It's budget season, and we're putting in a seasonal position. We've always offered 11 an hour, but I want it to be 12. It's always been 11, and we always gotten lackluster results. I don't know if its because of the pay or that our job description was too broad. Like, either we'd get better play if we actually had standards, or if we offered better pay, we'd get better applicants. Thoughts?

I so want to Like the hole/liza exchange.

did you hear about the groom who called in a bomb scare because he found the forms to reserve the venue too confusing?

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he was arrested, of course.

This sounds like a Seinfeld episode.

b) framing services

Of those I've only used Aaron Bros. Seemed fine, I didn't shop around. My default framer is Cheap Pete's, but they are Bay Area local, I think.

he was arrested, of course.

I think because of the Dear Liza above, that's putting me in an "old woman who swallowed a fly" frame of mine...

So you don't want to mend the hole in the freezer, is what you all are saying?

Pros of moving to Portland: more/better house in a better neighborhood for less money. Less crime. Less traffic. An hour to the mountains instead of 3. More distinct seasons. Bicycling. Smaller city. Greenness! Powell's.

Cons of moving to Portland: no thrice-weekly runs with my sister. Handing off to my sister the full burden of dealing with our father. No living one mile from sister and one hour from youngest brother, with regular get-togethers. No weekly dinner & tv with local fans. No established local professional network. No monthly book club with people I've known for 14 years. Harder to fly to other parts of the country.

... Yeah. While I know I could build a new network in Portland, and I do have some old friends there, I suspect moving to Portland would be both selfish and a net loss in terms of sociability. My family is fully half of my social network, and not seeing them for a month or more at a time would be really hard.

I'm going to give my soon-to-be-ex-therapist a knit scarf, on the basis that since we no longer have a therapeutic relationship, it's OK to thank her for all the good she's done me.

No weekly dinner & tv with local fans.

See, you probably know a bunch of PDX fans.

I may attempt pumpkin lasagne with spinach and goat cheese tonight

Ooh, recipe?

It can't be sweater weather already! But here I am, in a sweater.

Hm. Here I am in three long sleeved shirts and a sweater. And one of the shirts has the extra long arms with a thumb hole.

b) framing services

Who do you need framed? Felony or misdemeanor?

A friend in Oak Park said it was snowing around there this morning.

Gronk. Am so tired, and I need to get moving and head out to a client event at some swank club. I had a big burger for lunch which is just dragging me down.

The water temp is still around 60, so it's keeping the lakeshore warmer than the 'burbs. But my apartment is only about 5 degrees warmer than the lake.