Lazy blogger alert! Also, poll!

[bumpycat]

Too much to do! So here is a frantic, truncated post.

I have a two-week exercise (Grantham and Salisbury Plain) starting next weekend, and finishing on the 24th.

However, I also have to write my online Military Knowledge level 1 exam by the 23rd to be eligible for the Junior Officers' Tactical Awareness Course (JOTAC) in October. For which I have

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[wolverine_nun]

Oy! I see you there, mucking about with your own poll.

[bumpycat]

Eep! I was just testing it! O_O Well, partly ...

[pinkthulhu]

He's a bit naive. Bet he didnt even know where Libya was before he left.

Good luck with the exam.

[extemporanea]

I scorn the poll, because it doesn't give the obvious option: Mr. Jeon clearly wants to be Lord Byron. (Who did it first, with the war for Greek independence. Orwell, pshaw). I am somewhat less impressed by the lad's absolute lack of practical contribution, however. Byron at least led a cavalry brigade and funded the navy and what have you.

I am completely missing out on the baby-news because I am too cussed to hang out on Facebook, so thank you for updating here occasionally :>. It sounds as though the three of you are having fun.

[bumpycat]

Well, I think the difference is that Lord Byron had enormous funds (vast tracts of ... land) and thus could fund an entire navy and so forth. Chris Jeon was more like Eric Blair in that he went there pretty much empty-handed.

[veratiny]

Are you a regular reader of the Christian Science Monitor?

[bumpycat]

No - I found the story via a news aggregator (fark.com) and followed the links to what seemed like the most complete version, with a picture.

[veratiny]

Parent tip: When MM-M got mobile we managed to get by without having to put on a single one of those annoying cupboard locks. How you my ask? We had a salt and pepper set that made a loud farting noise--she was terrified of them. We used to put them in the cupboards and move them around...she eventually stopped opening the cupboards because she could never be sure when she was going to be confronted by her nemesis: the farting salt cellar! Not dissimilar in its parental evilness to the baby jail :-)

[bumpycat]

So far the only thing that has that effect is the food blender, which is too big to fit in the cupboard. I'll see what I can do to traumatise her with something smaller ;)

[wolverine_nun]

:D Love the farting salt cellar story. We had a baby jail, though, passed down by the khois. It was very nice: 4 wooden sides fitting together easily. The thing that was particularly nice was that the sides could be used independently and in various other (orthogonal) combinations. *Very* useful for keeping toddlers out of the kitchen while there are hot dinners being cooked. In fact I think we used it more as doorway/passageway obstruction than as a complete jail.

Consider investing in harness and leash for those exciting shopping days ahead with your toddler :)

[veratiny]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with putting your child on a leash...not matter what small grey haired ladies and well-meaning hippies (that reek softly of lentil farts) may come up to you and say. My daughter was a wanderer...she used to toddle off into the wide blue yonder her arms wide saying "hello, friends" whenever she was given half a chance. The leash = the sanity.

[veratiny]

Also teeth: Whohooo!!!