bt, I'm holding your nephew and family in my thoughts. What an awful nightmare of an experience.

Also, burrell, glad to hear your niece is recovering. The universe needs to leave the babies alone!

Huh. This must really be visiting day in puppyland. Three different sets of people in the last couple of hours.

laga that link needs a nsfw note. Not everyone can handle super hero gay porn pillow fight.

I just got back to DC. Amtrak added some extra trains today, and they were using MARC trains for it. I ended up on one of those. So, not only a less-comfortable train, but one that can't go as fast. Ended up getting in almost an hour late, then had to wait forever for a cab.

Holy crap, billytea! And Burrell! Much -ma to the both of you, and your respective small relations.

News From Bangkok: The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy - which is something of a misnomer, since they are very much NOT all about democracy as we know it) protestors are still occupying the airport. Many of them are old people and small children - they've been camping out and occupying various locations for months now, so they're doubtless happy to stay where they are for the foreseeable future. They are apparently armed with bags of spices, and protected from teargas by...swimming goggles. Bless.

The police and the army are very loathe to do that whole go-in-guns-blazing thing, which I have to say I do admire. But I don't see how this is going to have a happy ending. The police DID try to go in a few days ago, but were vanquished.

Selfishly, I'm hoping that the airport will be working again and I can fly home as planned on December 16th to see my family - however, I'm conscious that if my holiday plans get screwed up, I'm still in the happy position of having an apartment here and friends to visit with over the holiday season. There are a helluva lot of stranded holidaymakers stuck here right now - and if I were in their shoes, I'd be totally screwed. Staying in hotels is not cheap. At this rate they're going to be camping out in Lumpini Park, if they aren't already.

My kids have started talking about it this morning: "There's going to be a war" and "The Thai people are fighting the other Thai people" etc. Hopefully things will calm down - the only thing I can see working right now is if the king comes out and tells the PAD they need to go home. That'll do it. They're all wearing their We

Fay, I'm happy to see you online and know you're safe. I hope you can get home for Christmas.

Fay, I'm glad you are safe. I hope that you get to go home for the holidays, and that all those stranded travelers get the same chance soon. Most importantly, I hope no one has to get badly injured for this to resolve itself.

Happy birthday to Emeline!

Fay, good to see your pixels safe n sound.

Flickr friends - photostream starts here. Please to ignore the glaring bruise on her forehead - she launched herself into the end table in my parent's living room on Wednesday night. Nice to see she inherited my grace.

If you aren't a Flickr friend, I'll totally friend you.