Ah yes... I remember this...

Up on time, well-rested: +1
Clothes laid out, lunch packed, supplies gathered, coffee prepared night before: +5
Found out husband only got one hour of sleep: -2
Out the door more-or-less on-time: +1
Left Spud at home: -5
Birthday present on seat of car: +5**
Birthday poem on steering wheel: +10
Good traffic: +3
Forgot badge: -2
New Starbucks mug dribbles coffee down my shirt: -1
Mug keeps dripping coffee, no matter what I do: -2
Work computer missing power cable: -3
New set of pumping horns don't work with ad hoc hands-free pumping bra: -2
Coworker loans me power cable: +1
Massive meeting at 9am: +0 - that's what they pay me for, after all

Overall, +9. So it's a good day.

**I actually have luscious_purple to thank for the gift - a pound of Kona coffee and a grinder. Reading her posts about Hawaii and her own Kona coffee got me wondering about it, so I bought a faux-Kona blend from the grocery store. I mentioned to the Dear Spouse what it was that we were drinking, and how Kona was supposed to be a superior coffee. He remembered that and bought me some of my very own!

What year is it, again?

Did you know that politicians who are mothers of young children face more scrutiny and public censure for being politicians than politicians who are fathers of young children? It's true! And apparently still worth the front page of the WaPo. The physical paper is in the lunchroom; it's one of four above-the-fold headlines, dead center and with the big color picture to go with it.

While I'm all for people figuring out why they may hold that particular double-standard, wasn't this little revelation news about ten or so years ago? It seems a little strange for the front page "news."

An experiment in "photos"

So, how do you post music files when you don't have Adobe? Screencapture + Flickr!

( See if it worked behind the cut. )