Wow, kindergarten! That's incredible.

Amy, the move was definitely hard, but they love the new house, aided by liking the bunk beds. Each morning Grace tells me that the new house is fun.

That's great, Tom! I hope the next interview goes just as smoothly for you.

Good luck with the apartment, Jesse!

Connie, the rain's good news for you, right? Did you post something about fires near by? I hope it helps with that.

Everything takes longer with the government, even at the state or local level.

We call that working at the speed of government. Then we weep.

Connie, the rain's good news for you, right? Did you post something about fires near by? I hope it helps with that.

It's a good soaking rain, not too heavy but steady and has been going on for a couple of hours now. It may not put them out, but it should make a dent in some of those fires.

Of course, now we get to worry about mudslides, but, god, it smells so good out there.

Excellent--the paper says it will post my sister's rebuttal this weekend, hopefully unedited. And they backhandedly apologised for the article itself, saying that it got published because someone else missed a deadline.

Which is...way to stand by your content.

But they have an "all sides of the argument" policy, so sis gets heard. Seen. Read. You know what I mean.

Each morning Grace tells me that the new house is fun.

You have no idea how tickled and happy that makes me... Okay, you probably do. But the definitive answer is "a lot".

I had a weird moment in a debate about Prometheus. I was saying that the characters were stupid for a big deal they were hired for, and the rebuttal was "They're working for money. They're mercenaries. That doesn't go hand in hand with quality like a government mission would."

And I'm all whuhuh? When did that stereotype get changed around? When did "I do this professionally" get to be a bad thing?

I mean, shit, there are good people in both public and private sectors, but the idea that mercenaries are bad at their jobs (well, bad enough to excuse the idiot ball they were tossing around the whole movie) was just weird. Neither being free market nor government sponsored is applicable here.

Not that I've seen the movie, but I have heard many people complaining that "I'm just in this for the money" makes no sense as an excuse to be doing a shitty job. Last time I checked, corporations generally try to spend their money on people who don't suck.

Right? They were being paid a LOT. One would assume they were the good mercenaries.

ION, I'm really bummed I can't sell this footage, because even though it's not our copyright, it's so incredibly cute.

I haven’t seen the movie, but if I were a mercenary, I would be extremely concerned if my colleagues weren’t doing a good job looking out for my back.