What amazes me is that I wasn't a newbie anymore when he was born. I can't believe I've been around this board that long.

What amazes me is that you and I were both pregnant when he was born. How was that two years ago???!?

The pictures of the platform are kind of giving me the heebie jeebies. At least there's no one standing on it.

Happy Mal day!

Happy birthday, beautiful Mal!

Also, vibing all sorts of good-enoughness to Emily. I'm all sorts of cross that your first year teaching in Northern California has been at a Bataan Death March of a middle school. You are a great teacher (hell, even at Bataan Middle School you've managed to reach at least a couple of kids, which is a bloody miracle) and so very much worth a better teaching assignment.

Woot! My new library book has been ordered and is in! Just in time. I've finished my last two and am ready for a new one.

I love it when my library emails me.

Not clicking the Grand Canyon link. My mother was just talking about that with me today. She said she was incredibly freaked out at the GC when our family went--she was awfully worried that one of us kids would fall off the side.

Go be sick, Vortex! Though really, you should use the sick hours for not being sick, more fun that way.

heh. I've decided that i'm going to start taking days off when I have doctor's appointments.

and Teppy, you should send that article to the guy who accused you of changing the meaning of his stuff. Nobody can argue with the New York Times.

Happy Birthday, Mal!

My brain and juliana's and MM's are all sharing space right now. No way you could get me onto a glass viewing platform. Hell, you can't even get me into the spinny tower thingie at SeaWorld because the glass slants away from me and I'm afraid I'd fall out a closed window. I stayed in a hotel where the windows were floor to ceiling and I made my mother sleep in the bed closest to the window. Well, gravity sucks, doesn't it and what's to stop a window from it grabbing me and throwing me down, down,down, down? ::shut up, lizard brain:: Doesn't explain my love for rollercoasters that throw me upside down, willy-nilly, though. That, I can handle.

Happy, happy birthday to Mal! Wow, two years old.

Buffista babies grow way too fast.

urg. I've had this sore throat/coughing up stuff/ hacking cough/ chest congestion (??) (it feels tight) for over 2 weeks now. It's not going away, but it's not bad enough to stay home or call the doctor or whatever. It's very annoying. I want it to go away OR manifest into a full out sick thing and then go away. The range of the ookiness varies as well, from day to day and throughout the day.

wow! lots happening!

Aimee, any hugs and ~ma for you and your family is yours. Wish I could do something that could help.

Kind thoughts for Sean and S - knees are troublesome. Best wishes for pain killers and mobility.

Steph, that ... stuff ... you posted. I've read things written by people with no writing skills that was more coherent (one guy tended to leave out verbs and was more coherent). Have you seen the t-shirt that says "Bad Grammar Makes Me [sic]"?

Good wishes to Emily on finding a place that appreciates her. Best wishes to Hec and JZ for recovering their music!

Happy birthday to Mal! The Buffista babies are growing up!

And in mememe news, I got a new cell phone - it's RED. The kids at the store laughed when I pulled out my old one. bah!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAL!!!!

I think I could probably get myself out on the the viewing platform. I'd be sweating the whole time, and not inclined to stay out there very long, but I think I could do it.

I've been forcing myself to confront my height fear for a while now, because of work.

Although the 30' high grid is maybe a little different than 1,200' to the canyon floor.