Ha, smart kid!

What's the difference between the cool-sounding thingie and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

As near as I can tell, the cool-sounding thingie is in a different location. Also, Carpal Tunnel *can* be caused by something other than the myelin sheath getting inflamed and squooshing the nerve that passes through the carpal tunnel.

The Jose Cuervo (or whatever it is that I have; I'm too lazy to scroll back), is apparently always caused by an inflamed myelin sheath.

It's not a huge difference, but there it is.

Very few family stories, but my parents went back to the village church they went to in Portugal (Feteiras on the island of San Miguel) to look up family marriages/births/deaths. They were able to go back easily on both sides to 1750-1800, and the oldest set of records they could find dated to mid 16th century or around then...

Most of my people had the good taste to be religious malcontents and fortune hunters and came over in the late 1600s and 1700s, so they show up in lots of books. The other ones plopped themselves down in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and didn't move for several generations.

I have one relative (my great-grandfather's first cousin) who was the first person in New Jersey convicted under Prohibition. The conviction was later overturned because the prosecution hadn't shown that he actually intended to sell the liquor -- they'd just shown that he accepted a huge shipment, and happened to own a tavern. He also testified in a case related to the Lindberg baby case (and as far as I can tell, his testimony was most likely entirely false.)

That's some good lawyering!

I have reasonable doubt that, while the liquor was never sold, it sure didn't go to waste.

Yeah. Pretty much all the lawyers and police officers involved in that case were accused of taking bribes at some point.

flops into thread exhausted

I can't really catch up. I've been stuck at a trade show the last couple days. Blah. That was non-fun enough but I was late getting there today because my son was suspended for 10 days from school. This with 13 days left. Then when I got to the show I decided to check my voice messages and I had a message from the other son's teacher about his failing grade.

Son is appealing the suspension. I get his points, but I keep trying to make him understand that The Teacher Is Always Right. He'll get it at some point. He wrote a long email to his other teachers explaining the situation and asking their support in the form of a statement that he is not an insubordinate kinda guy. Also soliciting statements from a large number of other students in this class. MySpace and email make this possible.

He is supposed to be able to come and take his exams in the office, but there are all the end of year group projects and so forth to coordinate.

Who knows how it will all end, but I do know it will be some type of learning experience.

Silver lining - I don't have to get up at 6am!

Love the new name PixChick. And smooches to Sail for being helpful chick.

So tired.

Thanks, Laura! So sorry about the headache with your son. You're absolutely right--it will work out--but it's so not fun in the meantime. Hang in there.