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Omg. Apparently the Boston area bomb squad didn’t have anyone between the ages of 15 and 30 on their team. Also, I like how they blurred out the bird that the Mooninite is giving.

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These are the lyrics to the Candy Mountain Cave song from the Charley the Unicorn video. I transcribed these during lunch one day, so if you have corrections, post them here.

“Oh, when you’re down and looking for some cheering up, Then just head right on up to the Candy Mountain cave. When you get inside you’ll find yourself a cheery land, Such a happy and joy-filled and perky merry land. They’ve got lollipops and gummy drops and candy things, Oh so many things that will brighten up your day. It’s impossible to wear a frown in Candy Town, It’s the Mecca of lovely candy caves. They’ve got jelly beans and coconuts with little hats, candy rats, chocolate bats, it’s a wonderland of sweets. Ride the candy train to town and hear the candy band. Candy bells, it’s a treat as they march across the land. Cherry ribbons stream across the sky into the ground, Turn around, it astounds, it’s a dancing candy tree. In the Candy Cave imagination runs so free, so now Charley, please will you go into the cave?”

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After seeing this post on Digg I figured I should post my spice rack project.

I made this spice rack for Bridget before Chrismas. It is simply a piece of sheet steel that I bought at Lowes for about $20. I cut it to the size of the side of our cabinet with my Dremel. I attached the sheet to the cabinet with bolts. This was more for the aesthetics than practicality. Our stove and refrigerator are polished metal, so the look seemed to match. A better (albeit very permanent) choice would have been to use construction adhesive to adhere the sheet to the cabinet. I then purchased the magnetic spice containers at a kitchen supply store for about $1.50 apiece. Bridget bought the magnetic labeling strips from The Container Store. They are erasable so there is no worry of wasting them.

The parts list for this project: - One (1) 24″ x 48″ sheet of medium gauge steel - Four (4) short (but wide, for strength) hex bolts - One (1) tube of white caulking - Twenty four (24) magnetic spice containers - Twelve (12) magnetic erasable labels

"Breakin' Up" by Violent Femmes on Breakin' Up EP
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In the past three days I haven’t had a good night’s sleep. Leela has started whimpering to go out at four in the morning. The previous two days, Bridget had insisted that she had simply consumed water too late in the evening. My worry is that any flexibility on our part (in when she is allowed to leave her crate) will lead to unwanted conditioning. The solution to breaking her of this habit is to ignore her.

Being pulled from REM sleep in the middle of the night by a pathetic whimper is not pleasant. My brain tells me that the solution is to ignore her, but following through is incredibly difficult. When I’m wide awake, I can use the ignore method for upwards of an hour. I do it to real people all the time ;). However, when you are asleep, awake, and then you want desperately to be asleep again, 10 minutes turns into an eternity.

This morning’s solution was to take her downstairs to pee and then leave her in the crate in the kitchen. Until I can come up with a solution for this, she might be sleeping downstairs.

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