Holy crap, is that normal?

Yes. I never took pictures of the 200 some vinyl LPs my son played frisbee with. Then disco danced on top of. My entire Elvis collection destroyed in a matter of minutes.

ION, I love The Daily Telegraph.

Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft

IT left Earth 33 years ago, now it's claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode.

NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.

But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!

The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?

Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth"

Yeah, that makes sense....

SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY.

Leif has drew on many things with crayons. Taken out a TV. Taken out a bookshelf. Put a couple holes in the wall. Made some remarkable messes with lotion. Damaged a sofa. Destroyed mini-blinds. Spilled paint on the carpet. There's probably been some other stuff I've forgotten.

Emaryn has poured some maple syrup on the carpet. That's about it.

It took constant vigilance to keep Emmett from ruining stuff in his toddler years. But we did. Except for my Buffy figures. He ruined all those. And in a scene mirrored in Matt Groening's Will & Abe cartoons, he was hell on pop-up books. If there was quiet in the house for more than a minute then I knew he was up to something.

I can't imagine leaving a 3 y.o. alone in the bathroom long enough to fill the tub to overflowing.

Can I get a round of FUCK CANCER?

My previous assistant L, who has fought cancer for the last 5 or so years, passed away on Monday. I just got the news and am so incredibly sad. I just want to go home and weep.

FUCK CANCER. With a rusty sword.

things I could have taken pictures of had I known about that site:

family portrait, my Christmas, a book, my bank balance, a shirt, his raincoat

We had some baby powder accidents. Crayon on the walls. Sara used to love to take every CD out of the cabinet as a toddler. Jake did the same with books, so a lot of dust jackets bought it. But none of them ever did any major damage.

Yes and No, Zenkitty. Noah is rarely unattended. But he did put an ID card into my CD-ROM drive on my laptop that I found when I was at work. AND he got a richly deserved talking too for that one.

Dylan went through a phase where he was shredding any paper he could get his hands on (books, newspapers, magazines). Thankfully he seems to have grown out of it.

We only buy washable crayons and markers (and keep the Sharpies on a high shelf), have eggshell finish paints on all our walls, and both our couches are black, so it would be a challenge for him to really destroy anything by drawing on it.

I can't imagine leaving a 3 y.o. alone in the bathroom long enough to fill the tub to overflowing.

I've done it. The sink makes a good water table in a 4th-floor walk up.

[eta:

Sara used to love to take every CD out of the cabinet as a toddler.

Oh yes, this! Dylan used to stand next to the DVD cabinet and methodically empty every single shelf until he was sitting on a pile of DVDs bigger than he was. But we let him do it because it wasn't really destructive, and it was pretty easy to clean up afterwards.]