Oooh, pretty!

I've rarely bought my own jewelry. Mom and dad have me figured out and pretty much everything is from them and I love it. I've got a coworker who has similar taste and loves my earrings. I've promised to bring something for her from Nepal and Bhutan. Which means I need to convince my parents to pick stuff out for me that isn't for me.

In terms of sunburn. First Ozone damage does make a difference. Secondly I think most of the damage is done when you first burn. So if you stay outside all the time and develop a tan and never lose it - you get a lot less damage than someone who tans or burns, gets pale again, tans or burns again. If you get dark and stay dark that minimizes the dammage. Not eliminates it cause a white persons tan is not ultra high SPF but minimizes it.

That makes a lot of sense Typo Boy. I burn now, but didn't as a kid. And as I kid I rarely lost my tan completely over the winter. And now, My feet don't burn -- but that is because I wear sandals most of the time.

I love my house.

awww

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I'm not sure how you tell raccoons from cephalopods, there. Here's a good place to start, though.

Some other appearances of the raccoon and cephalopod neighbours: [link] [link] [link]

I'm thinking that people's skin reactions haven't necessarily kept pace with the last 500 years of migration patterns. I seem to recall reading that Caucasian Australians had some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, because a bunch of people whose skin was fine for, say, Dublin, found themselves in a much sunnier environment.

This is true. It also means that we're world leaders in treating skin cancers, IIRC.

New York and Madrid being the same is what always surprises me.

It's the Gulf Stream that makes the difference in climate. Europe's Atlantic coast gets Caribbean weather ported to it via ocean current. (One of the reasons global warming is better described as climate change - it has the potential to disrupt the Gulf Stream, which would be pretty devastating for Europe's climate.)

Wait until the second floor plumbing gives up the ghost.... Then it will be OTHELL.

Migration really went speedio the last 500 years. Fucks up everything.

Oh no. My father joined Facebook.

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hahahahahha! So true and so cute.

I had dinner with Alibelle and saw her newish place. It's wee but adorable.

Oh no. My father joined Facebook.

For me to write that, it would be a sign of the apocalypse.

My dad took a med he wasn't supposed to today which means they had to postpone his cardiac catherization until tomorrow. Sigh.