No consolation Sep 11, 2009
My friend's girlfriend has a dog who "has feelings for" a particular blanket.  As such, it's called the humper blanket.  My friend had two things to say about this practice, neither of which were any consolation: 
  1. He doesn't hump it much.
  2. It's the only thing he humps.
It's like saying, "We only dropped two atomic bombs on Japan," or "I only puked on your feet." #language
Conversation of idioms Sep 11, 2009
I witnessed an interesting conversation this past weekend between two friends who hadn't spoken in a while.  It consisted almost entirely of idioms, or cliches, or some sort of overly-used phrase that has little to no meaning.  Since I can't remember the exact conversation, I'll pretend this is how it went: 
Friend 1:  I heard it's supposed to rain cats and dogs later. 
Friend 2:  I'll guess we'll have to go back to the drawing board. 
Friend 1:  That would leave a bad taste in my mouth. 
Friend 2:  Later, it'll just be water under the bridge. 
Friend 1:  We could reschedule, that way we'd kill two birds with one stone. 
Friend 2:  And we could keep everything on the straight and narrow. 
Me:  *vomit*
I've noticed a similar pattern with people whose first language is something other than English.  They learn the language by watching movies and listening to people speak, and they tend to remember the things they hear most.  For my boss, it's things like "the freaky thing" and "all that craps", while for other people it's things like, "Nice to see you; have a good weekend."  When it comes down to it, all of human speech is simply a combination of memorized phrases stitched together to create meaning.  That's all she wrote; take it or leave it. #psychology
NJ State Fair 2009 Sep 11, 2009
Back in August, we went to the NJ State Fair (it'll always be the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show for me) for the first time in a few years.  It was awesome.  It's been exactly the same for as long as I can remember.  But now that I'm old, I kind of like it. 

[gallery /img/2009/09/p0801152542.jpg:::/img/2009/09/p0801152542-150x150.jpg:::Wendy pets a goat.:::/img/2009/09/p0801154041.jpg:::/img/2009/09/p0801154041-150x150.jpg:::This alpaca wanted to fight me.:::/img/2009/09/p0801155437.jpg:::/img/2009/09/p0801155437-150x150.jpg:::A tiny duck from the rabbit and bird building.:::/img/2009/09/p0801165935.jpg:::/img/2009/09/p0801165935-150x150.jpg:::The Starship 2000 a.k.a. the Gravitron a.k.a. the reason I can no longer go on spinning rides.:::/img/2009/09/p0801170533.jpg:::/img/2009/09/p0801170533-150x150.jpg:::A giant spinning ride.:::/img/2009/09/p0801182220.jpg:::/img/2009/09/p0801182220-150x150.jpg:::Wendy rocking her end-of-summer tan.:::]
#travel