My mom's birthday is at the end of May, so I usually end up getting something a bit more expensive than what I'd generally spend on a birthday present and making it a birthday/mothers day present.

Happy birthday GC!

Is it wrong that I'm a little irked that the two people I was supposed to go to lunch with today to show off the office (especially since one of them helped get me this job and was saying how cool it would be to come up here) have decided it's better that I go to their office and we'll pick something up.

I mean, it's not their fault someone is out, but I'm a little disappointed.

I got my mom's Mother's Day gift (a donation which my mom LOVED) taken care of early thanks to msbelle!

I'm also going to give her the gift of HOPE by telling her I'm going out to Chicago to visit a man next month. heh.

And on a flip side that less than a century after lynching was acceptable there's even half a chance a black person could get the gig? Amazing.

True enough. The fact that either a woman or a black man will be the Democratic nominee is astonishing.

(I can't spell today -- I spelled "nominee" about 4 different ways before I got the correct one. Variations included "moninee," niminee," and "nominnr." My fingers are not communicating with my brain.)

mac and I are making cards tonight. In fact, I am making the card I think at work today and mac is going to color/decorate and sign it.

oh lisa reminds me I should make an update lj post.

mac and I are making cards tonight. In fact, I am making the card I think at work today and mac is going to color/decorate and sign it.

This is made of so much cute. Yay, you guys!

A letter to the editor regarding an article on energy policy: [link]

Money quote:

He referred to the “finite supply of oil in the world.” There is no scientific basis for alleging that Earth has a finite supply of oil.

Um... huh?

From a bit upthread:

Would any of you be inclined to point out an all-female or all-non-gender-based demographic?

I do remember noting the first time I was on a plane and the pilot announced all the members of her crew and all the names were female. That was unusual enough to stick in my head.

Happy birthday, Glamcookie!!!

I stayed up watching the Indiana results last night. I am sooo cynical--when I heard that the Gary mayor was saying how the whole world was waiting for his city's results and that they were going to push Obama over the top, all I could think of was Richard J. Daley and Kennedy in 1960, when he held the Chicago numbers until the very end to see exactly how many JFK needed to win, and he "managed" to deliver just that number of votes.

And, finally, my commute in this morning was enlivened by being pulled over by a cop who couldn't see my seatbelt from his patrol car. When I told him that I had a relative who died from not wearing a seatbelt and that I am practically religious about the issue, he just patted my arm and said that he was sorry for my loss and let me get back on the road.

Well, I suppose that technically, new oil is always being produced. It's just happening way more slowly than we're using it.

There is no scientific basis for alleging that Earth has a finite supply of oil.

Well, you know, there's...a....thing?

I can't even make this make sense sarcastically. I rate it one quarter of a Time Cube.