Does my weight problem have to come up in every conversation? It's not like I don't know about it or something.

Apparently the family's coming. Time to pack up some things.

Changed the home page slightly so as to freely share the photo gallery without having the higher risk of discovering this page. Current known ways to get to this page: Accidental link from Google; most recently published list of blogs on Blogger; and from my UW home page. Speaking of which, here's an interesting Jeopardy clue in the category of "Noun to Verb": When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online.