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I'm not sure what etiquette dictates when one's boss starts breast feeding her kids while sitting next to you in front of a computer. I opted for keeping my eyes on the monitor, keeping up my end of the conversation, keeping my mouse pointer from going on walkabout off the edge of the screen ... and keeping any of the seventeen jokes that popped into my head to myself :>

We were cropping photographs for use as gift buttons -- I'm tempted to ask for one of them:

It's a picture of one of her twins taking his first bath, shortly after arriving from the hospital. His head is being supported by his mother's hand, and the rest of his body is floating just under the surface of the water. You can't see his penis; it's obscured by the concentric ripples radiating out from his hips as he pees into the water. He looks ...relieved.

I'm also posting this at alt.callahans...

My e-mail address will be shifting over to "rickvs@vol.com" over the next few weeks. (I've got another new address for business correspondence that I'm keeping out of public postings. I'll be curious to see how much spam is arriving at each address six months from now :> )

That's how twfarlan described our new clock. It was a birthday gift to rachalvs from her former roomate, and I finally picked up the batteries it needed. It looks roughly like Felix the Cat, except with sequins all over it. So once I got it running on the wall, I watched its little eyes go back and forth. And I watched its plastic tail swing to and fro. And I watched my cat's attentive little head bob raptly left and right.

I've got space around it, at least a couple of cat lengths, but we shall see if it remains up, or gets hunted down one night.

Rachal passed her defense... there are still some formalities to do, and perhaps some revisions, and some tuition to pay ... but the big obstacle is hurdled. I'll be calling her Doctor Spoose before too long :>

I should have included among these statements, "It looks like the Cowboys are actually gonna field a team this year", but I'd have had to wait till later to determine the truth of it. So here are the real answers...
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Happy Birthday, David!

I saw in the paper that the local football coach claims we have the most difficult schedule in the league. At first, I thought Coach Parcells was whining, but now I figure he's correct.

After all, everyone else gets to play, you know ...us.

Quick updates....

Rachal and I shall tinker with her dissertation this weekend; we have spent the weeknights taking turns spoiling one another. Feels good :>

My legs no longer look like sandpaper was taken to them -- although they are still pink, the appearance is more like a healing sunburn. God bless hydrocortisone (and Lily St. Cyr...)

Had a decent weekend, despite trying to give myself heatstroke. I went to help a friend move -- usually my favorite form of exercise. Despite the early start, as we were unloading the stuff at the second-floor destination, my face started feeling prickly and my sweat production dropped off. So I (and the other folks there) decided I would do well to sit my ass down and have some water.

In other news, my laptop is being restored, while Rachal's is still in a coma -- but ultimately more recoverable than mine, I think.

So, my primary computer has eaten its own hard drive, I think. It's a Sony VAIO laptop, and it started making ...chewing noises that put me in mind of a Zip cartridge's death rattle. Now it won't recognize an OS on bootup, so I'm posting this from my ancient tower, the one that's powered by little steam engines manned by hamsters. David has kindly offered to stop by and look at it, and I've already dug the floppy drive out of storage (I can have either a floppy drive or a CD drive plugged into the laptop's bay, but not both. This shall make recovery ...interesting). I think I'll be spending my day recreating the graph revisions for my wife's dissertation, those being the most important documents on the laptop, and will probably be eulogizing the rest of the files later). I don't like dealing with CompUSA's service department, but since that's where I bought it, perhaps they have a secondary hard drive that I could plug into the bay instead, one with an operating system and some extra space to use as a lifeboat. Of course this machine is long out of warranty :