Mulch delivered! That was super easy. And now I would rather start shoveling it than go to the office, so I'm going to do that for a little while...

I feel like Bacon Day would have to help with depression, even though I know that's not actually true.

My day is not being Bacon Day, which makes me sad.

But it IS Erika-sent-me-a-Hillary-Clinton-action-figure Day, which made my entire week. I think I'm going to create tableaux with Clinton and my Farscape action figures (which were also from Buffistas).

My FB friends have strong opinions about Bernie or Hillary, but most of them will vote blue no matter who. A few have hated Hillary for decades, so while I disagree, I at least know their issues are of the longstanding variety. But ugh, I have a couple Bernie nutjobs on my FB feed who are just swallowing down every conspiracy theory like it's lemonade. The latest? That the uncounted California ballots will turn the vote over to Bernie. No, just no.

I saw a conspiracy theory on Tumblr all about the timing of the AP's announcement (or whoever it was that declared her the nominee on Monday) and the composition of the URL, and blah blah blah. It was impressive tin-hattery.

The goodness of Bacon Day is fleeting, kind of like how bacon is best when consumed soon after it cooks.

I accidentally re-followed a friend who says she is in the middle, politically, but she is drinking the Republican punch. Anyway, it only took two posts and I un-followed her again. OMG the hatred for Hillary is beyond reason.

And, ok, if she really IS all the awful things they are saying, is Trump immune from that same scrutiny? I so completely do not understand the support he has - I mean, I get the people who are all "yay, someone saying all the racist things I feel" - they are already mentally suspect. It is the people who I know have brains, such as this friend, who support him.

I'm sorry, msbelle. I seem at 2s and 3s by that scale. No 5s lately, thank goodness, but I can't remember when I didn't have to fake a 1 not to poop on someone else's happiness.

I promised myself a short stack with sausage *and* syrup AND eggs and bacon at the diner this morning to motivate getting up and out to the lab to have blood drawn. My annual is next week and she's ordered a bunch of tests. The waiting room was full, I was drowsy but too on-alert to nap. She only had to stick twice to find a vein, but she fanned the first one, and both stung like a mofo, and both are bruising already. I had a thermos of coffee in the car, but once I'd downed a cup, I pointed the car home. I just didn't feel social enough to brave the diner, even for bacon.

It is the people who I know have brains, such as this friend, who support him.

If she does, she ain't using them.

I think I've hidden most of my family members who I know are Republican, just in case. The only one I haven't, my older brother, is SUPER anti-Trump and I'm pretty sure he won't actually vote for Trump just to get a Repub elected.

In non-political news, we commissioned a painting of our cats (SO NERDY!!) and it finally is done!! The artist, whose stuff I looove, brought it by today. It's super awesome!

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I feel like my 5s are entirely too dependent on what is happening around me and based on other people, which is hard to sustain

In other good news: may have just finagled a new work laptop! My current one is over 4 years old, I got it when I joined the company. And the battery says it needs replacing, so I notified IT. The tech IM'd me and said he'd send a new battery but I asked when we are getting new computers (it was rumored to be Q1 and Q2) and he confirmed I had an old one and said he'd send a new one next week! Fingers crossed.