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.

My grandma taught me to do this!

My grandma taught me to do this!

Yay, my family is not that freakish!

Pie for breakfast. Num.

There's a Mormon hymn--maybe others use it--called "Love at Home." Hubby and I raised some eyebrows in the store when we modified it to "There's beauty all around / when there's pie at home." Though to give the locals credit, several did snicker and agree.

I applaud your ability to ignore wrongheaded people on the Internet.

I'd ask you to teach me how, Steph, but I think it would be like me volunteering for an amputation. I'm already kind of pissed I had my wisdom teeth out--imagine how I'd take this...

Man, I just got a *bunch* of work done. Not that I've read any of the productivity stuff recommended yet, and I also didn't do the task I set out to, but it was work, it did need to be done today, and it was mostly motivated to stop me from feeling too useless. I'm going to take it as one of a few wins I'll need today.

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

People do die from pepper spray occasionally. They have heart attacks and asthmatic reactions such like.

I'll also note: prison guards are forbidden from using pepper spray on prisoners unless they're being physically attacked, and it's a disallowed chemical agent in war zones.

The most powerful Habanero pepper has a Scoville Heat Unit of 350,000. Pepper spray has a Scoville of up to 5.3 million units. It's more than ten times worse than rubbing somebody's eyes with Habanero peppers.

I didn't know that. Of course, I'd never have any, cause I'd squirt myself on accident.

I once purchased sheets at the Porter Ranch Walmart! They were the only store that had the brand I wanted in red. I am so glad I didn't get paper sprayed. Whew.

Kristen mentioned that Best Buy queues people up for doorbusters before the door opens and then go down the line handing each person a coupon for the item they are waiting for until they reach the end of the supply for the item. Before the doors open, everyone knows that they will get (or not get) what they wanted. It reduces the weird panic. That's preventative crowd control. If you do not have the resources to do this, do not have doorbusters.

People are bananas. This has been proven over and over. Prepare for bananas.

I applaud your ability to ignore wrongheaded people on the Internet.

I don't know how to do this. There must be a self-help book of some kind. I'm still wanting to punch "no female musicians" guy in the face.

If you do not have the resources to do this, do not have doorbusters.

They're dramatically in the minority, though, aren't they? I think other stores thrive on the idea of madness, they just hope it won't get Porter Ranch bad. But worked up excited people are more likely to rush into the store and buy *anything* to make them feel like it was worth the effort, and so the heavily discounted items are probably more effective loss leaders.

"Autofocus" is the title of a really weird episode of Homicide(if memory serves it's the Baltimore-hangman one) and as such is the name of a fanfic archive. So I'm kind of blinking right now. Just so you know.

So, Autofocus/Vitals crossover? It's just a little too late for Yuletide, alas.

I shopped on Black Friday! Luckily the grocery store and liquor store are door buster-free.