I’m with you. I plan my giving and try to stick to the plan. I do so both for record keeping, and because I try to understand the organizations that I support. I really don’t like the constant requests for money from HEB, petco, Bank of America (an organization that is so well known for generosity...). You can’t…

Grilled cheese for life.

I’ve only ordered from Amazon now once, but the excessive packaging was truly upsetting. A 24 pack of Benadryl, 2 cans of soup, and ginger ale (guess what I was doing!) came in enough cardboard to build a fort.

That Sally Ride anecdote is awesome. It led me to ponder, if I were going to space, how many tampons would I want? 100 is too many, but I feel like I would want no doubt about having enough, and no tolerance whatsoever for a close call leakage-wise. So, 90?

My first awareness of an automat was in From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil e. Frankweiler. Loved that book!

Taxis were the perfect industry to disrupt-outside of a handful major cities cabs are not abundant enough to hail, hard to call, and just annoying. I’m in Houston, where calling a cab to come to my downtown home routinely takes 90 minutes, and pre-scheduled cabs often show up over an hour late. The cabs here game the…

Hurricane prep is the first thing that came to mind for me (I’m in Houston) and bananas are a hot ticket when people anticipate no power. I suppose there is no such threat at the moment for NYC.

This is where I am cranky and old. I don’t want to download an app for every fucking service or purchase in the world. Sometimes, I desire a candy bar without someone recording the time, date, item, and purchase price.

For caterers and private event waiters. I did this for years, but always for caterers at offsite venues. I always got tipped by the hosts though—no bill through from the company.

At some point it becomes silly to compare resumes between these outrageously qualified people. Joe Biden has decades of service in the senate and 8 years as an influential VP. How do you weigh that against Clinton’s experience? Both could do the job.

This election to me really hit home the message that all elections are different. Clinton’s biggest failing, to me, was a failure to recognize what was happening and adjust on the fly. Whether that was not reading the data properly, not asking the right questions, or failing to listen, I don’t know. She learned the…

Clinton is/was really quite qualified, particularly for a job that is so extraordinary and varied that it is not clear what can prepare a person for success, a little hyperbole is allowed. I get so tired of the constant refrain of ‘nah, she’s not all that great’ that follows praise for women.