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[Golfhaus]

also, today I am driving taking my friend who was visiting to the airport by metro, and doing laundry, and doing a lot of work.

Ahhhh, yes. For a while, I dated a girl in Lebanon, IL, and she used to park at the Metrolink stop just over the river and take the train in to meet me. Right up until the time she was running late, said "Screw it, I'll handle the traffic," and realized the traffic usually wasn't all that bad.

I kinda miss the biweekly trips to STL in a way. Life was a lot simpler back then.

[theinevitable]

ah, see, I don't have a car. so.

[lprkn]

Indeed... Happy Other Jesus Day, everybody!

I kind of took it to mean happy White Jesus Day, or something.

Chocolate bunnies meeting horrible ends.

[wombat]

Who's this Jesus person? Did he invent the chocolate rabbit or something?

[littlefallsmets]

The idea of a Lebanon, Illinois is a hilarious idea.

Great ethnic strife between white Protestants and... white Protestants of a slightly different stripe... tearing the place all up. All hella contentious except that no one remembers which side is which from day to day and just sorta making it up as they go along.

[Golfhaus]

Lebanon, Illinois wishes it were that exciting there. There's a lot of corn. Lots and lots of corn.

[theinevitable]

...read a really really really rad article about how Made Up the concept of race is. It compared the categories people are divided into in Brazil to those used in the US... really really awesome.

[Pedro Picasso]

...watch my son weep bitterly at the terrifying prospect of school, and then walk resolutely inside his sobs notwithstanding.

We get some hard mornings around here.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Today I'm gonna wonder if the Interweb is broken.  I get broken image links at a variety of sites, and nothing at all at others.  Yet some (including TOUAMB) are completely OK.  Is it just me?

[CortJstr]

Carlos, do you use Firefox? Do you have a popular add-on called DownThemAll?

It updated recently and the new version is causing the exact problems you're describing. It seems to be worse if you're also running other internet-connected programs at the same time like eMule.

If so you not only have to uninstall the add-on but reset some prefs in about:config.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Bzzzzzt.  Running IE 6.

[CortJstr]

Then I'm stumped. It sounded like you were having exactly the same problem that I was.

[jay-ell]

...watch my son weep bitterly at the terrifying prospect of school, and then walk resolutely inside, his sobs notwithstanding.

We get some hard mornings around here.

...pick up this same boy four hours later, and discover that he only cried for ten minutes after Pedro left him.  Then, he proceeded to do the following: do puzzles, color matching, went for a walk, played on starfall.com, read books with Ms. Abbie, went down the slide, and colored in art class.  He also ate his entire lunch, which is pretty amazing since eating is usually difficult for him even in the best of circumstances.  When I picked him up, he was happy and singing.  This is his fourth day at his new school. 

I am relieved. 

Later, I'm going to take him to see a movie in the theater with his cousins.  (Horton Hears a Who.)  Then, we're going to Bullwinkle's (like Chuck E. Cheese's, but with the old Rocky and Bullwinkle characters) with his cousins for pizza and raucousness.  He will probably fall asleep at the movie. 

[Carlos del Vaca]

They get over that stuff quick.  A couple weeks ago, I dropped off Liz at her preschool for a special Saturday event, but she complained the whole way there that she didn't want to go and would rather go back home and go back to bed.  When I picked her up, I asked her teacher how that went, and she said "We gave her a blanket and a pillow, and pointed to a corner and told her she could go to sleep.  That lasted about five minutes."  FRICKIN' AWESOME.

When I took my laptop to a meeting, web site that I've been having trouble with on the desktop worked fine on the laptop and the wireless.  So maybe it is just me.

[AugustWest]

...watch my son weep bitterly at the terrifying prospect of school, and then walk resolutely inside his sobs notwithstanding.

We get some hard mornings around here.

Next time just ask him if he wants to play Cave Explorer.