Ithaca, NY

[liabrown]

Last weekend we drove down to NY state to spend a couple of days with my parents and sister and her family. We hiked in a state park, saw a waterfall and a lot of neat rock formations, and a lot of wild animals

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[runenklinge]

I think you're good. Ticks can only spread lyme disease if they're attached to you for more than 12 hours. A friend and biology student explained to me that the ticks suck blood so fervently that after 12 hours they're in over their head, cannot contain the blood they already got, and it causes a bit of the blood they already sucked, now mixed with their saliva, to flow back into your body. The saliva is the thing that can contain lyme disease, so it's impossible to get the disease before roughly 12 hours.
And if there was something, you'd see a bright red spot - spot, well, as big as a palm - and you would have probably noticed that^^

My close friends aren't there yet, they're at the getting-married/almost-married stage, but other people I know frequently now get babies.Especially in our orchestra there was this joke about the saxophone players, all female and each year a different one would get pregnant. I hope that's the end of that trend now, since the non-mother players are all underage^^

eh, you should have gone for it, you'd be out of there before they watched the tapes^^

[liabrown]

If we didn't see a (hypothetical) tick, it could have been there for many hours :> We're probably okay, we stayed out of the tall grass, but I don't know how often people get them when walking on short grass or on a hiking trail. We did leave the trail occasionally, but never strayed far. But yeah, it's likely we would have seen a spot, especially if it had a bullseye pattern.

Many of my university and childhood friends don't even have steady partners, let alone kids. Not sure if we're a demographic anomaly, or part of a trend -- obviously people are having fewer kids these days, but it's still an odd pattern. It doesn't bother me personally because I can only take kids in measured doses ^_^ I might be seeing my nephew again this weekend because my sister and her family are visiting Toronto, but my sister hasn't told me her plans.

I dunno, over here they actually watch customers pretty sharply, and will stop you if they think you've shoplifted (or sometimes security will spot a suspicious person and then call over the PA system -- in coded language -- to alert other employees if they think someone's stealing). Obviously I didn't steal anything, but I probably did seem pretty sketchy :>