It is so beautiful here today. Hot and perfect for the 4th. If only my A's had beaten that Canadian team, it would have been even better. Oh, well.

We are making ice cream in celebration of the weather and the day. Peppermint ice cream. Yes, there is store bought in the freezer. Hush.

The overfeeding in that part of Africa is well documented. I don't know about the exact amounts of whole milk they're fed, but the girls are basically tortured into becoming obese.

I should clarify. Wasn't questioning the overfeeding so much as the particular detail. The standard for "top rate" journalism seems to be that as long as you get the main story right it does not matter if a few details are wrong. Except sometimes, those details matter coughwmdcough.

It is gorgeous in the Bay Area. About 71 in SF with lots of sunshine and a breeze.

We went to EM's house and splashed in the pool. Matilda enjoyed the pool for about two minutes. Emmett and I roughhoused. EM got lots of Matilda time.

Later we came back to the City and visited a friend's BBQ. They've moved down to Joshua Tree and bought a house there (she's a teacher, he's an artist), but keep their SF apartment (subletting) and come back to visit regularly. But Joshua Tree sounds great. And affordable. They've already paid off their house.

It is gorgeous in the Bay Area. About 71 in SF with lots of sunshine and a breeze

Don't rub it in. It's currently 94 and almost 6 PM, which means we topped 100. Should be like that for the next couple of weeks. I do wish the mountains around me would stop burning. I'd like to do some breathing out smoke being involved.

~ma, ~ma, ~ma for SuziQ's mom.

So, Daniel and I are pondering signing up for Netflix. Anyone know how orderly they are about stuff in your queue? I mean, if I've got Seasons 5, 6, and 7 of Stargate: SG-1 in my queue, will they send them in a silly order that makes me wish I had only put one of those seasons at a time in the list so that I get them in the right order? Also, if you've got something that is a mult-dvd set in the queue, will they try to send it to you one dvd at a time or does it come in the whole set?

That last is the question that we especially need to know.

{smooches Andi}

Posting from very dead workplace. Shhh.

If you add it as a set, they will send them in order. If you add each disc individually, they will send them as they are available.

For example, if disc 3 of the set if not there when you would expect them to send it, if you had the set added, they would send the next non-set movie. Otherwise they would send disc 4.

It will send you the multi-set stuff in order but one at a time. So if you have a six dvd set and can have 8 dvds out - you can get all six at once. But if you have 8 dvds out and return two and there is a six dvd set in the next six spots, it will send the next two.

Umm, you have to put the multi-set disks in your queue as a multi-disk set. (Which, when I signed up for netflix you couldn't do,but is very possible now.)

Also on Netflix they will only send a movie after they have received one so (for instance) if you are on the three disc plan and you have three discs at home you really need to send one back by wednesday to be sure you'll get the next one by Saturday. (says the girl who often runs out of stuff to watch on weekends)

The other thing you can do is set up different users on one account and you'll have separate queues. But you have to divide up your number of dvds allowed out between the two users.

For example, I have all movies and documentaries on one user name and all tv and anime on another, I get 4 movies out at a time and each gets 2 dvds out at a time. That way it's pretty evenly divided and I always get 2 tv dvds and 2 movies out at once.

The other thing is Netflix has Watch it Now, which only works on PCs using XP and IE 6 or higher. But you can watch as many hours as you fee is. So if you pay $14.99/mth you can watch 15 hours on Watch it Now. There's not a huge selection of current movies but there's lots of British tv shows (lots of Doctor Who) and older movies, things like that.