Damn you, Jesse! I just made the fastest purchase of boots ever. (uh...the second ones I linked to not the first) But I am so tired of not having a non-scuffed up falling apart pair of brown boots! and they were on super sale!

It's interesting to see the different ways corporate credit cards run. We have Visa cards that can only be used for very specific purposes (hotel and rental car). The state also pays for airfare up front. Everything else, we have to pay for and be reimbursed. It used to be this was the case for everything except airfare, and still is that way if you travel less than 3 times a year (only frequent travelers are supposed to get corporate credit cards). Apparently you can get an advance, but the front office is very down on that, and generally it's more hassle than it's worth, as they generally are pretty quick about processing and getting the money back.

I've been in a quandary about caucusing tonight. My general rule is that I don't go out in the evening (when the caucus is) if I'm too sick to go to work during the day, and although I'm feeling kinda better, I'm not better enough to work. Plus, I don't know, we're just caucusing on the presidential race (and some party stuff, I imagine) and at this point, I just don't have strong feelings for either HRC or Obama. It's kind of funny. I seem to be very involved politically when the rest of the country is all blah, blah, blah, republican, blah. This year, when people are all excited and involved, I'm like, ok, you're involved this year so I don't need to be.

As I sit home, miserable but cozy with a cat, I recall reading about all of you who work from home, at least on occasion. I wish I could do that. I don't feel well enough to be out and about, and I don't want to infect the whole office, but my brain is no longer fuzzy and I would like to do work. But I would like to be paid for it. I should maybe bring this up. I don't see it happening for most of the time, as we are so interdependent at work, with lots of interrelating jobs and group projects. Still, even if I weren't sick, it would be really great to be able to really focus on a project, as I could do at home and have real difficulty doing at work with all of the interruptions I have there. Hmm.

It looks like a couch.

or something Mila Jovanovich wore in a different color in (my eyes, my eyes) Ultraviolet

I have a soft spot in my heart for Ultraviolet.

That reminds me... it's been a really long time since we went trolling through Zappos for the Fugliest Shoe On The Planet.

Ooh! Something to distract me from Super Tuesday!

111 years ago today:

1897: Egged on by an amateur mathematician, the Indiana General Assembly almost passes a bill adopting 3.2 as the exact value of pi (or π). Only the intervention of a Purdue University mathematician who happens to be visiting the legislature prevents the bill from becoming law, saving the most acute political embarrassment.

What became known as the Indiana pi bill was sponsored by Rep. T.I. Record at the behest of Edwin J. Goodwin, a physician and math dilettante who claimed to have figured out how to square circles.

House Bill 246, proposed as "an act introducing a new mathematical truth," went through three reads before being passed unanimously by the House, presumably to avoid having to endure a fourth.

Although it comes down to us as the "pi bill," pi itself is never mentioned in Record's bill, which was, in fact, intended to confirm Goodwin's formula for squaring the circle. The value 3.2 for pi was a prerequisite for making that formula plausible.

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Damn you, Jesse! I just made the fastest purchase of boots ever. (uh...the second ones I linked to not the first) But I am so tired of not having a non-scuffed up falling apart pair of brown boots! and they were on super sale!

At least these people actually deliver, unlike those effers at Aerosoles! And I figured the prices were good enough to pay for shipping.

the Indiana pi bill

Still not as dumb as the proposed bill in Mississippi that would ban overweight people from eating in restaurants.

At least these people actually deliver, unlike those effers at Aerosoles! And I figured the prices were good enough to pay for shipping.

I think you're right. They claim to have 3 pair of the boots I ordered in stock. I may be speaking too soon but maybe I will actually succeed in buying a pair of new, non-novelty boots this winter!

Still not as dumb as the proposed bill in Mississippi that would ban overweight people from eating in restaurants.

Teppy's following me!

(I accidentally posted this to Bitches first - her comment followed me here....)