He's 10, and he went over to the neighbor's house...but he didn't have any of our phone numbers memorized.

Which will be taken care off tour de suite, let me tell you.

And now he knows where the Sekrit House Hey is hidden outside, and that he is NOT to go outside unless Dad or I are awake.

I also just took out neighbor our cell numbers, and the location of the key, and apologized abjectly. I will be making cookies or brownies for them this weekend.

God, I hope he doesn't tell his mom; she will freak like Loki on 'roids.

Ugh -- still making the flaily hands of GUILT. (I know, I know...but....)

The guilt definitely makes sense because it sounds like mama bird will be guilting you horribly if/when she gets this information.

I can understand why you feel guilty, Strix, but it sounds like you put measures in place to see that it does not happen again. I kind of don't understand why the neighbors had to call the police to get ahold of Dan (unless they didn't know where he worked, but then how would the police know?).

Please tell me I am not crazy--

At work we have a pdf on our shared drive with everyone's room number and phone number at work. I made a shortcut on my desktop, and when I need to call someone, I look on this list. Everyone things I am INSANE because I don't print it out. I mean, I understand that different people do things differently, but they are really completely and totally baffled. They are also baffled that I don't have a telephone book or Office Max catalogue at my desk, because both things are available online.

Locked out of the house for three hours? In the daytime? Please. He's ten, not two.

Locked out of the house for three hours? In the daytime? Please. He's ten, not two.

Yeah, that's kind of my thinking too? But not a parent, so IDK.

Sophia, you aren't crazy. If you print it out then you'd have to stick it some place.

And when it gets updated you'd have to throw that out and reprint the new list (don't know how often it gets updated).

He is 10. It was a safe way to learn an important lesson. Yes, there could have been a different outcome, but there wasn't.

Strix, I'm *so* sorry, but poor kid--that's kinda funny, and he'll probably go and get your numbers tattooed on his forehead so people can read it back to him if it happens again.

DON'T GO OUTSIDE WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, KIDDO!

However, at ten, he really should have his address book in the cloud--that's a little irresponsible of him, don't you think?

I am currently flipping my nut at developers, but JESUS. Just know your stuff and do it, will you? Don't make me uneasy. I don't have the juice to be uneasy.

Apparently I had done the most reading for book club.

Given I thought it started at 1, and it really started at 12:30--that shows you how crap our little group was. And I dominated the discussion, because I'm nothing if not good at talking about stuff I kinda know something about. However, I totally promise to read the next two chapters, because me and the group leader have pretty much come to blows on the topic of chapter #5.

Use cases--very volatile subject. As I'm sure you all know.

I have been talking Dark Knight to...everyone internal and external, and it seems to crack guys up when I call people who've signed the NDA the League of Shadows, or complain that the New 52 gave Babs back the use of her legs (obviously I was very comfortable with that vendor, because I was waving my hands around in distress and agitation).

I have been talking Dark Knight to...everyone internal and external

Chatty!co-worker hasn't seen it yet, and every day I rant at him that it is KILLING me that I can't talk about it with him.

So that job that I applied for back in April and interviewed for 6 weeks ago... I got it! I start in a week!