Is it CAS/ITA! you want for your plate, ita !? It is, isn't it?

I have one desire for a custom plate, but it has my name on it, so never mind. That's too vain, even for me.

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Toddson, do you have IT support? Because your boss' issue is their problem not yours!

I guess I'm still a Farscape fan, because that license plate made me think of Pirate DRDs (which are the little roomba-like maintenance droids on the ship).

Toddson--if you use Outlook, you can put a receipt request on your emails. It's kind of annoying, but it will prove that your manager has seen your email.

I was searching my Yahoo email account for something recently (that's the account with my full name on it, and that I only use for shopping and job applications), and I discovered porny spam in the Sent folder. Apparently last September, before I changed my password again, I sent penis-enlarging emails to the Big Boss here. YIKES.

Happily, I'm sure it ended up in his spam folder. But seriously, yikes!

Speaking of vain, I bought Chicken Serenada the other day, just because, and...hey! Kinda tasty.

I thought of you when I saw that at TJ's the other day!

We are part of a private swim club, but the pool is indoor and attached to the Y, so maybe not so much? We aren't fancy. We just hang with the oldsters.

I guess I'm still a Farscape fan, because that license plate made me think of Pirate DRDs (which are the little roomba-like maintenance droids on the ship).

Yes, I was trying to figure out which DRD the car was named after.

We mostly swim at the Y, which is indoor, but there's a couple nearby public pools that are outdoor that we use from time to time. But I have to say the UCLA Rec Center pools kick serious ass over the other two options, because it's as much a park as a pool, and it has an upper and lower pool and it's just lovely. Wish I had a membership.

Ugh, I am having parenting issues. Isaac grabbed someone by the throat yesterday at school, one of his friends. That's bad. he used to grab my throat when he was a toddler and so we've had talks about why it's dangerous and not to do it. And he hasn't choked anyone in YEARS, but now this. My son is becoming a bully. sigh.

Not sure what to do that we aren't already doing, but clearly what we are doing isn't working.

Oh Burrell, that's hard. been there. Do you have any books that address behaviors? We have some that mac has found helpful from time to time if I read them to him at night.

Anyone want to read some craxy by Santorum?

Santorum: Satan is Systematically Destroying America (From a speech he gave in 2008.)

This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.

He didn't have much success in the early days. Our foundation was very strong, in fact, is very strong. But over time, that great, acidic quality of time corrodes even the strongest foundations. And Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

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And so what we saw this domino effect, once the colleges fell and those who were being education in our institutions, the next was the church. Now you’d say, ‘wait, the Catholic Church’? No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it. So they attacked mainline Protestantism, they attacked the Church, and what better way to go after smart people who also believe they’re pious to use both vanity and pride to also go after the Church.

The whole thing is amazing in its craxy. I find it hard to believe this fucker could ever be elected president.