Oh, they are going to cry SO HARD when you quit.

It appears I'm one of their major profit areas.

And ever since I made the decision to move to Chicago, not a day goes by here without proof that I am, like, indispensable.

Am I right in thinking they haven't been paying me enough?

Most definitely.

Thanks everyone - after I posted I remembered when we first moved in that one particular detector was prone to randomly going off for no reason (which sets them all off). After discovering that the ladder was no where near tall enough, I managed to climb up on this wall ledge near the detector and get the battery out.

It's very creepy to be alone in a house (but for the baby and dogs) and have all those alarms start going off.

And ever since I made the decision to move to Chicago, not a day goes by here without proof that I am, like, indispensable.

Good! Fuck them for treating you like shit.

Ha Ha! t /Nelson

I'll settle for a live cell phone connection.

I have a camera phone!

shrift, I think bringing that up on the big I QUIT day would be glorious.

Huh, good one. Will have to note that down. They don't pay me badly, but I'm not exactly feeling rewarded, here.

You're a profit center. Most of us are just overhead.

I imagine I have very little overhead. I am the peon dancing the gavotte on the head of a pin.

I have a camera phone!

Awesome.

"I quit!" *click* "You guys suck!" *click* "Think of all the money I won't be making for you any more!" *click"

Japanese researchers harvest stem cells from menstrual blood:

The researchers say these stem cells could be coaxed into forming specialised heart cells, which might one-day be used to treat failing or damaged hearts.

At the meeting of the American College of Cardiology, Dr Shunichiro Miyoshi reported that he and his colleagues at Keio University in Tokyo collected menstrual blood from six women and harvested stem cells that originated in the lining of the uterus.

They were able to obtain about 30 times more stem cells from menstrual blood than from bone marrow, Miyoshi says.

The stem cells were then cultured in a way to induce them to become heart cells.

After five days about half of the cells contracted "spontaneously, rhythmical and synchronously, suggesting the presence of electrical communication" between the cells, Miyoshi says.

That is to say, they behaved like heart cells.

Stephanie- when our libray put in new carpets - the dust got into the smoke detectors and set them off. - they can't tell the difference between smoke and dust.

Fun picture of me and Emmett

Almost exactly a year ago.

AWESOME -- the passport people say my passport is going out today, so I should be home tomorrow to get it! If it was going to come Thursday, I was going to have to beg my deli guy to sign for it, and hope for the best.