ION, I am currently working on a JavaScript file called packaged.js. Package.js deals a lot with the DOM (Document Object Model).

Slashing various include files makes my job more interesting.

wrt the babysitter, this is why people move near family members/support systems. Also why being part of a community (church/cultural group/tightknit neighborhood)is such a HUGE thing.

Right -- you can ask your friend to sleep at your house and not pay much, but an employee? No.

I don't get why people think they can effectively cheat a child care worker out of a living wage. I think it's ok to negotiate to what you can afford, but that shit is just criminal.

I had a pair of sisters (10 and 12) babysit for Owen and Olivia on a trial run for a few hours and when I took them home, I had to stop and get cash from an ATM to pay them. They looked shocked, "You mean you're going to PAY us?" Yes. $7/hour each.

re: bride's horse. I bet they thought that draft horse would be calm.

Clearly it wasn't used to crowds and yelling.

I have been thinking lately that I wish we (in American, at least in the non-coastal areas) could go back to having neighborhoods. In Rochester, no one lives near where they work. And then there are really very few stores in the city. Plus, there really aren't any new people here, so after the white flight to the suburbs, neighborhood building seems to just move the same people around. And there are still no grocery stores in many parts of the city. It seems like if there were more, smaller, stores that people could get to, there would be more jobs. But I think they might have to be subsidized for awhile to work.

Of course, there are some places where businesses exist- there is one sort of chi-chi neighborhood (that is just emptying out the other one...) that has a small grocery store, coffee shops, bars, clothing stores, etc. And one of the more run down sections of town has a corner store AND a liquor store every few blocks. But there are just large parts of the city with nothing, and no affordable part that I can find that has an easy bus or walking to a grocery store, a bank, a pharmacy, a liquor store and a restaurant.

Prognosis is a massively deviated septum - one more sinus infection like that and the Dr. will be chasing me down for surgery. but not yet. also, they have confirmed that I have a brain in my head.

Thanks for the good wishes - I'm glad to know what's going on, at least.

$5/hr for overnight is ridiculous.

So I'm baking cupcakes for DH for his birthday, trying out this recipe. The batter is nom nom, hope that baking doesn't destroy the magic.

Prognosis is a massively deviated septum - one more sinus infection like that and the Dr. will be chasing me down for surgery. but not yet.

Oy, Sox. I'm thinking that when I get back on Kaiser, I'll go see the ENT, and there's a good chance I'll be there with you--I've spent way too many days in the last few years doped up on Claritin or Aleve-D.

Speaking of which, there's apparently a drive to make all sudafed prescription-only, not just something you need to get from a pharmacist. Oregon did it, and it killed the meth industry in the state. But argh!

Prognosis is a massively deviated septum - one more sinus infection like that and the Dr. will be chasing me down for surgery. but not yet.

My stepdad, who has had killer sinus problems his whole life, had surgery after Christmas for a deviated septum, and he is *stunned* at how much it helped him.

So there's some anecdata for you.