I had a post-workout beer. It doesn’t count because I sweating.

More like Arkanignore. Am I right.

People like knowing about famous people’s mundane and slightly eccentric interests. One celebrity loves competitive Halo. Russell likes collecting Pokemon cards. Trump likes getting peed on by hookers.

Friend, there are more. Many more: 

I’m gonna guess that it belongs to an ex-Marine bear in San Diego

The is amazing, thank you! We’ll be heading to the area in a few weeks to start scouting housing, and I will definitely keep this in mind. I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, my husband will be working in Sorrento Valley (though not typical business hours, so rush-hour traffic is less of a concern) and I work from…

This is definitely true. But there’s always been a glut of shitty private attorneys who prey on vulnerable immigrant populations. The worst part is that they’re often members of the community themselves, which get them involved. When I was still doing direct representation, I would sometimes talk to clients who had…

Correct, I believe they have been genetically modified to perform round-up kicks to terrorists heads.

We had a similar exercise conducted at a hospital I worked at about 5 years ago. Our “trainer” was a knowledgeable, former FBI agent & just about the kindest man you could ever meet. The first thing he told us was, “you’re not Jack Bauer so stop pretending to be”. He said they’d get calls all the time about people…

That’s great to know, thanks!

Definitely! San Francisco is just such a liberal bubble, and enough of the people I know in San Diego are vote-for-their-own-interests-only types who do live in 49 and more than likely voted for that criminal, that my perspective is a little skewed. But politics aside, I’m excited!

WELL I have great news for you: CA49 is part northern SD county, part southern Orange County. The North County SD portion of the district voted for Applegate over Issa, and Hillary won easily here, too. We are rapidly increasing in our progressivism here. It was the rich assholes in Orange County that just barely…

VEX is a huge national program. The state competitions qualify your team for Worlds which are now held in KY (they outgrew Anaheim). A week ago I had the pleasure of judging the STEM research projects for middle schoolers in Southern California. There were many moments of unintended hilarity but all of the kids were…

Coming out at weird angles and backing up in the wrong part of the bag (I can’t seem to scrunch a ziplock bag into the right cone shape. I’m constantly having to scrape batter back toward the tip). I’ve never tried making a piping bag out of parchment, I’ll have to give it a go next time I run out of piping bags!

God, yes. And I still cry every time I read it, even though I know what’s coming.

I now make a lemon mascarpone cream to go with pound cake. It is a literal (LITERAL) dream come true.

The Phantom Tollbooth! Admittedly for younger kids than YA, but I loved it. I also read a lot of mysteries and Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe were what I graduated to after Nancy Drew. On the scifi front, I read a lot of Asimov and Bradbury.

It took me three tries but I think I finally managed to make a perfect batch of macarons this week! I’m super proud of myself. My first batch was good but sloppy because I tried to DIY a piping bag out of a ziplock baggie, which didn’t work out as well as I had hoped. The cookies were tasty but too uneven in shape…

WRONG

Only place you can’t put tinfoil.