DON'T COUNT ON IT
Bessie Watch 2003. Downgraded to "it's not going to get fixed today." The replacement modem was not the answer, so we are back to square one. Arrrrrrrgh! This means no computer for GreenTuna until Friday, since tomorrow is a teaching day. Damn. That means no chatting during West Wing and no chatting during South Park. Whatever will I do? Answer: Stitch, Bitch, Twitch and open another Mike's Hard Lemonade. DooDah, DooDah. I might spin too. That sounds like fun. It's moments like this that I wish I had some angora bunnies to pet and pluck. Bunny therapy is a very good thing. I need some quality time with Bumper, Jacques Chirac, Steely Dan and Muna. Maybe this weekend?.

Yes. I do strange things. I am an on-again off-again compulsive cross stitcher. Current status: off-again. Right now I am too tired and too busy. I also own a real live spinning wheel. Actually I own two and a half spinning wheels. But GramTuna appropriated my first wheel, and I haven't paid SisterTuna my share of her/our new wheel that lives at her house. So, there is one at my house, one at GramTuna's house, and two at SisterTuna's house. It's an addiction. I have a house full of "fluff" -- sheep wool, angora wool, llama, alpaca, camel, and even a bit of bison. It's beautiful, arty, tactile stuff. I also have some unwashed wool that needs attention ("stinky sheep" as my NephewTuna calls it). Someday, when I have time. The spinning craze was the fault of SisterTuna. She wanted to take a beginning class, so GramTuna and I tagged along. It was hysterical. We were the only three people in the class that didn't own sheep. But we learned -- sans sheep -- with heads held high. It was a blast. There is something old and wonderful and therapeutic and pioneer about sitting and spinning...while you watch TV...and drink hard Lemonade....and... Well, maybe it isn't quite so pioneer-like. But I bet the pioneers would have liked to sit and watch TV and drink a hard Lemonade too.

So, speaking of my boyfriend Google (I know we weren't but you were thinking about him, right?). He told me there is a web page showing the complete dissection of a real live Magic 8-Ball? No kidding! Check it out HERE. Boy, that computer will teach you everything. And for those of you who want to know the official 8-ball answers on the Icosahedral Answer Device (I did, which is why I looked to begin with), here you go. And if you need answers to your own mysteries, why not consult one of the kabillion oracles that are floating around in Cyberspace? You know you want to. Finally, if you want to know what the freak "Icosahedral" means, Merriam-Webster tells me that an Icosahedron is a polyhedron with twenty sides. I guess I would have known that if I were a Dungeons and Dragons player, right? Outlook is grim. Maybe I should just stick to an old fashioned Pioneer cootie catcher instead.
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