Oh Fred Pete, that's not fun! I always thought I'd be sick free once the kids got out of school. Never thought of getting things from the pets.

It went well. His eyes haven't deteriorated any, which is good. As well as the low vision, he's extremely nearsighted and has astigmatism. He broke his glasses in a meltdown a month ago, and we made the appt. and then his doctor went out of town and we had to reschedule, so he's been without them a while. I'm hoping he'll appreciate them more once he gets them. We're going to get flexible metal frames this time.

Buffistae sprog are so. Darn. Cute.

And I can remember when riding the Rapid was a very cool treat. But buses that bend in the middle just freak me out.

I heard from the person I apologized to yesterday! And a lovely message, too. One of the things she said was this, "I don't think any of us were the person we wanted to be in our teens, but we get opportunities to grow and change and if we're smart we take them." She friended me and asked lots of questions and I am very pleased and grateful.

That's so great, Scrappy! Kudos to her for forgiving you.

I, OTOH, refuse to Facebook friend people who were shitty to me in high school. Yes, I know it's been 20 years, I'm sure that you've learned and grown, but unless you show me that your colors have changed, I'm going to assume that you are the same douchebag.

Scrappy, that is just totally awesome!

Nobody I remember from high school has fb.

Scrappy, I hope when I grow up I'm as nice a person as she is.

In the meantime, I'm good with evil.

I'm surprised how many of my high school friends have Facebook, considering they're British. It's the first time I could easily find them online. Adoption is slow, but increasing. They don't seem to do the whole "class of" thing with the same gusto as elsewhere.

That's great Scrappy.

I haven't friended many people from HS, just a few that I sort of stumbled upon. I didn't have a big circle of friends in HS, but I can't really think of anyone who treated me badly. I got a good number of rejects when asking out girls, but I latter realized that was really my fault for asking out the wrong girls and it wasn't like I didn't have any dates. Huh, I had a very un-traumatic HS experience while also being a nerd.

It's my grade-school tormenters I'd like the apologies from. Things were far worse for me there than in high-school.

Okay, what the hell do you do with these roller things that's so excruciating?

Basically, you sit or lie down on them so you're targeting major muscles or muscle groups (e.g. glutes, hamstrings, quads, back) and roll yourself back and forth on the thing. It's sort of like a self-administered deep massage, and it helps work out tightness, adhesions, etc. It hurts like hell the first few times you do it, but it does a great job of getting the knots out.