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Duly summarized.

I made some executive editorial decisions to leave out a few things, including -- but not limited to -- sphagnum moss, tempeh salad, sparkles, speed limits, tickle torture, deely boppers, multicolored yetis, tuberculosis, white shoes after labor day...

... and my making quite clear that if you said but one word about your move sucking you would nevereverneverevernever hear the end of it from me.

I was just commenting to Dru yesterday that this place is like recess for the mind...

so come on, come on, open up the playground so I can swing on the monkey bars.

Heather, nicely summed, and your restraint is an example to us all. Especially about the tempeh. Is it ok if I just avoid using "suck" to describe the move, and complain about some aspects in general terms?

No, didn't think so.

Jason, the state says we can't re-open the monkey bars until we put some padding under them. I tell you, one kid hits the concrete and they act like it's the end of the world. It'd be so much easier to just have them sign release forms beforehand. . .

No, I believe that all of the s-words you could use to describe moving are closed to you unless you're prepared for the consequences, kitten.

I'd just like to take a brief moment of silence to commemorate my being heralded for my restraint. Because this is truly a worthy hysterical historical moment.

Aaron-
Something for you to note.
FAO Scharwtz sells this product called Legos Explore! and it's kind of a Legos scene and playhouse combined (from what I can tell).
Anywho: They print two boxes of note.
One is of a train that has a colored (Oriental or Hispanic) men on the box (one driving and one by the tracks).
The second is a playhouse. There is one (perhaps Hispanic) person who is in the garden with a wheelbarrow. The other people (sitting in bed, playing on the swings outside) are WHITE.
There are many other details of racial inequality I discovered... Seriously, go look sometime.

Am I the only one to notice Heather has pics of Aaron on her site now? Did I miss something? I didn't see no announcement of this anywhere! Aaron gets to cavort with sexy half naked chicks while I'm stuck hunting for cribs. And not the fun kind of cribs either.

Life is not fair.

. . . cavort?

Lisa C, thanks. Thought kids toys were safe after Crayola stopped with the "flesh color" crayon.

Heather, how about blows instead of sucks?

I just want to interject that mylar sparkly Band-Aids and brightly-colored ones with Winnie the Pooh or other cartoon characters on them *do* successfully obviate the "matching the skin tone" issue when it comes to small adhesive bandages. When I was a child, the fact that "flesh color" Band-aids matched the skin of no one used to bother me a lot. Now I can buy hot pink and orange ones with Sesame Street characters on them instead, with no implication that they are intended to match the color of anybody's flesh, regardless of what that color might be.

Gotta take your progress where you can find it, some days.

Plus, Hanne, they have well-and-truly transparent Band-Aids now. At least, the sticky bits are transparent.

Sticky bits. That sounds almost obscene. Ah well.

Incidentally, I can't get Mozilla to let me comment on stuff in the archives, so I'll have to sneak over here and whisper to Ginger that I'm just wondering how long it's gonna take Aaron (with his dialup, poor bebe, and his limited dialup, for which I am actually genuinely sympathetic) to notice my Aarot... no, wait, Aortal link's phrasing.

I definitely need more coffee.

I'm sticking to my Rugrats band-aids. Super-secret patterns appear when you put them on. Oooh!

None of this functional band-aid business for me, thanks. I get an owie, I want to be given the proper treatment.

For real space-age owie treatment there's nothing like superglue. Yes, superglue. The stuff was actually invented as a kind of chemical suture. My wife uses it all the time in her Veterinary office (she's a vet-tech), and whenever I cut myself she's always rushing around trying to find her bottle of the stuff.

The only icky part is she likes to open the cut up before putting it on. *shudder* But it does mean you can take a shower in the morning!

(enter POINTLESS FACT GIRL!!)

Yah, my folks are both vets, and the whole superglue thing is pretty impressive. They invented it for use in human neurosurgery -- at like $11/tube -- but dad does cat declaws with it for a big outly of 68 cents at the local hardware. More pointles facts: it sets with a heat-producing chemical reaction, so it kills bacteria in a cut; and it can be used to fill in that hole in your fingernail you get when you smack it with a hammer and the nail flakes off. Cool, hey?

Garrity you rock for those information tidbits alone.