Wait the pepper spray thing happened in porter ranch? That used to be my scene, yo!

Wait the pepper spray thing happened in porter ranch?

No shit! Until they opened the mall in Simi (civilisation gets everywhere eventually, I guess), it was the most convenient one to my job. Freaky to think of that nutty meltdown at a place I've shopped.

When it is done so casually, I think people feel they can do it too.

I think police shoot too casually too, but I don't know if that's having a causal effect. I think what needs to be made clear are the horrible after effects. I think people go "oh! non lethal! thanks for reminding me!" and don't consider how horrible pretty much all of the non-lethal crowd control measures are.

I'm not criticising either you or the program. I'm just talking about what motivates me or doesn't, just like people have been saying about GTD and the like. I'm good.

Did not intend to sound defensive or dismissive. Was typing on iPhone so terse. Now on computer so I suppose I should start using pronouns again. Whatever you meant, I've seen people get hung up on doing the whole thing, and for me it was very freeing to be explicitly told that I don't have to.

Steph, let me validate you. YOU ARE RIGHT. You can absolutely compost coffee filters, whether in a backyard pile or a vermicomposting system. Same with tea bags. Any paper, really, though I've found that worms highly prefer newspaper as bedding to shredded office paper.

Pepper spray shouldn't be the first technique of crowd control when no one is injured or hurt or lives aren't threatened.

Indeed, especially since there's not a lot of data on the health effects of it when used in those circumstances.

I had leftover pie crust for breakfast. No, seriously: when I make a pie and have leftover pastry dough, I roll it out thin and brush it with milk, cinnamon & sugar, and then roll it into a tube and bake it with the pie. That's what I had for breakfast. It's a family thing: I don't know if anyone else does that.

I have walked the dog for an hour, and in a bit we'll go out to see my folks. Things are getting sticky recently: apparently my mother has started refusing to take her meds. ::facepalm::

That's the only Walmart I've been to in yonks. But crazies can show up anywhere.

Gad, I can go months without breaking something or dropping anything but JZ and I just spilled three things around the kitchen within an hour. Of course we're out of paper towels.

I'm telling you, pine sol goes with the holidays!

But crazies can show up anywhere.

Well, at least there aren't any popularly documented ones on my commute at the moment. That's comforting. It's just always a little bit weirder for me when I can easily visualise all of the story, even what doesn't make it into the reporting.

This looks like a nifty freezer management system, except too much upfront work: [link]

I have Knight and Day on in the background. Pretty much settles it. Tom Cruise creeps me out too much. No way I could pay to watch MI4.

Back to status report...

I had a plate of leftovers for breamfast. Mostly because thanks to my own personal idiocy I had too much wine with the apps and had to go lie down during most of dinner. By too much, I mean 1.5 glasses. Damn that Asian alcohol response.

But a quick lie down and I was okay by dessert. So I didn't completely miss the meal.

Steph, let me validate you. YOU ARE RIGHT. You can absolutely compost coffee filters, whether in a backyard pile or a vermicomposting system.

Oh, we've been composting them for 4 years and we have excellent compost. I just didn't want to get into it on FB. This woman was preaching about how tea bags are excellent, and coffee grounds are magical in compost, but coffee filters are the devil and cannot be composted and therefore destroy the environment because they go in landfills.

(Which all started from a discussion about the Keurig and other single-cup coffeemakers and how much waste they produce, etc. So this woman was fervently clinging to her moral high ground of only using a French press. Which makes good coffee [but might kill you with the its effects on cholesterol], but is just not a morally superior coffee preparation method, DAMN.)