I like that. I enjoy alliteration and it amuses me that the two words don't like each other.

What?

Shaddup. The occasional linguistic improbability is good for your brain.

Also? No kisses were exchanged during the creation of this post.

So, what about today? Well, job-wise, it's been very quiet. Gidget works from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so it's rare for me to interact with anyone at the office on those days anyhow. Today I've been staying especially close to my desk, doing a boatload of research for her for her Next Level Plan. ('Cause there's some next level stuff going on here, and I'm down with that.* )

Also, I didn't come in until after 9:00, so I've been playing "dedicated employee, hard at work" since I sat down.

I met Buehler early this morning, to pass over some mailing labels I'd made for him, and we spent an hour chatting and getting caught up. I told him all about the Argonuts and he agrees with me that it sounds like Gidget has been picked to take the fall, so the current management can wipe the slate clean of last year's missteps, and move on.

He understands why I might not be that excited about saying here, if this scenario comes to pass.

And, naturally, he might have some more work for me in the future (he has always got some new scheme boiling), meaning in 203 months. If this place doesn't pan out, Buehler also knows someone who could probably put a lot of work in the way of someone with a Google AdWords Certification.

Sigh. Which is, of course, wonderful, except that I don't want to work free-lance. I like coming to an office every day, using up someone else's office supplies, drinking their coffee, and occasionally speaking to them.

Also, I played around with one of those retirement calculators yesterday and not only do I need a steady income, I need someone to take some of my money away from me every paycheck and put it into a retirement account for me. Preferably with a generous "matching funds" contribution.

50% would be good.

Twenty years ago, when I was estimating what I needed to retire? I didn't think to allow for Shrub's contribution to crashing the economy. I mean, I'd just seen what lunatic Republicans were capable of doing to the country, and in my innocence, I assumed that the majority of the population wouldn't make that voting mistake again.* *

After 8 years of pie-in-the-sky "economic" policies, I'm a full decade behind where I should be with my savings.* * *

Mostly, though, my brain has been occupied for the last hour with wondering, since I'm on salary, if I should feel obligated to work an extra hour this evening or not.

Tuesday it was 73 and sunny--a truly delicious day. Yesterday it was snow-and-blow and then blow-and-snow, and eventually just snow-and-snow. Today we were back to mostly sunny skies and it got up to 50 or so.

I don't know why we had a little weather intermission. Probably because I'm kind of short of work that needs doing at the moment.

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* Will Smith. Men in Black

* * There's really no way to overestimate the stupidity of the majority of UsofA voters, is there?

* * * Don't get me started. $3.5 trillion those lunatics have added to the national debt.

Over 512,000,000,000 (5.12 billion) of it (so far) to kill people in Iraq, so we can steal their oil. Which is, I should mention, mostly on fire at the moment, so no one's getting it but there's the free bonus of massive air pollution, so it's all good if you're a crazy righwingnut.

From Colorado? 7.8 billion. Enough to build 42,000 affordable housing units, so people who don't have $3,500/month to spend on housing can still have a place to live. Or to build 940 new schools--or even put some serious money into the schools we already have.

Or to give 3 million children free health care for a year. But that would mean helping people, instead of slaughtering them, and the "pro-life" party doesn't really care about the living so much.

Seriously. Don't get me started.