Controlled Crying == Awesome!!!

Well, firstly, controlled crying is somewhat of a misnomer - you actually kind of do the opposite. Rather than jumping up every time the little gal squawks, we let her cry a bit, and make sure we don't rock her to sleep.

But it works so well. Baby E now sleeps in her bed - actually goes to sleep by herself! Suddenly, rather than having to spend hours trying to get the little girl to sleep, we've got hours of time to our grown-up selves - like, from 9pm until "crap better go to bed or I'll be real tired tomorrow" o'clock (which has been my standard bedtime for the last 20 years or so). Can't claim to be using the time wisely (see, for example, the post regarding Flight of the Conchords, or the one about playing with Blogger templates).

On a completely different note, Joan Chen is awesome. How many other actors have been in MacGyver, Tales from the Crypt, and The Outer Limits, among other classics?