Protest time

Just as I got home, a bunch of people with signs marched by, escorted by motorcycle cops. Then sirens. Then the people with signs marched back the other way, escorted by motorcycle cops.

Later, Cirie got blindsided by JT.


Today's earrings: octopi, alligators

Bedtime reading: Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore

Swamp boat

Today's earrings: dragonflies, alligators

Bedtime reading: Freeze My Margarita, Lauren Henderson

Scales

Happy Equinox! The sun enters Libra today.

I spent the morning on the phone trying to figure out how to set the time on my 5-year tchotchke. My quest was hampered by the nice lady's inability to find me in her computer. Turns out I'd been filed under the wrong company, and was actually supposed to have been picking from an entirely different tchotchke array. Did I want to send my tchotchke back and choose another? I told her no, no - now that I know how to set the time, the clock is lovely.

Then I got a call from The Realtor (fille), talking about me coming in write an offer this week. I asked if that meant she'd heard from the city about my ap. Um, er, no. Mmmkay. I'd be happy to move along with this, but until we get approval from the city it's kind of pointless, and The Realtor (père) only submitted the paperwork on Friday, so, huh? I did take it as a reminder to leave a follow-up voicemail with the city.

Later, I did some actual work.


Today's earrings: alligators, other alligators

Bedtime reading: Night of the Morning Star, Peter O'Donnell

Major Earring Score

Went to the Millbrae Art & Wine Fest with b2. We shopped. We drank wine. We ran into her parents. (Hi, b2's parents!) I scored major quantities of earrings. Then we went for ice cream.

I also got a sunburn. When will I learn the Lesson of Sunscreen?


Today's acquisitions: yellow schoolbuses, chickens, broomsticks, aces, black bears, brown bears, mice.

Today's earrings: swords, alligators

Bedtime reading: Crimson Joy, Robert B. Parker

Authentic Alligator Boots

http://storeforknowledge.com/Augie-Alligator-Boots-Size-6-7-P11096C0.aspx

Today's earrings: boots, alligators

Bedtime reading: Swan for the Money, Donna Andrews

Sad news

The Bad Man was not voted out. Instead, a pawn was medevacced. I hope they don't have to amputate his leg or anything.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynn Jones

Early

I woke up around 4:30, I guess. About 5:30 I gave up, got up, and made myself some breakfast. Then I figured, why not? and went in to work early. Confused the heck out of my coworkers. Had a tolerably productive day bullying the minions. (I had four minions this week. Four! I must release them tomorrow.) Stopped off at Rite-Aid and yelled at the manager for holding up the line. Stayed up to watch Supernatural, which lacked angels and apocalyptic omens but did closely resemble some recent horror movies that I've seen commercials for. Disappointing.

I'm pretty tired now.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite," R.A. Lafferty

Full morning

Today we took a look at the line to get into the California Academy of Science and went to the Conservatory instead. Then we went to Fort Point and enjoyed the fine array of didactic panels. And the view. It was clear enough to see not just the Bay Bridge but the Claremont Hotel, too.

We had pizza for lunch and cupcakes for dessert, and then some went to see a scale model of the Bay, and some peeled off.


Today's earrings: black frogs, alligators

Bedtime reading: Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman

My boss shared this with me

A sign of the End of Days


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: A Taste for Death, Peter O'Donnell

Ebisu w/ b2

It's her birthday Sunday, so tonight we ate the best sushi in town.

mmmm, sushi.


Today's earrings: turtles, alligators

Bedtime reading: Jingo, Terry Pratchett

Reunion

s/w my long-lost old friend today. He'll be in SF this weekend, so we're tentatively getting together Saturday afternoon.

This should be interesting.


Today's earrings: boots, alligators

Bedtime reading: Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett

Made for walking

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail
"There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle - will you come and join the dance?"

- - Lewis Carroll

Today's earrings: boots, alligators

Bedtime reading: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Good news/bad news

CC was right. It turned into a cold. I've been swilling chicken soup all day.
I blame the Cricket.

In happier news, Ozzy was voted out of Survivor, and he didn't see it coming at all. I laughed and laughed...
This may turn out to be the season I've been hoping for.


Today's earrings: frogs, alligators

Bedtime reading: L. Frank Baum, Katharine M. Rogers

Poor Jonathan

He was seriously annoying me, but I hate seeing him forced to withdraw on a medical. He wanted so much to play... Chet quitting in the same episode was just galling.


Today's earrings: flies, alligators

Bedtime reading: Owl's Well That Ends Well, Donna Andrews

Here there be dragons

http://www.xkcd.com/256/


Today's earrings: swords, alligators

Bedtime reading: Hard Row, Margaret Maron

It's a jungle out there

Poor Kit. I do hate these team challenges.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: The Atlantic, January/February 2008

Google score

I went looking on "alligator boots," then "armadillo purse," then hit the jackpot with "ostrich purse."


It's like Fabergé... except ostrich. And a purse.


Today's earrings: boots, alligators

Bedtime reading: Thud!, Terry Pratchett

It's a jungle out there.

Well, today, more of a rainforest.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: Miss Manners' Basic Training, Judith Martin

A Limerick

Little Zooks, of whom no one was fond,
They shot toward the roof and beyond;
The infant's trajectory passed him over the rectory,
And into a lily-choked pond.
- - Edward Gorey


Today's earrings: frogs, alligators

Bedtime reading: The Deranged Cousins, Edward Gorey

Bitten off

Newbie stopped by my desk last thing today, and could she ask me a question? I said yes, of course. She wants to know about something I (actually, my boss) said in today's meeting. Fortunately, my boss was passing on her way out the door and allowed herself to get sucked in.

The original question was about why companies might make apparently sub-optimal economic decisions under particular conditions. Two follow-up questions later, and we're explaining the Enclosure movement. One more question, and we would have hit the Black Death and the Little Ice Age. It all comes back to climate change eventually.


Today's earrings: hands, alligators

Bedtime reading: Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett