Cool! Once I have a little time, I'll have to check them out.

I am (when I am not working) turning myself into an unofficial "lawyer" at present. And doing pretty damned well at it, too. (Yes, we have an official lawyer. But I am Research and Proactive Girl, and when someone fucks with my family, I do not play around. But where's my damn $250 hour retainer?!)

To real lawyer Buffistas: not dissing real lawyers, but I am just researching KS Family Law statutes and acquiring shittons of carefully documented notarized evidence to rebut every perjurious accusation and spurious assertion, and seeking info on frivolous and vexatious lawsuits. It's fun!)

On that note, back to work-work!

"Potterverse elf freeing?"

That was it. Because Jesse said "Now you own him," and freeing a house-elf is the first thing that jumped into my mind.

Because PDFs do what they do, there's no simple way to convert from one to the other.

In Acrobat Pro, it's just Save As Excel Worksheet.

My car is having $1,800 in repairs. For that, it should be able to fly. Or park itself.

The first thing that came (no pun inteaded) into my head with the sock was masturbation. But this may be because I saw an article on Jezebel about a mother whose teenaged son was ruining all her hand towels by masturbated into them. People were like, why doesn't he use a sock!?!.

I haven't gotten a lunch break of any sort in 2 months.

In New York State, if you are non-exempt, you must be given a 1/2 hour uninterrupted unpaid lunch break between 11 am and 2 pm if your shift runs over this time. . Businesses can get fined if they do not do this. Of course, our uni just automatically takes out a half hour, and if you do miss your lunch, you have to fill out an exception log.

I'm pretty sure edX is free, but I haven't started my course yet.

This weekend I'm picking up my CSA and probably just staying home. I'm in NYC 8/12-8/15, at VividCon 8/15-8/18, in SF/Mountain View during the week of 8/19 (currently scheduling exact dates), and at DragonCon 8/29-9/2. And probably in Canada the week after that.

in SF/Mountain View during the week of 8/19

SUSHI

And probably in Canada the week after that.

You misspelled Houston and New Orleans!

I have no earthly idea what I'm doing this weekend. Gardening maybe? Gardening sounds good, and rabbits have noshed a hole in the front of my plantings. And the local nursery's having a sale. Huh. Well, that was easy.

In Acrobat Pro, it's just Save As Excel Worksheet.

The person with the original spreadsheet is also the person with full Acrobat. I'm stuck with PDF Creator, which is a bit wilfull about anything you ask it to do, so I wouldn't even try this with it.

Except I really should, shouldn't I? Despite it having embarrassed me in front of all the company presidents yesterday...

Why is my spelling so much worse than it was ten (even five!) years ago?

I need to steal/be inspired by the style of wings on that owl--I'm having major feather blockage, and a few pictures that need it resolved.

This weekend I must - MUST - gird my loins and clean my entire wretchedly messy house. My reward will be to get to hire a cleaning service again.

I'm thinking of donating my huge heavy 1970's-era solid oak and mahogany desk to make room in my office for the treadmill. Because the treadmill is fucking up my feng shui in the living room. And because I don't really NEED a "real" desk anymore, being as I work almost exclusively from my laptop on the couch. But I kinda don't want to. I like my ridiculous space-eating dark-matter desk.

Although this house has more space, it has smaller rooms than I've had before, and most of my furniture is too big. Alas, I'm attached to most of my furniture. Dilemma.

I had been dreaming about pancakes for about 3 weeks. I have not had pancakes for about 3 years I think. I honestly don't remember the last time I had pancakes.

I had pancakes today. They were better than I had any right to expect. Just the bomb. I also had about 2 scrambled eggs (!) and sausage.

I was worried that I was going to have a sugar coma and crash soon after eating, but I'm okay. It wasn't the best, but I figure eating it once a year, I can deal.