But I wanted the pictures before. In todays climate of photos leaking, plus I have no other to share them with, it's sort of odd. But I am jealous of people who have a good set and I don't. Often have been.

Because it's 87% off!

That's how you can tell that they're boudoir pictures.

Our Web provider has outdone themselves. They are worse than the devil.

I don't even want to deal with the rest of today.

Grrr. I'm hungry. I already had my greek yogurt at 8:15, and lunch isn't for another 90 minutes, and I'm still hungry. Time to drink more water, I guess.

Kept the shoes and chalk bag, though

Very smart. I retired my eight-year-old harness this spring and got a new one at REI. Only $50, well worth the improvement in peace of mind. That's how Todd Skinner died, after all, rapelling in Yosemite in an old harness.

Dear vendor,

If you continue to wait to send me invoices until several months after the work has been done, I will continue to assume that you do not care about getting paid.

Signed,

Seriously Beyond Caring About This

IT’S never easy being a Weiner, but I can’t recall a week as difficult as this one. I desperately want to escape myself, but I can’t. I am everywhere. Today, I learned I have few allies, even among Democrats, and that I may have given public relations advice to a porn star. My wife, though, is standing by me. For now.

Very funny op-ed by Eric Weiner.

From ita's link (since I know that most people don't click on them. Thought it would be funny for teachers and parents out there:

The Groupon Guide to: School Skills

Before children can advance to the next grade in school, they must possess certain skills necessary for increasing academic success. Here are the skills your child needs before beginning the next level of their K–12 education:

Kindergarten: Familiarity with the alphabet's first (or "beginner's") half
First Grade: Ability to fake an understanding nod when difficult concepts arise
Second Grade: Readiness for spelling bees and their more dangerous cousins, spelling wasps
Third Grade: Can design and carve their own multiplication table
Fourth Grade: No longer satisfied by anecdotal evidence of cooties, demands to see empirical proof
Fifth Grade: Can judge a book by its cover
Sixth Grade: Feels an adult-like superiority over younger elementary students, derived mainly from shoebox-diorama proficiency
Seventh Grade: Recognizes that rest-of-life coolness is determined on the first day of middle school
Eighth Grade: Expertise in Hollywood-caliber makeup effects to simulate outward signs of puberty
Ninth Grade: Total rejection of parents, society, sellouts, poseurs, un-raged-against machines, traditional values, book learning, mall curfews, capitalism, know-it-alls, know-a-bits, know-nothings, playing a full game of Mousetrap instead of just building the mousetrap and watching that, anyone who hasn't seen The Matrix, anyone who has seen The Matrix, and most of their friends from middle school
10th Grade: Should be able to read by now
11th Grade: Prepares for prom by holding hundreds of practice proms in the backyard, starring dozens of neighborhood dogs in tuxedos
12th Grade: Must be a complete and functioning adult

Very funny op-ed by Eric Weiner.

On the one hand, as a fellow Weiner, I feel his pain. On the other hand, he has given us Weiners a bad name, and let’s face it: we didn’t have a great one to begin with.

Last week, someone I didn't know from IT stopped by and checked to see whether I had some program installed. They had tried to push it through as an update, but it hadn't worked on mine, so they needed to install it manually. They didn't want to disrupt business activity, so they wanted to do it after hours, and they needed to do it under my login, so he asked for my password. It was expiring soon anyway, so I wrote it on a Post-It for him.

He was supposed to install it on Monday night, and when I checked Tuesday, I didn't see any new programs installed.

This morning, someone I did know from IT stopped by and asked me to change my password immediately. I told him I was waiting for someone to install some program.

He informed me that that had been a social engineering project. That man hadn't actually been from IT. I had given him my password. I had failed.

I GOT PUNKED BY IT.