Still giggling about lesbian sheep

Today was a huge rush when I woke up "on time" when usually my coffee mornings have me getting up 30-60 minutes early (hence my 4:30 AM posts). I also bought a HUGE new coffee-water kettle, and it turns out it holds easily double what my old pot did. Oops. Positive is for <$20 I got a water kettle I can reach inside to make sure nothing is growing in there. Negative double boil water time.

I shop a lot - I buy little. I make 6 figures but was examining a missing-wheel file cabinet dumpster diving last night.

Coffee grinder is guilt-inducing loud, but I'm more sure it impacts my coffee flavour (to the degree I'll UK/CA spell flavor). I actually tend to think a flavour component is missing, but I think it's just the bitter kick from stale ground coffee.

You know, craigslist is a nice idea, but wouldn't it be better if there were a place like craigslist, but where you didn't have to worry about being ripped off? Imagine if you could just instead rely on the opinion of other caring people, a community of more enlightened viewpoints coming together to share experiences. Someplace you could escape the misogyny of the phallic internet. In this place you could, perhaps, screen out the riffraff by charging a nominal user fee to ensure the community was not infiltrated by unethical elements of society. I just can't imagine that people should be responsible for working on their own to research the companies they hire or taking advantage of a giant free community with all the pluses and minuses it entails which led it to be a huge national success. If only there were a woman-centric place like craigslist...if only. I wonder if Angie ever thought about this?

I GOT LOGO!!! Since the cable is fucking me on the one hand, taking away my free high-def when I bypass the cable box, I found it is utterly wonderful by giving me a fucking I want of no-greater-cost cable channels of NatGeo, BBfuckingC, and even LOGO! Now, this led to a moment of excitement when I forgot my favorite gay shows are ten years old and from HBO, but still - I have recorded some REAL BEING HUMAN, YOU KNOW FROM BBC, and got to settle down last night to re-runs of rupaul's drag race. Huzzah oligopoly television!

Yeah I'm full of domestic stuff. I had an odd gym moment the other day when I had left on nail polish, black, and did my run in the gym. I recognize when I wear my CHOOSE DEATH t-shirt people look at me (often I don't remember what I'm wearing until the 3rd or 5th look combined with a mirror glance reminds me I'm dressed like an angry 17 year old) but the nail polish was invisible to me until I was stretching. Wild, what is wild anymore? Shocking strangers? Sexing strangers? Getting arrested or getting away with it when I cudda been? Or a new kettle to make my fresh-ground lesbian coffee?

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PS about the Fed pay debate - OPM reports that government workers make 25% less than their private sector counterparts. http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/03/can-you-compare-federal-government-vs-private-sector-pay.html
(summary article, but links to the important sources are in there)
Again, the Heritage foundation (and the other I'm not familiar with) were the sponsors of their attacks on Fed pay - but these were just responses to the OPM reports. This is an article from an advocacy-looking group as well - but it seems more data-based and is easily as important a response as the one from the heritage foundation.

Again, even the Heritage foundation alleged that if you held EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE steady for job type, that with benefits pay was 25% higher for Fed workers. While this data is refutable and debatable, it's not the same as the idiotic bleating of "feds make double private sector" garbage we hear in the fauxnews, on the hill, and through shrill wingers on the air. Grr.