(Actually, I think she's amazed my brother made it to 50, because for quite a while it seemed like he was going to flame out early thanks to lots of booze and drugs. But he's turned it around pretty well.)

I only met your brother fleetingly (along with your mom and step dad) at his brew pub in Vermont, but I liked him a lot. It always makes me happy to hear he is doing well.

Best wishes on the surgery. I understand the procedures have been refined considerably since your last one and your recovery should be even smoother.

I'm stealing that, Karl.

explain what your formative media is...

Heh. I re-read Clan of the Cave Bear as an adult and it was a list of my kinks. I was into the hunting and building stuff which is why I read it at 12 or so but maybe I shouldn't have.

George Harrison's mother listened to late night broadcasts of Indian music while she was pregnant with him, so that's pretty cool.

Aw Laura, I'm so sorry.

Also, maybe OT would have gone better if I had that therapist. I always got either the boring one with no sense of humor. Or, probably, in retrospect, somebody who was just mad because her life blew up in ways that had nothing to do with me, but she's gonna leave me with a complex anyway(I hope that made her feel better because dragging it around for over thirty years hasn't done much for me.) Except that my feeling when I got cut off from therapy was an immense relief that abled people never understand.