the list, revisted

made some updates and some changes to the list.

i have justified the changes to myself, and now to you, in the following way:
baby = change
school = change

both baby and school were wholly unanticipated and therefore warrant overhaul of list, even though it's 2/3 done at this point.

that's 2/3 time-wise done, not 2/3 of the stuff actually accomplished. in those terms, i'm just under halfway done. but with only a year left to do the rest. some of it should be easy--in order to make pants, i really just need to make pants! i've got everything i need already, so...

and the writing stuff--that's easy enough to do. break out the self-discipline and make it happen! yeah!

but first, i must organize the changes within an inch of their lives, thereby feeling productive without actually having to accomplish anything.

i love you, sandy

toilet trouble

How much would it suck not to have a working toilet in outer space?

A lot, I would imagine. It's not as though you can just call the plumber or the super. It takes, well, massive international cooperation to get a repairman up there (and it's not as though they're plumbers or even handypersons anyway--come to think of it, I'm surprised the john doesn't malfunction more often...everything up there's pretty DIY).

And it's not as if you can just hold it...for days. Or go outside. Or put a jar in the corner. Diapers?

Spiders!

Neil Young gets his own spider.

What an odd thing. I find it heartening that we still discover new species, and that the discoverers can call them whatever they want. (although spiders--ick!)

100 years

Everytime I read this quote about McCain's plans for Iraq, I love it more:

"McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal--that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll stay." --Hertzberg