Curiously, I have a nice solid wood bookshelf with adjustable shelves that we have to get rid of to make room for the crib.

The adjustable shelves are great - you use little metal pegs. So I've got the bottom shelves set for the oversized books, and the top shelf holds CDs.

Unfortunately, Sophia doesn't live near me.

Oh msbelle, I'm so glad. I've been worrying about you. Definitely glad you're just going to treat the nasty bugger; it sounds like a classic tickborne illness.

If your foot slips I think it would be really easy to not make a 10 foot jump if you're capable of twice that.

Yeah, considering that he was in an abandoned mine, that's probably more likely.

I'm imagining that kid thinking to himself, "Oh, I can jump that distance easy. I can jump way-farther than that."

Whereas if it was me, I'd be thinking, "I could jump that distance easy. So I don't need to worry about falling to my death. On the other hand, what's the worst-case scenario? I slip during the jump and fall to my death. Is it worth taking that risk? Hmmm... probably not."

Curiously, I have a nice solid wood bookshelf with adjustable shelves that we have to get rid of to make room for the crib.

Plus, we need another dresser (instead of a nice tall narrow dresser just right for a smallish bedroom, Emmett has a long, low one that takes up tons of floor space and accumulates broken toys and gum wrappers and other detritus from his pockets that might actually make it to the wastebasket if there were floor space for one). Clearly we need a Rochester-SF matter transporter.

And as a bonus, we'd get to kidnap Sophia and keep her here forevervisit with Sophia again!

Whereas if it was me, I'd be thinking, "I could jump that distance easy. So I don't need to worry about falling to my death. On the other hand, what's the worst-case scenario? I slip during the jump and fall to my death. Is it worth taking that risk? Hmmm... probably not."

I knew a kid in college who tried to jump between two buildings and killed himself. He was very drunk at the time (and I think really misjudged the distance). The Mexican kid could have been impaired as well.

Please Rochester peeps, keep the dressers and throw out your unwanted bookcases!

Sophis, does your university have a for sale Board, or is there a local Craigslist or Kijiji? It's not a great time of year, but when the students are leaving, they often sell their furniture for a song.

Plus, we need another dresser (instead of a nice tall narrow dresser just right for a smallish bedroom, Emmett has a long, low one that takes up tons of floor space and accumulates broken toys and gum wrappers and other detritus from his pockets that might actually make it to the wastebasket if there were floor space for one). Clearly we need a Rochester-SF matter transporter.

Wow-- that is funny! Perhaps Miracleman can come up with something soon.

Wow-- that is funny! Perhaps Miracleman can come up with something soon.

I'm thinking about giving up on matter teleportation and working on matter faxing instead.

I would attempt to make a jump like that only if I were being pursued by orcs, Dementors, Go'ald, Two-Face, the Shadows, the Terminator and the creature from Alien.

I am reminded of the time I went caving, and loved all the slithering through tiny spaces parts, but at the very end, we had to jump over a chasm that was probably like one foot wide, but I absolutely couldn't do it. I totally freaked out, even after seeing every other person leap over, and they had to escort me separately another way.

Clearly that will not be my freakish method of death.

ION, I fucking hate everything today and should probably stop sending out emails. The napkins in my shoes are helping dry things out, which will maybe help.