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.

She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all

I wonder if I qualify as "late single."

Of course, I never had one iota of reason to begin with.

Public workaholics? Huh. I'm sorta late single, and I'm a total slacker. In your face, Zhirinovsky!

I wonder if I qualify as "late single."

I was wondering the same thing, so I looked up how old Condi is. She's 51 and we share the same birthday! Um, well, except that she's 13 years older than me. Still wonder where that "late single" stage begins.

Unless Wednesday never ended last night and cunningly has assumed a Thursday skin.

Well, there was no Veronica Mars last night, so this theory has possibilities.

I think I'm definitely late single. Luckily, I have so far shown no signs of denigrating Russians nor going on a shoe-buying spree during a major national disaster.

Poor Russians. Obviously they have no idea that Condi Rice just hates them on principle. She made her name during the Soviet era, and nothing I've seen says she ever came around to liking Russian forms of governance.

Such women are very rough.

Apparently, rough enough to get politicians to whine in newspapers. At least in the US, the press talks about her darth-chic wardrobe and her scary scary eyes, rather than trying to imply she's some kind of lumberjack.

I watched "Goodness Gracious Me," an "Asian sketch show," on BBC America last night. It was pretty funny, but also interesting in a cross-cultural sort of way. No deep observations, just things like, huh, that's not what "Asian" conjures up for Americans, and also wondering about the odds of such a show on a major network here.