The Telegraph defends The Guardian, Greenwald and Snowden. What is notable about this is that the Telegraph is a famously conservative paper, sometimes nicknamed "The Torygraph". [link] I'm always happy when people across the political spectrum understand the importance of freedom of press and freedom of speech. Lack of support of civil liberties, and defense of civil liberties is one of the few fights that often does not break down on a left-right spectrum. Pro and anti civil liberties viewpoints can be found across the political spectrum. I cannot think of many other issues where this is true. Oh there are always outliers, but if you know where someone is on the political spectrum you can predict with 95% certainty where they stand on most issues. For some reason that is not true of civil liberties.

I went for a run and did some laundry and got my hair cut, and now I'm camped on the kitchen table, doing QA on a report that desperately needs some consistency. And my feet hurt: apparently my plantar fasciitis is back, damn it.

Which is not good, because I need to be able to train: I'm going to Kilimanjaro in January, and I have no desire to embarrass myself or my brother.

Now I need to go clean out my toaster.

I just made an ice cream cake for my daughter's birthday. It's in the freezer. I realize this still puts me several levels below Kat and Cash in terms of birthday cakes, but I'm feeling pretty proud right now.

And you should be proud. I don't know that I could finish an ice cream cake. Mostly because I would eat all the ice cream.

ita !, this is best I can do because of subscription shit at the web site, but if it's any help at all I hope...

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I hope. So much.

The up side of the prep is that I'm actually under a doctor's orders to avoid vegetables. Okay, for the next two days, but still.

Well I worked my first Saturday and here are the things I learned that no one had told me about:

1) Drivers' log book goes in their lounge after shipping ends.
2) I was not only working this Saturday I was the official on-call person which means the following
3) on-call person sends a morning update an hour into Saturday shipping.
4) on-call person also sends an end-of shift update when the main terminal is done with shipping and gives update on terminal 2 even if they are not done.
5) on-call person is on-call (phones forwarded to you BBerry) from FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING and EVERY NIGHT UNTIL THE NEXT FRIDAY!!!!!
6) on-call person is responsible for doing the daily order of product we ship (have never done or been trained on this)
7) on-call person compiles the orders for the next day and makes the driver and foreman schedule.
8) on-call person leaves the schedule message on the phones (again never done or been trained, do not even know how to call in for it myself).

They are such HORRIBLE trainers at this new job.

Ugh, I hate when no one tells you what your job includes. That is a lot of stuff with no training or information!

Oy, msbelle!

Does anybody think I will be bending the 'clear foods' rule if I include a couple jellybeans (as long as they're not red or pink or purple, which has dreaded DYE in them), as they're virtually pure sugar?

I want to eat it, not just ingest the style, I need to work through it, identify the pictures that achieve what I want to work on ... where he has the darkest plane in the middle of the picture, and that's often where the centre of focus is.

You might want to take a look at Norman Lindsay and Roy Krenkel. I've watched Roy work out the layout of a drawing by starting with the center focus in some detail, then drawing outlines of the rest of the pieces to work out the balance of light and dark. (Then he'd fill page after page of sketches of bits of the drawing he was convinced he hadn't perfected, pulling out references and muttering things like, "Remington got wagon wheels, damn it. How did he do it?")

theo, why not just sugar water?