Today I decided I hate IE's back button
Clearly, I'm livejournal inept. Today would be the oh, I dunno....billionth time I've written a post up and then either hit the back button or alt-backspace. Then I lose everything I've typed and there is much grumbling and frustration. Which only hurts my poor friendslist reading my posts, as I now have much less desire to type everything out all over again. How fair is it to get the cliff's notes without ever having access to the original work? Sorry about that.
Repeated and abridged:
Father Time
Dad is doing fairly well. He's not supposed to lift anything over 30 lbs, but we haven't had the heart to tell him Megan is about 31 or 32. As far as genetics, I will know more in a few weeks, but they are fairly certain that I don't carry the gene for Marfan's Syndrome and therefore neither will the kids.
Speaking of Genetics
Funny, it turns out I very likely have a genetic cholesterol disorder from my mother however. The internist picked up on it and the marfan specialist has all but confirmed it. It's called "LP little a" (or maybe LPa?) and it basically means my cholesterol likes to clump and cluster. I won't know how big a deal this is until I go for bloodwork testing at the same time I get my echo above. Hopefully a small deal and not a big one.
VA Tech
The whole matter just sucks and is very saddening. I really am not a big fan of gun ownership, but I think trying to push this issue as the rallying point for gun control is going to backfire. He used pistols, bought them well in advance and under the proper procedure, and to my knowledge, purchased standard ammunition. The only real sticking point is the clip size, and the lapse of the Brady Bill regulation on ammunition per firearm meant this was just a matter of time to happen.
I really would love to make the purchase, ownership, transport, and manufacture of automatic and semi-automatic-to-automatic conversion weapons impossible in the US. Heck, I'd be happy if 25 million scared Americans would realize they are more dangerous with guns than without. I don't think this is the issue that will win major changes to the constitution and/or current gun laws. For the record, I'd like that future legislation to look like a limitation to weapons per household, limitation to rounds per purchase/period, and a national tracking database of all gun owners in the US. I just don't think it's going to come from here.
Babies
The girls are a daily highlight for us. Emily is starting to communicate and is just almostthisclose to standing up and cruising. I'm wondering if she's going to be walking faster than Megan did. A few months back our ped described Megan as having the communication and behavioral skills of a 3.5 year old. We are a bit worried, though, as the school system is talking about pushing Megan back into the class behind her. One year ahead intellectually and one year delayed for school is a future recipe for disaster. At least we have a few years to worry about it. I really really tried to copy pictures into this post but I'm just stupid and contagious today. I can't figure out how to make it work anymore.
I promise in the near future I'll just give out a link to shutterfly in a friend's only post.
Repeated and abridged:
Father Time
Dad is doing fairly well. He's not supposed to lift anything over 30 lbs, but we haven't had the heart to tell him Megan is about 31 or 32. As far as genetics, I will know more in a few weeks, but they are fairly certain that I don't carry the gene for Marfan's Syndrome and therefore neither will the kids.
Speaking of Genetics
Funny, it turns out I very likely have a genetic cholesterol disorder from my mother however. The internist picked up on it and the marfan specialist has all but confirmed it. It's called "LP little a" (or maybe LPa?) and it basically means my cholesterol likes to clump and cluster. I won't know how big a deal this is until I go for bloodwork testing at the same time I get my echo above. Hopefully a small deal and not a big one.
VA Tech
The whole matter just sucks and is very saddening. I really am not a big fan of gun ownership, but I think trying to push this issue as the rallying point for gun control is going to backfire. He used pistols, bought them well in advance and under the proper procedure, and to my knowledge, purchased standard ammunition. The only real sticking point is the clip size, and the lapse of the Brady Bill regulation on ammunition per firearm meant this was just a matter of time to happen.
I really would love to make the purchase, ownership, transport, and manufacture of automatic and semi-automatic-to-automatic conversion weapons impossible in the US. Heck, I'd be happy if 25 million scared Americans would realize they are more dangerous with guns than without. I don't think this is the issue that will win major changes to the constitution and/or current gun laws. For the record, I'd like that future legislation to look like a limitation to weapons per household, limitation to rounds per purchase/period, and a national tracking database of all gun owners in the US. I just don't think it's going to come from here.
Babies
The girls are a daily highlight for us. Emily is starting to communicate and is just almostthisclose to standing up and cruising. I'm wondering if she's going to be walking faster than Megan did. A few months back our ped described Megan as having the communication and behavioral skills of a 3.5 year old. We are a bit worried, though, as the school system is talking about pushing Megan back into the class behind her. One year ahead intellectually and one year delayed for school is a future recipe for disaster. At least we have a few years to worry about it. I really really tried to copy pictures into this post but I'm just stupid and contagious today. I can't figure out how to make it work anymore.
I promise in the near future I'll just give out a link to shutterfly in a friend's only post.