I just want to take a moment to say that FNL's Taylor Kitsch was cute like a thing that is cute judging part of the skills competition at the NHL All-Star weekend events yesterday.

I think the universe is trying to kill me with all my too-young tv crushes resolving to have outside interests that line up with mine. I do not know that I can handle hockey-fan Taylor and blues-singing Gareth in such close succession. It may be excessive adorable.

I spent the afternoon dozing off & on, on the couch with Baby T. Considering I hadn't slept well due to a evil bout of heartburn, this was basically the ideal way to spend the day: warm sleepy baby and naps.

I went over so the other two could have some parent-time without the baby, who is at that limpet stage. It was a success and I expect I'll get called to do it in the future.

Seriously, as much as Miss P loves her new brother and they have to watch her to keep her from taking on too much mothering, she's also aware he's a competitor for time and focus. She's been writing these awesome, heartbreaking notes:"I need to talk to you about how I'm feeling, but I don't know if I can explain." and then a picture of a parent holding the crying baby and P on the stairs, waving around behind their backs. Kid, you did a pretty good job there. And she's doing it as notes, not acting out, which blows my mind.

Goddammit, I just found out that a friend of ours from the filk community died in a house fire last night. His wife and stepdaughter weren't home at the time, but they've lost everything.

2008, you're on notice.

How old is Miss P? She seems wise beyond...well, not just her years. I've been told of a lot of childish behaviour this weekend.

Watching the Fight Science MMA ep. Ah, Bas Rutten, how you make me laugh. I've never met him, but most of the instructors just before me have (some of them went on his Las Vegas stag night) and he's true to the tales.

I've stolen some of the principles for teaching the straight punch. It's a refinement of what I've said before, as well as an elevation above folk science. Confirmation and edification.

She's 7.5. It may be par for that age, I don't know.

I'm sorry, Sheryl. That's scary and sad.

Doesn't sound par at all to me. I think she should be okay. I don't think you get to be that sensible just by luck.

Sheryl, that's awful.

If anyone's breath was bated, the krav guy is in the Special Forces episode. It's just the start, but Brent seems to be hiding so far. Amir Perets (he's also in the Drillbit Taylor trailer) and Dugas have made brief appearances.

Looks like we only got two of our people on the show. But what's really traumatising is the way they talk about Amir's speed during a perfectly normal krav technique. I may just up and quit. I feel flatly humbled. Yikes.

Miss P has always amazed me, and I'm not sure how much is that sh's just my first "niece." Her brother is about the same age as D, and ...well, he's like D. Fun kid. A little problematic on volume right now, but that's the age.

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Oh jesus. Just talked to the parents. Their cleaner's niece was kidnapped down in Juarez. For a 55K ransom. She's been missing over a couple months. There is no proof of life. It's appallingly common, and rarely ends well. I mean, the Mexican gov't sent in the army because the police either were outgunned or complicit. The latest chief of police is in the hospital in El Paso under mexican & US armed guard after surviving an assassination attempt. Whether it was tried because he was clean or dirty is unknown.

It's all kinds of wrong.

I tivoed both episodes, ita, but good to know which episode they are in. I might peek at the MMA one anyway.

I made steak for dinner. It felt very decadent.

Frances has spent most of the evening pretending that she's an OB. She has DH & I playacting various stages of pregnancy, birth, and post partum. She helped us give birth, then she swaddled the babies and she gave mine a bottle. She gave DH's baby some broth.