Oh good lord. I just bought a groupon for speed dating, where all of the events top out at my age.

Younger men, woohoo!

I definitely have nothing against younger men. I guess it's just because it's a smaller market, all of the events are general -- like 25-39. In NYC, there were always a million slices by age and race and religion. Sometimes grossly -- women 21-25, men 30-39, say.

Man, I *hate* having to explain what our department does TO MY BOSS. Who's been here 12 years.

Everyone knows he's just marking time until he retires, and he so totally doesn't give a crap about what goes on...until he's called on by higher-ups to explain a problem, and then he can't. Because he's never bothered to actually learn what magical mystical things happen to files when we FTP them to our web host.

Wow, that sounds awk, Jesse. But who knows, maybe there's a hot boytoy (which autocorrect turned into "bottom"!) there. IIRC, Burrell's husband is a few years younger than her...

Teppy, eek. That sort of thing would make me nuts.

I'm looking at the Scale of the Universe online website thingie and just discovered there's a cosmic object called "Gomez's Hamburger." Not as impressive as "The Pillars of Creation," but charming in its own right.

I'm working from our new Starbucks today. They took over what used to be a Boston Market. The place is HUGE with tons of different seating options. So far the one down side is that it is within walking distance of the high school, so there are kids here during there off period.

Otherwise it is a nice change of scenery. Ok, now to see if I can get the VPN to work.

Balls. I totally stepped in it yesterday, but not my fault!

We have to find out really quickly whether this building we're getting rid of is considered historically significant. I was going to hire a contractor, but someone recommended this guy D, at headquarters--he's the only person in the organization who might have the skill set to do it.

So I call him, he says, sure, he can do it. But we need to clear it with his boss. So I go to my boss and he sends an email to D's boss asking for his time, we'd pay for him to fly out, etc etc.

D's boss hits the roof because apparently D's really busy and he's not supposed to be doing field work, just policy work (which is bullshit, they do field work all the damn time), and can't we hire a contractor blah blah blah.

Sheesh, dude. No reason to get into a spin! So I'll probably have to contract it out anyway, which is not the best use of our money, but whatevs.

Really, when are they going to make me King of the World so I don't have to deal with this crap?

Just had a conversation with a coworker about some dubious but utterly work-related things over the top of our cubes, causing another coworker to pop around the corner and ask incredulously, "Did you just say MILF?"

Yes, yes I did.

OK, everyone remembers Todd "legitimate rape" Akin, right? He may be even more stupid than we thought.

In 2008, Akin Claimed Women ‘Who Are Not Actually Pregnant’ Get Abortions

Akin:

You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other lawbreaking. The not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things. The misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die. All of these things are common practice, and all that information is available for America.

Also from Akin:

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

Climate control.

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