Thanks, DJ! Much obliged.

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Cute babies! Yay!

Em, we miss you.

Tep - what are the details of the hanging out with SF peeps? SF peeps would like to know! Also, tell The Boy that I rode into work today, and my baby's purring like a charm. However, my INSANE cat decided to scratch up one side of the visor. Freak.

OK, here's an awesome answer from Carolyn Hax's online chat at washingtonpost.com:

Slowly aging out of the system...: So I'm a 30-plus single guy confused about what I want out of a partner. I'm young enough to get the hot twenty-something body, but old enough to actually enjoy some common sense and maturity. I date one; I want the other. I get the other, I long for the former. Confused yet? I sure am.

Any guidance on how to balance these competing (and to my mind, completely valid) desires?

Carolyn Hax: SEE THEM AS NOT COMPETING. Physical and internal attractiveness are NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

oh never mind.

Alternate.

You'd think they'd look for photos without stubble.

This.

Heh. I actually think the picture of Hugh Laurie is HOTT just the way it is. Seriously.

Apparently Jim Carrey is as ugly of a woman as he is a man.

And damn -- Leonardo Dicaprio looks like Marge Schott in that picture. Seriously.

Who knew Nic Cage looked so much like a lady?

Tep - what are the details of the hanging out with SF peeps? SF peeps would like to know!

Details are vague. I *think* that Deb is having a shindig Sunday, but I have to confirm that with her. We'll be down in SF by Saturday afternoon (or possibly dinnertime).

As for plans for the rest of the weekend, they're super-vague. Shopping for leather goods (ahem) is a must, and I keep insisting that The Boy NEEDS to see the pirate supply store. But we're pretty unorganized thus far.

I told him that if he wanted shopping to be just the 2 of us, that was fine, but if he wanted company, I could amass a horde of Buffistas to cause mayhem and merriment. (Assuming anyone wants to deal with the world's slowest human being shopping in a leather store.)

Is the offer to crash at your place still open? If it's not, I totally understand.

Also, tell The Boy that I rode into work today, and my baby's purring like a charm.

I showed him the picture, and I think he was drooling.

Matt, is that the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile???

Yep. It was parked at the West Memphis Holiday Inn on my drive to work this morning.

Man, Chicago cops will ticket you anywhere.

Is the offer to crash at your place still open? If it's not, I totally understand.

Yep! I even have Teh Benadryl, and I will be sure to clean like unto a fiend. Sweet! Also, if you'd like, I can arrange a fun dinner in North Beach - Italian, of course.

Jealous of Tep and the boy. I want to go back soooo badly.

Ah, Carolyn Hax. Love her.

Man, Chicago cops will ticket you anywhere.

Things might have been different had it been the Vienna Red Hots-mobile.