I have Kat's baked oatmeal in the oven! With rolled oats instead of steel-cut and pumpkin instead of sweet potatoes and pecans sprinkled on top. Smells good already.

Dimora Trial: Puppet's Court Day 2

In which puppets discuss the prostitute the county commissioner was seeing.

Neatorama sez:

What do you do when your news organization aren’t allowed to film the corruption trial of a former county commissioner? Why, bring in the puppets and re-enact that sucker! That’s what Channel 19 in Akron, Ohio did in order to cover the trial of Jimmy Dimora, and I think it’s the best idea to hit the airwaves in a long time.

Who needs to see all those bored, judicial type people sitting around a courtroom hemming and hawing, when you can have fleecy puppet people acting out the whole thing instead?!

My job in Michigan was predominantly skirts, as it was in the companies we worked with. But that was ten years ago.

Still, skirts during winter just the same as summer.

Where I work now, the IT department is pretty much all pants except for me. The CIO and the CEO both wear pants all the time too, but departments like Marketing and HR are much skirtier.

I just found my collection of TV theme music MP3s, as well as most of the Bond theme songs trimmed to 30s. Time for personalised ring tones on the new phone!

I swear I get colder in jeans than anything else. The skin on my thighs will still be cold to the touch after I've been inside for hours, it seems like.

I guess I've totally given up on dress pants, although I still have some in the closet, I definitely haven't worn more than one pair in the last year.

My office is completely unconventional. Everything from suits and ties (though that's usually only for occasions and that one guy) to shorts year round (that dude even has a shorts-tux!) Women run the gamut from early 80s era polyester gym-teacher outfit (srsly, like the Glee coach, but much worse) to some really blinged out silk-dress-suits types.

Eye has moved from bloody painful to just irritating and stressed. I might be able to drive by tomorrow afternoon. Pretty sure I can't handle the computer. Half this post typed with my eyes closed. Only a few shifted characters.

I can't read with one eye closed. The closed eye tracks, which is not pleasant. To read, I have to have both open, but the injured one blocked from seeing. Annoying!

I like wearing skirts or dresses and think that my legs were actually colder when I wore trousers on Friday than they were when I wore a long skirt with tights on Thursday.

I clearly should have worn tights under my trousers on Friday.

I was always the only woman in my department, so I dunno what the other women wore. I probably have no office appropriate wear in my size any more.

The SO & his buddy said they were going hiking, but there sure is a lot of posting about stuff on television. Who'd like to take bets that they are, instead, sitting in a bar watching the game?

In the winter, I wear slacks with bamboo-fabric long johns underneath.

On the GPS thing: there's an elementary school down the block from my house that doesn't show up on any of the GPS maps. Half the time I want to go somewhere, the GPS will start by telling me to drive through the playground. (The other half of the time, it tells me to go the wrong way down a one-way street.)

Who'd like to take bets that they are, instead, sitting in a bar watching the game?

Not taking that bet.

Hmm, I'm doing research for a story and can't find an answer to this question: how many shells fit in the magazine of a pump-action shotgun?

Apparently people are becoming much worse drivers since GPS showed up.