That Venn diagram made me giggle, even as I was noticing the wrongness of it. (Because I have spent WAY too long teaching about Venn diagrams.)

Ancestry.com is creeping me out. It's a very useful website -- in about 20 minutes, I was able to locate a relative that I'd been searching for for years. However, when you search for a last name, it gives you all these "interesting" facts about the name in a sidebar. One of them is sometimes life expectancy of people with that name as compared to life expectancy of the general population. And the family names that I've looked up have all had a life expectancy of about ten fewer years than average.

juliana, do you have a good recommendation for running shoes?

Thank you all for buying my book. I'm all humbled and stuff.

Cash, I'm not Juliana, but running shoes vary widely. I would highly recommend going to a store that specializes in them and explaining what you need. They'll want to know how often you intend to run, they'll look at the wear pattern on your old shoes, whether you run on pavement or trails, whether you pronate or supinate... based on that they'll give you a recommendation. I don't go to regular sporting goods stores for running shoes anymore, instead I go to specialty running shops. May cost you more to start, but you're far more likely to get a shoe that's appropriate to your feet and what you intend to do with them.

I think I have essentially ordered a game shutdown and everyone go home. They'd started gaming around noon and were still going when I left for work at about 9 PM. This was not out of the ordinary. When I got home at 7 in the morning, went to bed, got up at around noon and they were still playing, I called it. At some point, you're entitled to your living room back.

It's not really analogous, I just like telling that story. Oh, how I suffered!

I have never ordered Mr. Jane's friends out, however, he has a tendency to take in strays which is a little...disconcerting when I walk into the living room, unawares, in my bra and underwear.

I just want a little warning is all.

Finished the book, paperdol. Again, thank you so much for writing it. I'll email you later with the gushing. Just came over here from pimping it to my other online peeps.

Reading MM's stuff now.

It's been a Very Buffista Day.

I like your book, paperdol. I also like that it's your book, but that's not the only reason I have one. I also recced it to a friend that likes "Firefly". He got excited.

Thank you all for buying my book. I'm all humbled and stuff.

I mentioned it to my mother and she bought a copy, too. She's read a few chapters, and so far, she's liked it, though she's been asking me a few questions that basically boil down to, "You talk to people who use swear words like that?"

You talk to people who use swear words like that?"

Heh. And oops.

Thanks for writing the book. It's truly incredible.

I was pimping it Friday at Happy Hour, because really, while it focuses on an online community, it's stories about something bringing people together, and the shit that goes down in that community.

One girl at our table said something about the, but you don't "Know" them, thing. I told her that ages ago, a couple who we're now close friends with, had been hanging at the bar for a couple of weeks. They invited Mr. Jane and I to dinner. We agreed without even thinking. It was only when we were pulling into their driveway that we realized, "We don't even know these people! They could be swingers or axe murderers!"

They were neither, and now we get free or cheaper stuff from Neiman's.

The Bronze had Penlind, the Grapevine had Teri.

Same thing; different avenue.