I hope the soccer coach survives the ordeal and is not prosecuted for any possible negligence afterwards: he will have served his sentence underground, IMHO.

He kept those boys alive, which at his own tender age is pretty remarkable. It seems the trail would have been closed if the flash flood had been anticipated. Anyway, they have begun swimming and diving lessons so that it can be an option. Still hoping for some engineering solution.

Thank for posting the Teppy edited article! I am going to pass it on to my #1 son. He knows he has issues, but refuses to consider either therapy or medication. He does read articles I send him, so maybe.

Go Suela! Fun video. I wish I didn't suck at rock climbing. Lori did her best, but I just haven't mangaged, yet, to overcome my vertical fear.

Ugh, Sophia. I really hope that you can maneuver yourself into a situation where you are doing what you are good at, and get well compensated for it.

sorry sj - I think kids can sense when it is a special day for other people and they don't like it. (I'm projecting).

Facts.

Honestly, y'all, I've mellowed SO MUCH.

That will no doubt be helpful. I hope you can remain chill enough to really enjoy this time with your parents.

because last names are stupid and I don't want to think about them anymore.

Dude, I have had 5 of them. If I hadn't changed it the first time I probably wouldn't have done it ever. It is fairly convenient having the same name as your spouse. And definitely convenient to not change your name at all. My DIL is changing hers. When our cousin got married her wife changed her name to our side of the family. When I see them at Bobby & Tate's wedding I have to ask how they made that choice. I also have a friend that took his wife's last name because he really loved her family and his was a dysfunctional mess. tl;dr yes, last names are stupid

But I want to try pan-frying them to see what that does to the texture.

I wonder if I could use the air fryer...

meara, the girl is rude

because last names are stupid and I don't want to think about them anymore.

Dude, I have had 5 of them. If I hadn't changed it the first time I probably wouldn't have done it ever.

Our 5-year anniversary is this year (how?), and I *still* haven't changed my name legally, even though I use Tim's name as my last name. I really need to do that.

We went to a 'neighborhood' fireworks party last night that will surely rival the city display tonight. We have gone for previous years, but this one was crazy. The mosquito app on my phone did a decent job combined with repellent. I'm thinking I should probably stay home with the poor dog tonight and not go to the beach to watch.

Our 5-year anniversary is this year (how?), and I *still* haven't changed my name legally,

I changed my license and voters id, but didn't get around to doing Social Security for probably 20 years. I just filed my return with my previous last name so it wouldn't get kicked out. It had to be done in person so I didn't get it done promptly.

Mosquito app? Pray tell what is this fascinating-sounding device?

There are a number of them for your phone that send out a tone the critters hate. In theory, but it seems to work for me and I am super tasty.

I can easily predict how people are going to react and what will be the final result that it is very frustrating

Yeah, I have this, too, Sophia, and it can be really annoying. I call it being overly empathetic.

It never occurred to me to change my name when I got married and it always sort of surprises me when a woman of my generation or younger does. I understand that it's complicated for some people.

On the mosquito app, they are very theoretical and many say they don't work, but it seems to help me. At a price of free it is worth a shot.

When I first married in 1973 changing your name was just what one did. When I married in 1984 and 1990 it was a matter of keeping my previous husband's name or rolling back to a name I hadn't used since 1972 and that seemed silly. I have to confess that becoming Laura Holt held a certain appeal too. (Remington Steele reference)

I've always figured it would depend very much on what the other person's last name was! But there's less of an expectation with the gays to change it, and more options like combining names.

I had to get up at 4am and put on clothes and go next door and ask the people to shut the fuck up. Grrr. Took me a while to get back to sleep—should've just stayed awake and taken a nap later

But there's less of an expectation with the gays to change it, 

Oh, yeah, I can understand that.