Birthday Happies erika!!

I told my editor I'd turn it in today. Almost there.

Oh, good luck!

Jessica, oh, my, but he's adorable. But then, you look great yourself, too.

Happy birthday erika!

I am sitting in a deposition so boring, pointless, and incompetently conducted that I have no option but to seek solace here.

Hi Nilly!

Happy Birthday, erika!! Here's a little bit of Baltimore data for you prompted by something Jesse said last night about people spelling Drew's name "Dru":

Like Dru Hill!

Dru Hill is actually a neighborhood. Around Druid Hill Park.

I have to find another route to work. They changed the last stretch from two lanes to one lane+bike path. I'm not opposed to bike paths, but they have not re-timed the two really short stoplights and it makes for quite the stupid and annoying traffic backup. Not to mention people blithely ignoring the bike lane to try to get ahead.

Funny thing is, I suspect the bike lane came from the residents on that street lobbying for it as a way to slow down traffic (people did bomb down it at crazy speeds and one house had a large 25 MPH sign in a tree for a bit.) However, now they have a line of traffic idling and honking in front of their homes.

people spelling Drew's name "Dru"

All I want to know is should we start calling Kristin "Spike"?

All I want to know is should we start calling Kristin "Spike"?

Well, she is little and blonde...

I don't want to cause any alarm, but we may be in the midst of an alien invasion:

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village:

Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.

I won't be worried until green fur starts growing on everything.

For those who have lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan:

"Shakey" Jake passed away last night at the age of 82.