Everybody's free to wear (higher SPF) sunscreen.

You know what's wicked helpful? SUNSCREEN.

Except for the bit where almost all sunblocks available in the U.S. aren't, y'know, photostable and lose their effectiveness after about an hour in direct sun.

I carry a tub of that stuff with me. Pale. Sun owie.

My mom was telling me I should get more sun. Then she asked with the dark patches under my eyes were from . Sun damage, mom!

Actually, some of it was just bad lighting. But while I do look better with a little color, in order to get that I have to think about it and plan as opposed to just slathering up with spf 50 when I'm going to be outside for a long time. Besides, I spent the first 17 years of my life getting roasted at 4000 ft in the sunbelt. I should probably be a little more careful now.

I've really starting being conscientous about sunscreen since moving to CO.

I'm ordering classroom supplies. I may just die. Whole new classroom. Much to be ordered.

I had spf 45 on, but I wasn't expecting to be out in the sun for an hour and a half.

My father went out and bought us 40SPF sunblock for our couple hours on the beach in Jamaica. Most of which was spent under an umbrella. I looked at him very funny, and did my own calculations. I've had pretty good results knowing when to come in/apply goop, so I can end up with a tan but no peeling.

Unfortunately I must take this amusement to polish a document in which someone added changes in red and struck out and reddened replaced text...but not by using Track Changes. They formatted manually each time.

I have a PM who does this too. It's ... neat.

I freak out now over the fact that I spent my teenaged summers baking in the sun, starting with a deliberate burn every June to "build up a base." I'd fry to the peel stage, and then when the skin finished coming off, I'd go back out and tan every day to try and get the ideal shade of allover brown. It never worked, though--all I managed to get was a relatively light tan overlaid with tons of freckles.

Now, of course, I've learned that the more burns-to-the-peel-stage that you get before turning 21, the higher your chance of getting skin cancer. Yet another health risk I have to watch out for!

You know, for all I love Track Changes, for the love of GOD accept changes before publishing your document to the intranet. I don't get people.

As a side note, if the contents of your Word doc are intented to be laid out in Quark (or, I have no doubt, InDesign), if you don't accept all changes before importing it into Quark, everything is going to be all kerfucked to hell and back.

And if *I'm* your editor and that happens, I'ma gonna kill you. Daid.