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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hmm. Probably not, given how much Calibre updates. But it's a problem independent of Calibre.
In the long run, it's not an insurmountable problem. If I need to reboot the computer in order to disconnect the Kindle, well, I've got a computer that reboots fast.
A Trader Joe's is coming to my town next year. I've looked at their website, and I'm not really seeing anything to get that excited about. I have very pedestrian tastebuds. Mostly I'm seeing this as an attempt to gentrify the town--or at least the part of town where the store is going in--and I don't like what that might mean for my rent. Fortunately I'm in the untrendy north end of the city and not in one of the several new, trendy apartment blocks that have popped up in the last couple of years to appeal to the new tech workers coming in (a deliberate choice).
The recent voter information pamphlet for the city was revealing: The mayor's up for re-election, and his blurb points out that there are been no new bonds or taxes. His primary opponent talking about how apartments are anathema to the idea of single-family homes and not much traffic, and that city subsidies for projects are contrary to God's will (yes, he cited God as a reason for being against subsidies). Anti-apartment views are generally code for "single people who probably aren't Mormon and will want to have booze with dinner and do things other than go to church on Sunday, and they'll have money and lure away our children, and they won't want to stay in Utah and be tax-payers unless we can get them converted and married and breeding. And they might not be white." And 2nd candidate's wife is running for city council.
The third candidate's blurb is full of typos but assures us he's 100% traditional marriage, 100% to make America strong, and 100% for religious freedom.
It's almost enough to make me register Republican.
It's hard not to vote for someone who is 300%. He could get three times as many things done.
Timelies all!
Mr. S had his 2-year checkup today, so I took the day off. The appointment was at 10:40, and I took him to daycare after. My folks should arrive here in the next couple of hours, so I'm just relaxing here for now.
That makes no sense. He can't possibly be two years old already. He only arrived like a week ago, right?
(Seriously, last night I was remembering something that I thought had happened a few months ago, only to realize it was a year and a few months ago. I think I lost most of this year to my back.)
Uhg, looks like sorms lined up to hit Baltimore the next few hours. Which means no swim. Which given all the shit I need to do this weekend, means I should probably spend tonight cleaning. So fun.
Maybe it'll move north in the next hour?
Maybe it'll move north in the next hour?
Or south? I'd love some storms here, and I don't have any swimming plans. I should have cleaning plans [looks at carpet, sighs].
Three and a half hours to vacation!
WELP! Just took laundry down and one of the mousetraps I put out in the great invasion this winter had caught one! I don't know when, but it wasn't dried out or anything. Yeaarrrrgh.
Now this means I need a o check those in the basement closets.
I don't want to.