your friends are going to be completely okay, apart from missing you, and home, but even then, you will be talking to them lots and lots, right?

Oh, absolutely. I mean, I know they're going to be completely OK, and thanks to that internet thing I'm sure I'm going to have lots of communication with them, all the time. Well, at least with B. The older boy, N, still doesn't really understand the whole concept of phone, but he's going to, soon, I guess. So I hope I'll be able to have some sort of connection with him, as well. The baby, A - well, I'll have to win him all over again when they're back (or when I get to visit them). So the majority is still on my side (because, of course, her DH is already fluent with phone-use, as well).

Are they going to Stanford? I seem to remember you saying that.

Yup, you remember correctly.

If they need someone local to talk to about where to find stuff or whatever, please feel free to give them my email address.

Thank you, Lee. That's so lovely of you to offer.

Kat, seeing pictures of you and lori and Allyson and holding and Noah and Grace is doing lots to improve my poor-me-ishness.

Aw, Nilly, it's hard when friends move.

What, Jesse, you're saying I shouldn't have registered for the Zakys?

SCARY.

Wait, Jesse--what reminded you of the Zakys? The robot or the baby picture, or both.

Nilly, kids might not get phones for a while, but think how very this century it will be to get them all Skyping early.

The robot or the baby picture, or both.

Baby picture. I don't click on scary robots.

PS: Every one at my office is apparently trying to kill me today.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today warned consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China, and issued an import alert to prevent toothpaste containing the poisonous chemical diethylene glycol (DEG) from entering the United States.

DEG is used in antifreeze and as a solvent.

Consumers should examine toothpaste products for labeling that says the product is made in China. Out of an abundance of caution, FDA suggests that consumers throw away toothpaste with that labeling. FDA is concerned that these products may contain "diethylene glycol," also known as "diglycol" or "diglycol stearate."

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That was weird....

It was your antifreeze toothpaste, tommy. They're trying to keep us from knowing.

I have never heard of any of those brands of toothpaste.

Were we just briefly down, or was it my browser?

It was your antifreeze toothpaste, tommy. They're trying to keep us from knowing.

Heh.

I'm in ur b.org, hiding ur antifreeze