I have a muscle spasm in my left shoulder blade area and I hate it.

I also have a very moody teen who is not pleased that he has lost data privileges on his phone and will have very limited screen time starting tomorrow.

I also have wine.

As I recall, I like baked beans. Though that's a lot of carbs.

Alton Brown's recipe is excellent, and I usually make them for our Father's Day brunch. So, there are a lot of eggs to balance out the carbs.

Yay wine?

I was married to a police office for years, and I have known many fine officers. In some of these recent cases, I have had sympathy for the officers' positions. One thing I have found peculiar, however, is what seems to be a strange uptick in officers shooting people because they said the person was trying to run over them. Cars are very limited as weapons. Unless you're cornered in a parking garage, just dodge the damn car.

-t, those are gorgeous ballerina flats, and you should buy them because I can't right now.

So, there are a lot of eggs to balance out the carbs.

Lot of fiber in beans, too. Hey, I have baked beans in the cupboard!

My plan to spend the week eating the rest of whatever is in the pantry/fridge is not going all that well, mainly because I never restocked after the last time I did this. There's actually not much in the kitchen. So at least I've stuck with the overarching plan of not buying more food than I really will eat.

I don't need to be browsing shoe sales, but these are awfully cute [link]= I'm not at all sure about ballerina flats, though.

Those come in my size too.

You people are determined to make me buy Fluevogs, aren't you?

There was a shooting death of a white female teenager in Northern Kentucky in the last couple of years that was a "she tried to run over me" situation. The officer was not charged, IIRC.

I have every sympathy for the Cincinnati police chief. There have been a LOT of non-police involved shootings in the city this summer, and the mayor tried to throw him under the bus, and then there was the police shooting of a man in Northside, and then an officer was shot and killed (and the killer was in turn killed by police), and by this point the chief is probably like, "And now this fool campus police officer who is not even my cop kills someone for no reason and we're facing riots. Why the fuck did I even go into police work."

Yeah. That's pretty much where I landed, too, zen. I'd cleared the fridge and pantry before this last trip, so here were even a good number of staples gone low.

by this point the chief is probably like, "And now this fool campus police officer who is not even my cop kills someone for no reason and we're facing riots. Why the fuck did I even go into police work."

Seriously. I agree with you -- I feel really bad for the police chief. Particularly because Cranley tried to throw him under the bus. (I am really regretting voting for Cranley, I tell you what.)

And it's also so humid right now that the entire outdoors smells funkybad.

There's rarely any love lost between campus and city police departments.

For those of you following along at home, we are now some 53 hours into the boil water advisory, and tempers (and supplies of bottled water) are running short in some quarters. They need to take the keyboard away from the county person who tweeted, "We give the updates as soon as we have them. We do not wish to continue boiling our water either."

The county started throwing the contractor sent to fix the pipe under the bus. He was having none of it and started copying the e-mails between him and the county to the media. There seems to be some consensus that when the county offered early retirements in 2010 because of budget cuts, everyone in the water department who knew anything retired.