Happy birthday, Gadget_Girl!
Sox, I'm glad your dad is doing well postop. Should the recovery~ma go to your mom instead?
I still have 45 minutes before I can leave, and in the meantime I'm feeling all bloated and irritable, and people are being wrong all over the internet. I've been wandering far afield of Buffistas recently, out of idle curiosity about stuff we don't often discuss, and keep being forcibly reminded of just how differently different reasonable people can think about the same thing (by which I mean WRONG).
eta: And, no, I haven't gone near the Salon letters column. I'm not a complete masochist.