Best wishes to your friends and your niece, Hec. I hope things continue to go well for all of them.

Also, have a great weekend, all of you!!

2. My niece Crystal had her baby seen weeks early. (She's diabetic.)

Wait, seven weeks early? Because I stared at that for a long time trying to figure out if diabetes would make a baby show up on an ultrasound early or something, and if that would be bad, before I figured it out. (What? I don't know nothing about birthing no babies.)

Wait, seven weeks early?

33 weeks. Is that better? It's preemie but doable.

Heh, no, it was just the part about seeing the baby early that threw me.

Also, what I meant to say but got distracted - good news on both baby and kidney seeming to have come through well. Hopefully Reno is good news too.

Hopefully Reno is good news too.

The only issue is when the snow comes. But it's better to go through the mountains in daylight whether the snow comes or not. So we're leaving at 8am and should arrive around 1pm.

But it should be a fun trip. I've been in the mountain passes when a blizzard hit at night and that was not so much fun. (By which I mean two hours of not moving and waiting for a snow plow to show up and pulling off and getting chains on your tires and arriving five hours later than your had planned.)

Hah. Remind me to tell you about the time I was driving to Florida and hit Tennessee right when the blizzard did. Yeah, I get you. Weather~ma for you.

I am done with interviews.

I networked a bit.

I was social -- I saw a guy that a friend introduced me to a few days ago, went over to say hi, and he and his friends were going out to dinner and asked me if I wanted to come along, and I said sure, so I had burgers and beer with them.

We discussed interviews. No one has any idea how anybody is deciding anything.

This is exhausting. I think sleep now.

Yay for being social, Hil.

Also yays for Hec's friends and niece+baby.

I've always wonder if was a tribal survival trait.

One of my favorite uses of the "seeing all the possibilities" is at work, trying to stick to a set menu goes all to hell if a few ingredients get forgotten at the grocery store, or somebody used up a bunch of stuff at the wrong time so I simply do not have what I'm supposed to. The wheels just start churning, I can take a look at the items available, at what will be needed for other meals, bear in mind any special medical/dietary needs, and come up with a tasty, balanced, healthy meal in spite of shortages. I can totally see that skill coming in handy in more primitive circumstances. It's kind of McGyver in the kitchen. And I'd bet there is a certain amount of it in the ability to McGyver in other survival situations.

I was driving to Florida and hit Tennessee

I did this every year in college going from Ohio to Florida at Thanksgiving. I took the night shift and went through the Smokie Mountains. I remember fog so thick I could barely see the taillights of the car 20 feet in front of me.

Tennessee is tricky!

Also yays for Hec's friends and niece+baby.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the transplant holds. Alex has Polycystic Kidney Disease which has been very painful for him. New kidney means disease-free. It'll be a huge, positive change for his life.

And early reports on the baby are good. I'm not keen that he's "Karson" with a "K" but that's not something I'll share with my niece. I'm sure he'll be an excellent human despite the handicap of that spelling.