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I do quite often marvel at the customers in the Not Always Right blog, but today the joke's on the server -- in this one, we're supposed to be amazed that the mispronouncing customer is mollified when the server re-pronounces the name of the dish.

Except that the customer (and about a billion people in the U.S.) is correct. "Bruschetta" is NOT "broo-shet-ta". In Italian, if there's an "h" after a "c", it's a hard c, and pronounced as "k". It's "broo-sket-ta".

Drives me up the wall, that does.

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A bunch of squirmy kittens -- including one sucking its thumb. (YouTube)

Things That Scared Sora Today

Sora and Nefer chased a cockroach earlier. It got away by the time I got a shoe to smash it, and Sora is now freaked the fuck out. He's slinking around, eyes wide, staring at nothing, and jumping at the least little sound or movement. Well, moreso than usual. I figured that at least some of you would sympathize. :)

(The temperature hit the 90s and all of a sudden we started seeing roaches - only 4 so far, but that's 4 too many. I did some poking around and found that diatomaceous earth, like I want for the garden, does the same thing to roaches that it does to other bugs, AND that catnip is a proven roach repellant. XD We just need to simmer some of the Chronic Catnip in water to make a tea, then get a squeezy bottle and hit around the house. I think we can handle that.)