Oh, goodie! I was waiting for this. The FSM must've got my Christmas list.

How do commas work? lol

Motto for life.

It was one helluva vent, though.

Excellent, excellent piece.

Ah! Well, you cannot know what you do not know and the only way to find out is to ask and to learn. :) I was wondering because I read somewhere about the concern around the tiny particles of graphite. So thanks. :)

You win.

Hmm. Maybe adjust it to within those municipal parameters and then leave the whole damn thing up until next year. :)

Sure. Still, do you know the answer?

"someone whose brand of extreme rumpledness vibes with our own."

Since you mentioned NASA, let me ask you if you all shave up there and if you do, where do all the tiny hairs go? :/ There's no particular reason this has been on my mind for the past couple days and yet, there you have it.

So, are you happy? Or rather, does your designed situation add to your overall happiness?

On the one hand, that's hopeful to me and on the other, it's completely relatable as I don't truly feel I'm built for that type of lifetime commitment, either. And I'm older than you two. I read something earlier this year about the struggles between loving just one someone wholly versus remaining celibate in order to…

You can still have a ring, if that's what you want. Just leave the blank paper contract untouched at the courthouse, where it belongs. :)

Stupid circus. Chows aren't pandas. They're lions. Duh.

Possibly. And this wasn't punitive in any way. This was strictly intended to be a fun activity. As time went by, I think it was more that she was just from a different time, a time right after the Depression and WWII with so much ugly stuff and so she held the idea that anyone having fun anywhere could be a happy…

Hmmmm.

Variety, I suppose.

Erm, the most general advice given to me without bias was just to research (this goes with just about anything) as much as you can, wherever you can, and come to your own conclusions/decisions and just be safe & smart about it. That's the best I got. ;)

Yes. Research, research, research.