We also have the added bonus that, while residential, we're also an exit off the highway/service road and people continuing their highway speeds around a sharp curve with multiple driveways, and while the street is wide, there's always some private renovations going on with construction vehicles lining either side of the street. But only on the straight-away which coincides with our front entrance.

I don't know what the answer is, speed humps/bumps, stop light, stop sign (which is also dangerous for those numbnuts not paying attention to stopped vehicles in front of them), increased signage for blind driveway and Entrance Ahead (not that these jerkwads would pay attention enough to read them). Is there an uptick in distracted driving. I just can't even begin to understand.

The NY Times has an online test checking how good one is at reading people's emotions through their facial cues

I got a 29, which is high-average (and mostly if I was wrong, it was the other thing I was thinking "well, it could be X or Y....")

I got 19. Which doesn't surprise me.

I really wish this government shutdown would end. I'm starting to freak a little.

Dunno about the shutdown, but apparently Boehner and other Republican leaders admit in private that they're not gonna make the US default on its debt.

So that's two weeks we have to make it through. I think Caltech can carry us for that long.

2 weeks from today, that is. Debt limit is 10/17.

It should start hitting some of the states next week I think.

Hey smonster or amyth or anyone, do you know an organization called Second Nature?

Could end in a week if this motion to discharge can find 20 sane Republicans who are not complete cowards. [link]

So probably two weeks then.

I don't want the government re-opened without an increase in the debt limit. I don't want to go through worse in 2 weeks.

Feminist Hulk has a list of resources for people who need help if WIC runs out of money (and resources for people who have money to give) [link]