So I'm catching up and thinking "this new person has really hit the ground running, sensible, insightful. Volans? Volans ... Oh."

Never mind.

I finally made myself call DirecTV to downgrade my package (I would have done it ages ago if they had let me do it online the way the automated system advised me to when I called in, of course) because that is way too much money for channels I'm not watching and now I have someone coming to my house next Saturday to upgrade my equipment, Which I have been putting off for forever because people coming to my house, I'd really rather not, you know? Hopefully 10 days will be enough to tidy up sufficiently and get used to the idea...

I kinda wonder why I feel like that.

Because some of the anti-Hilary people are really scary? And you don't know which ones until they scare you?

Good luck with the pitch/patent, Hec!

Many times I can't have what I want to eat, and don't want what I have to eat. When I really can't deal, throwing everything in a blender and sucking it down with a straw so I don't have to taste it gets me through the sads and don'wannas. And then I pull up my socks and get on with it. But the sads and don'wannas are real, and sometimes you just need to not have to deal. So, smoothies.

I've still got options, just less than I had before and so I'm dwelling on the can't. I know I'm more fortunate than a lot of people with even more restricted diets, it's just going to be an adjustment period. (This no caffeine thing sucks, though.)

I finally made myself call DirecTV to downgrade my package (I would have done it ages ago if they had let me do it online the way the automated system advised me to when I called in, of course) because that is way too much money for channels I'm not watching and now I have someone coming to my house next Saturday to upgrade my equipment, Which I have been putting off for forever because people coming to my house, I'd really rather not, you know? Hopefully 10 days will be enough to tidy up sufficiently and get used to the idea...

I've been saying for over a year that I really need to downgrade our cable package because it's ridiculously expensive for what we get out of it, but because it requires talking to actual people on the phone I keep putting it off.

I was super beat at the end of the day so elected to dine in the restaurant in the hotel I'm staying at, a French-Caribbean type place called Compere Lapin. It was EXCELLENT if pricey. I'm still thinking about the crispy dirty rice arancini I had for appetizer. Yummmm. Followed by goat curry and a fun deconstructed coconut rum cake with ice cream.

Ahhh! I didn't know you were at the No. 77! Compere Lapin is one of the best new restaurants in the city. Why didn't I recommend it earlier? Huge blind spot. Eating there is definitely winning the New Orleans cuisine game, even if it is in a hotel!

So a local large church is having Allen West come speak and their preacher last Sunday said from the pulpit that they would be to blame for losing religious freedom, innocent deaths, and loss of biblical marriage if they did not act and vote. Does that cross the line for the IRS?

Just dropped my phone, but it didn't break. Two points for my case.

Today was a cluster and ended with a dentist appt (which wasn't bad, just bad timing.)

OTOH, my choice of new officemates proved useful, as I'd hoped it would.

Oh, please finish delivering our crap. I want a nap and a shower, maybe in that order.

Timelies all!

There was frost on my car this morning. I know it's late October, but DO NOT WANT!

Kalshane, because of gut issues, I gave up coffee (and eventually tea) for almost 10 years. My problem wasn't with the caffeine as much as the acidity of it. Kicking it was tough, but it was doable. The first few days were the worst.

My gut's more or less better so I can drink it again, but I still only have one cup a day. A second if I am the walking dead.