How old is Mac now? Seven or eight? He's wearing a bigger shoe size than me. I'm about a 3 in kids sizes.
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - May 20, 2009 4:54:46 am PDT #20323 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 4:58:18 am PDT #20324 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Caffeine is kicking in. Wheee!
I find it slightly disturbing how much my mood is improved by a cup of coffee....
Barb - May 20, 2009 4:59:18 am PDT #20325 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I had to break out a Diet Coke by 9AM. This was after two cups of coffee. It's going to be a rough day.
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 5:02:55 am PDT #20326 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I hate days like that. Because I know I'll need more coffee in the afternoon, when the morning coffee wears off.
msbelle - May 20, 2009 5:10:03 am PDT #20327 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hil, he turned 8 last month.
I don't measure him at the same time everytime, and I try to measure only once or twice a month.
Stephanie - May 20, 2009 5:10:09 am PDT #20328 of 30000
Trust my rage
One of the blogs I follow was just talking about behavioral regressions and growth spurts/mastering new skills. And how there is rarely a connection between the regression and the new skill. I don't know if growing counts as a skill, exactly, but it seems like it would fit the general pattern.
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 5:19:06 am PDT #20329 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Has my work computer slowed down a lot in the last month or so? Or does it just seem to be slower because I know we're getting new workstations soon?
eta: No, it's my work computer being slow. I had to go to the bathroom to give it time to think about things....
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 5:39:31 am PDT #20330 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal
In remarkable research, the sociologist Rebecca Warner and the economist Ebonya Washington have shown that the gender of a person's children seems to influence the attitudes and actions of the parent.
Warner (1991) and Warner and Steel (1999) study American and Canadian mothers and fathers. The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, the authors argue, the anticipated and actual struggles that offspring face, and the public policies that tackle those, matter to those parents. . . The authors demonstrate that people who parent only daughters are more likely to hold feminist views (for example, to favor affirmative action).
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 5:42:28 am PDT #20331 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Possibly there might be someone here who would find this interesting:
BETTER WETTER? Who's Hotter When Soaking Wet? (PHOTOS, POLL)
Jesse - May 20, 2009 5:55:19 am PDT #20332 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers.
I have been saying this for years!