(Laura wishes that Wendy H. — the managing editor, copyeditor, proofreader, and all around bradvisor — were awake now to instantaneously provide Laura with feedback about typos, content-problems, and any inadvertent and accidental references or links to swingers or swinging. But considering the fact that it’s almost 1:45 a.m. — even with the extra hour to be gained after turning the clocks back in fifteen minutes — Laura understands that Wendy H. is, like most normal non-branters, sleeping now. However, Laura would like to request that as soon as Wendy H. is awake and functioning she get her corrections and comments emailed to Laura post haste.)

Laura wants to thank her good friend Wendy H. (another modest person, this one, who doesn’t want to call attention to herself) for

a) reading her brant religiously;

b) teaching her (or trying to teach her since Laura never actually figured out how to do it without Wendy H. standing right there next to her telling her what to do at every step) how to use the check-out scanner aparatus at the Williams School library where both of them volunteered last year during their sons’ weekly Kindergarten visitation;

c) catching a major glitch in one of her posts tonight: the link to Laura’s sister-in-law’s- radio show “The Good Stuff” which she’d just added to her blogroll.

“The Good Stuff” is on the Lifestyle Talk Radio Network, and Laura mistakenly entered the website address as “www.lifestyletalk.com” instead of “www.lifestyletalkradio.com.” Unfortunately, “www.lifestyletalk.com” is a WEBSITE FOR SWINGERS which Laura certainly wasn’t intending to link to.

(Not that there’s anything wrong with that).

(But for the record, Laura thinks swingers are kind of gross.)

(Again, not that there’s anything wrong with swinging.)

(But Laura feels a need to express her rather strong opinion and clarify her position on the matter.)

(Just in case people think her “mistake” was a cry for help — OR a sneaky way to find other swingers to swing with.)

(But all joking aside, Laura wants to make it VERY CLEAR that she and her husband DO NOT SWING, HAVE NEVER SWUNG, AND DON’T INTEND TO SWING IN THE FUTURE.)

(Again, not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

Her (negative) opinion of swinging notwithstanding, Laura is hugely grateful to Wendy H. for catching the embarrassing (but neither intentional nor sub-conscious de-lidding of her id) mistake within minutes after it was posted.

Every branter should have a Wendy H.!