I just squashed a black widow that was crawling on Noah's back. And I did it without any thought other than spider on baby = bad.

Dana is, indeed, wise. Now that she mentions it, I believe the successful cut and paste jobs I've experienced were transferred piece by piece rather than by select all.

Resolution ~ma!

Yikes Kat! I am glad no biting happened.

Egad Kat, I think you just earned either a Xanax or a martini. Or maybe both.

Oh, Dana, I hate the JNC, I hate Word, and I hate Tino, but I do so love you.

A lot of the formatting information in the document is contained in that last paragraph mark, so ditching it sometimes helps. It's named after the woman who taught people to do it, though of course I can't remember that name.

(Also, what can be done to lure you into singing at one of the F2Fs? Hec and I were just lamenting that one or the other of us has met you at several but we've never yet heard you sing a note.)

Um, I've done the Buffy singalongs and was singing along to stuff at Prom last night. Personally, I kind of like the idea of a Dr. Horrible singalong, though we didn't manage either this year.

JZ, the C&P of all but the last para should work. What version of Word?

Hec and I were just lamenting that one or the other of us has met you at several but we've never yet heard you sing a note.

I hope I'll be able to see her sing when we are in New Orleans this Christmas.

I just squashed a black widow that was crawling on Noah's back. And I did it without any thought other than spider on baby = bad.

Oh my sweet Jebus, that is horrible! There are black widows crawling around in Los Angeles? SHUDDER TIMES A ZILLION.

I saw a special on black widows on Nature or something--some people who work outside in proximity to them, if bitten, will forgo use of the antidote because of a high risk of allergic reaction or a possible lessening of the effectiveness of the antivenin later on (if they continue to have a high risk of bites from black widows or rattlesnakes).

Kids who are bitten usually can't take the antivenin, either and have to be treated with muscle relaxers and pain killers to get through the awful pain.

It was actually a really tiny black widow spider. Not like the one we killed in front of the front door. This one was super small. I only figured it was a black widow after I squished it.

Still have to make it to LAX and then into the airport then onto the plane and then I hope an uneventful flight.

Travel ~ma appreciated.

black widow...baby

I'm still twitching.

Sitting here in the dark and feel something largish fall off from my sock. Take a freaked-out peak and it's one of those weirdly squat crickets/grasshopper/katydids that are slow as molasses.

Nature and I? We are not one. Time to put bells on the cats and fix the screens.

::twitchtwitch::