We went to a food truck rally benefit for SPCA last night but the lines were too long to actually get food! But we did manage to get a couple of beers and sat on the hill and watched the people parade. Then had dinner at not a truck. Overindulged a bit and this morning was a wash. I should have gotten up to do spin but could not get out of bed. So, have been a total slug all day. I need to go out to get my nails done in a bit and to find some sort of shirt to wear to a friend's 70s party tonight.

I think my nails are long enough to go to a salon and have acrylics or some such put on, but I am gonna wait until later today, because I am working in the yard today. It is BEAUTIFUL.

so I emailed a bunch of women that I have become friendly with in the last 2 years, like probably 10-12 that I would love to see people and I know time is limited in all our lives and if anyone wanted just stop by for a break anytime today or tomorrow after 12 noon. So 1 person responded and she can't come at all. I mean I guess people could still just pop over, but really 1 response. I haven't found my people yet. The people that I have met that seem to have freer schedules are not people that I feel as close to, we value different things and don't have as much in common. bah.

off to yard work, vitamin D, and lots of dirt.

O msbelle. I understand how hard it is. Even being here years, It seems harder to make friends as I get older. (It doesn't help that I'm pretty shy.) And my married and sprogged friends I see less and less, as their lives get busier. Of course, I need to reach out more...

Fuck, they stole my homemade chorizo at customs. Bastards.

Yeah, making new friends is super hard, and I have like no demands on my time!

Tonight is going to be interesting. I'm going to the Seattle Mr. & Ms. Leather Competition. One of my friends who's in the kink scene wanted me to go with her, so I'm tagging along. Where I'm sure I will be greeted with a lot of "Oh, YOU'RE Elspeth's fairy gothmother!" comments.

Consuela, if it had pork in it, they had to confiscate it.

But I spent the last two weeks thinking how awesome it would be to share it. I understand the law, but I'm still really upset. Possibly because I've been traveling since o dark thirty and I'm only in nyc...

And now I have to log off for the next, last, flight. Argh. See yall on the flip side.

I'm sorry, Consuela. It's actually one of the rules that makes sense, but I know you're disappointed. Coming back from Europe sucks.

(We haven't had hoof-and-mouth disease in the U.S. since the '20s, and we're trying to keep it that way.)

Ginger, always bringing in reason...

So it looks like Penn State has been fucking up at least since 1988:

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The finding by State College, Pa., psychologist Dr. Alycia A. Chambers, the therapist for one of Sandusky’s alleged victims, was contained in the internal Penn State files of a 1998 police investigation of the former coach for showering and bear hugging her client and another young boy in the school’s athletic locker room.