Thanks, guys!

I guess that means you're succeeding in raising your visibility?

I hope so. That's a work in progress, but it's definitely an incentive to keep working on it.

Oh, BTW--there were apparently profuse apologies in the restaurant on Monday by the skeevy-guy-with-a-hat.

Skeevy-hat-guy needs to work on not being a cautionary tale.

shrift, CONGRATS on the raise and bonus!! And keept it quiet from the family, Ms. Moneypants!

And did you ever email about the military thing?

Not yet, but I should do that this evening. Thanks for the reminder!

A BABY SEAL sneaks into someone's home and falls alseep on the sofa: [link]

Anne suggested it was a selkie on the run.

Jesse, gift receiving and giving is not a competition to be won and lost. I'm sorely disappointed in you.

NO IT TOTALLY IS.

Jesse. You have like the best attitude of any human being I've ever known. You're my favorite Cowgirl. Which, saying a lot, considering how much I love Cowgirl Creamery cheese.

Aw, thanks!

I'm sorry, Pix.

Congratulations, Shrift!

Buffy generally did both.

I totally missed the plot line about her power coming from her lipstick. Of course she did both. Again, *so* not the point I was making.

I quoted, and thus was responding specifically to, this:

Can't I wear lipstick and look a man in the eye and demand he treat me as an equal? Why is this an either/or proposition?

I wasn't saying her power came from her lipstick, either. I was saying that Buffy wore lipstick while looking men in the eye and demanding she be treated like an equal at the same time.

I'm disinclined to participate in the make-up based campaign, myself, as I don't wear much make-up and would rather support women's empowerment by donating to one of many women's empowerment organizations. (The Global Fund for Women will be just as happy to see my $15 as MAC or NARS would be. Quite possibly more so.) I do agree there's social pressure around women fitting in the very tightly determined role of "pretty" and purchasing various things (makeup, uncomfortable shoes, impractical clothes) to achieve this. There's also a social message that I should read more Heyers novels than coding books. I read both. And if there was a movement to read a Heyers novel to show support for women's empowerment, I'd probably roll my eyes at the concept, but I'd still read A Civil Contract when I'm in the mood.

Last year, when people were wearing purple to show support for LGBTQ youth and against bullying.

Hmm. I think I missed that. Still, due to poorly planned shopping, about half of my work shirts and sweaters are purple. I may have been supportive anyway.

Jesse > cheese!

GREAT. Now I want a baby seal on my couch. Thanks, Tom.

Also, Tom, lunch with you was THE BEST and it turns out that hauling those bagels all over was totally worth it as they're delicious.