In completely separate news...CJ is off to a concert at Red Rocks. He is seeing Chicago and Earth, Wind, and Fire. I doubt he can name a song from either band.

Suzi, that's so funny! What prompted him to go?

I just can't get over how fucking whiny that article was. The sign that she's bitching about being too small to see? It's about the same height as my four year-old. (And I don't mean it's at his eye level, I mean it's at least four feet tall. If you sit on that bench in that playground all the time, unless you are blind or illiterate, you know damn well what it says.

If she was sitting there as some kind of civil disobedience thing to protest the law about adults in playgrounds? FINE. I have no problem with that. I think the laws are there to create welcoming spaces for children who might not otherwise have a free space to play, but fine. Take a stand, go nuts.

But to say, essentially, but I break this law all the time! Why should I have to pay a fine just because I got caught???? Is stupid.

I just can't get over how fucking whiny that article was.

On this we are in agreement.

But to say, essentially, but I break this law all the time! Why should I have to pay a fine just because I got caught???? Is stupid.

Well, you know, people.

I just can't get over how fucking whiny that article was.

Seriously.

I am the person children gravitate toward, often to the chagrin of parents. I've had kids at the Y playground accost me as I am walking by and ask me to come play. It's kinda hilarious.

Gonna be bloody hot the next few days, probably breaking 100. I've got the ac cranked in anticipation (if I can cool it down enough beforehand, I can maintain a comfortable house.) Was pretty toasty today, as it was.

My essential database person is out for an undetermined amount of time. She passed out visiting someone in the hospital and shattered her ankle. Surgery today with plates and pins and shit. I just hope it was her bad ankle, so it's fixed up once and for all!

One of my pool buddies tried to get me to try this lapdancing class she's taking. Yes, read that right. She's all "ok, I know this sounds bad, but it is an incredible core workout!" Fascinating, but I think I'd just end up laughing too hard. 12 that way.

Loki almost made it all the way around the block tonight. Would have but someone was going through the alley with dogs, and I don't chance that- we hightail it back to my porch (meaning I carry a growling yowling protesting Loki back home!)

I find it amusing that I've been wearing skirts or dresses for the past week to work and no one is commenting (beyond "cute dress".) Now, when I show up in jeans....such a reversal from my youth. If I wore a dress back then, you'd think I'd performed a miracle.

I've been scarce.

It's supposed to be 100 here on Thursday! I need to buy a fan.

On this:

I think that someone who's acting creepy and hanging around a playground eyeing the kids should be dealt with on a case by case basis and that these flat, unilateral ways of dealing with an issue just cause more problems.

The problem is that "acting creepy" is such a subjective term. In practice, I suspect it would mean that white women eating donuts would be left alone but a black man doing the same would get arrested. With a child / not with a child is at least a clear bright line.

Yeah, I'm that person too. Kids talk to me all the time. Even when I'm putting out my Do Not Invade Space signal to adults, kids are totally like, hi, did you see this awesome toy I'm holding? And also here's a narrative about the last video game level I completed. Where's my mom? Don't really know.

Also cats.

Cats sit on me in a most unanticipated manner quite often.

This has nothing to do with playground laws.