Fertile no more
Had my little medical procedure done yesterday. It really was relatively quick and easy -- there were some uncomfortable moments but nothing I could really describe as "pain". Took about twenty-five minutes. I am a little tender today, but not bad.

With regards to not having children, a lot of people asked us "Are you sure?" We're old enough to know what we want. And should we change our mind, we have no aversion to adopting.

The human population of this planet doubles every forty years. That means that by the time I'm 76, you'd have to essentially take every city on the planet and build a like-size copy of it, say, right next to it. Every New York, every Paris, every Kathmandu, every Podunk, Illinois. With the doubling of population also goes a doubling of pollution, a doubling of natural resource use, and a massively increased risk of the spread of disease.

Are we sure? Yes, we're sure.