I wonder if your SIL knows my friend here in Seattle who is a coffee buyer (and who travels to places like Indonesia and South America and Ethiopia, for the coffee).

She's a buyer for Allegro coffee, which is a Whole Foods brand. She's traveled pretty much everywhere for coffee, between this job and her former job at Green Mountain Coffee. She's in Myanmar now.

I think I am going to dig out my Hate Is Not A Family Value for the 5K tomorrow.

That all sounds good, Tep. Now I want tacos, guacamole and coffee.

Headaches and internet/phone/cable outages I give the stinkeye.

I pretty much squandered the morning by sleeping in and finishing my book and general dilly-dallying, but I've got a load of laundry in the washer now, so that's a step in the right direction.

I'm sad I'm about to use up my Rwandan coffee, but I bet I can get more... We were just pondering if our folks in Mexico could get any there, or if it all goes straight to GMCR, I mean Kuerig.

Wow, amazing coffee sounds soooo gooood right now!

Timelies all!

The little guy keeps going back and forth across the fever line. His temp was borderline, so we brought him to daycare. He was fussy and his fever went up while there, so they called Gary to get him. Gary called me, but I didn't hear the phone ring(its usually in my purse, in a desk drawer) so I didn't know about it until I was about to leave for the day. Now I feel guilty.

Dag, I was hoping when Theo said "the neighborhood," it didn't also mean me, but alas! No cable, no internet.

Went out to lunch with one of my co-workers today to a new bakery/deli that opened up down the street from my apt. Extremely nice, has the feel of a cafe in an antique store or book shop. The food was really good, enough so that I didn't mind the kind of high price but instead regard it as a flipped mealtime with dinner for lunch and a lighter salad/quinoa dinner tonight. I had the herb-roasted trout with saffron rice and green beans: [link]

Very nice!

The hatred and bigotry is just insane, not to mention the basic lack of understanding how things work.

It's very discouraging. I feel like it's actually worse than it was the last two presidential election years.

I both can't actually believe it and feel like I ought to be laying groundwork for contingency plans if it somehow comes to pass.

This is me. I can't believe it, but I couldn't believe it when Bush won twice, either. Obama's elections made me hope America was becoming a better place, but I underestimated the backlash of bigotry. The most dangerous thing now is the low turnout among Democrat voters. I'm hoping that Dems aren't turning out to the primaries because they either can't decide between Clinton and Sanders or they don't much care which one wins the nomination. Which is sort of me - I'll happily vote for either one over any of the Republican candidates (where are the sane and compassionate Republicans? have they all abandoned the party?). But I will be voting in the primary, dammit.