As long as it's not when I'm at work (work being on landfill), I'm okay with them, although the two I've felt gave me a lasting headache.

4.1 near LAX was what I saw for today's. I'm in Culver City and we felt it big here. Our building is designed to sway so all of them feel crazy here. HATES IT!

4.1 near LAX was what I saw for today's.

That's close enough to the magnitude that I don't know if it counts as an aftershock. One of which I swear I felt--I'm leaning up against one of my walls, and the place feels like papier maché.

Got one big thing off my plate today, and I swear I am not old enough to take care of myself.

Hey, ita, do you have any interest in the UFC match on Saturday?

do you have any interest in the UFC match on Saturday?

Just my default interest in seeing grown men bash each other's heads in. Which is to say, perhaps more than the societal norm. You PPVing it?

BitmeTV.org! I remembered! I'm not total mental swiss cheese.

Either an acquaintance of mine is or maybe we can get together and watch it somewhere -- I have some interest in seeing Machida and Bob is out of town.

I skipped ahead to say that I don't take anything Jenny McCarthy says seriously about her kid because she original thought her son was a "Chrystal" child and she was an Indigo.

Hmmm...evidentally Obama is an Indigo and also Indigos are behind all types of social networking...http://www.allaboutindigos.com/so_whats_the_truth

evidentally Obama is an Indigo and also Indigos are behind all types of social networking

So that's why George Will has that bug up his butt about blue jeans.

Important clarification:

Question: Who are the crystal children?

"There is not a new group of children that I see with a crystal life color. I believe that, in time, another color will emerge. That may take a hundred or more years. I have said for years: the Indigos are the bridge to the future. The next color will be the future. Right now I can only suspect what that color might be.

I think I'll sleep better tonight knowing this....

Are Spiritual Encounters All In Your Head? Some of them, it seems.

According to polls, there's a 50-50 chance you have had at least one spiritual experience — an overpowering feeling that you've touched God, or another dimension of reality.

50%? Wow. Not me, though.

About a decade ago, Schimmel had a benign tumor removed from his left temporal lobe. The surgery was a snap. But soon after that — unknown to him — he began to suffer mini-seizures. He'd hear conversations in his head. Sometimes the people around him would look slightly unreal, as if they were animated.

Then came the visions. He remembers twice, lying in bed, he looked up at the ceiling and saw a swirl of blue and gold and green colors that gradually settled into a shape. He couldn't figure out what it was.

"And then, like a flash, it dawned on me: 'This is the Virgin Mary!' " he says. "And you know, it's funny. I laughed about it, because why would the Virgin Mary appear to me, a Jewish guy, lying in bed looking at the ceiling? She could do much better."

Schimmel became fascinated with spirituality. He became more compassionate, less ambitious. And he wondered: Could his new outlook have to do with his brain? The next visit to his neurologist, he asked to see his most recent MRI.

"My left temporal lobe looked completely different from the way it did before the surgery," he says.

Gradually, it had become smaller, a different shape, covered with scar tissue. Those changes had sparked electrical firings in his brain. Schimmel's doctor told him he had developed temporal lobe epilepsy — a disease that has fascinated doctors for centuries.