First and foremost, I'd like to say a big

HAPPY EIGHTEENth BIRTHDAY

to Rose Jenkins... it's her birthday (no, really!)... although where she is, it won't be for a little while ... one of the prime benefits of being just west of the international date line is you get a lot of stuff before everyone else.

Stupid blogger deleted the rest of this rant... cus it was too long or something. Sad. And of course I didn't save either. Stupid me.