The only thing that annoyed me lately was all the paperwork involved in buying cold medicine. I know it's the law and Walgreens has to do it, but really. Can I make meth with one bottle of cough syrup and 1 box of dayquil? And yet, I had to show ID, and give my name and address which they had to record in a book. I'm standing there with a huge box of Kleenex and cough drops. I think I'm using the medicine because I'm sick.

re: Indigo Children

Ms. Jackson compared people who do not recognize indigos to Muggles, the name used by J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books to describe ordinary people who have no connection with magic. "I would say 90 percent of the world is like the Muggles," she said. "You don't talk about this stuff with them because it's going to scare them."

"Enormous eye-roll" is a fear response?

I know the P.O. won't take "See ID" as a signature. I'm rarely asked for mine. Though the one time I was asked recently, I didn't have it, which sucked.

You know there are some days when I love my job so very much. Like today, when there is a live blues band in the office. I hope they're not done yet.

Oh, I forgot to mention - I have access to my money again. So either Comcast asked my bank to drop the hold on the $, or else the actual charge never went through and my bank's time limit on a hold expired, releasing the $.

Like today, when there is a live blues band in the office.

Cool.

Today a tennant's car alarm went off, directly outside the back wall of my office.

Cool.

So very. It looks like they're being interviewed, but all their stuff is still set up, so maybe we'll get more music in a bit.

ita, insent.

The SO does the "Check ID" thing, and still doesn't get asked all that much. Our PO does take the card without a fuss, but then, we've known them for years, so... Even at the bank I get fussy when I get asked for id, because I'm so used to knowing the tellers socially. It's a small town.

Meth is such a huge freaking problem out here, I'd rather see everything possible done to discourage it. I don't mind the Sudafed inconvenience. It's a horrible drug. (eta: Err, meth, that is, not Sudafed. Sudafed is a perfectly normal drug.)

Yay for the blues band. When I was working out of our apartment in Wichita, there was a blues bar just down the road, and I used to be able to open up the windows and listen to their sound check while I was working. If they were any good, then I would know to go to the bar that night. There were several other venues with live bands within walking distance, too, so you could stick your head out the window and decide which direction to go. It was fun. I miss that.

Thank goodness you've got your money back, tommyrot. That whole thing was just ridiculous.

Project Runway -- Bonbon did you get to vote for the best window ?

It was all very confusing. There appeared to be a ballot box, but there were also a bunch of PAs wandering around unhelpfully and it wasn't at all clear that it was open to the public. No signage to indicate what was going on and that people were invited to check out the windows and vote. I wandered around for a bit (though I saw Tim Gunn, I didn't know back in June that they were filming for PR; I thought it was an ad for BR) and then went to Lenscrafters.

The other instance I will ask for ID is a woman using a card with a "man's" name or vice versa. Which means I would probably have ID'd Jesse or bon bon.

Funny, because I rarely get asked for ID.

Um.... silly Russians.

Yesterday’s English language version of Pravda headlines: “Condoleezza Rice's anti-Russian stance based on sexual problems.”

The subhead goes deeper: “The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children.”

I scrolled down expecting to see attribution to an unknown letter writer. Instead, it was from an interview with Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who adds:

"She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all. Such women are very rough. They are all workaholics, public workaholics.”

Wonkette: [link]

The actual Pravda (English) article: [link] A very strange article.