Pretty good

That's good to read.

Also, does that mean that the whole - um, which machine was it, again? Time traveling or robot duplicating? Or just a general let's-rule-the-world thing? Anyway, is that all finished in your castle?

How are things over there aside from badly behaved servers?

Crazy busy. They asked me mid-semester to replace a lecturer in one of the classes, so that's eating up pretty much all of my time. I mean, I love teaching and the students are great and I knew it was going to be time-consuming going in. It's the good kind of busy. So, other than mocking myself regarding my whiny-ness, I'm not really complaining.

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msbelle! I'm sorry for poor mac, but at least he saw last night and today that you're there for him and he can trust you, tell you stuff and have you improve things, right? Or is that too Pollyanna-ish of me?]

Time traveling or robot duplicating?

I'm still missing a couple of parts that haven't been invented yet.

Or just a general let's-rule-the-world thing?

So far I've only managed to secretly gain control over Canada, but don't tell anyone, they haven't caught on yet.

I hope things go well for Mac.

sara! Good to post with you.

So far I've only managed to secretly gain control over Canada

Oh, does that mean you control their snow, as well? And if so, could you be convinced to transport some of it here? All the global weather reports were full of talks about storms last week (you guys took care of yourselves and stayed snuggled and warm and dry, right?), and all we got was rain.

Wait, so if I don't post for a day, an alarm goes off in the batcave?

Awesome.

Dang, those floral urinals are really homoerotic. Except the pink orchid, which is just a giant yoni. That, um, a guy can piss in. That disturbs me.

From back a ways:

Hec, I'm with Matt. Dude. Tunguska.

Clearly it's a large gap in my knowledge base. Fortunatetly, I now have Wikipedia to fill in the gaps.

I had never heard of it until yesterday. But my education is spotty.

Ray comparing something to the "Tunguska blast" at one point.

"You have been a participant in the biggest cross dimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909."

I never quite understood what Ray was saying after "cross dimensional," and so I assumed it was some madeup shit anyway.

Me = DUM.

We all girt ourselves in tights and went urban-spelunking on your behalf. There might have been kissing, too, but I went to bed early.

So, yes.

In completely other news, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, the guy who blew people up because he had a thing about government and control and, actually, he was crazy (still is) but his crazy revolved around being part of systems like electrical grids and tenure-review? Right now, he's in prison (although he tried to kill himself, I think more than once, when first incarcerated), and maybe it's a sign of his increasing sanity that he is using the federal courts to challenge the US government's sale of his personal writings.

I mean, probably his lawyer told him to, but, hello to the irony!

How are you doing?

I also have fairly recent photos

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Okay, so if anyone wants to verify my whereabouts yesterday, you guys totally saw me.

Oh, Gud, even Leif is already completely a child by now, no more a toddler. How old are they now?

And I love how both their faces in those pictures, different as they may be, are so full of expression. I could almost cuddle on the carpet beside them and join their game, just from looking at them.