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.

Giggles like a school girl.

I'm more nervous about buying a computer.

heh.

Aww, Daniel and WindSparrow made me feel all shmoopy. So happy for the two of you!

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...)

It's nowhere near the ballparks; it's down near the south edge of the city, just past White Center.

The residential neighborhoods near the ballparks/International District are the CD and North Beacon, both of which will see a starter home running about $100k more than that.

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

Hot! I want pictures!

Daniel and WS, may your meeting go off without a hitch.