Assault rifle. I betcha it's that easy to get AR-15.

I haven't heard the canard about good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns in a while. I guess it's hard to say that when police are getting shot.

A relative on FB is angry at the ACLU for escalating the situation in Baton Rouge. I am letting that one go for the sake of family harmony.

I wonder if there might be more push behind getting assault rifles banned if police keep getting shot with them. Not that I want police or anyone to get shot.

Well, fuck. Just found out a good friend and 4 others in her department were laid off on Thursday. Kinda shocking, but it's budgetary and they're on a completely different funding source I had no view into. Ahrg. And their kids are in private school and the eldest is going into her senior year.

This year is unsettling.

Ugh, just heard about the Baton Rouge shootings. I am so done with shootings this year! So upsetting. I DO NOT want civil war.

A relative on FB is angry at the ACLU for escalating the situation in Baton Rouge.

??? I don't even get it, it's like someone doesn't understand what the ACLU does.

Jesse, my advice is to split the difference and have your stylist color your hair once or twice a year, and then you can take care of the roots yourself the rest of the year. That's what I do because I can't afford to have my hair done professionally every time. But coloring the roots is pretty easy and all it costs is the dye.

I am at SFO sending off my Mom, since she was feeling uncertain about navigating a big airport on her own. We did a bunch of sightseeing, but we also spent a lot of time on my couch watching Masterpiece Mystery and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Bletchley Circle. It was a good visit.

The chocolate thing that you and your mom got that you posted a picture of on FB looked AMAZING.

I feel like I want to go do something. But I don't know what. And I have plans at 5 and need to grocery shop also so should really just go do that. Futless? Is that the term we use?

I'm at that point in my move where every time I stop to take a breather my knees are like NOPE NEVER MOVING AGAIN. I should take a nap but there's all this STUFF I still want to get unpacked and sorted out. The kitchen is an unspeakable mess. (Apparently our old kitchen, while smaller and not without its own issues, had much better storage than this one. Which is fine in the long run because we were planning to renovate anyway as soon as we have some money again, but in the short-term where the hell am I supposed to put all my stuff??)

Went for a morning walk in the woods with my sister, which turned into an epic, since we did a loop and at the end of the loop she discovered she'd dropped her iPhone at some point. And since I'm a good sister and she has a bum knee, I did the whole loop again, backwards, looking for the phone. So I got a good 8 miles or so of hiking in this morning. And no, we didn't find the phone, and calling it goes straight to vm, and find my phone doesn't work because there's no reception in those canyons. So she may be SOL, although I'm pretty confident someone picked it up -- it's a really busy park.

Now I have a ton of stuff to do before going on vacation on Wednesday, and no energy to do it. Feh.