The prices are indeed crazy good around here. I could get a mansion for a half a million.

Hee! Thanks, Cashmere! I sure think so. But, boy, when I saw him today after being away from him for a week, I about died. The haircut is just too cute and perfect.

Remind Amy that I'm middle-aged and probably older than she is.

(And feeling very, very middle-aged lately.)

Parker says the following:

My kid is older than her kids.

She IS older than me, but just by a little bit.

My hips don't like where those buttons are either

and

KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF

You may flirt with March, but you never want to go home with March.

True. March is certainly not the month you want to introduce to your mother.

It's that month you get caught making out with in closets at parties, because you hate March so much, yet are unable to resist the insulting compliments March gives.

For examples of insulting compliments, see white font below.

"Wow, what a beautiful sweater. It looks stunning on women who have breasts. Why don't you return it, for something more you?"

"You know, when I met you, I thought you were a disguisting fat cow. After you lost all that weight, and I met you, I realized I was wrong. You were still a cow, but your legs were to die for."

"That shade of eyeshadow really compliments you. You know, you're the first person I've seen wearing it that isn't a hooker."

So, Windsparrow and I may be meeting IRL at the end of April.

Currently working out the logistics of her getting days off, and me getting days off, and airline tickets for me to Phoenix.

This is all tentative, so keep your fingers crossed.

My sister and her daughter have offered to pay my airfare. Now if I could only get another relative to pay for my car rental. Maybe I should try and sell some junk stuff on eBay to pay for it.

Holy cow: [link]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Paleontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock.

When they got it into a lab and chemically removed the hard minerals, they found what looked like blood vessels, bone cells and perhaps even blood cells.

Semi Numberslut?

Er, yes. Indeed.

Nothing to see here.

Move along.

Susan - about the house location. Yeah the neigborhood may have a bit more crime than you like. if it is near the ballpark then it is near Seattles Chnatown - some of the best chinese resteraunts I've ever visited. (Says the guy who has never eaten Chinese food in SF or NY...)

And in terms of your father's lung cancer. We have a local 73 year old woman who had had two strokes and a heart attack and then got this particular kind of lung cancer. She made a full recovery. So it does seem to be fairly treatable.

My hair is red again! It's mostly all one color! And still there! With no bright yellow X-Men stripe! Huzzah!

Also, Kristin! Congratulations!

(Spoiler-fonted so as to not clue March in.)

one of the houses I'm looking at

Very nice, Deena! But if you buy it after my visit, you do know that I'll have to visit again to see the new place, right?

Exciting times for Daniel and Windsparrow. Fingers crossed for you both!

Thanks Nicole.