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Except that at 5 months, she isn't playing games. She is pretty transparent right now. Soon enough, she'll be messing with guys' heads and I'll be standing at the door with a baseball bat.

Skreamer was complaining on the forum.

There are some sacrifices a guy just has to make.

They are pretty cool. I'm sure have thought of other creative uses for them. Aside from the pumps, have you seen the distance the milk can get if the boobie is really in need of emptying? Hilarious!

Clay, your "package" could get taped to a postcard and still fall under the weight limit for the $.23 rate.

Funny. Me too, and I played with mercury as a child. My brother and I also used to X-ray each other. We had good toys!

Sadly, I'm sure they do. If one in a million does, the spam was successful. And more than one person in each million is a total blithering idiot.

Or you can be a mega-geek and get your own domain, e-mail server, anti-spam filters, and such. Then you can have something like: Justin@JennAndJustin.com or something else equally geeky. Of course, I have a backup Yahoo account for when I travel as well in case my server goes down.

All you had to do was ask. I'm giving out invites.

[stand-in-the-middle mode] Andrea (and others), I'm not Zennie's appointed defender, but I'd ask you to cut him some slack. I don't agree with what he said in its entirety either. Rationally, I'm sure he acknowledges that it is a generalization. But if you know the current circumstances, I'd think letting one overly broad comment slide wouldn't be such a bad thing. He hurting, and I'm sure some aspects of his life right now are their own slices of hell. So maybe bite your tongue a little if you have the urge to snap back, and we'll all go out and have a beer and a laugh when things settle down. [/stand-in-the-middle mode] Back to your regularly scheduled boobies and crass humor....

SkyDaemon, I understand your frustration over some of the government's more hare-brained technology initiatives. I'm not saying that I approve of them all, or won't contribute to their defeat. I'm familiar with the EFF. It is a good thing. I can both approve and maintain a healthy cynicism about its effectiveness at the same time. I just don't subscribe to the philosophy of protest at all costs. I doubt you do either. But some people don't understand that if you can relinquish the very thing you are fighting for yet have no impact on the decision making process. Living an "off-net" non-electronic life doesn't make any statement unless you send elected officials letters on paper. Silence isn't the answer. By using all the tools available, you can make a bigger impact than those that withdraw into their shells out of protest. Generally, I think we agree more than disagree.

I'm pretty much in the same mind frame as Deuce. Keeping everything exact and separate like an accountant is like a pre-admission of defeat. My wife and I have a joint account. Everything we do together gets put on a joint credit card and paid for out of this account. Most little stuff is paid of of the joint account also. We don't nitpick each other them. It also gets the biggies like mortgage, utilities, daycare, etc. About 90% of our income goes right into this joint account. We also each have an individual account. We each hold back a little bit for frivolous stuff that the other doesn't approve of or for surprises. I used my individual account to buy my wife pearls when our daughter was born. If that money had been in the joint account, it would have been impossible to surprise her. I also booked a weekend getaway for us from my account so she wouldn't know in advance. I also use it for skydiving money. She uses her account for areas where she splurges and doesn't want to see me roll my eyes over how much money it cost. The mostly-joint system works well for us. Almost everything is handled from the joint account. The individual accounts are for things we do separately and surprises. We don't try to contribute exactly 50% each to the joint account. I make more, so I put more in. Sometimes if my individual account has grown unusually large, I'll do something like put extra money into our retirement plan or make an extra payment on the mortgage. We also do electronic banking, so we can see everything very clearly, and balance it instantly. I don't carry a checkbook, but I can still see everything on the computer. We use the ease of electronic banking to make things easier and as a tool to eliminate squabbles over who spent what.

Thanks for all the replies and private messages, folks! Some helpful ideas and comments. I'm going to print them all out and give them to my wife. I can be supportive and I try to help as much as I can, but I (unlike Clay) do not have boobs! It is a lot of fun to bottle feed Lucy, now that I've gotten the hang of it. It took awhile to get cued in to her signals. I tried to feed her when she really wasn't interested, which didn't work. Now if she does that, I wait 30 minutes and try again. Much less aggravation for both of us. Breast pumps are just the freakiest things.

Yes. But unless I can get my right to play with the extra boobies into the contract, I'm not interested.

Interesting idea, and certainly better than Nathan's. Yet somehow, not quite as informative or helpful as the suggestion I just got via private message. Any more moms with ideas out there?

I've seen (and paid) $5 everywhere but once place, that charges $6. I tip for packers that go out of their way to help me make loads and such. The openings aren't a basis for tipping, since poor openings could be as much my fault as theirs.

Okay... I have a serious but somewhat strange question for all you skydiving moms out there: What experiences do you have with breastfeeding and milk production? I'm talking about after things have been going well for awhile. Do you have any suggestions for increasing milk production if it starts to decline? I've heard people suggest the following: Drinking more fluids (seems to make sense) Taking fenugreek tablets Drinking moderate amounts of beer My five month old daughter is becoming quite the chow-hound. She is drinking enough that we are dipping into the frozen supply from when she was younger, along with nursing. We are looking to hold out for a little while (month or so) longer before introducing other foods. But from my understanding, some of the cereals get mixed with breast milk, which means that the demand really doesn't lighten up much. Some of the internet materials I've found have been either derrogatory or contradictory, so I was wondering what real experiences or anecdotal findings you have. This isn't so off-topic for the forums. After all, it is about boobies.

That is how you got dragged into this. Just kidding, man!

Be nice. If that is all Slappie can manage, he shouldn't feel ashamed.

Oh, fer God's sake! You can do better than that! Make up a story about being kidnapped to be some sorority's captive love slave or something. Be creative!

Only 5 miles? Did you have shoes too, rich boy?

Thank you, Nathan. That was informative. NOT!

But you had obligated yourself to attend to all the boobies at the boobie bar as well, and YOU FAILED!

Nah. Being liberal or not has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of liberals with character, and plenty of conservatives without.

If you are at all decent with web design and some rudimentary database design, it isn't too hard. I slapped mine together pretty quickly. Now I just enter the jumps and the computer does all the math. Then it can be searched and sorted a variety of ways. http://www.jennandjustin.com/skydive-jumplog.asp Also check here: http://skydivelogbook.sourceforge.net/