What freaks me out is looking at the ages of the kids and then calculating that she's been pregnant almost continuously for 17 years.

Really. Between 2 pregnancies and nursing for a few years I was sleep deprived for about 5 years and nearly lost my mind. 17 years of sleep dep, yikes.

It is the contrast that makes it hard to swallow. I grew up in house with all girl children. So it never occurred to me that a girl wouldn't learn about mowing the lawn, or a boy wouldn't learn to cook. Or that there were any limits on what I could do

I grew up in a house of mostly boys, and I learned the same things.

Mom and dad wanted all of us to have a basic skill set for life, no matter what we did.

I have a spike in stupid spam, and it's breaking my Bayesian filter--I haven't had this many false positives since I installed the damned thing.

Most of the spam (that it's not catching) is very obvious to the human eye: invest smart-166837278 or account-4545540494, and no text in the body, just a PDF-extension attachment.

Omnis: right now they are talking about the wording of the poll. Once the wording is settled on then the polling of the actual poll will be announced.

Yes, right now it's a chance for everyone to look over the poll and make sure that the wording is clear or offer suggestions.

So if you read it and want to add something please do!

re: poll. thats what I thought. I just wanted to make sure. Gots to vote! Me'z a good city-zen!

As for the SPAM, I've been getting a ton of "you received a greeting card from ___" where the blank changes from: neighbor, friend, roommate, worshiper, etc etc. Like 40-50 a DAY.

I've had a handful of the greeting card and invest variety, but nothing crazy. Must be getting caught somewhere. I haven't had so many of the random text variety either. Those are kinda fun.

My SPAM seems to be about the same as ever.

Toto's e-mail box's SPAM tends to be mostly in Chinese. It cracks me up.