Thanks, java!! That books looks great, as I also don't really know how to best manage my other stock options and restricted stock and whatnot. And Amazon had a used copy available for $3.99, so I just bought it.

(Although just this morning, I was looking at the personal finance books I bought a few years ago on Kristin's recommendation and noted how I barely ever use them. Heh. I need to figure things out.)

Oh, I see there are newer versions of the book, but none for four dollars that will be here on Monday. Ah well.

Don't let Sci Fi see that. There will be a movie of the week in a second. I see . . .a botany lab next to a radiation lab. there's an accident and the wall between them is somehow knocked down. The carnivorous plants get blasted with radiation and VENUS MANTRAP is born!!!!!

The year is important, P-C. Some things change slightly from year to year. But you can read the used one you're getting, and then buy the new 2010 one when it comes out. Usually finance books bore the hell out of me, but this one is really good. And, when it comes to having both ESPP and regular company stock options, it can't be beat.

The year is important, P-C. Some things change slightly from year to year. But you can read the used one you're getting

Yeah, I'd like a chance to flip through it before I have to set my ESPP level.

I just made a huge pot of chili, and it's excellent, if I do say so myself. Note to future self: I know it looks delicious, but licking the adobo sauce from the chipotles off one's fingers is not actually a great idea.

I am going to make chorizo jambalaya tonight. I am am making pumpkin cookies if it fuckin' kills me.

I may make some pumpkin muffins (whitey) tonight. Kinda depends if mac is a pisser again. Nothing sounds good for dinner, maybe I'll buy some ginger ale and have some whiskey with that.

Hmm. I have a pumpkin I need to do something with. Though I did just make gingerbread last night. And after the day I'm having I'm kind of planning on doing some drinking tonight, so it might not be the best time to experiment.

OTOH, it might be the best! Who knows what crazy thing I'll come up with.

We were in a meeting the other day when someone brought in bagels. Apparently one was fruit based, but looked deceptively oniony. The designer put garlic spread on it and was...startled, to say the least. He said, "I would have expected [memfault on the exact fruit/sweet flavor] in a muffin!"

Had to excuse myself from the meeting.

I think I'm not touching office bagels anymore. Well, until the next hunger crisis. But the nastiness of a sweet bagel (or really, any bagel) that's been next to an onion bagel ruins all the fun. Why can't we all just enjoy Montreal-style plain, poppy-seed (see, I endorse kinds I don't eat), and sesame (mmmmmm) bagels?