Oh yeah, kids allowed.

Alright my company have a whole shwack load of tickets to the WEM waterpark that are unclaimed. So they gave me 5, so if any of you are free tomorrow from 7:30 Pm to 10:30 Pm and want to go then contact me. They are free the only thing you have to do is show up, hang out with a bunch of people from my job, and see me wearing swim trunks (don't worry no speedo from me).

Alright made it thru lunch, no incedences. Just can't watch that video again.

Al - that means if you're 26 you're good to go. If you're 27, not so much.

Not the Daily Show. Starring Jason Ross (one of the writers on the show), and featuring a guest appearance from one of the performers on the show, it's a nice encapsulation of the absurdity of the writers' strike.

Bad Paras! Now I want to punch random people just as they are about to eat!

I don't know why I enjoy this so much. Someone just sent this to me in an email, months after I saw it the first time. It's still inexplicably funny. People getting punched just before eating:

It better be older, I'm at cut-off age.

As far as I have heard, there was an outbreak of the mumps at the both the college and university in Lethbridge, amoung people who all recieved the MMR immunization shot. The province has also seen a dramatic increase in the number of cases of mumps (31-ish as opposed to 8-ish) this year, so there are going to be vaccinat clinics at all major post-secondary institutions around the province, but that in the new year they will be doing a larger, province wide immunization program for any Albertans up to the age of 26 (it may be older, but I'm not sure).

how do we know if the MMR vaccine we got as kids actually took?? ... or is still working?

Conclusively? If you get mumps, you're not immune. Anything short of that is just guesswork (or expensive antibody testing, I suppose.) I had understood, though, that the vaccine was demonstrated to last at least 25 years, and was thought to provide lifelong immunity.

Has anyone heard what happened in "southern Alberta"? I hadn't heard anything about this.

I mean, my guess would be that there was some questionable immunity status (or perhaps a failed immunization) and, because we're talking about childbearing-aged adults (in whom the disease is more severe and in whom you worry about spontaneous abortions and congenital abnormalities), they figured better safe than sorry. But it would be nice to know what actually happened.