My office is undergoing an extensive remodeling. This means that every day we must conduct our business to the sound of hammers, the smell of paint, and the sensation of gentle showers of sheetrock particles. We've been told that we can wear jeans or casual wear while the remodeling is in progress.

Thing is, I've never been much of a jeans wearer. Even back when jeans fit at the natural waist (what's called "mom jeans" now), I had a hard time finding jeans that didn't look stupid on me, in my opinion. So one day I wore regular office clothes, and all day had people telling me, "You know, you can wear jeans." *shrug*

On Earth Day, the temperature in my part of Texas reached 96 degrees. Unhappy, unhappy, very unhappy.

But the real question is, how will this affect the Mac/PC commercials?

I should have said, the attitudes toward cats. Cats always seem to have borne the brunt of superstitious idiocy, with the possible exception of Egypt.

Considering the attitudes toward animals 400 years ago, the cat was probably alive at the time it was walled up. :(

JMM said, "I was hoping that President Obama would shut down those sites and hope he gets to it soon."

Wow. Just, wow.

And, to the point: AWWWWW THAT WAS REALLY CUTE!!!!!!!

That's really cool and beautiful. Too bad I hate hard-boiled eggs. I must have gotten sick on them as a kid and have blocked the memory.

Eh, taxidermy has always grossed me out, so this didn't push any buttons I haven't already had pushed. Not the kind of thing I'd want in my house, though.

Well, oh Prejudicido, I mean Pollardito, I was about to say that I was pleased to see how many books fit in my home state.

And....somebody WILL buy them.

My mother recently gave me a cookbook she was given as a wedding present. My parents married in 1960. This book is an absolute Technicolor delight of food that just doesn't exist in the same universe as us.

Cool, but makes more sense to the generation that was kids when "Empire" first came out. This generation is now having kids, and probably thinks it's really cool to wrap their kids up in Tauntaun intestines. The kids are probably kind of "meh" about it.

Which touched off a series of thoughts about what a weird culture kids live in nowadays in America: bubble-wrapped and protected from every possible perceived harm, but exposed to more virtual violence than our generation (I'm 39) ever was. If you need proof of this, try watching one of the old-school horror movies (try "Friday the 13th", the original) and compare it to say, "Saw."

So contracts are okay to break if the ones who benefit from them make more than a certain amount of money? Just trying to figure out where the line lies.

If they really want to end the coolness of the trend, teachers and other authority figures should swallow their pride and start dressing that way themselves. Instant death of coolness.