That's going to be such a lovely gift, Tep.

Seriously awesome gift, wow.

Roofers finished and left no signs they'd been here except new coated roof and downspout, paid the bill and got $14.45 free money towards my principle. And the roofer uses Square! Which totally surprised me given his crusty old school appearance (and experience with so many others in trade of his age...some squint funny at checks, still.) Not fair of me, but now I know. And on customer service alone, I'll use them again. Now just the matter of a few heavy rains to see if their solution worked. And I have a verbal promise if it gives trouble, in addition to the 3 mo covered in contract.

Cats are sleeping off their hypervigilance; they just wouldn't settle today. Pumpkin supervised them on the front porch from my bedroom door, base of tail lightly bushed. Loki wandered a lot. Now, he's under the covers in the v of my legs, P on the outside of my knee.

Glad to hear the roofing experience has been positive so far!

I'll be reporting to the Hall of Justice for jury selection tomorrow. On the bright side, it's a shorter commute than going to work and doesn't start until 9:30. Guess I'd better make sure I've got plenty to read on ye olde kindle.

IO-me-me-me-News: I found a GNC just a couple of miles out of my way home from work and reupped the good folic acid, determined that the Chinese restaurant next door to said GNC has crispy duck on the menu, and picked up a Zombie Frappuccino. I'm disappointed not to have access to the Vampire Frappuccinos this year, those were lovely, but the Zombie's visual presentation is very clever and the taste is quite good.

Where do you get a Zombie Frappuccino?!

I do feel a little weird about the "patting on the rear" thing. Not that George Bush should be doing it to anyone other than possibly Barbara!! But there are times and places where that sort of thing is culturally accepted without asking for and receiving consent (...granted, I'm mostly thinking of sports dudes patting each others' asses, and of gay men and I smacking each others' asses, and pretty much never "dude patting woman's rear who he doesn't know or has any power over"?)

Here's the difference. Did GHWB pat any man on the rear? If it wasn't meant to be a semi-sexual thing, why was only one sex on the receiving end?

Starbucks, Amy.

Here's the difference. Did GHWB pat any man on the rear? If it wasn't meant to be a semi-sexual thing, why was only one sex on the receiving end?

Oh yeah, not saying GHWB was in the right, at all. Just extrapolating to a larger/more personal context

Yeah, the ass grabbiness in the overly touchy context was definitely multi-gender/alignment.

I dunno, I mean, maybe it's also not ok in my context either, But honestly it's really hard to suss out boundaries in this group, because the vast majority basically seem to have none. They're as likely to end up in a giant puppy pile on someone's bed as they are to shake hands hello.

Thanks, guys.

Personally, I don't want anyone patting my butt under any circumstances. Outside of sports I don't play, there's no reason/excuse for that.