Maria, thanks for sharing the speech from the Lt. Gov. of Utah. I shared it on FB. Not what I expected, and I need to stop making assumptions about people based on where they're from.

That's why buyback programs exist when the funding for them is available. For any gun.

I got into it a little bit on FB with a guy who was insisting that buyback programs didn't work, that the only guns anyone sold back were ones that were already useless and broken. I let it go, he was never changing his mind, but man, there's a lesson. Facts don't matter when you've made up your mind. I'm trying really hard not to be a person who won't change my mind when the facts don't agree with me.

Almost every time a child gets hold of a gun and shoots someone, somebody tells the news the owner of the gun was a real responsible gun owner and how could this have happened! Every gun owner thinks they're responsible and safe. Even the guy who left a loaded handgun laying on a side table while he went to take a shower with three little kids in the house, and one of the kids shot another one. I remember one of the neighbors who talked to the news saying how responsible he was.

I think a lot of lives could be saved by just treating firearms s, you know, really dangerous things.

Why is this even a question, is what I don't understand.

And I totally relate to the feeling of 'how is it that everyone seems so much more connected than me?' No matter how much I contribute to my communities, I still stand alone.

I feel like that too. Always have. I'm not good at making those personal connections.

That pain in the ass author who I had to call? He received a typeset proof to review, and he told the coordinator that one sentence was still incorrect. So she asked how it should be worded, and instead of just answering (it was -- seriously -- just deleting TWO WORDS), he replied "Contact the editor that I spoke with. She knows how it needs to appear.)

What an ass. I am now Senior Editor for two journals and Journals Coordinator for five. That kind of arrogant crap? Wastes my time, and I don't have a lot of time. It's hard to be patient and professional with jerks like that.

All the books sent to that little library made me teary. I went to their Amazon Wish List and it's empty - evereything has already been bought!

What an ass. I am now Senior Editor for two journals and Journals Coordinator for five. That kind of arrogant crap? Wastes my time, and I don't have a lot of time. It's hard to be patient and professional with jerks like that.

Yeah, my coordinator is annoyed as shit with him.

ION, I asked the dog "Pardon me, are you Kato Burr, sir?" and he just heaved out one of those long-suffering sighs.

Boy, you know what's fun? Listening to people argue over code syntax on a conference call.

I just heaved out a very contented sigh. Thank you, Kato Burr.

Boy, you know what's fun? Listening to people argue over code syntax on a conference call.

Oh cool! What language?

I just heaved out a very contented sigh. Thank you, Kato Burr.

His long-suffering sighs are COMEDY GOLD. Poor, poor Kato. No one understands how hard he has it.

JavaScript.

JavaScript.

There's a lot you can argue about JavaScript code. That is a messy language.

...but I think I've hit the tipping point where I need to just hide all her posts instead.

a) Ugh, I'm sorry you have to deal with that; and

2. Does this mean there's a way to hide someone's posts without unfriending them? Because I could do with that right now.

Click the gray arrow on the right-hand side of the name. There should be an option to "Unfollow".