Wow, baby so soon?? Excellent (except in the sleep-dep sense). Olivia is a good name.

It just all feels...so easy to get. Like we're all walking around with skulls of eggshells.

Well, we were not telling all the stories about people who got the everliving crap beaten out of them and were fine (neurologically) the next day. Which does happen all the time --as your kravvy friends are wont to know. It's just, the dramatic ones where somebody almost died are the ones that get written up in the New Yorker.

Watch, tomorrow somebody will assault Jay Leno with an orange, and he won't sustain any brain damage at all! (A run-by fruiting!!)

Beeyotiful humidifier.

we were not telling all the stories about people who got the everliving crap beaten out of them and were fine (neurologically) the next day. Which does happen all the time --as your kravvy friends are wont to know

My feeling is more prompted by the fact that the two last times I was hit hard on the head they had nothing to do with anything. No big traumatic incident, no third (or second!) parties. One faint, one slip, and I'm a severe concussion and minor black eye bearer.

I watched a guy in my test get whacked in the back of the head with a stick, be too woozy to stand properly for half an hour, resume testing, and wake up the next morning with a mild post-concussive syndrome.

Every time someone's knocked unconscious on TV now makes my eyes spin with the @@.

Every time someone's knocked unconscious on TV now makes my eyes spin with the @@.

They do conveniently go out like lights, don't they? And stay out for as long as the plot needs them to, and when they come back to awareness, they stand right up and do heropic things.

None of this woozy crap! No staggering, no confusion! Their brains are made out of titanium!!

when they come back to awareness, they stand right up and do heropic things

And their heads don't hurt!

I hate them all.

I just got an e-mail that I almost dismissed as spam, but I think it might actually just be misdirected. It's in French, and I think someone might have mistyped an address, given my French surname.

From what I can decipher, it looks like some guy making arrangements for a roommate, or a sublet. Sounds like a nice place. It has a petit jardin.

I was one of many recipients on a weird (to me) email a couple weeks ago from a guy discussing his plans to move from Australia to the UK.

I have no idea how I got into his address book. It was a very chatty email.

They do conveniently go out like lights, don't they?

I hate that cliché. Apparently you have to hit someone *just right* to knock them out like that.

I've gotten concussed a couple times, due to being prone to fainting under the right conditions. I fainted in church and was standing as far away from the adobe church wall as possible to ensure I'd achieve maximum velocity while still hitting the wall. When I woke up, it was like a stereotypical TV show. I saw a sea of faces around me and someone said "I'm a doctor. Are you okay?" I was bundled into my aunt's Mercedes and taken home. I only just managed to hold back from booting until the car door was open and I could get my head out. I seemed to be recovering okay but a couple weeks later when I got my wisdom teeth taken out, it brought back the concussion symptoms and I was in massive misery. It was really weird how it brought back those symptoms. I think my skull is actually shaped differently than it was before that concussion.

That said, I'm actually amazed how tough the human skull is. It takes quite a lot of bonking while protecting its precious cargo.

Telegrams still exist, among other reasons, as a way for individual and corporate investors to make sure their brokers don't screw them. There are various ways a dishonest broker can diddle a client by claiming not to have received a phone call or fax; a delivered telegram is accepted by most courts as legally binding proof of delivery of the message. Of course most companies sending telegrams for such reasons use an email-to-telegram service. Similarly, most brokers recieve telegrams in the form of emails. So, while traditional telegrams do still exist, the majority of telegrams sent are emails routed through a telegraph company to obtain proof of delivery.

On edit - Ok so I missed the post that started that conversation. Apparently traditional telegrams don't still exist. But I'm betting MCI's telegraph-by-email service has not shut down for the reason mentioned above.

I was mostly okay until the Jaegermeister. I mean, I went to krav quite cheerily and everything.

Gar! Thank you for the knowing!