You people who have so many businesses open on a Sunday boggle me. I think I've lived in blue law areas my whole life, except for a three-month business trip in Philly, where many things were closed on Mondays instead (very odd to me). I decided to take the Sunday shift because there's nothing else to do, so I might as well make money and have my weekend when stuff's available.

Liese, that's freaky.

Perkins, Torres.

Perkins is mean, with the BINAO. Can't. Choose. Circuits. Melting.

Easiest BINAO ever.

Easiest BINAO ever.

Oh yeah. Ackles all the way.

I have been productive today. I took my spare change down to the CoinStar machine and got Overstock.com credit for it; I went to look at a dresser that I was considering buying from craigslist, but decided I didn't like it so much; I went to look at a coffee table and end table I was buying from craigslist, which I did like, but which required two trips to get home, because I forgot the first time to check if the legs could come off the tables. Then I bought in the whole end table and the coffee table legs -- the coffee table top is too heavy for me to carry in, so I'll have to find someone to help with that, somehow. Then I got on overstock.com, and used the spare change credit plus a 10% off coupon from the post office to buy a wardrobe, so that I'll have somewhere to put my clothes. The one that I ended up buying is actually advertised as baby furniture, but it doesn't really look obviously baby, and it had much better reviews than all the comparably priced similar ones that aren't made for baby rooms. [link] My new plan for bedroom furniture, since my old plan of getting a matching bedroom set seems too expensive, is to buy pieces as I need them, all white and similar styles, so that they'll coordinate, if not match. And if I feel like it at some point, I can get some cool drawer pulls at Anthropologie or someplace.

Ackles all the way.

Or not.

Or not.

Hey, then we're both happy.

...I suddenly have a new thing to aspire to that I had never imagined. Wow.

Right? It's like, I don't know enough really wealthy people to understand what really wealthy people can have. My wealthiest friends got so by being really really fiscally conservative. Personally, I mean, not talking politics. Which has been good for me, because I now believe that you become wealthy by turning off the lights when you leave a room. And they spend money when they want to. For example, they have the world's most comfortable sleeper sofa. I didn't know such a thing was possible, but it turns out you get what you pay for.

And we help them spend their money, sometimes. We chose their surround sound system for them and talked them into the nice Harmony when they redid their media stack. But you know, overall, they're very subdued people.

And for the most part, when we were building our house and stuff, it was clear that mostly, money buys you nicer materials. I mean, you still have a kitchen counter, it's just not made of formica. So then I was like, I don't think I need lots of money, because I like the surfaces I have. I don't need them to be nicer.

So when it turns out that money can buy you things like your own private airstrip that you can just taxi your plane to from your house? It's somewhat baffling to me. I didn't even know I wanted that!

I just put together the end table. The size and scale seem totally wrong for the room. I'll give it a week or two, and if I still don't like it, I'll just craigslist it again. (I'm seriously tempted to list it for $20 more than I paid for it, because I'm pretty sure I could easily get that much for it, but that seems wrong, somehow.)