I also want to know what planet he lives on where it's more polite to put your phone on the table than in your pocket. Unless it's a business lunch where everyone wants to look like their boss/client might call at any moment, put the goddamn phone away.

I know people who think it's wrong to poop anywhere but in your own home.

I had a roommate once who was like this -- she left a party more than once to go home to poop because she refused to poop anywhere someone might come in after her and realize she pooped. And on a weekend camping trip, she didn't poop the whole weekend because she refused to poop in the woods. Pretty sure her stomach hurt by the end of the weekend.

Maybe we're not going far enough by dosing up on laxatives well in advance of a restaurant outing, as well as a quick enema for some freshening up?

ita, which cookbook?

Ice Cream Happy Hour: 50 Boozy Treats That You Spike And Enjoy At Home

Primarily the angle is a) make custard b) make gelatin/booze mixture c) a+b and freeze.

Irritatingly I've probably lost half the custard with the unsuccessful freeze, because of how much sticks to the cold sides of the tubs even if it's not freezing properly.

Maybe I can make up half a sorbet or something==my ice cream machine is the kind with two independent buckets. But you can run just one at a time.

So what happens if you are more than 15 minutes late because you were held up at home waiting for the high fiber lunch to kick in so that you could poop before going to the restaurant. If that happens one rule makes me violate another.

I want to go and poop on the author's pillow.

So far today, I have overslept just enough that getting to work on time meant leaving the house without coffee, and found out the answer to the question "how many people actually use the silly little patent getting software most of the librarians ignore" (it broke, and it turns out the answer is a lot).

Which is to say YAY FRIDAY. Please hurry up and finish

What are people doing this weekend?

I have no defecation opinions other than it's fine. There are times out here where I don't use the restroom facilities at all because I know the hosts have issues with lack of water. And there were times when I had lack of water myself and used everyone's facilities all the time. So.

Wind just knocked out power here for a few minutes. Without the SO here it made me scurry around for a little bit, making sure everything that was plugged into a UPS shut down properly, but other than that, I don't suppose there's much I can do in preparation.

I kinda need to figure out when to leave for graduation. I need to get a gift, and then there will be parking issues probably, but since I'm going alone, I don't really care to sit in the sweltering gym forever before it starts.

I know people who think it's wrong to poop anywhere but in your own home.

And this is where I share that one my simple life lessons is Whenever you have the chance, do the stinky stuff outside of your home as long as it will not cause embarrassment.

What are people doing this weekend?

I am going to a cottage with 9 other people, lots of booze and food.

This weekend is the fundraising carnival at my kids' school, hour-long classes at the zoo (scheduled because it was the only chance for Casper to do manatees), dress rehearsal and two dance recitals, and somehow I am supposed to make my shortish-haired daughter's hair into a nice bun, and the visit of my SIL, nephew and niece and very angrily STBX-BIL for niece's soccer tournament, some members of which party will be staying with us (who, and where they will sleep, TBD, although this may be occurring today.)

This is not my kind of weekend. I am not sure how I will cope.

This weekend is graduations. The SO has one and I have one. Oh, and then annular eclipse!