jenk

vixyish should read today's Two Lumps. Nao.

Regarding the rich/middle/poor continuum, http://www.globalrichlist.com/ puts my personal income in the top 1% of income for the world's population. For contrast, I'm in the bottom 90% of US personal income....

Oh, and did you see the Obama tax-cut site? It shows how your taxes would be cut under Obama's plan vs McCain's if you earn under 250K/yr. If you tell it you earn more than $250K a year, it displays:


Of course, as The Washington Post displays, McCain's plan would offer tax cuts to all earners. Obama's plan also raises taxes on those earning above 600K/yr.

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Today I went in to facilitate a new bite guard by getting impressions made of my top and bottom teeth. I am also the lucky sort of person who has "GAG REFLEX" written at the top of my chart. I find it helps if I arrive early, have some tea or decaf,¹ and otherwise try to achieve a nice state of "zen relaxation"² before I have to hold my jaw open and not gag.

I also have a lingering cough and headache from the cold I keep telling myself was a couple of weeks ago (maybe if I repeat "couple of weeks ago" it will finish going away). I thought a big, hacking cough while the big metal tray of impression goo was in my mouth would NOT GO WELL, so I took one of my cough gels and some Advil.

You know how one of dextromethorphan's side effects is drowsiness...? Yeah. I was relaxed. I was real relaxed. I only came close to gagging when the bottom plate hit my tongue, and moving my tongue up & away fixed it. Which was really good when you consider that, sigh, we had to do the bottom plate twice. And which brings us to this poll.

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¹I started going to this particular upscale dentist office when I was employed by Uncle Bill's House of Software & World Domination³. The waiting room has a fireplace, coffee/tea/juice/Perrier, a fountain, fresh flowers, and a spicy scented candle. They even have a "teddy bear dental chair" (PDF - see sidebar). The office was featured on the Today show as a "dental spa" (WMV).
²No real zen involved. I just like the phrase.
³Term courtesy of phinnia & tallin.

• 19:02 At Safeco Field with Skydancer. What have I gotten myself into? :)
• 19:46 Guy in front of me is wearing an Elway jersey. Am confused.
• 20:40 Guy two rows behind me caught a foul ball already.
• 20:55 Ms are on their 3rd pitcher of inning. Yankees hit their 3rd run of the inning. Umm.
• 21:08 Why are there ads for Scottsdale AZ police in a Seattle women's room?
• 21:59 Seagulls are flying around the infield. :)

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jw1776 harvested potatoes Sunday - mostly purples, which is odd. He planted mostly whites.

I picked up a few plants for "difficult" spots in the front yard at on Sunday: a lavender for the NW corner of the yard, and a part-shade called "false heather" to go between the hostas on the mostly-shady side of the mound. I also planted the rest of my nasturtium seeds as a "cover crop" in the front potato bed today. It seems odd to be planting in August, but it feels like a good time: temperatures are mild (highs around 70F) and there's precipitation most days....

I'm looking forward to getting back to riding the bus (and walking between buses ;) regularly.

Schedules working out.
Music.
Puzzle Pirates :)
Not too hot, not too cold...
Modern medicine.
Encouragement to try something different.
Good books.
dianthus
skydancer
jw1776

:)

Idiot reviewer risks death comparing loaner iPhone to Blackberry while driving. Then he loses the iPhone, or his pocket was picked, or something. Story here.

So, what do you think?

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I lean toward the packrat side of the packrat-minimalist continuum myself, and I've helped go through the belongings of a few late packrats. Today JD, a personal finance blogger, writes about cleaning up his mother's house and notes "a bargain is not a bargain if it goes to waste."

Okay, I feel less worried about being behind on vacuuming & such from worldcon. Funny how deleting the Off Your Lazy Butt reminders from when I was gone made me feel like I'm not behind, I just need to get back into the routine and things will get done. As mama_hogswatch posted today ...

Housework is a never-ending thing. The task is never "done", so getting it perfect isn't going to help much. Getting used to a steady level of more or less neat and clean? That's a huge help.

(Wonder if JD's seen Squalor Survivors?)

The Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair is my kind of craft fair. The stuff on display is really really cool. Much of the exhibition space is out of the sun (in the bottom level of the parking garage) so sunburn can be avoided. There's Fisher Fair scones and other "fair food".

It's at Bellevue Square, so there's free parking, restaurants if you want something other than "fair food" and real restrooms instead of just porta-potties. You can also just wander into the AC to cool off (this is most handy when it's 90F ... today's only in the 70s, yay.)

Then there's another fair across the street which also has really cool stuff (including fairy wings, in case anyone going to Faerie Worlds needs them...) and a well-organized Starbucks.

There's also the Sixth street fair, but we didn't make it over there today. :)

Did see k_crow's mom's booth, did not see k_crow. Saw some other folks we hadn't seen in a while too. :)

Today's haul:

• New headband
• Blue blown-glass "fishing float" to set off Grandma's green ones
• Blue blown-glass wine stopper
• Corn dogs & Fisher scones
• New shoes (jw1776: "Hey, aren't we by the New Balance store? I should buy new shoes.")

The title of the post is in reference to how they have repeatedly changed the name of the event and nobody cares. :)

These were actually composed between 7 and 10pm Sunday night. Apparently SMS / Twitter had issues....

• 03:00 Tricky Pixie starting just a little late. Each song has more people on the dance floor :)
• 03:00 You can always tell who hasn't heard "Callan's Song"¹ before....
• 03:13 Alec has ... a vampire song. Can you say "stark"? How about "cold"? Or "good"?

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¹Written by stealthcello, sung by s00j.