When Wolf Blitzer asked Falcon's father to ask Falcon what he meant when he said, "You guys said we did it for the show," his father refuses to relay the question (the kids don't have earpieces) and tells Blitzer, "I'm appalled at you." [link] This is definitely not seeming right.

Oy, I just dropped about $100 on my mom's Xmas gift for next year. Could not believe the amount of thread that was needed, and some of it was specialty thread that I had to google for. Found a neat supply website for cross stitch stuff, though--Stitching Bits and Bobs. More stripped down than most of the sites out there, and it has a lot of the more esoteric supplies. Looks like they have a store near Grand Rapids, MI.

If there wasn't enough gas in the thingy to fly a kid, what was the thingy? Was it just underinflated and could it have flown a grown person at any point?

My boss is away tomorrow, and out of the office through next Thursday. Which in no way mitigates our insane deadlines. But at least the document he wants tomorrow he's willing to accept in draft form to see where I'm at. I just have to work out how to be as perfect as possible by end of business tomorrow. Or at least interesting and undisappointing.

I'm currently wearing a Cafepressed T-shirt that says Hell Yeah in a thought bubble. I'm trying to put together why I made it. I think it was part of a krav family gift for V. The baby's shirt said "My mother can beat up your mother" and the adults shirts said "Hell yeah" and for some reason I ended up with one. We should all hang out together.

If there wasn't enough gas in the thingy to fly a kid, what was the thingy? Was it just underinflated and could it have flown a grown person at any point?

From what they said in the interview, it seems like the plan was to eventually have one that could carry an adult, but this one was just supposed to float around the backyard without any people.

Thanks for all the good wishes for my mother--she came home early today, rested, and is feeling much better.

I'm glad ita.

I hope it wasn't a TIA. Whatever it was, the fact that it left no damage to detect is a good thing--I'm holding onto that.

No damage is good. I hope it doesn't happen again.

ita, I think the family was planning to send the balloon thingy into the eye of a storm or something to measure something or other. I don't think it was planned to be a vehicle for humans.

And that family is whack.

That's great that your mom is home and not feeling any aftereffects, ita. May it continue that way.

And yes, that family certainly comes across as nuts. Apparently the father wanted to do his storm chasing thing into Katrina and take the kids along for the experience.