I think when I travel I'm going to stay in the protected tourist zones.

Yeah, that sounds deeply troubling, Steph.

Congrats on unexpected cookware, Zen!

Cloudburst looks lovely, shrift.

Cloudburst would go really great with white-painted wood furniture.

We're catching up on Blue Bloods, because H likes cop shows. The most recent ep was cops in search of someone who shot a cop, and I pretty much surfed Tumblr and stuffed my fingers in my ears, because, you know, how would it be if cops pursued the murder of, say, civilians, with the savagery and singlemindedness and focus they do when it's "one of us!" Honestly, the last place I would turn to for help is any Law Enforcement Organization. Thugs and mercenaries, every last one of them*. I know people join the force hoping to help people, but either they get so sick of the climate they leave, or they succumb to it and become part of the cultthink, or they're killed by their own for not "going along." Come the revolution, LEOs and lawyers, man, even before the politicians.

Beans, now. You got your Great Northerns, a little smaller than Navy beans, both white, and what you use for baked beans and pork & beans. You got your pintos, and cranberry beans, which are a pinto variation. Either white or pinto beans can be used in chili, your preference. You have your garbanzo/chickpeas, your dark and light kidney beans (yes, red beans), you got dried blackeyed peas, and field peas, you got your (large) butterbeans and (small) limas, crowder peas, several colors of lentils (pink!), and yellow and green split peas, and black beans, all of which come dried, in bags, and many of which come canned. I've had fresh limas, and they're *awesome*--frozen, canned, or dried, on the other hand, yechh. I'm sure there are many varieties I've overlooked or forgotten.

*apologies to anyone who is, or knows, or loves an LEO. This is purely my own opinion, and I don't expect any one else to agree.

Fava beans, to go with liver and Chianti, spring to mind.

::points to -t::

Point to -t!

There are two kinds of campus cops. Some are basically security guards. However, many universities, it looks like including UC, have POST-certified officers and are basically operating small police departments. In some states, their jurisdiction is limited to within X feet of the university; in others, they have arrest rights statewide.

I think my fond dream of someday coming home from work and doing something other than resting up from working is going to have to wait. Definitely not happening today, and I suspect not this week...

Aw, BevPoint, I shall cherish it always!

You got your Great Northerns, a little smaller than Navy beans, both white, and what you use for baked beans and pork & beans.

And now I know what those are called. Thanks!

In some states, their jurisdiction is limited to within X feet of the university; in others, they have arrest rights statewide.

After this shooting, UC's president has said the UC police have to patrol only on campus. (Which is fairly large, so it's not like they're being stuffed in a box.)