No one wants to live in Tracy. It’s hot. It’s a mess of rural farming, shopping centers, and chain restaurants. People move to the Bay Area for jobs, but also for the lifestyle, which is why people will live in SF then commute to Palo Alto.

Arpaio cost Arizona $63 million, but they still voted for him.

The best USB micro cables I’ve used have been Nokia. Motorola makes very good USB micro cables for charging in the car. They cost a little more than the cheap ones, but they last a lot longer. 

It’s annoying. I actually got that lecture from an immunologist. I don’t care that an adverse reaction is not necessarily an allergy, because I could get very sick or die anyway.

I live in NorCal, so often the weather is balmy, but the heat waves can really mess things up. I’ve noticed that the refrigerator runs more on warm days. How this would affect a freezer, I couldn’t say, but I think it would have some effect.

It works well for hard cheese, but soft cheese usually doesn’t freeze well.

I buy those big bags from Costco, then split out the cheese into quart size bags before I freeze them.

A lot of these firms also hire on recommendation. A white man refers his white friend from school, who is immediately given more attention than an unknown candidate. Then a lot of these firms do multiple interviews with the employees in the group they’re hiring for. If one employee in the group doesn’t want a POC or a…

I watched a couple of episodes. Lead was trying too hard to be Snipes. Dialogue was stiff. Obviously low budget.

I own all the soundtracks to all three Blade movies; they are the best.

I watched a couple of episodes of the show about one of his brothels, and it made me sick. I used to live in Nevada, in a county with legal prostitution, and both houses there were run by women. It made for a completely different dynamic. Hof charges outrageous rent, and business for the brothels has gone down over…

California made it almost impossible to send children to public schools unvaccinated. Most of the outbreaks have occurred at private schools that allow the exemptions.

The outbreaks in California schools have been mostly in private schools. Since California passed a law that public school attendance requires vaccinations, the chance of an outbreak in public schools is way down.

It isn’t.

I got my older son a Firefly phone when they first came out. It gave us both a bit more security. Later, we got flip phones for the kids. Their teenage rite of passage was getting an iPhone. Parents who work outside the home need a solid way to connect with their kids. A quarter and a pay phone (okay, I’m old, so a…

They’re Catholic and follow humanae vitae.

Cheddar Bay biscuits. That’s the only reason to go.

It happens often enough that nearly every woman who has gone out has at least one, and often several, stories. And the ratio doesn’t really matter, because all it takes is one.

I love this show so much, but watching all the men in Desna’s life screw things up for her, use her kindness and love, just makes me so angry. I mentally wasn’t ready to watch it last night, because I have to be able to deal with the intensity of it.

I’m pretty sure that’s why they did it in the Twilight movies.