He is 10. It was a safe way to learn an important lesson. Yes, there could have been a different outcome, but there wasn't.

Strix, I'm *so* sorry, but poor kid--that's kinda funny, and he'll probably go and get your numbers tattooed on his forehead so people can read it back to him if it happens again.

DON'T GO OUTSIDE WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, KIDDO!

However, at ten, he really should have his address book in the cloud--that's a little irresponsible of him, don't you think?

I am currently flipping my nut at developers, but JESUS. Just know your stuff and do it, will you? Don't make me uneasy. I don't have the juice to be uneasy.

Apparently I had done the most reading for book club.

Given I thought it started at 1, and it really started at 12:30--that shows you how crap our little group was. And I dominated the discussion, because I'm nothing if not good at talking about stuff I kinda know something about. However, I totally promise to read the next two chapters, because me and the group leader have pretty much come to blows on the topic of chapter #5.

Use cases--very volatile subject. As I'm sure you all know.

I have been talking Dark Knight to...everyone internal and external, and it seems to crack guys up when I call people who've signed the NDA the League of Shadows, or complain that the New 52 gave Babs back the use of her legs (obviously I was very comfortable with that vendor, because I was waving my hands around in distress and agitation).

I have been talking Dark Knight to...everyone internal and external

Chatty!co-worker hasn't seen it yet, and every day I rant at him that it is KILLING me that I can't talk about it with him.

So that job that I applied for back in April and interviewed for 6 weeks ago... I got it! I start in a week!

Yay! Go you!

Congratulations, aurelia!

Yay, aurelia!!

Random bit o' news: City Officials Tell Chick-Fil-A They Are Not Welcome In Wake Of Homophobic Comments By Company President

Chick-Fil-A’s plans to expand into one of the nation’s largest cities has hit a snag, after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino sent a scathing letter to company president Dan Cathy informing him that so long as the company remained intolerant of the LGBT community, Boston would remain intolerant of Chick-Fil-A.

In a letter dated July 20, Menino writes:

You called supporters of gay marriage “prideful”. Here in Boston, to borrow your own words, we are “guilty as charged.” We are indeed full of pride for our support of same sex marriage and our work to expand freedom to all people. We are proud that our state and our city have led the way for the country on equal marriage rights.

Chick-Fil-A had reportedly been seeking property along the city’s famous Freedom Trail, a tourism hotspot and prime real estate for businesses, for its first Boston location. But Menino has vowed to block any attempt by the company to open a new store. “There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it,” he wrote in the letter.

Menino’s letter may have been just the first crack in the dam. Yesterday, Chicago alderman Joe Moreno made a similar pledge to block any attempts by the chain to build its second store in the city, proposed for the highly trafficked Logan Square neighborhood whose zoning is controlled by Moreno.

“If you are discriminating against a segment of the community, I don’t want you in the 1st Ward,” he said on Tuesday in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.

The chain, which has stores nationwide and currently ranks as the nation’s 10th largest fast food company, has found itself at the center of a maelstrom of criticism after Cathy’s remarks.

"guilty as charged" - heh.

Woot, woot aurelia!!!

I have a house full of kids. CJ, CJ's girl friend (not girlfriend, he would protest) and her 4 nieces and nephews. It is actually pretty chill for having 6 kids, ages 8 - 16, in one room.

I doubt his protest in that he allowed her to paint his fingernails bright pink and he has an ARP meeting this evening.

Yay aurelia!