That's what I'm leaning towards, Amy. Did you get a netbook?

"Yes, I'm unhappy, because I work with crazy people. If I enjoyed working with crazy people, I wouldn't be looking to work with your group, because you're not crazy. Although this Catch-22 you've set up is making me reconsider that assessment."

Oh yeah. A former coworker once hired me to work under her at a different job. She told them I was quiet. Sure, I was quiet at Old Job, because I fucking hated it there! I wasn't friends with any of my coworkers and my boss was a crazy person! That is when I made friends with all of you people....

Nope, Cash, a 16" laptop. It's my main machine, so I didn't want a netbook.

The touchpad was a learning curve for someone used to the Thinkpad's little red nipple, but I got the hang of it pretty quick. It's got loads and loads of memory, too.

OMGcommunitymeetingcrazy. People I am glad I am not: city contractor rep for the wastewater project that just got sprung on the neighborhood (gee, sound familiar?) that involves a lot of demolition right next to a high school and who could not commit to not using one particular street for truck traffic. For a project that end to end is 4 year. Whee.

We had 2 lt. cols., our district commander person and our 2 plainsclothes neighborhood cops, who got loved on a lot, and invited themselves to several citizen foot patrol meetings coming up. Of course, we had Mary Pat, council rep and I was able to introduce myself and get a pile of fliers to raise funds for our local firehouse to hang at work.

Plus a free cloth 2010 Census bag.

I've got to say, Mary Pat is a total steamroller for her citizenry. City contractor dude was distinctly unhappy.

Speaking of the census, Boston is hilarious. On the subway platform, there was a special announcement about how if you're a student, you should still tell the census that you live here.

I'm so glad to find I'm not the only one bummed about getting the short form.

Me too! I'm pretty sure I got the long form last time, but only the short form this time.

I sent mine off today. I thought I read somewhere there is no long form this year. But haven't verified that.

Mind you, our mail lady shoves shit in the boxes basically at random (I got three of the "you'll get your census soon" notices) so there's every chance I'll have some more to fill out.

That's excepting the periods every year or so when she decides our totally standard mailboxes are "dangerous" and delivers no mail at all for a month or so.