Word to the wise

[unixronin]

This may come as an unexpected revelation, but when you're picking through and de-seeding a bunch of dried chile peppers, and you manage to drive a sharp shard of hardened dried chile up under your nail and into the nail bed, IT REALLY @&$#(*&$($#$%@$ HURTS, and continues to do so well after you dig the *@#&$*&%*&#$%% shard out.

Capsaicin .... the gift that just keeps right on giving.

Comments

[smandal.livejournal.com]

My family and I sit down to lunch one weekend when I was in high school.

Suddenly, a squirrel starts banging on our kitchen sliding glass door. It had a certain desperate look in its eyes. We're like, WTF? We throw him a pizza crust, and munched it down right in front of us; it looked a bit relieved, and ran off.

After finishing our meal, we go out onto the deck, and find that half the chilies on our chili plants are gone.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Best squirrel story I've got is watching one pick up a wild mushroom and do a high speed twirl of the stem in his paws while he nibbled the crown.