Tep, I also feel that way about Stein voters. Not so much the Johnson ones, because honestly, I've given up on those ones ever making a sensible choice, but the Stein ones...

Man.

Tep, I also feel that way about Stein voters. Not so much the Johnson ones, because honestly, I've given up on those ones ever making a sensible choice, but the Stein ones...

Oh yeah, my rage at third-party voters might even be greater than it is for Trump voters.

I'm sorry, Gud. You deserve time to yourself.

That article on the targeted advertising using OCEAN or whatever made me feel better about my fellow Americans. More worried about what to do about the propaganda, but more charitably inclined towards voters. I still don't understand why all this is working on a population that has not just lost a war and is not suffering under hyperinflation, but I feel a little less like my fellow citizens are monsters.

I may have crossed the line of critical mass of zero fucks left to give on Facebook. I'd been trying to not post a ton of political stuff because I didn't have the spoons for blowback, but fuck it, man. Fuck it all. Bring on the blowback, because I am ready to burn it all down.

And fuck the "try to understand people with different political opinions" nonsense. I'm willing to try to understand the people who want fewer taxes (although I am SO OVER my brother's libertarian bullshit), but I am not willing to try to understand someone who knowingly voted an administration into office that sees me, and virtually everyone I love, as less than human. Zero fucks left to give, man. Done.

Ugh. I was doing pretty well with avoidance and lack of give a damn until he was actually president but it hasn't even been a week and Jesus Christ.

On a non political note, my five year work anniversary is coming up and I got an email to an award site. Most random shit ever. Do I want a fancy purse, a pin with my employer on it, or a drill press? Maybe an off brand tablet or a set of cutlery?!? Wtf. None of this is useful. Can I have money instead?

Wait, who doesn't need a drill press???

...being married to Tim *may* have skewed my worldview a little.

We used to get that on our 5 year work-aversaries, but to my 20th and then they ended the program. I got my pots and pans that way and I still love them. But random.

Go drill press. Pick drill press.

My old job used to give us random stuff on our anniversary (I have a set of gold-plated flatware in a fancy wooden box that I will NEVER use), but they eventually stopped that and just gave us $$, which was way more appreciated.

I'm not going to lie, new cutlery is maybe the best gift I've gotten in the past five years. And it was a hand-me-down gift! My grandmother gave it to my aunt, but she had already given my aunt two sets of flatware in a different pattern, so my aunt gave it to me! I love it.

I got a $250 gift card on my 10-year anniversary, which I used to buy a very nice chair for my apartment. It's the nicest piece of furniture I own, aside from the antique sideboard Hubby stole from a movie studio backlot back in LA in the 70s.