I'm in California with friends, vacationing for a week. Here's what I've been up to:

I'm in California with friends, vacationing for a week. Here's what I've been up to:

I'm driving from San Francisco to Seattle with Adam.. Here's what I've been up to:

I'm resting a couple of days in Seattle before meandering on to Minneapolis. Here's what I've been up to:

• 11:04 AM PT: Continuing being a bum, and by 'being a bum' I mean 'uploading and tagging a lot of photos while thinking HEY LUNCH WOULD BE AWESOME'
• 3:41 PM PT: This activity could be more accurately described as 'reading' if I perhaps actually had my eyes open a bit more frequently.
• 7:01 PM PT: Ha! This is the best road sign EVAR. (Darned compfight distracting me again!) http://flic.kr/p/pqYJK (via @add1sun)
• 7:49 PM PT: Missing @jmcclure. The world's a beautiful place, but I like it better when he explores it with me.
• 10:43 PM PT: RT @tweetmeme Daria DVD news: Coming Soon info for Daria | TVShowsOnDVD.com http://tinyurl.com/nn28g6

I'm resting a couple of days in Seattle before meandering on to Minneapolis. Here's what I've been up to:

• 10:45 PM PT: @jmcclure Miss you too, jeffie dear. Scritch Fang for me and tell them I'll be home Sunday and will be ready to administer Epic Pettings.
• 12:34 AM PT: On plane to Minneapolis. The chatty six-year-old across the aisle may not survive the trip. We'll see.
• 5:55 AM CT: Good morning, Minneapolis. Yes, my hair always sticks up like this in the morning, thanks for asking...
• 6:02 AM CT: http://ping.fm/p/q6I41 - The scrum to get off the plane and get coffee after a red-eye. Seat 33? You're gonna wait a while.
• 3:56 PM CT: After a long, luscious nap, I am finally awake in the Hugart household. *yawn* *stretch* Stupid red-eye flights.

Vacationing in Minneapolis!

• 12:33 PM CT: For those of you who missed it, there was a dramatic reading of "Green Eggs and Ham" just now. Also, feeding cheese to toddlers.
• 12:34 PM CT: End result of this prep work: we're going to the beach!
• 4:23 PM CT: Finishing up at the beach; @jhugart entertains a very tired two girls while we wait for Holly.
• 4:24 PM CT: Also, I have seen @crazybutable in shorts. Craziness!
• 10:33 PM CT: Back from dinner. Mostly packed. Early-ish flight tomorrow; the airlines are starting to sing a siren song of home.
• 11:35 PM CT: Around me, the house sleeps. I have been away for 13 days. Tomorrow I go home. I can't convey the comfort inherent in that statement.

I think my frustration with the modern-day obsession with princesses has been noted, right? I fluff my feathers and squawk a bit every time I see grown women sporting clothing that proclaims them worthy not by dint of action or personality, but just by the sheer fact that some bint with a title chose to spawn, and they are the undeservingly-privileged results.

I can understand it in children -- fairy tales are fun when we're kids -- but entitlement stops being cute around age ten.  In adults, though?  Come on.  Princesses are born; women are made -- made through the kind of boring and dreadful Growth Experiences our shrinks keep encouraging us to have.

Thus this article on CNN ("Enough with the princess nonsense!") made me laugh.  A quote:

Seriously, don't blame me if you watch these ads and double over laughing.  I suppose they are technically safe for work, but just remember this: Europe has a very different view of sex (and ads for sex-related products) than the US.  These ads would never, ever air here.

Doesn't mean I'm not grinning.