Thank you for the birthday wishes!

Yikes, Kat. Not pleasant. Not being able to find out info would distract me like crazy.

I'm sorry, Brenda. I hope his condition improves.

Tommyrot, how are your parents? Is your mom getting sprung from the hospital?

It seems every person I know that has traveled recently has been sick upon return. Not good. Staying home!

No, that there have been robberies. Which there have been.

Why dubious? The community actually has pretty good relations with our district cops.

Why dubious? The community actually has pretty good relations with our district cops.

Eh, I tend to be suspicious of cops who profile in general. That might be a New Orleans/South thing though.

Many happy returns, Laura!

Tommyrot, how are your parents? Is your mom getting sprung from the hospital?

Haven't heard anything today, so I don't know if she's getting out today.

I might have driven up to see them today if it weren't for the snow.

Eh, I tend to be suspicious of cops who profile in general. That might be a New Orleans/South thing though.

That sounds like reasonably specific profiling though. I'm not even sure I would even call it profiling. Looking for someone wearing X, Y and Z isn't exactly looking for, say, black male between the ages of 18 and 40.

Tom, best wishes for your folks.

Oh, brenda, that's terrible.

I felt guilty a couple of years ago because we had a band late to their recording session, and I was totally trash talking them...only to find out they'd been in a horrible car wreck that put their lead singer in the hospital for weeks. He's fine now! I didn't charge him!

Wow, those argyle seat jodhpurs. Just wow.

Thanks for the parental well-wishes, everyone.

There are so many bad things and illnesses and crimes going on that I am sending well-wishes to everyone.

And also Happy Birthday to Laura!

Also, I kind of love the pink argyle jodhpurs. And the word jodhpurs. Which I used to think was pronounced "jod-hoppers".