No, I'm going to be the grumpy old man at the meetings.

Who ends up running for City Council.

I have visited 4 schools and 8 houses. I really like 2 houses, but they are very different, go to different schools and both have pros and cons. I need to hash it out and make an offer on one of them. WAH!

Whoa!! Good luck, msbelle. How is your vacation going otherwise?

Good luck msbelle!

Good luck, msbelle!

I posted the correspondence to the listserv. Expect it to completely explode. Already someone complained it took 75 minutes to go one mile.

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Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin” in South Carolina.

If the bill were to become law, South Carolina would no longer accept or use anything other than silver and gold coins as a form of payment for any debt, meaning paper money would be out in the Palmetto State.

Pitts said the intent of the bill is to give South Carolina the ability to “function through gold and silver coinage” and give the state a “base of currency” in the event of a complete implosion of the U.S. economic system.

Pitts said the intent of the bill is to give South Carolina the ability to “function through gold and silver coinage” and give the state a “base of currency” in the event of a complete implosion of the U.S. economic system.

That's nice. Um... Does South Carolina actually have much in the way of gold and/or silver?

I can think of a couple different constitutional problems with that one. Good luck with...all that.

I just had to talk a neighbor down as she got stuck in traffic at 7:40 exactly where I was earlier.

I just forwarded everything to the Sun reporter.

Going to go swim now.

Ah, the message bills of state legislatures. Utah is proposing no gun regulations on any gun made in Utah for use solely in Utah. No word on how they will make sure those guns don't leave the state. Also, they're trying to declare eminent domain on a National Monument so they can develop it, because part of the land is trust land for the state's schools, and so them derned fedrul-socialists can't tell us what we can do in there here sovren state of Utah.

I'm reassured that people in other states can likewise be embarrassed before the rest of the country.

Another thing I've read is that extroverts gain energy in social situations and introverts lose energy. It's almost like work for an introvert to be social. Many introverts can be social for a while, but then need to leave and recharge. That's me too.

Yep. I worked for a corporation once that required teams to take Myers Briggs. Everyone except me was surprised that I'm an introvert.

In other news, I got to hold Kalliope! And her mommy is a very patient saint who waited many moons for me to arrive at this restaurant. I loved getting a chance to visit 1:1 with Sparky and now she and MFN are out changing car spots (MFN just got here and is parked illegally and Sparky needs to get Sassy and go home; do they're switching car spots). And now I get to visit with MFN! I am a lucky duck.