Ugh, it's so hard to get out of a rage spiral.

I just got the funniest picture of my cousin's fiance holding hands with George Bush.

Lauren Graham WTF?

My best guess is she forgot to get dressed and stole a tablecloth when she got there. I really have no other explanation for that look.

The soccer season started over the season. It's fun to watch the kids play. Leif's team was pretty remarkable, it was the most coordinated offensive playing that I've seen in a kids game. It didn't happen every time they went down the field, but often enough they kept more or less in position and made crosses to wide-open players. It was enormous fun to watch Leif when he drove the ball up the field. They ended up winning some number in the teens to one despite lots of good saves by other team's goalkeeper. I'm glad the other team got that one goal, it had to be hard on them.

We went to Emaryn's game knowing she'd be on the bench the whole game. She has a damaged ligament in her knee, poor kid. Their coach told them the other team was really good and sure enough they got beat soundly. I don't think Em minded being on the bench, it's more about being on a team for her than the actual game.

Sorry about the rage circle, msbelle. That sounds exhausting.

Julie Benz? That's really you? [link]

I thought it was Laura Linney!

I did some yardwork which seemed to help. Then knocked out on really tedious work task which did not help at all. Good news is that I have already put in 4.5 hours today, so I could just shove off in another 30 minutes, but I should probably just chug on and get in as many hours as possible.

Just dropped off Noah at his first day of preschool. Such mixed feelings.

I guess working through it is a good idea, msbelle.

Good god, I'm still trying to process Noah being old enough for all this. I just realised I dreamt about him again, because I have a picture of him in my head I'm pretty sure I've never seen. It's cute, though.

Why must my installation of Visio default to saving stuff in Visio 2002, which ruins what I've been working on? Now I pretty much need to start again from the top.

Tetris-inspired furniture. If only you could get a row of it to disappear when you made it all red.

Insulated Babies Grow Faster (Apr, 1933)

TO MAKE your baby grow faster, insulate his crib against the electricity of floor, walls, ground. To slow down his growth, ground his crib with flexible bands of metal. This is the extraordinary conclusion reached by M. Vies, of Strasbourg, France, who conducted such experiments on two groups of three babies. The insulated set grew more rapidly than the grounded trio, presumably pointing to the fact that the electrification of soil and air has a real influence on human growth.

eta: "Two groups of three babies"? Um, that sample size is a bit... small.

That furniture would be fantastic for kids.