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I've been chastised via PM for being negligent in my picture posting. So here are two relatively recent ones. One is Lucy in her crib, and the other is her eating rice cereal for the first (beer!) time. It will be hard for her to buy beer, since we haven't given her an allowance yet. She'll owe you. She is doing very well, and making all the other parents of young children hate us. Lucy has slept through the night every single night since birth. She is fine taking a bottle, cereal, or milk from mom. We'll have her eating Tandoori chicken and drinking beer in no time. She rolls over side to side, sometimes all the way across the room. Right now, she can slide herself backwards as far as she wants, but has yet to crawl forward, though we expect it shortly. She loves to play, watch the fish in our fish tank and be held up in the air. I stand up, hold her over my head, and she sticks out her arms and legs. I yell, "Arch, arch!" but she hasn't gotten it yet.

Today's listening: The Velvet Underground - 1969 Live Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time Gomez - Liquid Skin Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry I have a good selection of music at work in MP3 format, so I just throw stuff in the playlist and either shuffle or go album by album, depending on mood.

I use neoprene scuba gloves as well. As for the feeling with the gloves, it varies by thickness. I've seen 3mm and 5mm (I think). I bought the thinner ones, because they let me feel the hacky better. They are plenty warm.

You mean the maintainers of the blacklists getting sued? MAPS has been dealing with that for awhile, but they are continuing to use the collective power of their members to fight the spammers. I don't think lawsuits will do very well, since the service is entirely voluntary. Nobody is required to sign up to their services. The fact that so many people do is a testament to the need. In a bizarre way, the worse things get, the quicker they will start to polarize things. Instead of a huge spectrum of grey between the good guys and the bad guys, the folks in the middle will get shunted to one side or the other, depending on their preferences. The good providers will get good customers, and understand the value of giving spammers the boot instantly. The spam-friendly ISPs will get few in number, so the spammers will end up congregating more closely in black-listable IP blocks.

Those were the lawn dart days, indeed! I'm not actually sure what DZ it is, other than that I'm pretty sure it was at Bragg. I think it was the return jump-in from Panama. I wasn't in the actual picture. I just snagged a print. Maybe some Army old-timer Chuck could tell us which DZ it was.

She can always get a pair of the non-prescription ones. Just for style, or whatever else...

Clay, they are improving her eyes, not gouging them out. That would be the only thing to help your appearance. Good luck, Sis!!!

I have to chime in with Narcimund and the boss man. While you may not have done anything wrong, it is all about the company you keep. If you are in a blacklisted IP range, it can be incredibly difficult to persuade the list owners to reinstate connectivity to your individual IP. Many simply won't do it, as a means of inducing further pressure against the spammers. If the ISP notices that all the decent customers are leaving, they may finally decide it isn't worth it to be spammer friendly. There are lots of different realtime block lists RBL's. Some of them are ORDB, MAPS and Spamhaus. At my company, we use Spamhaus, and find that it is excellent at cutting down spam without substantial false positives. I am considering running both MAPS and Spamhaus, as our e-mail firewalling system has the capacity to simultaneously run multiple RBLs. In addition to that, we have a fairly extensive rule-based filtering system that I customize to eliminate yet more spam. I'm sorry about your deposit, but the best thing to do would be to migrate now and save yourself further headaches. Here is a page where you can see if you are on Spamhaus' blocked IP range: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/index.lasso Here is a list of some of the people that make your life miserable: http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso

Yes you are, Slappie. Quit being so modest. Slappie is a World Champion Creeper Slingshot Racer. He had a small incident, but he is going to make a comeback!

Damn. Admitting when Skreamer is right is almost as bad as admitting when Clay is right. Luckily, neither one occurs very often. I say go for the job with the bucks, especially if you aren't locked into it. You can earn some major cash. If you could live on the salary of the other job, you could put away some major savings in addition to buying some sweet skydiving gear. You would work your ass off during the week, but then you'd have the cash to travel on the weekends, go to boogies, and take skydiving vacations wherever you want. I think the allure of working in a ski resort would fade pretty quick. The hotties probably don't want to shack up with the help. You won't have the cash to do much. Getting sucked into the politics and crap at a job makes you less inclined to stick around on your time off. So the free or discounted ski/board time is likely to go unused, because of the urge to get the hell away from there. By doing the "corporate thing", you can make the cash to do the things you want, and you will have the freedom to blow big wads of money on skydiving weekends and stuff. Just my $.02. Like Skreamer, I chose the corporate job. Like Nacmac, I also do it because I have a family to support.

For what the guy must have shelled out for all that, he should just buy a new car every 3 months or 3,000 miles.

With the amount of money going into that garage, it will probably be a "no oil on the floor" kind of place. I'm still curious about drainage though.

I like the work of Chank Diesel, a modern artist in Minneapolis. I have a gallery of stuff I've bought from him on my webpage. http://www.jennandjustin.com/photos-chank-overview.asp I also like Rene Magritte, Alexander Calder, Van Gogh, Picasso, etc. Oddly enough, I am really not a fan of impressionism. Monet, Matisse and the others just leave me sort of cold and bored.

Yeah! Us damned Americans.

Dave, Quit reading fun books and stick your nose back in a school book! You are a student aren't you? Don't you want to graduate? Here are some of my recent favorites: Fiction: All 3 books by China Mieville. Incredibly well-written sci-fi. NonFiction: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II (Modern War Studies) by James Tobin The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

That sucks, Nathan. But don't make things worse by jumping anyway. Do what the docs say, get healed up right, then go jumping. Hope you have a full & speedy recovery!

You two are adults. Whatever works for you.

Evidently, they don't love it quite enough.

Anyone else out there feel like sniper bait? I live and shop near where the first person was shot. I get gas at the stations where the fourth and sixth people were shot. I commute past where the second and third person were shot and go to the post office at the location of shooting number five. The eighth and ninth victims were out of my normal area. Does anyone have a spare kevlar helmet and vest I could borrow?

Join the club. The rest of us are already there.

When you spank it that fast, how much can you really enjoy it?

Clay, when you are looking for a break from sheep, try cows or pigs. As if there were any doubt: NWS! (But actually not graphic.)

Doesn't that give you blisters and ruin your eyesight? Especially at that speed!

Clay isn't alone. Sheep lovers, unite!

Exactly. Dude, I'm not the one with the lifetime subscription. Ask Clay about the rates and phot... I mean, editorial quality if you're interested.