oy people. day 2 of mac with the new babysitter is going well. I am just hanging out in the other room in case of mac freak out emergency. I am fixing painting mistakes. Did I tell you all that he just painted around the inside mounted wooden blinds in the windows? did not take them down. Even on the window where the inside area was painted mustard yellow?!?!? and because he did that and did a crappy job, there is now paint on the wooden blinds also. So since I took down the blinds down I also washed the windows - diiiiiiirrrrrrtttttyyyy.

oh, he also painted the aluminum window frame, but did not clean it first and only painted up to where the blinds hung down. I shit you not.

I think there were a couple of other natural disasters that might have shoved it off the front page?

Are you going to get any of your money back, msbelle?

The relative disaster-ness of natural disasters reminds me where I saw it, and something else we saw in the same local-news channel cycle: A list of people without power in New England that was like:
Maine: 10,000
New Hampshire: 7,800
Vermont: 32
My mother was like, maybe the Vermont people just need to flip the breaker??

No, it was so cheap, and he is my downstairs neighbor, so awkward.

I heard something about the hurricane in France ... just a brief notice on the radio news.

ita, I once had a problem with someone snitching a fan from my office and never returning it. I ended up using a cable to attach it to my desk.

And Tom - go to the Batman thing.

I did see this:

ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, "Bad Dog! Creating the Guilty Other in a Domestic Environment"

and thought, but isn't that what boyfriends are for? (or husbands, wives, kids, etc.)

Dogs don't feel guilty when you yell "bad dog" at them - they just fake it.

My mother was like, maybe the Vermont people just need to flip the breaker??

Ha!

I think there were a couple of other natural disasters that might have shoved it off the front page?

I haven't had a chance to look it up, but from discussion at work it sounded like the hurricane was still moving. Germany now. So, no.

Lecturer keeps saying "composting" instead of "compositing". I hold this against him more than dub-dub-dub.

No, it was so cheap, and he is my downstairs neighbor, so awkward.

Ah.

I saw something about a storm in France on the tv on Sunday, but I didn't catch the word "hurricane" and it's nowhere to be seen on the front page of the paper edition of the LAT.