Girl Scout troop almost started.

Kat - I'm in my 3rd year of leading and 10th as a scout. If you need anything, please let me know. I assume you're doing Daisies?

Bon voyage, sarameg! Have fun!

Fire powered cellphone chargers.

Brilliant.

Our alarm clock automatically adjusts itself to time changes, but (and smonster can attest to this) IT DOES IT ON SATURDAY MORNING instead of Sunday morning. Happily, we aren't planning on taking a trip overseas today, as we were last year when we discovered this, but still, it's perplexing. And annoying.

Other than that, I have been super awesomely productive and in a cheery mood today! Got up, got laundry going, got the cat's water dish and the britta pitcher in the dishwasher, deposited some checks at the bank, went to the new meat market/locally sourced butcher and got our meat for the week, got cat litter, skritched kitties at PetCo, and am planning to head over to the Mirliton Festival a little later this afternoon.

We had a nice date night last night, which I think set the weekend up on a nice note. It was low key so it didn't take a lot of energy to go and do, but it was fun.

Tomorrow I am going to a schmancy champagne brunch for the krewe I'm on the waiting list for (Nyx), but am kind of a part of.

Kate Beaton was stuck in the East Village without power. Here's her story: it's a comic, naturally.

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Did you see that Lucas is donating all $4 billion from the sale to Disney to education?!? Sorry if this is old news; I am indeed a skipper. [link]

Haircut and grocery shopping accomplished! I needed flour and sugar, which were both on sale, but only in 5lb. bags. So I really had too much stuff to carry, to the extent that when I was trying to open the front door of my building, a guy walking by asked if I needed any help! Which is nice, but no.

It must be haircut day! I am sitting in the hair salon with goop in my hair.

So, am I correct that my (US) Android phone will not work at all in the UK?

My friend Katie says we can take our old cell phones that didn't use SIM cards, purchase SIM cards there, put them in the phones, and buy like a month of service. Is that right?

If your current phone doesn't have a SIM card, I don't know how/where you'd put one in. My T-Mobile phone has one (although I'm not sure how to get at it in my current phone, I realize).

ION, remember when I was looking for a coffee table a million years ago? Maybe this is the one! [link] I can't decide if I super-love the style, though.

If it doesn't use SIM cards, where would you put the SIM card? Something is off there.