Since I'm an alternate Delegate for my district I've gotten personalized e-mail, snail mail, and phone calls from candidates. I have personal e-mail and phone numbers for many of the candidates. So far just for Colorado District Attorney and Colorado UC Regent. Maybe since I've already committed my presidential vote, I won't get solicitations for that?

In other news, TMI question for the ladies: They think I have a cyst in my boob, so I have to go back to get it aspirated. Am I crazy to think I can just do it before work and go to the office?

Our team-building exercise was playing Taboo, so that was pretty good. Unfortunately, we aren't getting off early. Boo.

I have no practical experience, Jesse, but I'm of the opinion that if someone is going to stick a poky-sucky needle in my tit, I'm going to take the day off.

Jesse, I'd say it depends on how you normally react to medical stuff. Some things I shake off easily, others not so much. I can deal with most medical stuff easily, but dental, oh hell no. Even a cleaning I have to schedule for the end of the day.

If you are at all hesitant, can you plan for the day off and then go in if it isn't a big deal?

I'd say getting drained from a nerve-heavy area by a large gauge needle merits a day off.

I usually try to avoid getting embroiled in arguments about gun control since I do actually support hunting and possession of firearms for home defense, but I got sucked into it with someone who who'd built up this fantasy scenario about carrying so he could return fire against a movie theater shooter, and shut him down with this as the last word in our (insult-peppered, from his end) argument:

Yes, how unfair of me to mention an issue after you bring it up in the conversation. I find your utter lack of self-awareness and characterization of anyone who disagrees with your stance on lethal weapons as a liberal idiot to be utterly typical of entitled right wingers who imagine themselves as future John McClanes in waiting. Also typical: no ability to understand firearms statistics, willful ignorance of the fact that most of the mass shootings on American soil are by angry white gun enthusiasts rather than the scary brown people, and the delusion that you'll somehow be calm and controlled in the extremely unlikely event that you ever find yourself under fire when you can't even handle a verbal disagreement without descending into angry ranting. In short, if public safety is a consideration you clearly aren't qualified to be entrusted with a slingshot, much less something that fires actual bullets.

Hope he didn't go out and shoot someone when he couldn't come up with an effective response.

I haven't had it done, Jesse, but when my mom did it was no big deal.

My neighbors chickens are extremely loud today. Anyone know good chicken-quieting techniques?

Although for the past half hour the issue has been my incredibly loud stomach. Wtf. I made a blue apron meal at lunch. There was nothing in it afaik that would cause my stomach to be SO LOUD?!?

Reading about the Tai Chi moves, I was reminded of something I saw about doing Lion Dances. They have defined moves as well, including:

Bow To The Three Corners

Sniff the Door

I’m Afraid Of Scorpions

Punt The Lettuce

Groom Self

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Jesse, I'd say it depends on how you normally react to medical stuff.

Yeah, I generally have no problem with stuff, so I'm not going to worry about it.