The resultant cute might kill us all, but I think we'd be willing to take the chance.

I'd be willing to throw myself on that cutie grenade and save you all.

Doesn't your nose just get fatigued after it's smelled the same thing too strongly for too long, and decide to ignore the smell from here on out?

Yep. When I was a kid, whenever I got back from vacation I'd notice just how much our barn stank, but I'd quickly get used to it.

But at least I took a shower after working in the barn if I had to go anywhere public.

Well holy fucksticks, Batman.

Apparantly, the utility companies out here provide you a barrell when you start new service. The better to BEND YOU OVER AND FUCK YOU.

The water/sewer utility out here charges an 80% surcharge on your bill. Sometimes, the surcharge is more than the bill.

WTF.

My friend's girl twin, who is 17 months tomorrow, just started eating people

Haha...I started to get scared when I read that, until I got past the parenthesis and saw the word "food".

The nose fatigue happens with good smells too. When I worked at the chocolate shop people would come in and say, "oh my gosh how do you not weigh 300 pounds having to smell that wonderful smell all the time?" But the store just smelled like a retail store to me.

Dear wife, don't stress about the baby eating. She's big and solid now and very active and eats what she wants when she wants it. She's fine. She's a very healthy baby. Maybe swing by Andronico's and get that pumpkin pie stuff she likes.

Potty Training: Aiyeeeeeeee. God it sucked with Emmett. That was a very stressful year. He peed in the potty fine, but pooping was a nightmare. He would half poop in his pants, and not tell. Then he'd get an awful rash so that wiping him was a painful, screaming event. Then he'd get horribly backed up and constipated because he wouldn't poop. So we'd have to get him to drink mineral oil to get it out.

Ultimately it was his daycare provider who sat beside him while he was on the potty for forty-five minutes every day, encouraging him and being patient.

The one thing I know is you've got to be calm and patient. Very calm. Very patient.

And how much gin did you go through during that time?

And how much gin did you go through during that time?

Heh. Is that to me? There was much stress and drinking, yes.

It was unbelievably amazing how much easier parenting got after Emmett was 4 1/2. So many of those thesholds had been crossed, most importantly - some basic grasp of causality. The ability to not only communicate but say "this equals that" was huge.

The water/sewer utility out here charges an 80% surcharge on your bill. Sometimes, the surcharge is more than the bill.

Dude, that's just like EBMUD. My last bimonthly bill was like this:

ACTUAL WATER I USED: $1.65
Water Service Charge: $17.30
Seismic Improvement Program Surcharge: $3.20
Wastewater Treatment Charge: $19.03
SF Bay Residential Pollution Prevention: $0.18
City of Oakland Sewer Service: $36.10
TOTAL: $77.46

Does that seem right to you?

Does that seem right to you?

But hey, your water has been seismicly improved.