You know your hockey team isn't there.

Sometimes they visit.

I think. I don't follow hockey.

Kat, that's amazing news!

Jackhammers started at 7 on the dot, prompting me to close the window so I didn't add concrete dust to the mix. I currently have NO sidewalks!

Funnily enough, I can fall back asleep to the sound of jackhammers.

And now I gotta start vacuuming up my dust.

My upstairs neighbor (aka Mom) is killing me! She's decided to just get up when she wakes up at 5 and either go for a walk or do stuff around the house, but either way, it wakes me up half the time as well! The stairs are creaky and go right by my head when I'm in bed.

This is why people don't like to be the downstairs neighbor, huh?

I'm sorry for your loss, Suzi.

Congrats Kat!

Sorry about your job suckage, shrift and lisah.

Oh man, there was just some kind of pipe break or something in our ceiling and a huge amount of water and ceiling tiles coming down in my office! I think only one cube is ruined, but JFC. The newish HR #2 is walking around saying, "Yep! Time to move!"

What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Among the many changes the Nobel Prize brought to Schmidt’s life: travel hassles. Here’s what he said it’s like to carry a Nobel medal aboard an airplane:

“There are a couple of bizarre things that happen. One of the things you get when you win a Nobel Prize is, well, a Nobel Prize. It’s about that big, that thick [he mimes a disk roughly the size of an Olympic medal], weighs a half a pound, and it’s made of gold.

“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it. I was coming around so I decided I’d bring my Nobel Prize. You would think that carrying around a Nobel Prize would be uneventful, and it was uneventful, until I tried to leave Fargo with it, and went through the X-ray machine. I could see they were puzzled. It was in my laptop bag. It’s made of gold, so it absorbs all the X-rays—it’s completely black. And they had never seen anything completely black.

“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’

I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’

They said, ‘What’s in the box?’

I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does.

So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’

I said, ‘gold.’

And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’

‘The King of Sweden.’

‘Why did he give this to you?’

‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’

At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’”

Until I got to the end of the first sentence, I thought you were talking about home! At least it isn't.

Pledge drive started on my week off, whyyyyyyy. I guess I should fire up the vacuum.

Until I got to the end of the first sentence, I thought you were talking about home! At least it isn't.

Truth!

At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’”

Heh.

She had a dream about the King of Sweden/ He gave her things that she was needin'...

Things to get out of your carry on as you approach the X-ray machine: laptops, liquids, Nobel prizes.