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.

They don't have those shoes in my size, thank god.

It's not a good situation, I think that's clear. And it will become evident once that video is shown. We're just trying to do our best to be prepared for whatever might come out of it.

Yipes. That sound really bad.

I really think it's kinda too late for that to happen organically.

From what I can tell, riots *are* part of the organic structure. I remember after the recession in 2007 reading one seemingly decent politician explaining why Congress wasn't doing more for ordinary citizens and the answer was something along the lines of 'well, they don't seem to be that upset, or they'd be rioting and forcing us to do something.'

And on the food front, Liese, I am looking around my house for the official kugel recipe but haven't found it yet. Will post it when I do.

Also in food, I spotted the local sushi burrito truck so I bought a couple minis to try them out. Will report back.

Oh ugh, meara.

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

Same.

On behalf of everyone who cannot buy those shoes, I have made the purchase. Did not get the $400 boots I really like, because I have self control. For real, I do.

Ahaha, I started it!

I'm sweaty and gross from maybe 5 minutes of yanking ivy and 15 of standing outside chatting as S's car was hauled off for the last time. Freaking sauna out there. And so, so buggy.