Wow -- the story itself is so sweet, and the article is just stab-inducing. And by "sweet," don't get me wrong -- I don't really think it's a good idea for any homeless teenagers to run off and get married, but I can appreciate the romantic impulse.

my legs are tired and a wee sore, well no wonder, I just mapped out my walking over the weekend on Gmap pedometer, over 2 miles on Sat (most in Central Park), and over 3 yesterday (E and I walked to Target). Probably a sign that I should keep it up and do a few laps in Bryant Park for lunch.

I am so fucked. My router went tits up, and I'm having to pay 29$ to get it fixed. They're going to find out I loaded DD-WRT on it, and get mad.

Ack, ita! Nothing you can do about it now, though.

I do understand the scary, but I suspect it will all work out fine.

I hope so. I'm having serious offerer's remorse at the moment, but I do think it's a good thing to do. I think mostly the stressor is that I was getting ready to have my good friends in my space for the Grand Canyon trip today, but now I have three sets of people putatively in my space (dogsitter who will sleep over tonight, friends, new people who are moving in) and feel like I need to get ready for them all. Which is why I needed to breathe and am on here for a moment, but just a moment.

I still need to finish cleaning the bathrooms & the bedrooms. But I think we'll make it as they (friends & dogsitter) won't be here until noon, and the new people will come by for the key on Wednesday but won't move in until Sunday after we're gone.

Oh, I forgot what else I was going to post: Bigfoot. Totally real, peoples. At least that's the going opinion in these parts, partially because it's part of the local Apache cultural belief set. There was just a film done by someone pseudo local about how they really are in these mountains. Were supposed to have found a body and all.

It was probably just Adam from Northern Exposure.

Which reminds me, yay, Alaska!

I'm having serious offerer's remorse at the moment, but I do think it's a good thing to do.

Well, it's definitely a good thing to do for them, and I hope it's good for you as well!

I think we should have an official Buffista commandment:Thou shalt not read the comments section of any article for the preservation of one's sanity and blood pressure.

...or, at the very least, realize that the damage to your sanity and blood pressure is your own fault.

Well, it's all done. She hadn't heard of DD-WRT, but her administrator wised her up to it, and they didn't give me any guff for it. I'm still out the 29.99, and I have to reset all my wireless devices passwords, but that's it. Maybe I'll change the security while I'm at it.

When I was a kid I'd pretty regularly convince myself that a noise like that was a bigfoot.

And now you know it's just a possum.

:: remembers when the possum bit Trudy at Kristin's ::