I specifically wanted a female so we wouldn't have male-male issues with Elliot

Boy cats are usually way more chill with each other than the ladies, IME.

YAY for new kitty in any event! I have two boy orange tabbys and they are very sweet (and sometimes annoying and generally kinda dumb...but sweet and super cuddly).

Maybe Jamie Lee.

Do you watch ANTM? If so, Jaeda or Coryn would also work! Or Miss J for that matter.

Oh, Aimee. I can't help but laugh. Still, I've run into the same problem before. I didn't think it was that hard to sex kittens, but it must be. I hope they didn't pay the person that told you it was a female for sexing him/her!

Go Yammy! Choose Yammy!

I really should be reading, but I so don't want to...

My co-worker came up with a great name. Switch.

Switch is perfect!

Finally caught up here.

Vacation was delightful. Wish we could have spent more time with SA and Jars (and I'm delighted that we all looked good in the photo -- that waitress deserved her tip!).

If we ever have a Euro-F2F, I vote for Amsterdam. It's the perfect Buffista city -- an Old World charm part, a culture part (and even more when the Rijksmuseum remodeling is finished in 2009, and the 1st Floor of the Van Gogh museum reopens, whenever that is), and an anything-goes part -- and often all 3 in the same block! Plus, great public transportation, and everybody speaks English (and I mean that literally!).

Now, if only Hubs had given Security in Philly his boarding pass, instead of his ticket receipt, on the return trip....

And now, off to do some serious catching up in Natter....

Now, if only Hubs had given Security in Philly his boarding pass, instead of his ticket receipt, on the return trip....

F2F Guantanamo?

Possibly the stupidest idea ever:

- The Independent School District of Burleson, Texas, just south of Ft. Worth is the first in the country to adopt a policy of training students to immediately fight back and use their advantage in numbers to take tactical control if a gunman enters their classroom.

But outside of Burleson, Texas safety experts are appalled at the notion of students being trained to storm a person with a weapon.

"When it comes to fighting an attacker even SWAT teams have a hard time knowing what to do. How can we expect kids to know what to do," said Ronald Stephens, executive director of National School Safety. Stephens also says the child who leads the charge is most vulnerable.

"Rushing a gunman with scissors or staplers or a book might cause a gunman to shoot that person on the spot," he said.

Browne concedes that his program of fighting back carries risk. He admits that the first student to swarm an attacker may pay with his or her life. However, he believes the risk may be worth it to save other lives.

"He won't be able to shoot the fourth, fifth, eighth, twentieth or thirtieth student," he said.

so, just don't be first, then

"Rushing a gunman with scissors or staplers or a book might cause a gunman to shoot that person on the spot," he said.

Kids are gonna be confused by contradictory run-with-scissors messages....

so, just don't be first, then

You go first.

I went first last time.

Liar.