I have a pair of Anhu boots that are good for light hiking and can wear them to the office. Also Dr Scholls is more than weird sandals now! Keens river shoes can be quite attractive and I’ve worn them for entire days of white water rafting. Anyway, hope those help.

If you are a person with any kind of 1099 independent contractor income, file your taxes using an accountant. I got audited, and would slowly receive mail from the IRS being like, “oh hey you owe us another $250.” You also really cannot call the IRS and be like WTF? You just spend hours on hold and then leave a voice…

Ahah! It is about a dollar per byte if you go for a traditional hard drive. I put a terra byte drive into my old mac laptop a few years ago and it cost me about 130 bucks. This was significantly cheaper than going to an apple store.

In Vermont I had a great local computer store who could take care of that stuff for a nominal fee. When I came back to upstate NY, I lucked out and found another local well-regarded computer repair place. it wasn’t very expensive to have them do basic work on my computer to keep it plugging along. Maybe there is one…

I have a short asymetical bob, curly and fine. Rusk’s Wired workes really well for me, particularly if I hit it with the blow dryer for a minute or two before leaving the house. Also makes my hair color last longer for some reason, at least longer than the drugstore product I was using previously did. I dye my hair…

Our city was lucky and only got a small shopping mall, in the winter garden/ atrium style. Unfortunately, they tore down two beautiful marble buildings to get it. Now it is a mix of office space, government offices and the winter farmers’ market. Which probably turned out better than some imagined. There is also a CVS…

Im on Imaplon because of my crappy health insurance. I was was recovering from knee surgery and wanted a more permanent birth control than the pill or Deprovera. I liked being on deprovera, but I couldn’t afford 250 bucks every four months. With my knee injury, getting a IUD wasn’t going to work. After this imaplon is…

I just keep reminding myself that they don’t care about poor people especially poor black people. It may be more practical to say “these programs aren’t proving effective,” than “I don’t really give a damn about them.”

They like money in their pockets more than food in other people’s stomachs, essentially.

I wonder if Colorado is going to regret voting Republican if they don’t get to keep generating tons of tax revenue from legalizing weed.

I’m lucky that a good friend of mine is a landlady of about 10 historic buildings. I call her everytime we need something fixed for her recommendation. We found our roofer and our furnace guy that way. Luckily I had friends who were arborists, because Norwegian Maples are the devil’s spawn.

OMG that is so true! Our bathroom remodel started as me removing some awful wall paper and then now we are pretty much doing the whole thing.

Our house is a greek revival from 1869, SO MUCH PLASTER REPAIR, ELECTRICAL REPAIR, PLUMBING REPAIR. in other words, you are totally correct in your assumptions.

Considering how women working in the industry are treated, gamergate, hostility towards women playing online games, and lack of current female representation in gaming, I find the Sonic tweet annoying. It seems disingenuous to support women once a year with a tweet, but then treat them horribly the other 364 days a…

When I was working as a domestic and sexual violence advocate I ran into a lot of men who either used feminism as a tool to get into women’s pants or moved in to show women the best ways to end violence against women.

I get annoyed at people who use feminism as a tool for getting into a person’s pants, rather than being a feminist because they belive in equal rights for women.

I worked in a restaurant that used a natural pest control place. It worked! They used essential oils that the mice didn’t like. Whenever we saw evidence of mice or ants, we would call them and they would come and spray.

Yes lets honor white people while overlooking the achievements that the creators of this form of music have made. #oscarssowhite

Going to the desert for hiking?

All I can think of is this: