I found more electronic game contraband in the child's room. I am done. He is losing one of the game consoles because of this. He may never have games again.

Well, he's on the list now of people I'm really disappointed to have never met (and it seems I reasonably could have) along with Katherine Hepburn and Raul Julia.

RIP Leonard Nimoy (I hadn't realized he was 83).

WHAT. Jesus, I go to the library and Leonard Nimoy dies? Dang. That's a hard one.

Dammit! RIP Spock. You were awesome.

Advanced Pavement Research: Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Concrete Pavements

Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation, edited by Bo Tian

I don't understand what's wrong with these titles.

I tried nasal irrigation for the first time today. It was surprisingly not-awful.

I have crowned myself The Crankiest. Try to take the crown or my coffee away from me and I will hiss at you like an angry cat.

I thought briefly about challenging this, but then realized a) I got a lot of the cranky out by cursing at people on the drive in, and b) too tired.

I thought briefly about challenging this, but then realized a) I got a lot of the cranky out by cursing at people on the drive in, and b) too tired.

I'm just sad now, but I predict that this afternoon will turn me back into Fuck This Thing In Particular cat.

OK, must share this: [link]

So awesome.

Fuck This Thing In Particular cat.

Yes! That is me!

I am sad about Leonard Nimoy.

I see the dress as white and gold, but after having read comments from people who said they scrolled down reading the comments and then the dress had changed color when they scrolled back up, I tried staring at mostly white screen and then at the dress. Then it was blue and gray, but when I looked away and looked back, it went back to yellow and white. This is, seriously, a lesson in having other people look at photos you're putting on the web.

My favorite comment was from a scientist who studies color vision whom Vice interviewed [link]

Now I'm going to spend the rest of my life working on this. I thought I was going to cure blindness, but now I guess I'll do this.

I was smugly going "the dress is white/gold people, deal with it." I saw dozens of pictures, always white/gold. I happened on a moderately scientific article that explained the options, with the white/gold picture at the top. Read through the options, remembered I don't have red/green colorblindness, scrolled back up to the top without changing the angle of my screen or the position of how I'm sitting--AND THE DAMNED DRESS HAD CHANGED COLOR!!! I scrolled back down and back up, changed screens, blinked real hard, told my brain "It was white/gold all day yesterday and up to 5 minutes ago, what are you doing!"

I do not like this. I trust my brain to tell me where I am in the world, and it just punked me. Do not like.

ION, I did the taxes this morning with H&R Block. Instead of owing $6000 for the lease money, it's only $2000. I'm thinking they were figuring I'd be filing single when they gave me that figure last year, but I can't think why.

The experience was bittersweet, because it pretty much marks the end of my official existence as a married woman. From here on out, unless weirdness happens, I'm officially single.