The wife’s on a trip so I’m holding the fort down. Always an adventure.

I've been watching the long LotR movies with the kids and they are long.

Rick lost his first tooth today(/yesterday). I went out and got the crispest tener I could find (I'm waiting for Pete to complain, but inflation, man). Where do you stand on the various American demigods (Easter Bunny, Santa, Tooth Fairy, etc.)? I've always tried non-denial denials.

How do you take your water? I like mine as ice cold as ice cold gets. I know there are room temperature people out there, but I don't know why.

The new word on the street is Uranus actually does have plasma in its magnetosphere. Voyager 2 spent a scant 5 hours flying past it (which is still where almost all of our data on the planet is from) and it seems like it may have coincided with a "co-rotating interaction region" from the sun. Or, in a period of increased solar activity, the sun ejected long streams of plasma to the edge of the solar system. This caused a strong but temporary drop of plasma in the planet's magnetosphere. It just so happened that around this time is just when Voyager 2 scuttled past. Hope we get a closer look soon.

I'm a little pleased this website has suddenly picked up in the last week or so. As mentioned last night, I created this list for new or current BS members. As I also mentioned, please let me know if I'm missing anybody.

During our recent trip, the shower faucet in the hotel we were at had about a 1-2 cm range of acceptable temperature. Anything on either side of that range was burning hot or freezing cold.