JZ, perhaps you could find your ex-boss some spiffy yellow glare-reducing glasses? I can't drive at night without them. I wear an eye shade at work because of the fluorescents.

I used to wear those yellow glasses at work after we went to tiny cubibles with glaring flourescent lights. Also a baseball cap on certain migraine-susceptible days. Baseball cap may not appropriate for a doctor, though.

This? This makes me so mad. He showed a fundamental lack of regard for separation of powers, a fundamental lack of regard for the independence of the judicial system, and a lack of regard for people to live their lives free from government intervention, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HIS PARTY PREACHES except when it suits them.

Fuck him. If he appears to be a legitimate contender for the nomination, this article should be the first thing that anyone pulls out.

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JZ, is there anyway to have the current fluorescent tubes replaced with warm white ones? The bright white bulbs, otherwise known as the cheap ones, are hard on people with eye problems or migraines.

He needs one of those old fashioned poker eyeshades!

I thank my lucky stars that we are located in an old dorm, and it is far cheaper for us to each have individual offices than it is to knock down walls. ALmost everyone, from student worker to Dean has an individual office, exactly the size of a nurse's dorm room in the 1950's

He's getting a special monitor umbrella and a screen for the monitor itself. For the shiny white desk, maybe a tablecloth would do to cut the glare?

Those were all store brands, though. I think (though the article didn't say, and I don't have data to point to right now) that brand names are okay. MAYBE.

I've actually read the opposite - that store brand vitamins are the most reliable (because the stores have WAY more to lose by falsifying labels than the supplement makers).

I've actually read the opposite - that store brand vitamins are the most reliable (because the stores have WAY more to lose by falsifying labels than the supplement makers).

That would make sense, but the article was just about store brands. Sketchy all around.

ION, I need hints from Heloise or her nearest substitute: if stuff has collected on your stove's drip pans because you are not super committed to cleaning them on the regular, and then one night you try to boil water and the drip pan starts smoking so much the smoke alarm goes off and you have to open the back door and turn on a fan to air out the house, what's the best way to clean the damn drip pans? Barkeeper's Friend? Vinegar?

Asking for a friend.

I buy new drip pans.

But you could try a paste of Dawn and Oxyclean, because Dawn Takes Grease Out of Your Way, and Oxyclean has some grit to it?

Or possibly Oven Cleaner, and put them in the oven overnight?

I need to deal with the drip pan in the back right burner, but that's the burner that's most awkward and it never gets used.

I suppose I should just clean the whole damned stove top.