Worst splinter I ever had was from when we were in Maine, and there was a bird's nest filled with eggs on one of the window ledges. I stood on a picnic bench to get a better look, and the bench wasn't quite as sturdy as I'd thought and I lost my balance. I was falling right toward the eggs, so I tried to break my fall by putting my hand against the side of the house, and ended up falling with my full weight onto one hand against the really rough cedar siding. Took like half an hour and lots of blood to get all that out of my palm.

windsparrow and aimee are added. Cashmere, flickr can't find you.

I once removed a huge splinter from a friend's hand with a hatpin, because we were at club and had no other tools.

I'm now onto the edit/re-write portion of wrangling with the story. It's for the second volume of Steampunk Tales for the iPhone. I've been assured that the editor will accept it, but I'm still feeling nervous. But upon re-reading, everything seems to hang together so far.

(Yeah yeah, I know, I should be talking about this in GWW.)

I once removed a huge splinter from a friend's hand with a hatpin, because we were at club and had no other tools.

Okay, you've never been precisely scary before Jilli, but I am now completely terrified.

Heh. It's fine. Jilli, I sent you a question about clothes dying to your GCS address.

Random question for the day:

What's the difference between hand wash and body wash? I think just the price, but any thoughts?

I think I'd expect hand wash to have more moisturizer, but I have no idea if that's true.

Cool: a Stone Age flute. [link] There's a link there where you can listen to someone playing a replica of the flute they found.

Okay, you've never been precisely scary before Jilli, but I am now completely terrified.

Whaaaat? I sterilized things with the tiny bottle of hand sanitizer gel I had in my purse. It could have been worse, I could have had to sanitize the hat pin with a candle flame instead.

Vortex, I'll go poke at the GCS addy again. Things have been a bit chaotic in those folders.

No kidding, that kid doesn't look newborn! Idris is way too formed-looking (and handsome). He just skipped right over the whole Winston Churchill phase, didn't he?

What's the difference between hand wash and body wash? I think just the price, but any thoughts?

Hand wash is more likely to have specifically antibacterial agents such as triclosan than body wash. Body wash may have more moisturizers, depending on the features it advertizes. As proper handwashing technique plus ordinary soap is quite effective at removing germs, whereas anti-bacterial soap minus proper handwashing technique doesn't really get the job done, there is some debate about how useful it actually is. In a pinch at the group homes, I've happily used liquid hand soap, body wash, and shampoo interchangeably and been satisfied with the resulting level of hygiene.

I think I would expect a hand wash to work a little harder/be a little harsher - more likely to be anti-bacterial. A hand's likely to get dirtier/germier than, say, a shoulder.