Noah in a stocking is too much cuteness for my brain to hold.

Thanks! He's so smiley these days that pics of him are fun!

Grinning stocking Noah is adorable! My mom was asking about your babies this weekend when we visited. I showed her pictures. She said to let you know she will remember them in her prayers.

Mom's so cute. She'll ask me how my "vampire friends" are doing. Then if I have mentioned anything in the past like itty bitty babies she will ask how they are doing too.

Happy Birthday to Quester!

That's super sweet, Laura.

I know that this sounds stupid, but it's COLD again today.Not like extreme Idaho cold, but cold like around 66 in the house and we can't get warm.

I can't believe Pittsburgh beat out Boston on that list. I know Pitt is a really good school, but still.

I wonder if they only did Boston proper (i.e. no Brookline/Newton, People's Republic of Cambridge or lovely, lovely Somerville by the sea).

Dammit.

Someone threw a rock through a window again at work.

::scampers off for the shop vac::

eta: Bah. Upstairs tenants have shop vac, and they aren't in. No walking about without boots for me....

Antarctic base staff evacuated after Christmas brawl

Two men, one with a suspected broken jaw, have been airlifted from the Antarctic's most remote research facility after an incident described as a "drunken Christmas punch-up".

The brawl happened at the US-operated Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, located at the heart of the frozen continent. The station, where staff carry out a range of scientific investigations from astrophysics to seismology, is currently being rebuilt in a £76m project.

After reports of the fight reached staff at McMurdo station, the headquarters of the US Antarctic Programme, which is located on Ross Island, a US Air Force Hercules was sent to pick up the injured man and the other worker.

They were flown back to McMurdo, but it was decided the man's injuries were too serious to be treated in Antarctica and he was taken on to Christchurch, New Zealand, accompanied by a nurse and a paramedic.

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"There was an altercation between two people -- there's no indication of the cause or of the background between the two folks," said Peter West, spokesman for the National Science Foundation which manages the US Antarctic programme.

The injured man is an employee of Raytheon Polar Services, one of America's largest defence contractors. A company spokeswoman, Val Carroll, said an investigation into the incident would be held. She said it was company policy not to release names of the two men.

The other man involved in the incident has flown back to the United States.

Happy birthday, quester!

The baby in the stocking killed me as well.

Seriously, why did I bother being on time for work? It makes no sense.

Sheesh, they're almost as bad as Bethlehem priests.

Seriously, why did I bother being on time for work? It makes no sense.

Habit?