Ooh, good luck, Calli!

Working on getting papers off my desk, I sm doing the tedious: scan document in, upload to online program, name and file on computer, then file in hard files. All documents are single sheets,

I am doing it for an hour then taking a break.

Also have some receipts to scan in and upload. Also an expense report to complete.

Good luck, Calli!

I am discussing the abstraction of constellations and the spacial complexities of 2 dimensional planes.

Aka ' the Little Dipper and Leo both look like mice' and folding paper.

Thanks, all! Say, aren't there Buffistas who work/ed for Duke U.? If so, I'd love to chat a bit, back channel, please. Profile addy's good. Thanks.

As for public coverage of police violence, this was a front page story on the Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday

Killings by Utah police outpacing gang, drug, child-abuse homicides

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It's still at the top of the Popular Story list on the website.

Salt Lake City has two major daily papers, because the other one, the Deseret News, is owned and run by the Mormon Church, and the coverage can be charitably called "filtered". Unfortunately, that means there's a hell of a lot of money behind the Deseret News, and the Trib is suffering the typical financial problems modern papers are dealing with. The managers of the Trib keep making distribution and production deals with the DN, and there are rumblings that editorial power is shifting as well. The Trib pretty much singlehandedly brought down a corrupt Attorney General and brought enough attention to on the previous AG, the corrupt AG's mentor and predecessor, to bring serious bribery and corruption charges against both of them.

Utah pretty much needs the Trib.

Good luck, Calli!

Congrats, Tom!

I am having trouble with my brain not working this morning. Perhaps more coffee will help. In any case, got my car over to the place where I bought the battery, they are going to test whatever they can test and then we'll see. Meanwhile, my dad has loaned me his truck so I can get around. Maybe things will work out conveniently and I can return it on Thanksgiving, that would be nice.

Have I mentioned that I am glad I had the car logistical shenanigans to keep me from watching the news yesterday afternoon/evening? Because I am.

I weakened and bought a new mobile phone -- still using Virgin Mobile but this has 4G instead of the 3G and more memory/diskspace. Over the last few days, my old phone has frozen up too many times when I'm driving.

It turns out that the Uber system relies more on cellphones that I even imagined. Texting riders when you've arrived (if they're not already standing on the curb) is necessary, and having a phone that dies when you try to text is not going to help much.

Dear god, I'm a lousy draw-er. But Noah doesn't seem to mind.

FWIW, I've found 4G to be a battery-draining PITA, and mostly have it turned off on my phone. I'm not sure if that's because the coverage isn't great, so the phone is always searching, or what.