My mother is pretty wary of health care reform, but it's not because she thinks that it's not needed, but because nothing has yet convinced her that it'll make anything better. She says that every time there's been something done to fix health care, it's just made things worse. Also, she's definitely wary of any kind of change, because change in the system will mean change in which of her medicines and doctors and procedures get paid for, and pretty much every time her insurance coverage has changed, there's been something that was suddenly way too expensive, and the supposedly equivalent replacement ended up reacting with one of her other meds, and started a chain reaction where switching that one med ended up with having to change ten others.

All fairly reasonable, rational and reality-based concerns. I promise not to stab your mother with a rusty pen.

I have my heat treatment machine and am using it for the first time. am very excited. what I need to be doing is getting my room is some sort of order so that we can actually sleep tonight. I can't manage 2 rooms so mac is just sleeping in my bed tonight.

Right now I can barely walk into the room because all the furniture is pushed into the middle of the room, along with plastic bags full of stuff. It's almost as if we were painting.

Good luck with the rooms, msbelle. And the sleeping, I hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.

Wow. That's both evil and brilliant.

Well he got caught, so not as brilliant as you might think.

Hoping for a good night, msbelle!

Loki is bedeviling Devi. Something funny about both being named after deities. A rumble in Asgard?

Timelies all!

Came home this evening, and the power was out. (There is a pole down near our complex) G and I went out to dinner , and the power was back when we returned.

This is a good thing in many regards, including the fact that my parents are coming in tomorrow for the weekend, and we hadn't finished cleaning. Now we have.

I got a rubik's cube yesterday, and it's infuriating because they keep walking by, picking it up, and solving it in ten minutes and then I have to mix it all up again.

Ooh. I won $50 for solving the Rubik's Cube when I was 11. That's a lot of money for an 11 year old. I'm slower now, takes me about 90 seconds. I've seen a book that promises to teach yo uhow to solve it in under 30 seconds or something. It tempts me, though not yet enough to actually buy it.

I know that there's a strategy for solving a Rubik's cube, but I've never actually sat down with one for long enough to figure it out, and I don't want to look it up on the internet because that feels like cheating.

Screwdriver, I tell you. Or be really evil and goo-be-gone! Now it all matches.

I got a solve-the-cube book when I was a kid. IIRC, there were a bunch of algorithms for stuff like how to swap two pieces that are currently on opposite sides in n moves. I got fairly quick, found it boring once I had the tricks, have forgotten every bit of it, and am much more inclined to just take the blasted thing apart these days.

Screwdriver, I tell you.

Yep. That's how I've always solved Rubik's cubes.