Thank you for looking beyond the “gig economy” workers. I hadn’t really thought much about this bill, thought it sounded like a good thing until my husband, who is a private forester/wildlife biologist, pointed out that he wouldn’t pass the ABC test. He works, under contract, to private landowners. This will cause a…

Ah...that’s why the red light poles looked so out of place in the shot where they are crossing Clement. Now I know why part of the trailer didn’t seem right. 

Exactly! The justification I had to get a Kindle was that it wasn’t backlit like the tablet in the hope that I’d be more likely to put the damn thing down because I would realise that I was forcing myself to stay awake with the bedside light left on. Aaaand I still find myself frantically turning my phone off and…

That whole “Next in Series” is the worst/best feature in Kindle. Even if the writing is crappy I hate not finishing a book and apparently entire series. It’s scarily easy to buy books on that damn thing.

The Boss is good but by the last book it was bit over the top. I’d also recommend Kate Pearce and Sierra Simone.

Have you read her Blacktop Cowboys series as well? I *may* have a slight problem with Kindle but her two series are ones that I find myself rereading from time to time.

So gross! How could you sleep if your feet are that hot and sweaty?! I now wear chaco sandals most of the year and rely on the “chaco ridge” that builds up to keep blisters at bay. Calluses are your friends people.

Yup. Peeled right off. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve had to deal with ever. Like it funny at first but when I kept peeling... ugh. I don’t know if I just had a lot of tough skin built up or what. I’ve learned my lesson. Airflow. Lots and lots of airflow.

Jellies were the worst. I learned the hard way that my feet were not made to survive shoes that encased my foot in entirely manmade materials at soccer camp as a youngin. My first pair of cleets were not leather and after a week of running around in humid 100 degree days, the entire soles of my feet peeled off in one…

Or, they realize that a majority of US folks tuning into the Olympics only watch alpine events every four years so they tailor their coverage to names that might be recognizable. It’s annoying and frustrating and a small part of me gets it. The larger part is sick and tired of hearing the backstories of the same…

My mom’s notoriously cheap friend returned half of a cooked corned beef from Costco a few years ago because it “was too salty”. She seriously bagged up the St. Paddy’s leftovers in a ziplock and brought it up to the counter. They took it and gave her a refund.

Ha! We’re going through IVF with donor eggs and I’ve been referring to the process as our science experiment. We are not religious at all and I have no inclination to look upon any success as a “miracle”. There are some family members who appear to be a bit squeamish about us calling it an experiment but we’re like,…

Awe, we have a Hobbes as well!

I’ve lived in some places where they did just that, only they used rock in place of sand. When the upper layer of ice would refreeze at night, the combination essentially became a chip seal road. Best winter driving conditions I’ve come across. You didn’t have to worry about black ice until the major thaw in the…

I feel your loss. Sold my ‘84 to a friend’s younger brother to get a sensible Subaru when living in snow country. He killed it and I’ve never quite forgiven him for that. That old tank was a great car.

There are a few that make rare appearances up here in the North Bay. I keep waiting for the day when one rolls by with a for sale sign in the window...

This is killing me. They make the best button-ups and t-shirts ever. And I need some new ones but now, I’m thinking I’m going to have to start the shirt search all over again. One more reason to really hate the religious right.

The religious right is just really fucking good at organising boycotts and being the loudest, squeakiest wheel ever. Us on the left are generally not so lock-step, so mobilising us as a groups seems to fail as soon as someone starts with the “but wait, what about the...” Not that I’m saying that this is a bad thing,…

Or anywhere between Humboldt and Santa Cruz. Total fair game.

At Eddie Bauer outlets they will tell you that...if you ask. They use different (lower quality) suppliers for their outlets. The sale stuff in the back of the stores are items from their regular stores.