Hmm, I take it back, ita--I looked on clintrials and the only ones I found that seemed relevant (assume you don't want to try random drugs) were at the Cleveland Clinic, in New York, or one in Italy (no idea why it's on our US website, I guess they're going for approval here but not testing here)

meara--out of curiosity's sake if nothing else--are those trials neurostimulator specific, or other migraine magic? I wanted to get in on the hole-in-the-heart study at UCLA (I think I qualified--I have both the migraines and the hole), but my neuro said "HEART SURGERY" and it did kinda sink in then.

Sox--don't think I'm not excited. I'm just also spooned for the day.

Oy--the internet and its fetish chain. I'm looking for pics of Karen Gillan, and I come across this [link] and I think "Karen never posed for that shot--I'm new to her portfolio, but it doesn't seem...nah." So I do a little bit more searching, and I find headswap harry whose schtick it is to manip actresses' heads onto those outfits (that's his Karen page). And now I need to know if people are treating this picture like it's real, and the little clicking aound seemed that, yea, but then I stumble onto this [link] and all I can think is "How did you guys thrive before the intertubes got installed?" That is some great synergy happening there. Power to the "pervs".

Oh, I picked such a lovely week to take vacation. I wonder how slammed we are with people prepping to take our software out into the flood zones. I've been half-expecting to get a call telling me they want me to come in, and I told Hubby not to answer the phone if the caller ID says work. He said I'd end up going in if they needed me, and I said, "No, I wouldn't."

Of course, it'll end up that next week, when I'm back, is when we'll get solid ten-hour days when we have to work the phones through lunch and sneak bites of whatever we can.

If you went to NY to work in fashion, is it really a good idea to show up dressed in TJ Maxx? Did Devil Wears Prada lie to me?

The bad thing about this tea maker is that with tea not oversteeped, I can always taste the water. So this is where I get the earliest warning that my Brita filter (it's the worst!) needs to be changed. I hate the "warning" cuppa. I wished the LCD timer in the lid had ever worked. I'm not actually going to write down when I change the bugger.

Well, except now I know to come to Natter 70 and look for my post with Brita in it. Cool cool cool.

I am now packed for vacation except my toiletries kit and laptop. Beginning to get excited about driving into the Ozarks tomorrow!

I need to replace my filter, too. But it's the under the sink faucet filter, so I have to unscrew the panel and find out which one it actually is, and then go get it, and then replace it.

I wished the LCD timer in the lid had ever worked.

For a pitcher? Mine is four weeks from reset. It wouldn't work if I was actually a family of four like it presumes but since it's just over-hydrating me? It does okay. I do not like if I can taste the water.

My sister texted me to ask me to check when and what station Parenthood was on.

When did my sister transform into my elderly grandma? I know it's just because she doesn't care enough to go online, but geez.

Matt,

have a wonderful trip! I am seriously jealous. I need a vacation like whoa.

the Halloween google doodle is great.