Welcome to just about anywhere that isn't NYC, Jesse.

Hrmph. It's amazing how often I do things that aren't possible outside of NYC.

You didn't have the benefit of the intro, but all the bitty stars in the fly-throughs? She first removed them and then re-introduced them. They call her the Star Goddess in house.

You mean when you fly past the stars and see the constellations move out of alignment? That was cool.

All the fly-throughs involving stars flipping past your head. She mapped them, removed them, let others do their thing wrt to making it 3D for the nebula and whatnot and then put them back for the fly through. Basically, if a star flew past you, my Lisa had a hand in that. And my former boss's husband did a lot of the other pretties. I'm really proud of them.

That was a great effect, sarameg. You can tell Lisa we likes it.

I don't think I can make 3D Shuttle. The IMAX that made me sickest was the shuttle. Couldn't handle the discrepancies. II'll wave from over here.

Microwave in installed and testing. Am drinking hot chocolate that didn't involve the cute little had-to-be-washed hot chocolate pot. Those will get a lot less use. But they're cute.

but I was on the phone anticipating every intersection and relaying directions

Aw, Suzi. Poor girl. I've had to do this same thing with my faux-niece when she was visiting. She insists she has a great sense of direction and refused to take a map with her to get around in a city she'd never been in before, and at least three times she ended up on the phone with me completely lost and unable to even tell me where she was. She disdains the reading of street signs, as well. My BFF told me, even if she'd taken the map, she wouldn't have been able to read it. I don't understand people who can't read maps.

Do any of you have experience with tinnitus?

java, for years and years. Mine is from working in really loud venues. Some days it's almost not there (like today!) and some days it's pretty loud and distracting. Actually, I'd be glad to get the sound of the ocean, mine is an multi-toned ringing buzz. I think that, based on my limited experience with other peoples' tinnitus, if the sound you have is like the ocean, it's probably caused by the blockage, not nerve damage or scarring, and will go away once the blockage is cleared out. Also? Earplugs, if you can wear them in the hurt ear.

javachik, I can't see your London Flickr photos. Sad. I'm zenkitty2003 over there, if you don't mind.

I love maps. The NC streets that curve this way and that and randomly change their names would completely befuddle me without maps. I was raised in the street grid-centric midwest, where a street name can continue as-is more than half-way across the state (Telegraph Rd.), rather than changing every few blocks (half the roads in Greensboro, NC, or so it seems).

They are home and she is just sobbing. I don't know how to comfort her on this. I tried to offer a hug and she shrugged me off and went to her room.

Aw, poor K-bug. So stressful!

The only thing I know about tinnitus is the radio commercial on my local station that is supposed to be an OTC treatment for tinnitus. Unfortunate name for the product, though--Quietus. I'm guessing no one from the company has ever seen Children of Men, since Quietus is the name the movie uses for the suicide medicine.

Got woken up this morning by a call from work. I'm one of a handful of folks who have special rights to one of our invoicing programs. The task I needed to do takes all of a minute to run and the gal who called was SO apologetic. But not the way I really wanted to start the day.