1. PBW pushed me off the fence I was sitting on, and I’ve downloaded Marjorie Liu’s Tiger Eye game. It’s very fun, cool music, great graphics, and fun puzzles. Given that the first computer game I ever bought started with “You are in a dark room” and the second one came with Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, this is right up my alley.
2. Oklahoma has gone insane. Check your news source and be amazed with me; doctors are now exempt from lawsuits for practicing irresponsible medicine on pregnant women not to mention committing fraud. Because it’s fraud to have women pay for expensive prenatal testing only to lie to them about the results. Women of OK, this is not OK. You need to be informed, because you need to know if your baby needs an NICU standing by when you give birth, or a specialist lined up for your baby’s care (it can take months to get an appointment), or if you will need to plan on not returning to work after the birth to care for a special needs child, or if you will need more help during your postpartum recovery. These are not minor issues. I would love to see every genius who voted for this handed a special needs baby to care for for a day and see how they like having it sprung on them, except that would be a cruel thing to do to a baby, hand it to somebody who had no idea how to meet their special needs and no time to learn before being faced with the job.
3. I did a mountain of laundry today. Probably at least Rushmore sized.
4. There is some amazing dirt that collects in gutters over the winter.
5. I’m still pissed at Oklahoma.
Hey! Those were my first computer games, also! Seriously! Wow, it was Karma that we’d end up friends…
I loved those games! Wish I still had ’em. I think you’d like the Tiger Eye game (Curse of the Riddle Box). : )
I hope the women in OK fight back. This is criminal but sadly it isn’t.
WTF is going on in OK? Crap on a stick. :-O
I hope everybody fights back. This is a horrible precedent to set. And yes, it should be criminal. I would think a medical body could discipline doctors who withheld vital information despite this law.
Apparently some idiots think this will prevent abortions, it’s a “pro-life victory”. It’s not pro-baby, that’s for sure. Speaking as a special needs parent, if we’d known what we needed to prepare for, it would’ve made a world of difference. You have time to read books, take classes, etc before the baby arrives. After, you don’t have time to shave your legs.
I’m from OK and I’m pro-life, but I don’t believe making abortion illegal or wrapping it with unethical red tape is the answer. This news is disheartening. My biggest beef with both sides of the coin is lack of compassion for the mother and/or the unborn. Pro-life extends to so much more than the abortion issue, but that gets lost in political debate and I find that repulsive.
Heather, I’m with you. Compassion would go far.