i'll be here with my rag sheet and my popcorn.
The Iowa caucuses are about as good a barometer of what the public thinks as that Time Internet poll that named Elvis the Person of the Century.
Which Republican contender has dropped out due to the results of the Iowa caucus?
(Don't send me your answers. This is just a little way to expand your horizons. Honest.)
First it was Beth's off-hand prediction in December about moving to a 12-acre compound with Stee.
Then yesterday, in response to Stee's entry, she wrote
Dear Stee:
I love you. Marry me.
Passionately,
Beth
And now, on Beth's forum, we have Monique and Caoimhe vowing to marry Stee first. I see Jette has proposed. And frankly I don't read enough journals to be sure, but I'd bet there are others out there. It's like a national trend.
I wish I had a forum. I'd start a pool on "Who nails Stee first and when?"
(My money's on Beth, to be honest -- frankly, I think Stee's "M" should just pack it in and get out of the way, because Beth is a force of nature and won't let little things like the distance between Sacramento and LA, the existence of Jeremy, or the presence of someone else already on the other side of Stee's bed stop her.)
I swear, that boy should put a head shot on his page so female journalers everywhere could print it out and post it over their computers. He's already got groupies. It's scandalous.
Here's how I've spent the past day or so: looking for forum software so I can, in fact, set up my own forum (for the purposes of starting betting pools and beyond). I've looked at Matt's WWWBoard, the WebBBS ($50), and the Ultimate BBS, which is clearly the best of them but is also $170.
Wordplay's Forums run on WebBBS, and I've been fairly happy with how those work. The customization is a bitch, however. I mean, I figure out enough of the Perl files in order to get the page to look the way I want, and then what happens when there's an update -- I have to go through every file again in order to get it to print out the way I want?
Rob writes to tell me that I should go with the Ultimate BBS, which has worked well for his Clan Lord buds.
Last night Darin and I went to the Breastfeeding class at Cedars-Sinai, taught by a lactation consultant nurse who talked so fast I was afraid to breathe for fear that I would miss something.
She explained the whole process of how the body makes milk and how the baby gets it out of there -- if she repeated that the baby has will grip on with 60 pounds-per-square-inch of pressure one more time, I was going to stand up and say, I'm outta here. (The funny part was when she explained that a baby could attach itself to the wall like a suction cup because its suction is so strong -- and demonstrated using a baby doll. Still, it was very disturbing when you think about that kind of hold on your body.)
She emphasized quite a bit that you can't plan a lot of this stuff ahead of time -- everyone's birth story is different, as is how they take to breastfeeding and how well it works. You have to see how it goes for you, provided you have a pretty good foundation. Which seemed reasonable to me.
I would put up a photo to prove my assertion that I am a whale (or at least a mini-whale), but I know I'd insist on Darin taking it from an angle where my tummy is not so obvious. This would therefore defeat the purpose of the exercise.
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