Thanks, guys.

My new nurse was all "nice bra!" and "nice tattoo!" (on my sternum). Normally even the women leave the room. She didn't even pretend to look away.

Brenda, maybe the truck driver was raptured? Allyson, I feel kinda sorry for that poor dupe. I want stories about assholes proven wrong.

I feel bad for him, too. I mean, taunting? He's being punished enough for his own foolishness.

The guy taunting him asked if everyone will get their money back from Harold Camping. "Asked" is a kind way of putting it. It was the interview equivalent to rabbit punches to the kidney.

Stories about the dupes makes me wish there was a way to hold Harold Camping accountable.

Wow. Thanks so much for all that, Steph. I'm going to pick up some probiotic pearls, today to go with the citrucel regimen.

I'm so grateful, there's five bazillion webpages about IBS to wade through.

I am your go-to "Sweet Lord My Guts HURT!" woman.

The thing with the probiotics and fiber supplements is that they don't work right away, like drugs. It took at least a week or 2 before I started noticing that everything was calming the fuck down in my innards.

This is cuteness. [link] This is the same kid who had the Robocop costume.

No shit, aurelia.

I mean, they're adults, they made their own decisions but...

The whole mess just makes me want to bitch-slap this dude several times.

I've been obsessively checking to see when he finally shows his face. Is he any worse than those who believed him? I'm unsure if he's malicious in the Bernie Madoff sense of malicious. He doesn't seem to be a carny taking five bucks to see the woman with the head of a beauty queen and the body of a snake, robbing the rubes. Though, it'd be worth five bucks to me to see the ridiculousness, probably.

I'm not sure, but as far as carnies go, he seemed to really believe that the snakewoman did, in fact, exist. He seemed very, very sincere. If not, why not take the money and run?

Also, it'd be nice if someone checked on him and his wife to make sure they didn't take the Jim Jones route.

Allyson, did you get your web dev questions answered? To provide another data point on downpayments, I generally ask new clients for 40% down, 30% at the midpoint of the process when the client approves the design and we start building the thing out, and the final 30% right before going live (existing clients who come back later for updates or new features just get billed hourly). Every developer or shop I know does some kind of downpayment structure, although the details will always vary a bit -- so what you're seeing is totally standard.

This is a pretty clear example of what I'm looking for, and similar to my mockup. I don't have a particularly enormous web presence and my body of work is just a few items, so this sort of clean and neatness is what I need: [link]