-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.

Heat always intensifies tense situations. It's a bad confluence of events, but it's also been building without much pushback for a long time. Things have to change, and I really think it's kinda too late for that to happen organically.

You can do barbecue baked beans, and serve a few ribs, or bbq chicken, or even a little beef, with the beans and a good salad, and you're good to go. Fatback or pork belly cooked with the beans though--nuh and uh, though I've had them cooked with bacon, or leftover ham shreds, and that's not bad. Also, I am reminded that some people use kidney beans, dark or light, for chili.

Oh man. Boil water and police shootings leading to riots both sound pretty awful to me.

I'm in the airport (shocking) and really really not looking forward to the amount of work I have waiting for me tomorrow--basically my boss Tuesday said "omg these things need to be done by Friday!!" And I said "well, I can't--I'm traveling today, on site (working on other things I can only do while at the site) on Wednesday, traveling Thursday, and on vacation Friday". And she said "well can you have it done by Tuesday?" (It being "turn all your emails into PDF and name them according to our system"). I said "uh, no. Still no. I'm on site again Monday and traveling Monday night. I'll do what I can ON Tuesday, but when you over schedule me for six months in a row, this is what happens--the least important tasks don't get done. When you see me having availability in my schedule and think I can do more, what happens is I'm NOT doing some of the other tasks I'm supposed to do. And I can't do six months worth in one day". Ugh. My actual boss has my back, and I know it's not the project managers fault...but she needs to understand there are consequences to her requests.

You're still boiling water?!? I thought you were supposed to get the last test back this morning and get the all clear! Damn.

You are very convincing, Zen. Hm.

That sucks, meara. I got a little of that while I was out - came back to an email saying "Hey, this thing that seems not have gotten done, what's the status?" To which I replied, essentially "it's not done. I don't have time and it doesn't seem that important. I'll get to it when I can but that won't be soon" Have not heard anything back since then...

Wow, DirecTV's screen saver thing that comes on when I pause the DVR for a while proclaims them to be part of the AT&T family. That's new.