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Welcome back P-C!

Was more concerned you may have been making an innocent day trip to the other side of the country or something and picked Tsunami Day.

I would be interested in the reactions of everyone much closer to the disaster than I. When you get a chance, let us know how people reacted to the tsunami when you were over there. It's one thing to be half a world away from such a thing, I was wondering if it was another to be on the other side of one of the affected nations.

I made pumpkin bread for the first time last night and am eating it now. AIFG!!!

Though I really can see the car failing to get enough traction on a slippery hill and skidding into the nearest tree/fire hydrant/parked car.

That's a valid fear. Not so much because of the damage, but because of the amount of time it might take you to get unstuck and with a baby in the car. Even though I drive on snow a lot living in the Midwest, there's still streets I try to avoid like the plague when it's snowy out.

Baby wouldn't have been in the car--DH would've come to the second service only and brought her. Which would've put me in the second, smaller and older car that I don't trust quite as much.

Really, really need to get out of the habit of overthinking these things. I wish I could manage to just make a choice in circumstances like this, and not spend half the day angsting over it. And it's really only petty stuff like this. With big, true crisis-level things, I'm as clear-headed and decisive as anyone could want.

Okay, see, the letters things was just going to be a way to say welcome back P-C!! in a way that I thought he might like, and that would be entertaining to those involved, but then he came back earlier than was expected, and people are away or offline for the weekend, and then we were going to try to wait for them, and it just didn't work out as hoped. It was not meant to be exclusionary, beyond the limited number of people it took to spell out the message.

Anyway, Welcome back P-C, and sorry for the annoyance factor to others.

Sorry it didn't work, Lee :( I thought it was a cute idea and never thought there'd by an annoyance factor. Sorry to those who were annoyed.

Anyway, hope you feel the love, P-C!

Okay, see, the letters things was just going to be a way to say welcome back P-C!! in a way that I thought he might like, and that would be entertaining to those involved, but then he came back earlier than was expected, and people are away or offline for the weekend, and it just didn't work out as hoped. It was not meant to be exclusionary, beyond the number of people it took to spell out the message.

I was right! I didn't want to look all self-centered if I were wrong. Thanks for the effort, though. It would have been very amusing, and I appreciate it all the same. (I set the 10th as my definite return date because I wasn't certain I'd have Internet access at home. Thus my "early" return.)

Lee has a new tag, and I think Sail does, oddly enough. New since I got back, though definitely new since I left. GC too now. Ha! (And to save time...everyone who previously had letters will undoubtedly revert to their previous tags which were most likely new since I left.)

I would be interested in the reactions of everyone much closer to the disaster than I. When you get a chance, let us know how people reacted to the tsunami when you were over there. It's one thing to be half a world away from such a thing, I was wondering if it was another to be on the other side of one of the affected nations.

I didn't even hear about it until a few days later. And really, I didn't see much of a reaction on my side. Then again, I didn't get to watch or read the news that often. But as far as regular old people go, there wasn't a lot of talk as far as I knew. Yeah, so...I got nothing.

Maybe the US news is more "Big Event" centered.

Yay! P-C is back!!!

P-C, did you tell your parents you were doing science writing? What did they say?