thanks

Need hivemind help for Lewis-- he's recalling a trip to Berlin he made as a high school graduate and he was talking about a mural he saw painted on the Wall that looked very Sistine Chapel like, where a hand is reaching out as if from the East side, but it's bound with chains.

Anyone have any idea about it? I'm trying to Google various word combos, but coming up blank.

Yay Kathy!

Yay, Kathy!

Hmm. I need to talk to some of you lovely librarians about what being a librarian actually entails.

Whoa, Time Cube is sort of like Dr. Bronner's Soap, without the happy feeling that peppermint soap can save the world.

ALL ONE!! ALL ONE!! And at least Dr. B's label is pure nostalgia on his kids' part at this point, plus they've gone organic and stuff.

Yay for Kathy!

It is the best kind of school, library school.

I listened to The Splendid Table on Saturday and now I've been reminded that it was my ambition to be a foodie, before school got in the way. Now I'm playing with the Saving Dinner menus because they enable you to be foodie-like with much less work. Muffin-sized quiches! Pita pizzas! Crock pot tomato soup!

Great news, Kathy! Congratulations. You've got a lot of change coming to your life in the next year, I think.

The telescoping is a big deal. They're not just replacing a joint or a predefined length of bone, but something whose length they're going to have to increment regularly. That's pretty intense.

This was the very issue with ex-GF's leg. After it was injured when she was a toddler they kept putting pins in, and holding it together with plates to save the limb. But they had to do a new surgery every 18 months and eventually her body wouldn't recuperate from the surgeries. So she opted to have it amputated when she was 9.

And YAY, Kathy!!

ALL ONE!! ALL ONE!! And at least Dr. B's label is pure nostalgia on his kids' part at this point, plus they've gone organic and stuff.

That site looks far less crazy than the others. It seems like a legitimate soap-selling site. Where's the crazy? I can't find what's so magic about the soap.

I'll briefly be up to 8 computers since I'll be acquiring an iMac, but I'll shuffle out a computer to my aunt to return back to 7 shortly afterwords.

I'll have to decide whether to give my aunt (and her two daughters) the iMac or Leif's computer. Leif would then get the spare computer which is a decent machine (Athlon 64 3700). Having my aunt switch to OS X is a scary tech support prospect. All the memorized and written down sequences would have to be redone.

I was just telling the boss's boss that I got accepted, and the guy whose cubicle is kitty-corner to mine (and whom I rarely speak to--he's pretty taciturn) walked over and said, "You're going to Dominican? I got my MLS from there four years ago. You're going to want to avoid classes from [her], [him], and [her]." I didn't even know he had his MLS, let alone from Dominican.

I love having an unofficial advisor I can talk to over the cubicle wall!!