Good to hear the report Stephanie. I hope you are feeling more relaxed now.

Maybe Laura and WindSparrow are related....

I'm going to assume we are. Hey, there is no contradictory evidence.

For Billytea

Excellent... My nefarious plan is reaching fruition.

Glad things went well with your dad, Stephanie.

Ugh. I seem to have caught the Evil Virus that was going through the summer program where I was teaching. I suppose it was inevitable that I'd catch this -- my suitemate, one of my friends, and at least one of my students all had it. At least I'm just getting it now, rather than having to deal with it during the program. Feeling all gross, though -- really bad sore throat, sinuses all clogged up, and just generally blah-feeling. Ick.

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Hil, sorry to hear that. A group of my teacher friends and I called the first year of teaching "Immune System Initiation". Basically we were all sick as dogs that first year or two since the kids had everything and we caught it all. The upside, however, is that after our first couple of years we developed the Immune System of Steel. I'm almost never sick anymore, even when the students are hacking on their homework as they turn it in.

ION, why isn't Mary Poppins here to wave her unbrella, sing "Spoonful of Sugar", and make my apartment clean itself?

Glad things went well with your dad Stephanie.

and Billytea, you were in my dream last night. catching a train. from and empty lot, so I am thinking it was hobo style.

ps - drink lots of fluids, Hil.

I'm going through a bunch of stuff, find my Catwoman action figure, with her grapple harness, whip, and net. And I took her out of the packaging to play with her, nyah! Anyway, I'm trying to decide if I'm going to keep just the action figure or the card she was attached to as well, so I turn it over to read the blurbs.

Re: the net: "Pretend to catch another figure by throwing the net over him." Who's in the picture with the net over him? Batman.

Last section of the descriptive text: "With an agile body, she climbs buildings to enact her crimes. With a crack of her whip she greets her frantic, net-captured victims."

Before I met you people, my mind did not automatically go to the Porny Place with this sort of thing!

that's right, you guys are in Fairbault, right

Right. In Faribault. or "Faribo" for those looking for a pronunciation....

I just found Netflix for game systems: [link] Yay! No more renting from Evil Blockbuster!

Stephanie -- I'm so glad that your father's operation went well.

Right. In Faribault. or "Faribo" for those looking for a pronunciation....

Well, more like FARE-eh-bow, but the less sophisticated pronunciation has the t in it: Fair-bolt. Generally fisticuffs are avoided between the two camps.

Eye-rolling is mutual, but the Fairbolt contingent also claims the french pronunciation is all hoity-toity. On the other hand, both call the nearby town of New Prague "New Praig."