others who commute down to the South Bay

Ha ha, uh, I won't need to worry about commuting as long as I'm somewhat nearby a stop where my company provides transportation to the South Bay, because I'll be one of those Silicon Valley assholes.

I've found NorCal winds up compensating for the rent in a variety of ways (cheaper produce, public transit, lots of free entertainment etc.)

True. I'm looking at SF because I prefer the benefits of a city over living in the suburbs.

I invested in some bags of candy corn before the Halloween display is swapped out for Christmas. The boxes of Christmas stuff were already stacked up in the aisle, and the candy was being consolidated.

Joe Manganeillo, Matt Bomer and Adam Rodriguez on the set of Magic Mike.

OMG, Bomer in that sarong. Dying.

when I edit articles that show hard data on how sugar is the devil and how whole grains do actually lower mortality risk.

Define "whole grains". Will grocery-store bread do it, or do I have to go full artisan?

"Replacing a serving of potato with a serving of whole grains was NOT associated with reduced mortality."

Ain't giving up my taters, nohow. So we just add whole grains on top? But isn't that essentially more sugar? I wanna read that article. Where might I find it when it's published? That must have been a very long study.

I'm not doing Halloween. I'll either go to the movies or pretend to not be home. We haven't had any little kids come around for the last two years anyway. So I'm not even buying candy. No sugar in the house! Except for ice cream.

Elle UK Might be a good investment this month.

Indeed. "This is like Tiger Beat for women in their thirties."

I did not know that today is National Cat Day.

So M doesn't have to get it this year, just before he becomes sexually active? Well, forewarned is forearmed; we need to have the family meeting about sex ed and how that's to be handled; it's past time, to my eyes, and the HPV vaccine should be part of that discussion.

I'm not handing out candy at home, all the too much candy (not Too Much Candy) I bought is ostensibly for my co-workers kids who will trick-or-treat the office Friday afternoon. Anything left will be emergency stash for the cube.My co-workers have not been trained to expect me to have candy, so it will probably last a long time. Unless we have mice.

BTW, the blue cheese and pecan dip and pumpkin cranberry crisps that Jesse talked me into buying - totally delicious.

Right??

I am bummed to miss the work Halloween party -- apparently it's really fun! I wish I had known when I made this stupid orthodontist appointment.