response 27 of 594:

Jun 27 02:06 UTC 2003

speaking of daycare, we will have to have our daughter go to one.  
Julie likes the one she found, thankfully, and it would be a temporary 
arrangement most likely if all goes the way we want it to, i.e., she 
gets to participate in the Community Jobs program and gets an 
afternoon assignment.

response 29 of 594:

Jun 27 12:56 UTC 2003

Parents do that more often than daycares do.

response 31 of 594:

Jun 27 16:51 UTC 2003

I wonder if there is any chance of renegotiating the mediation agreement such
that Andrea agrees to allow David to spend time with John II.  I have no idea
what she is afraid John might do to David.  In exchange, John II could agree
in writing not to say or do anything about John III spending time unsupervised
with the man he is already living with anyway.  Again, I have no idea what
John II is afraid might happen to John III.  Would he be fed vodka for lunch?
Are recovered alcoholics dangerous people, any more than recovered smokers?
Andrea is clearly violating the spirit of the agreement regarding David, if
he was supposed to visit 'whenever he wanted'.  

response 35 of 594:

Jun 27 21:56 UTC 2003

I have neighbors with a genetic tendency to alcoholism.  The adult son has
let it run his life and has been in and out of treatment programs.  He is a
very very nice guy who would never hurt anyone (except of course himself).
His sister, a doctor, says she knows there is a family problem, and she
therefore avoids alcohol.  Other relatives have had various other drug
problems.  The fact that you are unable to control yourself once you start
drinking does not mean that you cannot keep yourself from starting.

I think it might be harder to quit smoking than alcohol, judging from a couple
of other neighbors and how often they have quit.

response 37 of 594:

Jun 27 23:34 UTC 2003

It is both more and less likely for kids to start smoking if their parents
smoke.  It's easier to get cigarettes & associated necessities, certainly,
but you also get to see first hand just how disgusting it is.  (, he said from
personal experience.)

response 39 of 594:

Jun 28 02:21 UTC 2003

        I've got a Sport's illustrated Swimsuit screensaver installed. It shuts
down the computer anythime I walk into the room.

response 41 of 594:

Jun 28 05:34 UTC 2003

Perhaps slynne and i could be true loves?
My father smoked until I was 11.  He tried various means of quitting (pipe,
cigar).  I don't know how my mother ever married a smoker.  She and both my
brother and I detested the smoke, which made us ill.  Perhaps I would not be
allergic if I had not be continuously poisoned during my childhood.
My father refused to believe his vice was making us all sick.  He did quit
when the doctor told him it was necessary to cure his ulcer.

I find a true friend to be much more useful, longterm, than a true love.

response 43 of 594:

Jun 28 16:13 UTC 2003

i -- Does that mean you're madly in love with someone an infinite number of
miles away?

response 45 of 594:

Jun 28 21:12 UTC 2003

IBB, having not gone to bed till 3, I didn't wake up till 11, and thus missed
not only Habitat but Grexwalk.

response 47 of 594:

Jun 29 09:20 UTC 2003

I drank waaaaaaaaaay too much tonight, and now I have a headache.  
Water is a Very Good Thing.

I'm NOT getting onto that waterbed until I've sobered up a bit.  :-P

response 49 of 594:

Jun 29 19:41 UTC 2003

IBB I went to Hell and I found *nothing* worth buying as gifts for
friends.  All the tasteful "Hell" silkscreened logos, all the quality
embroidered flannel stuff... nowhere in evidence.