Heavy Mettle or Heavy Metal

As I make my way through the early months of fatherhood and tonight as I wade through another daily pile of breast-milk-spit-up-saturated burp cloths and once-cute-but-now-soiled-by-an-overactive-bladder baby clothes that make up the signposts of the road to hell our little angel has put my wife through while I was safely at work, I have found my newest hero. No, not my wife, she's already at the head of my list for so many reasons. It's anyone who has or had the mettle to raise a child with out some serious metal.

The captain salutes all apartment inhabitants and urban dwellers who overcome all the other challenges in parenthood and do so without a captive washer and dryer. Of all the "baby gear" we own, this is, by far, proving to be the best investment we've made. That the Bay Area is worrying about an extended drought is no coincidence either...