Also, sara, what's up for thanksgiving? Also, Polgara, I'm going on a field trip to the Getty tomorrow.

Although the numbers are a little fuzzy because there hasn't been a really large study of the genetics of the population as a whole, it looks like only about 6% of people with balanced chromosomal translocations have any recognized problems. You can get a better idea (or, if you like, I'm glad to be the mad researcher) if you get information about where the actual translocation is. It would be in the form of t(5;12), with the numbers being the numbers of the chromosomes that are switched. It also depends on where the break in the chromosomes are.

The one more probable complication is infertility or birth defects, because the fetus is more likely to have an unbalanced translocation. For example, Down's syndrome is a form of unbalanced translocation.

I need to review my sample ballots. I think I know who I'm voting for (except Education Superintendent or whatever that office is called, I need to read up on that) but I always have to be careful with the props and measures.

I also can walk to my polling place and it's in City Hall which is on my regular dog walking-or-running route, so I like to go on Election Day. Also I am procrastinatory.

Melbourne Cup is now running, for those who care about such things.

The only problem is we can't assume all authors are that savvy. And it's really easy to just delete changes we made, and that isn't something that's tracked, not in the way that adding new text or deleting text is tracked. So if an author didn't like our edits and just went in and clicked the x to undo them, it wouldn't immediately be apparent when we opened the file. We would have to compare our version and the author's version line by line to see what had been changed, and that is too time-consuming. The volume of articles we have makes it impossible for that to be feasible.

Not that anyone asked but this is something that is easy for programs to do, I'm pretty sure Acrobat does it. Lawyers use something like Deltaview to ensure they don't miss changes inserted by the other side in negotiations, etc. I'm not saying your biz wants to do this but OCR is a trivial process, there's no reason for anyone to do it manually.

He got scared when he thought that Hugo was going to be in trouble and he set the book aside for a week. But this morning, while I was swimming, he finished it without me.

Awww. Does he need to know about putting a book in the freezer?

Kat, I hope to be there? I know of the legoland dates. I'm really falling down as a grown up, reserving it for the next day.

I kind of miss going to the polls on Election Day. Oregon votes by mail (or drop-off boxes if you'd prefer) which is convenient but you can't get a sticker!

I never get a sticker in Chicago. I just get a slip of paper.

I could have voted early, but didn't because I've been too busy running around buying Elsa tutu dresses and Cinderella shoes and watching hockey and potentially uprooting my whole life to move across the country. I'm going to vote in the morning. Possibly so I can use it as an excuse if it makes me late for meetings.

I don't need a sticker, and I do like voting by mail because then I can ignore or tell the very persistent campaign workers that I already voted.

I bought a chicken tikka masala burrito for dinner tonight. NOM. And I have leftovers for tomorrow!