(makes "I miss Top Pot" noises) The nearest place that has good donuts is off-island.

8 am on a rainy day is apparently the Right Time to operate a chainsaw. Person, why?

Death wish?

If they're near the window in the office when Jim's meeting starts, they won't have long to wait.

Really, though, they could strap some salmon to their arms and legs and jump in the Sound - if the hypothermia doesn't do it, an orca will be along to go "om nom nom nom fish".

I get a LOT of spam. Lots of it. However, I think this subject line may have hit some kind of ... high? low? SALIVA TEST PRICES THAT EVEN A LLAMA WON'T SPIT AT!

Hopefully there are enough llamas reading their emails to justify the effort.

I was spoiled early on by Country Boy Bakery, a local concern with two locations that had amazing cake and blueberry-filled doughnuts. I also discovered in college that they made the best-ever steamed roast beef sandwiches on fresh croissant buns. Unfortunately the owner retired and sold the building/land rather than the business when she felt it got to be to much for her. But I suppose that's better than someone else taking over and the business declining.

I'm trying very hard not to get into a fight with my brother. The grocery store in Boulder where the shooting took place is basically next door to the center where he's a therapist, and he said that he goes to that grocery store like 3 times a week. And then he added "That's why I'm always armed when I shop there."

I know he's a libertarian gun nut. I know he pretty much always is armed wherever it's legal for him to be armed. I've even gone to the shooting range with him and seen that he's a really good shot *under the controlled circumstances at a shooting range.*

But I do not buy into the Good Guy With A Gun theory, not even when it's my own brother. Because it's proven not to be true. And I'm trying very hard not to fight with him about it, because he will not back down from his libertarian gun nut beliefs, and I will not back down from my belief that we need exceedingly strict gun control.

(Am I freaked out that a mass shooting happened where my brother shops 3 times a week? I mean, yeah, but the thing is, it could have happened — and *has* happened — at literally any grocery store, literally any PLACE, in the United States. So we are all pretty much fucked. So I'm less freaked out than you would think. I'm mostly like, WELP, at least the pandemic led to fewer mass shootings for a year, so that was nice.)

Goddamn crazy motherfucking libertarian gun nut.

He will not back down. You will not back down. Don’t argue about it.

Yeah, I do know that. I just feel really fight-y today.

I mean, presumably the police officer who was killed was armed also.

It's just so very deeply stupid to think having a gun is somehow a good way to protect yourself. As someone who has loved ones who also shop at that store, I'd appreciate any way you can dissuade your brother from making it a more dangerous place, Steph.