?