I know I should feel lucky to have a job (ANY job) with insurance at all, but they're changing up our insurance next year to one of those high-deductible things that everyone hates.

I had to spend my rare weekday off getting up early and shlepping furniture from one relative's house to another, under the pressures of family obligation.

The monorail is— D'OH!!

It certainly is! The endless champagne helps, though.

:)

Nothing, because the internet has ruined my attention span. (puts head in hands, cries)

My personal experience: get All The Drugs.

So, just immediate family, then?

"A Dog Took My Face and Gave Me a Better Face to Change the World".

Very glad to hear that, congrats!!

My family hosts an annual "Baconfest" on New Year's Day where we serve BLTs and Bloody Marys. I'll have to get some of that to try next year.

Happy slightly belated birthday!!

That is a really great movie, and a very realistic depiction of a sibling relationship.

That is a great film!

I love that show, but I had the total opposite reaction! I would never, ever, EVER want to have given birth back then at home.

"In the olden days people who gave birth in hospitals were MORE LIKELY to die in childbirth than those who gave birth at home (or on the dirty street), because doctors were so bad about washing their hands and it hasn't gotten much better."

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed some aspects of the unregistered days (like that glorious Law and Order thread), there was a lot more disgusting stuff aimed at women then. Very off-putting for some of us.

"the general wtfery of Tarkovsky's Former AD"

Yes! And they built it right next to an entire building full of lawyers, which was monumentally stupid.

When I was in law school, there was an incident where the police were trying to catch a demented guy with a gun on campus. Unfortunately, he was hiding in a building designed by Frank Gehry, which looks a lot like the Bilbao museum: