M - Sarah Shahi (Mmm. So pretty.)

C - Sarah Michelle Gellar (Sorry Buffy!) F - Sara Ramirez (Raar!)

I like our Olympics much better.

Dude, and you could double up events so you have archery from horseback and wrestling in kayaks.

ION, my news about me, van now won't be fixed until Thursday (catalytic converters, completely different shop), so we're headed to DZ tomorrow in the rental car to pick up our instruments. So, miserable, expensive, but on the bright side, we spent today ambling around the botanical gardens. Including the butterfly pavilion, which is awesome. We saw lots of swallowtails, including a Giant one that was huge.

Then we wandered around their Japanese garden, which is also lovely and gives us lots of good information about what we can do with our landscaping. It was very restorative.

And we just had a reasonably good meal at Olive Garden. So we consider ourselves fortunate to have the company resources available to deal with all this.

Just drop teams from each country in the Gobi Desert. The first to make it to Beijing wins the gold.

oh my ... I'm trying to catch up (yes! it was time for the Bataan Death March meeting!).

Wedding story of the week - a co-worker has teenaged children and she and her husband are (very) lapsed Catholics. So they go to a class to find out about getting their kids baptized. The priest finds out that they had a civil ceremony, tells them they've been fornicating - for 17 years - and pretty much kicks them out. So ... they're getting married in the church. They have to take pre-marital counseling sessions ... which are pretty much moot, since they've been married (or fornicating) for 17 years. There was a snag, since she's from El Salvador and was baptized by (anyone wanna guess?) Romero ... and the records of all the ceremonies he conducted - including her baptism - were destroyed. So she had to get a certificate that says she WAS baptized, with no specifics.

She's wearing white ... and giggling hysterically about the whole thing.

Once they're retroactively OK with the church, they can get the kids baptized.

Pre-cana classes? After seventeen years?

This is why I happily stay lapsed. Well, that and the fact that I sinned by marrying a Nice Jewish Boy.

you have archery from horseback

Another event the Mongolians can dominate in!

Happy Birthday Lisah!

Our Olympics are amazing. The Olympic Committee should take a lesson or two.

You know, I think diving should be in the survival Olympics. You never know when you are going to have to do a 1 1/2 pike with 1 1/2 twists dive off a cliff to get away from marauding bears.

You never know when you are going to have to do a 1 1/2 pike with 1 1/2 twists dive off a cliff to get away from marauding bears.

Or Brooke Shields