Neither the expensive hotel at the tournament nor the old hotel at Cedar Point had convenient internet access. Therefore I could not bore you lot with my bridge adventures (got to play with a couple of cute folks who are also better players than I am), or my coaster reviews (Maverick's drop is too short to be worth waiting 2+ hours when Millenium ( Read more... )

Can we please get over the idea that not wearing a seatbelt is somehow cool? Or, really, that it's anything other than an invitation to to pain and injury. Remember, kids: the other passengers walked away from this crashHow much will the State of New Jersey be spending on the governor's medical costs because Corzine was too convinced of his own ( Read more... )

OK, this is pretty damned scary. For the record, I'm not pre-pregnant. I do not wish to be treated as pre-pregnant, federal guidelines or not. My daughters are not pre-pregnant. I was not pre-pregnant before they were conceived until I decided that I wanted to conceiveYou know, if a woman has to take a drug that might damage a potential fetus, the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went out to a bar with my 65-year-old mother-in-law. I had a drink. I would have had more than one, but I didn’t bring enough cash.

As I understand the trolls on this thread, if some asshole had decided to spike my drink with a hallucinogen and then ‘escort’ me out to his car and rape me, I should expect everyone to spend their time ( Read more... )

I've been poking around on the USDA dietary guidelines website, after reading I'm, Like, So Fat, a book about guiding teenagers towards healthy eating and exercise habits without inducing eating disorders. I'm slow, but I finally realized that one thing they've changed since I learned about the food pyramid in school (besides the orientation of the ( Read more... )

firecatmn responds to an idiot in her local paper. I liked the comment that pointed out that abortion has more in common with not providing bone marrow than with executing someone. Frankly, I'd like to see these allegedly "pro-life" men go through nine months of morning sickness or gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia (plus labor) (plus post-partum ( Read more... )

I will note for the record that ovarian cysts are No Fun At All!

( Pain Sucks )