SLIVER ME TIMBERS!

Sorry - but I never can resist a pun! Although I do think I have in some ways reached the height of professional absurdity today in having to file a Worker's Comp claim only a day before I'm laid off. Eleven years without one and now this . . . because of a sliver! Yes, folks, it turns out that the metal ones don't just dissolve, and aren't so easy to get out, either. But hey, life is always full of learning experiences. Not that I'm recommending this variety, mind! Still, it's good to know the tetanus vaccination I was forced to get during a physical two years ago may not entirely have been in vain - just in vein!

And speaking of recommendations, did I mention a strong one for Charles Sheffield's The Amazing Dr. Darwin? Methinks not, but it definitely deserves one! Go forth, buy and read, people! And give Bruce Alexander's Blind Justice a try while you're at it!

And if you are a were-parsnip in Connecticut, I may need to make a catnip raid/visit for the boys sometime soon! Feline does not live by Friskies alone!

Blogreader survey: does anyone besides myself think that string theory really could be the answer to unification between relativity and quantum theory? Love them parallel realities!