Today's Arthur King of Time and Space seems Natter relevant: [link]

Would it be a problem to have a general distracted driver law

We sort of do, in that driving at a speed unsafe for the conditions includes conditions inside the car and conditions of the driver (and safe speed for putting on mascara, for example, is zero, that sort of thing). Or so I was told back when I took that driver safety course for a reduced fine on a speeding ticket. As one does.

I got a dashboard dock to hold my phone because I use the GPS directions on it all the time. I still have to poke at the screen occasionally if I'm changing routes or something, but I don't have to hold it, which makes me feel less likely to get a using-phone-while-driving ticket whether that is true or not. And I'm always a little nervous about picking a playlist while I'm driving, though that doesn't come up very often as I mostly drive short distances and listen to longish podcasts.

Today's Arthur King of Time and Space seems Natter relevant: [link]

That's hilarious!

Before cell phones, I used to memorize lines and study for tests while driving. From a book on the passenger seat. This seems dangerous to me now. I do note that I did a lot of highway driving with no other cars. Also, in a world before ravel mugs and car cupholders, I did an awful lot of trying to catch the ceramic cup of coffee I had sitting on my dash! And I put on makeup.

Huh, I feel like I always had cup holders. But, no, there were definitely times of holding a coke or coffee with my left hand and just steering with the right, or bracing the steering wheel with my wrist while I shifted. I also often had passengers that could hold my beverage for me if necessary, and if I didn't have passengers I might very well have one of those cardboard drink holders from McDonalds sitting on the passenger seat.

BTW, yesterday's excess coffee has all been consumed. Crisis: Too Much Coffee averted. For now.

Is Blurred Lines any more sexist and demeaning to women than 100's of other hit songs throughout the years

Of course not.

BTW, yesterday's excess coffee has all been consumed. Crisis: Too Much Coffee averted. For now.

And I bough new coffee. So everything has worked out and balance has been restored.

My cup holder/sippy cup lack may also be because I drove a 1979 car in 1993. I also live in the back wood, because I remember the first time I saw a ravel mug was also about 1993. My boss had one from weight watchers to drink water. I loved it and remarked upon it so much that she gave me one!

Sister update: she's doing OK and will likely be discharged tomorrow. Home care nurse is set to come twice a day to change her dressing. She is freaking out about this and I'm not sure how to calm her. I don't think she realizes that, if she's not OK with a home healthcare nurse, the alternative is a skilled nursing facility. I really hope she stops trying to talk people out of this.

Has anyone said that to her explicitly?

So everything has worked out and balance has been restored.

Whew!

I don't remember when travel mugs came in vogue. I do remember my dad having to empty his car of the ceramic mugs that gradually collected from his commute back in the day, and he is generally a buyer of coffee mugs (they are probably his most favored souvenir and he loves museum & park gift shops) so he would have jumped on travel mugs as soon as he could, but I can't pinpoint when that might have been. We always had nalgene bottles from backpacking for carrying water around, I kinda think there might have been insulated coffee mugs with closable tops (but without the tapered bottoms to fit into car cupholders) fairly early in my life.

I am sporting my #sixseasonsandamovie shirt today, and delivering my Community DVDs to my mom (well, seasons 1-3, I haven't had a chance to even open season 4, yet. If she gets that far before I get to it maybe we will watch those commentary tracks together).

I used to drive stick and drink a diet coke and smoke on my way in to school, while taking out the hot rollers I had put in before I left. Make-up was done at home, though. Ridiculous. Now, I pull over if I have to touch my phone to fiddle with GPS -- a couple docus about the dangers of distracted driving, and I was convinced.

Also, the older I get, the more I mute just mute my phone. Amazing how quickly I got jaded once I finally had a Communicator for real. Maybe I'd be still be psyched if there were a spaceship to talk to.