This is a new one -- one of the dog adoption applications, which has about 50 questions, asks if I use air freshener in my home. (I'm not applying there. Looks like way too much of a pain for a place that will probably reject me, since at least six of those 50 questions are variations on "Will this dog ever be home alone?")

Hil, I've read a few articles about how difficult rescues make it to adopt dogs.

Do some places seriously think that a person is going to be with their dog 24/7? People aren't even with their kids 24/7!

but the way the GPS took me did not pass a Dunkin Donuts. I thought that was a statistical impossibility.

Is that even possible in this neck of the woods? Seriously, I pass three of them in my 15 minute drive to work.

Last night he told us that he was a caterpillar, and his sleeping bag was his chrysalis. This morning we found a little butterfly boy (who, unfortunately, had wet his chrysalis). I think his childcare staff could be in for an interesting day today.

Awww, Ryan.

I send everyone who needs it healing~ma and doctor~ma.

I hate it when I catch up just in time to go to bed and not really post. G'night, Bitches.

If she weren't fictional, she totally could know this guy. And maybe hire him for her band. Which is fictional.

That is weird. And yet plausible.

Continued ~ma to sickitstas.

Last evening I was in meeting that explained how municipalities' budgeting works (I'm now a part of the Public Knowledge Workshop, an open government thing. The cool part is that I get academic credit for volunteering there, because I chose it to be the practicum part of my MLIS. I'm mostly involved with different budget projects there).

I was surprised to see how simple things were. I always thought that municipal and government budget were huge and scary things, but no. That was a nice surprise.

I always thought that municipal and government budget were huge and scary things, but no. That was a nice surprise.

They are not huge here (specifically here, not USian general "here") but very complicated.

But then we also can't work out who should provide fire services. It's the little things.

Yes, the little things. I think it's mostly the people themselves that make it complicated and difficult, with different ideas, understanding and visions.

But the system itself has much more logic in it than what I originally thought I'll find. After an explanation of one hour I could easily read and browse through different budget books of different municipalities. Everything else is people, but I'm glad I'm not on the technical and visualization team, just the one who gets and process the data to spreadsheets.

Well, I just love spreadsheets.

There are huge ideological differences here where trying to characterize it as development versus conservation is simplifing things beyond usefulness. Everyone is somewhere on a spectrum and its a brawl.

Fun fact, I might have said I'd speak at a meeting in a week-ish. Which will be fun since my own feelings aren't actually resolved. It's easy to say I don't want a casino but it's a sovereign nation exercising their rights versus wildlife corridors between a National Park and the only oasis within a hundred miles and about a million other issues. Plus it would harm the aquifer. Welcome to the desert, it's all about the water. I'm going to have to take the people who cannot legally have a public opinion to lunch and bone up on this. I'm allowed to have opinions and I never want to run for public office so I don't see the downside of voicing them. Beyond the OMG I hate speaking in public. That's a huge downside.

That is weird. And yet plausible.

Right? There are no links to me from her whatsoever, and I don't even know the guy. But I totally could. What is your algorithm, facebook?

I have opinions about the casinos in general. I have to talk about them a lot because unfortunately, that's all most people know about Native America. Which reminds me, I need to email a couple of people from last week's collaborative meeting to talk down some misconceptions they got that I was unable to refute publicly.