By now we all should have heard of ALEC, the un-American "Legislative Exchange Council". ALEC is essentially a lobbyism switchboard, funded by corporations to connect them with politicians. Corporate sponsors draft model legislation and pitch it to legislators; legislators dress it up as their own work and hand-hold it through legislature, often reintroducing it repeatedly (legislative "spamming", if you will), and to the exclusion of legislation that voters actually want. Legislators get from this what... (...more)

Bought an 8-pack of plain white size S FotL tagless t-shirts at K-Mart before teh gym last night (17.50 before FL sales tax), washed them with the rest of whites today. I'm almost perfectly average adult male height, and at 181#, solidly in the "overweight" range for my height. Yet even after a hot-water-wash-and-medium-dry, my new "small" shirts fit very comfortably, not loose but not stretched over my rippling manly sinews. With all the restaurants in Palmetto Park Square, there's still a Nathan's INS... (...more)

Not sure if there's even a name for what I did to for dinner. 1-2 tbsp of olive oil in my nonstick frying pan(1), add maybe a scant cup of frozen spinach, about the same frozen broccoli, some pinto beans that I reconstituted for chili so long ago that I was sure they'd be bad by now... but no, they're fine. Topped with a couple chicken tenderloins that went in the freezer because they weren't getting usedfast enough either. Sprinkled on some lite salt, black pepper, chili powder, another splash of olive oi... (...more)

After church I scooted back home to locate the Vitaminne Shoppe in Boca Ratonne. Chris Cali had mentioned the use of melatonin as a sleep aid, and that it's cheap so I figured hey why not give it a try? Well, online merchant prices are as low as $4, but then you have to factor in shipping. According to Google Shopping, buying locally from brick-and-mortar stores is twice as expensive in the 2.0 or 2.5mg tablet dosages, but only because the economical brand was out of stock at the most economical store, ye ... (...more)

Last Sunday Rev Silverglate's (too formal? very hard to me to think of him as just "Russell" yet) homily was "How to: Love". Today he continued with "How to: Live", starting with an extended story about how he ended up buying his current car, a VW turbodiesel station wagon. Only in ministry and comedy can we Aspies get away with such a rambling exposition. This culminated in highlighting the metaphorical phrasing of turning a mindset "upside down", and from there relating it to how, if your life revo... (...more)