You should put your blood type in your profile. When your carboy finally decides to break, your HBT pals will know if they're eligible to donate blood!
I'm soooo glad to be glass free, I'm just about to sell off my two remaining glass carboys. If I haven't used them for the past year, I figure I'll never use them.
Cleaning better bottles is substantially easier, because you can handle them so easily and not worry about them slipping out of your hands or bumping the sink or floor. I just put in 2-3 small scoops of oxi-clean, add a gallon of hot tap water, shake it up, and top up with more hot water. Next time I check, it's spotlessly clean...sometimes in as little as an hour. No brush, no sponge, no sock...no scrubbing of any kind.