When do the football games start today? I am trying to time my grocery trip correctly.

Apparently, no matter how much coffee I consumed, lying down with my eyes closed, covered in cats, means I sleep. Cause I can't do anything else. I'm not even supposed to swim today. Which...yeah, makes me pretty damned cranky.

Our house is listed wrongly on some of the major GPS databases. If we have a plumbing problem or something angry service people call and ask "what is your real address?" It takes some argument to convince them that the GPS is wrong.

Ravens/Pats starts in about a half hour, I think. Giants/49ers is 3:30 board time? So 6:30 for you?

Now I need to figure out which game Cincinnatians are likely to be watching. Both, I guess?

Anyway, thanks. There's nothing worse than going to the grocery an hour before a game starts.

According to 1950s futurists, women of the year 2000 would be giantesses

The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver.

Chances are she will be doing a man's job, and for this reason will dress to fit her role. Her hair will be cropped short, so as not to get in the way. She probably will wear the most functional clothes in the daytime, go frilly only after dark.

Slacks probably will be her usual workaday costume. These will be of synthetic fiber, treated to keep her warm in winter and cool in summer, admit the beneficial ultra-violet rays and keep out the burning ones. They will be light weight and equipped with pockets for food capsules, which she will eat instead of meat and potatoes.

Um, I'd guess Ravens/Pats as that's the AFC championship, which will decide who goes to the Superbowl from the Bengals' conference. So, honestly, you're probably good to go in a bit here.

eta: but yeah, they'll probably be watching both. I know I will. The boys are out hiking (they got windblown out of their camping last night, but it snowed today and is lovely out so they're tromping around) so I have the house to myself to do laundry and watch football, which is ok with me.

Slacks probably will be her usual workaday costume.

Well, that's true enough.

Apparently at one point there was a whole movement to give women pockets, because women's clothes didn't come with them. I guess because they interfere with the hang of the material? Still, I'm always a bit resentful when my slacks don't have pockets. Where will I put the change from buying lunch?

Are slacks predominant working clothes for women who don't have to wear a uniform? I work in IT, so what I see is pretty skewed. There isn't jackshit in the way of skirts around me unless I'm the one in it.

But I don't remember what the rest of the world looks like.

And are there regional variations? Would the West Coast be more likely to be wearing pants than the Midwest, or whatever?

I think my office may be half and half in general, but maybe skewed more toward skirts. Definitely among women who are dressing up -- there are a lot of jeans around as well.