If I reviewed my dentist on Yelp, I'd need an editor and sanity check. Because I get all anxiety ridden and have my mouth topically numbed for the cleaning and have my iPod playing soothing music (Danger Days!) and then a pretty, pretty man fixed my problem with only minimal freaky noises and no pain.

You are braver than I. I can see no good way to combine sharp implements in my mouth with the degree of bouncing around that is reliably prompted by "Planetary (GO!)".

re: names of Mariah Carey's kids.

I read somewhere that Monroe is for Marilyn Monroe and Moroccan is for some architectural detail where Nick proposed to her.

I honestly skipped Planetary. Cause it's all bouncy and you have to bounce and that'd be ... bad.

But Sing is amazing when you are quelling fear. I went back to Sing for the bits that included grinding and polishing . Sing made me strong. Or made me not cry. Which translates to strong enough today.

Dr. Death Defying is also pretty soothing.

Jilli, if it's not a ginormous PITA you may want to look at eBay for selling rare books. I've sold about a dozen rare books on there, and I got nearly as much for each individual book as I did for an entire box of similar rare books that I'd sold to a local bookstore about a year earlier.

It took ages - I photographed the hell out of every one, including the dents and warts, and researched fair market value and checked Amazon and ABEbooks.com and blah blah blah, probably 2-3 hours' work for each title - but the results were much, much better.

Minnesota GOP leader declares war on Neil Gaiman: [link]

Tipping question:

Meal delivery tips: %age, or flat fee + degree of difficulty?

Another secondspin question: does the disk surface have to be absolutely pristine?

Not pristine, but you probably don't want to push it too far. They'll send back stuff if it doesn't meet their standards.

ita, I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks. Maybe less if I am paying for delivery, maybe a little more if I making him deliver in miserable weather.

ita, I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks.

Ditto.

My dentist isn't hilarious but he is nice and he's smoking hot.

I read that as smoking pot and was a little concerned. Which sums up my mental state.

Work is trying to kill me. They moved the transition up a week because we can't be down the following week. There's a massive scramble to transition auxiliary code, and that's turning up new cross mission issues that are...thorny. And we don't have part of the database licenses yet. And chief database miracleworker had to leave for a family emergency today.

And I have jury duty monday, and this is supposed to start tuesday. And no one is telling me where on the test server to install my code that I need to test.

There are just too many moving parts to do this on the fly, and that's exactly what we're doing.

In a word, clusterfuck.