and slowly making the elements of a nicoise salad!

You're making capers?

My daughter spontaneously took on the project of cleaning and organizing the hairbrush drawer this morning. I am vaguely boggled, but my rule of thumb is to never turn down offers of housework. Especially when my kid makes them.

Is everybody being productive? That's crazy!

I was getting sucked in to workplace drama.

I may need to kill my work nemesis. My boss is about to kill her boss (who is really rude to my boss), but my boss, who is friends with nemesis does not see that the problem is not Nemesis's boss asking her to do something, but the fact that she can't do it without asking me for information that my boss already gave her boss.

My boss was so mad she said the f-word about 50 times and said she was going to go to HR.

You're making capers?

I wish! I wonder if I could grow a caper bush in a pot?

Also my salad will only be nicoise-ish because I don't think we have capers or nicoise olives (we have some oil cured greek olives) also just canned tuna in water. Not ideal but it will have to do!

One of my coworkers did something that resulted in breaking links on ~300 pages of the website I manage.

I'm working from home today, so I didn't have to give myself a hernia by holding in the resulting stream of profanity. Yay?

I am working.....IN MY PJs!!! I also found the dish organizer for my shelves, so while waiting for work people to get back to me earlier, I put up all my everyday dishes. YAY! That is one more big dishpack box done and gone.

I was hoping to pick up a playdate for mac at 11, but the mom is not answering her phone. Both of my parents are out of pocket today, so I need something for him if I am going to get all the work done I need to.

Also my salad will only be nicoise-ish because I don't think we have capers or nicoise olives (we have some oil cured greek olives) also just canned tuna in water. Not ideal but it will have to do!

Close enough! Tasty too. My recent go-to dinner salad has been spinach with tuna and a hard boiled egg cut up. I'm always trying to find ways to give JZ enough protein in her somewhat vegetarian diet and since she eats fish and eggs, that works.

It's gotten to the grab, cold, drab, foggy portion of a San Francisco summer in my neighborhood. (It's probably quite warm still in the Mission, downtown and North Beach.)

This afternoon I'll collect Emmett and I'll throw to him at the batting cage, and then we'll do a little more BP on the field where you can better see where the ball is going. After a month of mostly no baseball he's got a schedule starting Saturday where he'll be doing a double-header a day for about ten days. He does his own wood bat now so I'm hoping we get his swing fixed.

Then I think we'll swing by the good taco truck, and hit up Bi-Rite for ice cream.

Speaking of which, megan walker was not lying about Haaden Daazs 5 Lemon ice cream. Lordy, if you like anything lemon flavored you must buy and consume this. So creamy and delish.

Shameless kitty cuteness ganked from I Can Haz Cheezburger:

Tiger. Buster. Ginger. All popular cat names. How about some of the craziest cat names out there? According to Veterinary Pet Insurance, these are the top 10 wackiest cat names from the 485,000 cat names in their database:

1. Purr Diem

2. Bing Clawsby

3. Cleocatra

4. Admiral Pancake (I'd love to know the story on this one)

5. Optimus Pants

6. Chairman Meow

7. Boo Manchu

8. Watts in a Name

9. Chenoa Azure Marshmellow-Puff

10. Senor Nachos

Next to those names Zorro and Squeaky Fromme are as nothing.

hangs head in name shame