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"We have half a tank of gas, it's night, and we're wearing sunglasses. Let's roll."
"You realize that not one of those things is true, right?"
"Yeah, but it's funnier."
"The Jake is a lie!"

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Starting to clean up my office now. This is the hard one, because it's where everything small got dumped at the last minute. So there's a lot of junk. Ferrett and I made an agreement that stuff would only come back upstairs if it had someplace to LIVE upstairs. Then if what's left in the basement can't find a place to be, it's time to consider what needs to go. It's going to be quite a process.

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LET THERE BE ROCK!!! The sound system is BACK.

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This Saturday the Goddess Temple of Lakewood is holding a chili cookoff fundraiser this Saturday from noon until 5pm. Cost is $10.00 and it will be fun! Held at Goddess Blessed, 15729 Madison Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio.

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I'm having a mole removed from my left temple today. For which I am now sitting in a hospital gown and panties. It's my face, people! Why do I gotta be nekkid?!

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When gas topped $4 a gallon, I said that it was a good thing in that people were finally taking alternate transportation setiously.

OMG some people yelled, you hate the poor!!!

No one whp regularly reads my journal would even posit that. And here I sit at the Rapid Station with convincing proof of my poinf:

When gas was over $4/gallon, I had to park far back in the back lot for the stafion. Now? Parking place right up front.

In Cleveland and other cities, the solution to falling tax revenue is, among other things, cutting back on public transit. And why not? The powers that be don't ride the bus, and the upsurge in ridership disappeared once gas prices dropped.

I don't want it to be true of the American public that we only make individual sacrifices when our pocketbooks are jeopardized, but the fact is that we live in a culture that values personal convenience over societal good. Hell, I'm guilty of it myself: if I have an early morning court docket with tge judge I know to be lightning fast, I will often drive in and take advantage of the one hour of free parking available that is actually meant for lunchtime and so available early in the morning. It's a smaller time commitment, and I am back to work much faster.

If gas were at $4.60, I probably wouldn't do it.

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I know there are people who are upset that the Arizona law has been blocked. And I understand that there are real and serious problems with immigration in this country. But to quote Sir Humphrey Applebee: "If you are going to do this damned silly thing, don't do it in this damned silly way."

Federal policy has failed in protecting the borders against the dangers of drug trafficking. Federal policy has failed to address our need for an inexpensive work force. Federal policy has given lip service to border control while ignoring an economy that is based on underpaid and unprotected workers. And border states have borne the brunt of these policies.

But that doesn't negate the Constitution. And people willing to let it do so are foolish and shortsighted.

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So, overall impression of HP: Universal is awesome at set building and exteriors and crap at people handling and imagination. The upper floors and towers of the castle are inaccessible. There are no moving stairways. There are no ghosts. You see dungeons, a classroom, and Dumbledore's office. No Great Hall. No Griffyndor common room. A small bit of library. The Three Broomsticks has no character. Ollivander's is awesome but an intolerable wait and then the wands for sale are cheap plastic at a high price.

On top of it all, the ride out of the castle is a thrill ride roller coaster. Why isn't it a tour of life as a Hogwarts students that fans of all age and physical condition could enjoy, a la Haunted Mansion or Pirates of the Caribbean? It would be a lot more in character with a Harry Potter experience.

There were awesome parts, including butterbeer and pumpkin juice. The shopping was stranglingly cluttered, and I recommend doing most of your shopping at the souvenir shop on the way out of the park because they have better selection on many of the items.

Topping it all off, there were supposed to be scheduled performances on the hour. There were no signs indicating that we were at the stage area; Ferrett just asked an employee After waiting in the hot sun for 15 minutes without even a sign of setup, we gave those up as a bad joke.

I'm glad I saw it, and loved things like the detail in some of the windows. But it will have to improve a lot to get me here again.

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First day of Disney, so of course we had to start at the Magic Kingdom. We are traveling with a group of experienced Disney trippers, so what happened shouldn't have surprised me, and yet it did: my Park Attack Plan was unceremoniously vetoed.

I'm not used to such a thing. Both my husbands have been "directionally challenged" and so have given me lists of where they wanted to go and left the navigation and strategy to me.

Here? I'm just one in a pack of alpha females, and the only one without the schedules of young children to consider. So yeah, it didn't really matter that to the right was the most efficient way to our next planned ride; to the left was the ice cream shop they wanted to visit. Short line just now at Pirates? Too bad; we want to go on the Magic Carpet ride (a ride I would never have looked at twice, being little more that standard carnival fare, but okay, it was fun).

I had to just let go, just go with the flow. We were a group of 11. We weren't going to be Park Vikings, racing around at top efficiency. We got through a bit less than half the MK, and that's all right. We'll be here all week. It's cool.

But we are breaking into smaller groups for Epcot, dammit!!!

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Because Disney charges your back teeth for Internet usage, I will be limited to smart phone access for the next week. Please forgive me if I miss anything important, or tag me with a message if it's something you want me to see.

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