Just did another round of form signing for the house. Also testing out wire transfer systems and getting an estimation on all costs due at closing. Since Closing is after Labor Day weekend, I'd love to have funds wired over by the Friday before just to be safe.

All kinds of ~ma to your co-worker, Matt.

msbelle, this all happened so fast it's amazing!

Getting my body shipped to India for an authentic sky burial doesn't sound too practical.

You can be shipped into space instead: [link]

Forgot to add that I am not a coffee drinker at all, but I have learned -- through making them, and needing caffeine -- to enjoy a mocha or a latte as long as a LOT of sweetener is involved.

I looked at my texts and I saw the house listing 8/1. Sara went to see it for me and while facetiming me on 8/4. Made the offer on 8/5. Offer accepted 8/6. Inspection 8/15. Request for repairs in 8/16. They accepted request on 8/20.

Yeah it's all really fast, but also so smooth.

Coffee is a morning requirement for me. I set up 7-8 cups to go in the Mr. Coffee before I go to bed, and the wonderful bean juice is waiting for me when I get up. I like it with a bit of milk. Coffee ice cream is also delicious. I haven't tried iced coffee, though. Unfortunately, I can't drink caffeine after noon if I want to sleep that night.

Coffee with 1/2 & 1/2 for me. Iced in warmer months, hot in colder. Both made in Bialetti (aka little Italian job). Somehow just learned about just making iced by brewing in the Bialetti and pouring over lots of ice this summer. Makes the perfect strength for me.

I tested as a non-taster

How do you get this test? I want to get the results and email them to my sister and read them aloud over my mother's resting place--provided they prove I really am a supertaster and not just fussy ans stubborn.

I did the test in a Psych class (Sensation & Perception, IIRC), but I seem to remember looking online after and the strips were available to purchase. All it was was a little strip of paper that you put in your mouth (and chew? maybe?), which to me (and the one other non-taster in the room) was just a plain piece of paper. To the regular, or average, or whatever people, it was slightly bitter. To the super-tasters, it was apparently so strongly flavored it was disgusting and they were actively PISSED at the teacher until someone handed around Altoids.

I'm actually a pretty picky eater despite being a non-taster. For me, it's mostly texture issues, though.

Interesting, Epic.

Man, I just remembered about Three Bean Soup and now I want an Iced Vanilla Soy Latte

Oh my GOD this interview:

[link]

Re: Trump:

Did you say he was or wasn't a serial monogamist? I just didn't hear you.

He's a serial monogamist. He's been married several times.

You know he slept with a porn star during his current marriage?

Yes. That's true, but he does at least get married. We have to give him that. I mean, everybody exemplifies some ideals and not others.

You know he slept with a porn star during his current marriage?

Unrelated to the actual point, but I do wish we could get over the need to mention "with a porn star" every time this comes up, as if the sleazy part is Stormy Daniels' day job and not Trump's cheating ass.

[eta: "We" = The American media, of which I'm not actually a part, so really "they"]

I'm just envisioning the end of Some Like It Hot. "Well, nobody's perfect!"

Except far more gross and distressing.