On the flipside, The Mariners ruin more pitching arms than most major league teams.

I know the guys that run this blog. This has been a running question the last couple of years, and it's good and bad that it's finally been validated.

Good that it's finally been identified as a problem. Bad that there's no obvious solution, other than maybe having guys be more Jamie Moyer and less Felix Hernandez.

The A's have been very, very good about keeping their young arms healthy. Almost all the A's pitching problems have been back related. Wish we could poach some of the A's minor league pitching staff and start fixing the problems.

Annabel is mega-hyper lately, wanting to climb everything. If it wasn't going to rain this weekend I'd take her to Golden Gardens to run free on the sand.

Oh I am totally miffed. But I shouldn't really be surprised.

I'll help her, but I won't go out of my way to kowtow to her whims.

She's still having territorial issues since her husband got back from (all together, four out of the five years she's known him) overseas. He and I were friends before they met. So she has to show me that she is more important to him, which yeah they are married. Then she has to show him that she and I are better friends than he and I are, which no but it's not important. Peeing on stuff. I'm trying to stay out of the spray basically.

I hope it is just a reaction for J and that he is diagnosed and treated successfully very soon.

Ice? I'm going with heat tonight. And another dr.'s appt on Saturday. Other than the sore, how was practice?

what I think ( hope) is that J is haveing a mild allergic reaction. and his brain is going into funky conspiracy worlds...

beth, much ~ma for J. That is scary--but that's my own experience talking. I hope it's not too serious.

Goodness. That was scary. So nice to be home.

I totally forgot to say hi and welcome to dw. It's nice to see you around these parts.

Also, hi Shambles, glad you're here. Jump in anytime.

Good news on Fay's job. So glad it's going well.

I'm glad to hear school is going well for vw and sj and I hope they ease up on Chikat.

Yay for the Cashmere spoiler! We must think of an appropriate name.

~ma for J. I hope he's past whatever the scary was.

~ma for Tep, uncle and family. I hope sleep made it all less overwhelming.

Aidan's teacher and vision therapist are going to be at my house at noon. Hopefully, the next 3ish hours will be relatively productive and the living room won't look like cyclone city by the time they get here.

It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but that doesn't apply so well when it's really taking in disguise.

That is all deep and stuff. Love this turn of phrase.

{{{Steph and Family}}}

b.org came back up just in time for me to run off to school. See you all on the flipside! Oh, and wish me connect~ma to school's network.

It's way too early in the morning to be coherent. Shut up, I don't care if the clock says 7:30, I'm exceedingly gronkly. I have failed in my self-appointed "Dan's running late, why don't I start cooking some eggs for him" duties. I had the idea he wouldn't be coming downstairs for a good fifteen minutes, so I made eggs for me first. They were still in the pan when he walked into the kitchen.

Ya know what I needed on my eggs? More cheese. Cuz the cheese I did have was great but not enough. And also, the additional cheese should be caffeinated.

S'ok my love, I've been making eggs for myself for some time now. I appreciate the thoughtfulness. {{{Andi}}}

Steph, I hope that everything works out ok for your uncle. And I totally get being stressed about being the go-to child in the family. I'm currently that for my folks as Mom deals with her cancer treatments and Dad deals with Mom, and there are weekends when I really want to just curl up in my apartment and watch H:LotS DVDs instead. Really really. A lot.

Cass, I'd be miffed, too. All territorial issues aside, if you're calling a person for their help, and then you put them on hold for hours, you're basically saying that their time is so unimportant that you can waste hours of it for no good reason. That always burns me up.

Eggs and cheese sound soooo good this morning. And I can top them off with a cupcake. /taunty.

Name-wise, I'm leaning towards Olivia Rose. But I also like Lydia or Elizabeth for a first name, too.

We're sticking with Rose for a middle name because that's my maiden name.