Last week, after my daughter sat on her boyfriend's lap in the back seat of my car, I decided it was time to have "the" talk. Of course, since I am the non-custodial parent, I knew that saying "If I catch you doing that again, I will restrict you to the yard" would not work, so instead during breakfast this morning I told her that work had been very stressful and started talking about it. Then I told her about a dozen or so horrific clients I have had over the course of the last few years. I told her about women whose husbands prostituted them while they were pregnant in order to pay for drugs, about men who had over ten children by four different mothers and paid support on none of them, about marriages that went fine for years and then suddenly blew up with one or both parties ending up in the psych ward, and about grandparents who were barely into their thirties. Later on we talked about online journaling and I mentioned this entry by a young woman about her age and how impressed I was with it. At no time during our discussion did I actually say that we were having "the" talk and I made sure that we discussed other things as well, like her new Linkin Park album that I really like. Hopefully this will work.

On the sister having the operation front, the convent did not want her to have any visitors this weekend. So I sent her a card and will see what I can set up for next weekend.

On the Merovingian professor thing, we had a second date, but I'm not certain about a third. She seems a bit over my head. She is very attractive, owns her own home, has tenure, has published three books, speaks four languages, and travels to Europe at least twice a year. She is also a city girl and is not very impressed with the area that we live in. All in all I feel a bit provincial around her. She is also an evening person, while I am very definitely a morning person. So I don't know.

And finally, I am getting very frustrated. When we had our fall peak I took about three rolls of pictures and I wanted to show a few of them. I uploaded them to my isp home directory with ftp and now I can not access them. Ftp shows that they are there but when I try to hook them into a web link they come up not found. I called the isp but they said they do not do tech support for web pages. Grumble.