Happy birthday, Isaac!

Oh, the irony of Rob's goosing the trailing contestants turning out to give them an edge in flights is so rich indeed!

And yeah, Meredith and Gretchen are damn tired -- all the trouble they had finding markers and such tells a lot, I think. But then Ron & Kelly also couldn't find the clue box at the tower, so it may just have been a tough placement -- if you didn't come around to the tower at the right side, you were screwed.

I've really liked a lot of the tasks this season, especially the ones that require the teams to interact with the locals a whole lot... shining shoes, buying toys for an orphanage, delivering tea, weighing people... that's interspersed with camel-driving or goat-milking, or sucking water out of a well with straws.

(Still, my favoritest ever F-Fwd task was feeding the orangutans. That was Just Neat.)

Kelly was and is, a piece of work. Ron can do so much better for himself.

Er... Timelies? I seem to have been hijacked by the TAR portion of my brain this AM....

Congratulations to Burrell and family!

Isaac is a fine name, and well separate of its Love Boat connections.

"It's time for a Bud Lite"

Theo, does that post need white font? I don't watch TAR, so I don't know.

Welcome, Isaac!

starts humming "I Like Ike"

So in character.

Heh. I was just glad Chloe made sure to put a few extra rounds in the guy. She KNOWS what show she's on.

sumi, on VM, oh hell yeah - I wonder if she'll get creative with her taser and her Backup. Although, come to think of it, I haven't seen Backup since the early episodes. Did I miss something that happened to him, or is it just Richie Cunningham's older brother syndrome?

Also, welcome Isaac, and quick recovery vibes to Burrell.

Today is the first day in weeks, maybe months, that I haven't had something due that had to be addressed in a big panic. My new boss seems to thrive on panic and making things a big deal when they aren't.

Okay, but if his name is Bill, I'm still calling him Isaac.

My sister's name was Isaac, until they got the birth certificate amended. We still called her that sometimes.

My new boss seems to thrive on panic and making things a big deal when they aren't.

Great!

But hey, when does that staff go to 11?

A really big airplane flew today.

It was the first test flight of the Airbus A380, the biggest passenger plane in the world.