I think cultural misogyny explains a fair bit of the knee jerk anti-HRC emotions. How dare a woman be ambitious (what a monster) and think she can tell men what to do!

In other news, I've found the bottom of the closet in the spare room! It's been years since I've seen it. After Dad died in 2009 I piled a bunch of stuff there and decided to deal with it later. Looks like later=today.

ETA Thanks, -t!

Along the HRC/DJT lines, I thought this NPR interview with the NYTimes editor was interesting: [link]

In other news, we just had an extended series of announcements about a possible issue that we might have to evacuate for, but wait and see and we'll get back to you. (Eventually they gave the all-clear.) I don't want to use the term triggering, because it wasn't that serious, but it did make me feel anxious about working in a high-rise building, which I hadn't felt before.

Certainly sounds unpleasant. I hate the "maybe you need to take action, we'll let you know" warnings more than actually following emergency procedures, personally. Definitely makes for more anxiety than, you know, doing something.

Our elderly Standard Poodle, Truman, is at the vet getting x-rayed to see if they can find the cause of his obvious back and leg pain. Poor guy. His hearing is going, his sight is iffy and he is starting to do things like just stand in one place for a long time without moving. He's an ooooold man. He is still the sweetest dog alive, though.

Poor Truman.

I hate the "maybe you need to take action, we'll let you know" warnings more than actually following emergency procedures, personally. Definitely makes for more anxiety than, you know, doing something.

Yeah, I would have felt better in the stairwell, I'm sure!

At least then I got to go to a meeting that didn't end up happening, but those of us who were there had a hilarious conversation about 90s rap where I revealed more about my personal tastes than previously.

That's always fun.

Poor Truman. Walter has his vet appointment for similar mysterious - I'm not even sure it's pain because he doesn't whine or anything but he is clearly stiff and slow has trouble standing up after he's been lying down and stairs are just, ugh, don't talk to him about stairs. Tiger balm has seemed to help. The weird thing is he seemed to get less stiff and more able to deal with the granite stairs cut into trails the longer we were hiking in the mountains, so I can not even theorize.

It takes a while for the joints to loosen up.

We heard back from the vet--he has some arthritis but that doesn't explain his weakness. They discovered some kidney stones, which may be the culprit. When they get the labs back, they are going to tell us whether they are caused by bacteria, which means all he needs is a special medicine, or by salts build-up, in which case he may need surgery. So, there you go.

Hubby had horrible kidney stones till he stopped drinking the city water. We have very hard water, and the minerals weren't being filtered out. When he went to bottled water, the kidney stone frequency dropped about 90%.

God to know, Connie. I wonder if Truman's predilection for toilet water is a factor.