My favorite mugs are my Sunspot Solar Observatory mug, my (sob) broken Lowell Observatory mugs [link] , and my Apache Point Observatory mug this silhouette [link] , just the outline, on a dark blue mug.) I also have a Kitt Peak, Kennedy Space Center and a Sloan mug. Oddly, not a Hubble... Sense a theme?

I need to either clean or do something otherwise productive. Hrm.

I miss Rio.

I think all productivity is done for the day. oh wait, I need to get clothes onto the dryers, then I'll be done, I think.

I would lie to bake something and also wash the dishes, by my head and feet ache, so I doubt I will.

Sean, I marked your post about the sound of gunfire, because it's such a perfect throw-away bit to show the blase nature of someone from a tough neighborhood. Now I need to find the story to put it in.

I miss Rio.

It is inevitable that one never has as much Rio in one's life as one would like.

But JZ got to meet her for the first time, and kept saying, "How old is she? She looks like a teenager!"

We actually got to spend a fair amount of time with her considering she was wrangling a small herd of teenagers in the Mission. We went over to Dolores Park with them and Rio kept coming around to talk with us while she took pictures and did meet and greets and introduce various folks.

She took Matilda's picture (wearing her Jilli-skirt that JZ made) and told us it would be up on the Rookie Tumblr.

I'd be happy with an occasional drive-by FUCKO.

Did I forget to mention we live downslope from the county police and sheriff's qualifying range? And *still*, between the hunters and cantina nights, less gunfire than our old neighborhood.

FYI,

"Beetlejuice" is on ABC Family right now.

I think all productivity is done for the day. oh wait, I need to get clothes onto the dryers, then I'll be done, I think.

Same.

Really, if I can get the clothes in the washer into the dryer, I am calling it a day. It's not even hot but I am just done. Actually, I think washer is done, I ought to do that right now. Any second now.

Man, I'm gonna blame Kinja, the new gawker software, for normally reasonable people acting like royal idiots. I cannot believe the arguments I'm getting into.

For all I know I'm one of the people acting like a royal idiot (whether or not I have been a reasonable person is not in evidence), but still...people are just accusing other people of random shit left right and centre.