I feel like I've joined the 21st century! Sox and I just did a video hangout on G+. Very cool. Almost as good as F2F.

I am still Facebook friends with most of them, and they're still married. Two of them I'm close enough with to know they're actually very genuinely happy.

I'm really glad to hear that, and I'm sorry if it sounded like I was ragging on your friends.

I definitely want marriage and kids and all that, but I've never really had a long-term relationship. I don't really think I have too many requirements for what future husband will be like -- the one big thing is that he be willing to raise future kids Jewish, since I know that I'm not going to compromise on that one. (Willing to raise future kids vegan would be great, but I've got much more room to compromise on that.) Also, I refuse to date someone who physically recoils when I mention the word "math."

The restaurant I'm at serves mac and cheese pizza. The guy at the cash couldn't assure me it would taste good.

Nah, it didn't sound like that at all, Kate! It was a legitimate question. I didn't frame them very well - they're not unlikable or shallow. They just really wanted to be married and took the conventional steps to make it happen. While they were dancing on Saturday nights in the Marina trying to meet cute men, I was off with my dogs on solo camping trips staring at the stars through a telescope.

I feel like I've joined the 21st century! Sox and I just did a video hangout on G+. Very cool. Almost as good as F2F.

Ha. You guys live so near each other...

Musicians can be flaky. Give it some time, it may still come together.

I know. It's just frustrating. Partially because I catch a train to PDX tomorrow morning (at earlier than I've been lurching out of bed recently, so that's going to be interesting), so I am juggling stuff already.

The SO & I always say that we're still both freaks, but now we're freaks together, and no one else has to put up with us.

I am so zonkered, y'all. I just cannot get over it.

Anyway, the Biscuit just got out of dental surgery. He had several teeth out this round, poor boo, but they say he'll feel much better now. I hope so, but I feel bad for him. They tell us it's probably nothing we could have done, that his poor nutrition while he was neglected in puppyhood and on his own thereafter is likely the culprit, but I still feel bad.

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I know. It's just frustrating.

Yeah, for sure. I went ahead and pinged Mark anyway in case there's something he can do. But I don't think he's even in town with you.

Another little quake just a couple of minutes ago -- were any other Bayistas awake to feel it?

Yeah, it was one of the strongest I've felt, actually! Freaked me out a bit.

But the ones I missed while in Jacksonville were stronger, though. I came home to various things having fallen down or off shelves.

I think one of the advantages of meeting someone when you're a little older is being able to decide when you are truly compatible or just thinking you are.

That's true, but I've never been in a relationship, so I fear that if I met someone now, it would be like starting at 0. I'm so behind.

That's true, but I've never been in a relationship, so I fear that if I met someone now, it would be like starting at 0. I'm so behind.

You need some practice relationships. I feel like I should coach you on this since I had umpty jillion six month relationships.

I don't get how video conferencing hasn't caught on more. I love it. I do it with my sister all the time. I bought her an iPod Touch so we weren't limited by her crap laptop anymore.

eta: Maria, fingers MASSIVELY crossed for the DH. Massively.