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I know I'll appreciate it while I'm there, but I'm not much inclined to do anything but sleep this morning. There are a couple of chores I should do, and I should also try to get some exercise and stretching before I leave, because I found that helped a LOT with the long drive last weekend.
I just finished breakfast, which was, frankly, disgusting. Don't mix leftover barbecue with rice, cashews, cranberries, spinach, cheese and a chicken bouillon cube, even if you cool it off with goat milk, it just doesn't work. :P Well, maybe it would with a different type of barbecue sauce. What? I was just trying to use up leftovers.
However, before you think I'm really a horrible cook, I'll have you know I fed myself well for the past two days with a spinach-feta quiche. Most perfect food ever? I almost think so. :)
Oh, wait, I guess I can't claim to be a great a cook, spinach-feta quiche is really easy to make. I only did it because Hawk left a huge chunk of feta when he went on vacation, and I already had spinach and a pie shell in the freezer.
I keep thinking I have something to say about work, when I'm there, but when I sit down in front of the computer it doesn't seem near as important as trying to read all the fic on the 'Net. The new BBC Sherlock Holmes has been the fandom that ate my brain for at least the past two weeks. All I really have to say about work can be summed up in "people are stupid" and "wax on, wax off" (the local phrase for "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing."
I did get to see a woman from the FBI give a mildly interesting talk on domestic terrorism. One of my coworkers was all set with facts and figures and called her out on her vague representation: "There's been a slight uptick in right wing activity." I don't recall what my coworker's exact figures were, but it seems that right wingers (anti-abortionists killing doctors who do abortions, white supremacists beating people up, etc) have been four or five times as busy with 'direct actions' in the past couple of years as left wingers.
The FBI woman did at least admit that left wing domestic terrorists seldom kill people, they just spray paint stuff, release lab animals, burn down buildings and destroy equipment and machinery. Hardly even seems worth calling 'terrorism' to me. From my coworker's facts, the most violent of the groups categorized as 'left wing' are black separatists. I'm honestly not sure black separatists should be tossed into the category of left wing. Is there any way of saying that I think they're inverted right-wing? They're almost as extreme in their own way for only their own group as white supremacists.
Over all, domestic terrorists in the U.S. are overwhelmingly 15 - 26 year olds and white, only 5% are non-white, (and I've got to think that means black separatists are some subset of that 5%) and people who will actually do 'terrorist' (illegal direct actions) acts are only about 1% of any one group, she says. Although given that right wingers as a whole are so much more violent than left wingers it makes me wonder if that statistic is really the same on both sides.
ramble, ramble. I'd better ramble off.
I just finished breakfast, which was, frankly, disgusting. Don't mix leftover barbecue with rice, cashews, cranberries, spinach, cheese and a chicken bouillon cube, even if you cool it off with goat milk, it just doesn't work. :P Well, maybe it would with a different type of barbecue sauce. What? I was just trying to use up leftovers.
However, before you think I'm really a horrible cook, I'll have you know I fed myself well for the past two days with a spinach-feta quiche. Most perfect food ever? I almost think so. :)
Oh, wait, I guess I can't claim to be a great a cook, spinach-feta quiche is really easy to make. I only did it because Hawk left a huge chunk of feta when he went on vacation, and I already had spinach and a pie shell in the freezer.
I keep thinking I have something to say about work, when I'm there, but when I sit down in front of the computer it doesn't seem near as important as trying to read all the fic on the 'Net. The new BBC Sherlock Holmes has been the fandom that ate my brain for at least the past two weeks. All I really have to say about work can be summed up in "people are stupid" and "wax on, wax off" (the local phrase for "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing."
I did get to see a woman from the FBI give a mildly interesting talk on domestic terrorism. One of my coworkers was all set with facts and figures and called her out on her vague representation: "There's been a slight uptick in right wing activity." I don't recall what my coworker's exact figures were, but it seems that right wingers (anti-abortionists killing doctors who do abortions, white supremacists beating people up, etc) have been four or five times as busy with 'direct actions' in the past couple of years as left wingers.
The FBI woman did at least admit that left wing domestic terrorists seldom kill people, they just spray paint stuff, release lab animals, burn down buildings and destroy equipment and machinery. Hardly even seems worth calling 'terrorism' to me. From my coworker's facts, the most violent of the groups categorized as 'left wing' are black separatists. I'm honestly not sure black separatists should be tossed into the category of left wing. Is there any way of saying that I think they're inverted right-wing? They're almost as extreme in their own way for only their own group as white supremacists.
Over all, domestic terrorists in the U.S. are overwhelmingly 15 - 26 year olds and white, only 5% are non-white, (and I've got to think that means black separatists are some subset of that 5%) and people who will actually do 'terrorist' (illegal direct actions) acts are only about 1% of any one group, she says. Although given that right wingers as a whole are so much more violent than left wingers it makes me wonder if that statistic is really the same on both sides.
ramble, ramble. I'd better ramble off.