Jenn obtained a carafe

[conuly]

And boy, it really does keep coffee hot.

The plus side of this is that we don't have to boil water every time we want to brew coffee. (No, we don't have a coffee maker. It's french press or use the cone filter.) The downside is that now that coffee is so much easier to pour out, my family has been drinking a lot more of it. I budgeted for 2 pounds to last us just over a month, and wow it didn't. And we actually had three pounds, because I bought a pound of the bird friendly to go with the regular fair trade!

This isn't a huge issue. My mother is a heavy coffee drinker, Jenn likes coffee, I don't mind buying coffee, but wow bird friendly coffee is pricey. Even regular fair trade coffee is pricey! So I'm juggling our coffee budget a little.

Also, I finally found Eva's bag of herbal tea. It had ended up in the pet cabinet.

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Comments

[stardreamer]

As an adoptee, I take an interest in all the new methods for connecting to one's birth family if one wishes. My adoption was sealed, and if I understood correctly during my recent trawl thru the current state of Michigan adoption law, while there are some people who have the right to petition for the records to be unsealed, I am not one of them. So if I ever decide to do that, the DNA route will be my only option.

OTOH, I take major issue with this:
In 1964, the psychologists Erich Wellisch and H.J. Sants, who studied and treated troubled adoptees, understood the lack of knowledge of onels genetic background to induce a state of what they called "genealogical bewilderment." Wellisch and Sants argued that not knowing one's ancestry could stand in the way of developing a clear mental image of one's body, which they argued was necessary to developing a sense of identity. They also believed genealogical bewilderment could stunt the development of feelings of belonging.

That's utterly typical of the kind of thinking dating from the 60s, but surely someone has done further research since then? Of course, they were also only studying troubled adoptees, which designation has never applied to me. I'm sure there are probably some people who have issues about not knowing their genetic background, but it's far from a universal.

A corporation that won't pay its employees enough to keep them off government assistance is fucking double-dipping, and should be flat-out required to reimburse the government for every penny. I've been saying this for years. They'll find it cheaper in the long run to increase the pay rates than to repay all the subsidizing.

The people whose guns I specifically want to take are those who scream bloody murder about even the most minor move toward sane gun laws. I know people who own guns and who have very good and reasonable ideas about what should be done. If you can't get on board with that, you can't be trusted with a gun, period. (Although starting with a ban for people with DV convictions would at least be a decent first step.)

[conuly]

A corporation that won't pay its employees enough to keep them off government assistance is fucking double-dipping, and should be flat-out required to reimburse the government for every penny. I've been saying this for years. They'll find it cheaper in the long run to increase the pay rates than to repay all the subsidizing.

FDR agrees with you.