Too much craziness the last couple of days. Spent hours on Sunday failing to complete what should have been a basic rewiring project in the kitchen. Monday AM my car declined to start (well, actually it did start but with much squealing and smoking and smell of burning rubber), leading to the towing and the repairing and the I-hope-you're-sitting-down-when-I-tell-you-how-much-this-will-cost. Add in some bad traffic and cranky software and 3+ hours of meetings. Ah well, nothing so bad that I can't whine about it here.

This is left over from the weekend but can I just say: NYTimes, WTF?!? In Sunday's Magazine section the headline for the (mostly worthless) "Funny Pages" said they were on hiatus until 9/17. But, as you can see by clicking here, there actually was a new installment of Jaime's La Maggie La Loca. Way to bury the lede, boys...

Here's a heartwarming tale. Glad to see the gu'mint is keeping us safe from novel writin' soccer moms. (found this via Bookslut)

Papers, please!!