I figure this is one of the great features of blogging: if you ever wonder what it's like to have some particular experience, someone somewhere has written it all down already so you know what to expect! :) I think my abdominal surgery is in here somewhere, and some descriptions of aerobatic goofs lessons learned, and what it's like to backpack four days by myself or take a helicopter from Finland to Estonia or call a square dance in Japan. In return I get stuff about births, stuff about raising children, which kind of bird looks like what, science fiction conventions, scrapbooking, living in Egypt, being a cop, being an EMT, and all sorts of glimpses I wouldn't otherwise get in my life.