In re my annual review--well that could have gone better, and it could have gone worse. It was fair, but I'm still miffed about one point. Someone please tell me to just let it go, because there's no way I can change it.

If the Fembot performed basic cleaning duties, I would be interested. Our robot vacuum never did work correctly.

Of course nothing compares to Buffy-bot.

We have our annual Boo at the Zoo tonight. Safe-Halloween fun at the local zoo for kids. I'm taking the boy (dressed up as a baseball player), but the daughter has come down with cold/flu that hit all of us the last two weeks and has spent the day at home with the wife.

Deep breathing and chocolate, MFN.

Serenity Now, Maria! Or whenever you can get to it, being a little miffed might be perfectly reasonable. Glad the review was generally fair.

slayer, get-better~ma to the girl sprog, and I hope the boy sprog has a fabulous time.

Thanks, ita and -t. I took on full strategic and operational responsibility for government services this year, and there were some bumps. Let them try managing a division remotely, and tell me there aren't challenges. And of course it was reflected in the merit increase. Bah.

I want to make a website that is just sort of, "Here's some good shit that happened today."

For those who are suffering outrage exhaustion.

Just random neato stuff like, "hey, biologists just discovered three new kinds of frogs in the amazon, today." Or, "Girls math scores are up in the US."

Random awesome news that just gets buried under outrage.

In snarky political news, perhaps Meg Whitman shoulda done a bit of research before basically handing Jerry Brown the best political ad this year.

you should,Allyson. Apparently some nuns got donated one of the rarest baseball cards in the world this week. Olbermann must be quite torn about it.

Earlier this week, I was talking with a coworker about my mom's English bulldog, and mentioning that we had one when I was a little girl. Well, after going through my pics online, I finally found my only pic of Ginger, with my brother, dad, sis, and me sitting around her. I think it might be from my first birthday party.

There seems to be an especially potent powerkeg politically right now. We've got a bad economy which makes everything worse, we've got a war which is like a deli where every sandwich is made of sh*t, we've crazy overheated rhetoric, we've got loads of misinformation, it's just a mess right now. The trend I find the scariest though is running flakes for national office.