My coworker is on the phone with a library patron, and is looking up reviews of wine for this patron. Charles Shaw wines. Hee!

Aw!

Now I'm worried that I'll never know if the dryer is on fire until it's too late anyway, since it's in the basement. And it would take me a while to think any smoke I might smell was coming from inside the house.... Although I'm not going to worry much about it. I was just saying to my mother that worrying about things you can't control makes me crazy -- she was worried our neighbor isn't healing fast enough from his back/neck surgery. She has not idea how well he is healing! He's supposed to be off work two weeks, and it has not yet been one week! Don't spend your mental energy worrying about this! My grandmother did that, and literally made herself sick. It drives me nuts.

I am still tickled by the idea of Swede's being all "what do you mean we were supposed to be in church today, didn't you say waffles?"

That is a good one!

Feeling itchy?

Well, I did just totally uproot my life...

I think they meant something different by "bad"

Yeah, "badness" varies. It can mean anything from malware to "I just don't like it."

We have visitors to our site today and again my boss does not include me in their tour with either introductions or explanation of what I do. I did introduce myself. If I was not pretty positive that my position is very secure, this is the kind of thing that could lead one to doubt.

One of the many lessons I learned from traveling with my parents (mostly my dad, tbh) for a couple of weeks is, Don't ask people questions to which they could not possibly have the answer.

Dear online reviewers:

Do not give a bag a 2-star rating because it's "smaller than I expected." It is not the bag's fault that you can't visualize the clearly stated dimensions.

Also useless: a 1-star review for "did not arrive in time for my trip."

While I'm at it, there's a special place in hell for people who give low reviews to books because 1) they arrived damaged 2) they took more than 2 days to arrive or 3) they "weren't what I expected."

Signed, Frustrated Online Shopper

Or 4-star reviews for something that they utterly disliked, didn't fit right, and wouldn't recommend. I always read the one-star reviews to see if it's an actual problem or just people being pissy.

The big fancy surge protector/external battery thing my work equipment is plugged into started sparking and smoking! It's out on the back porch now, maybe thinking about what it's done.

Fire bad, tree pretty.

One-star reviews of national parks: [link]