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The fire at the Topless Coffee Shoppe has been ruled arson. Thanks to catletude for the link.

Had an end-of-year budget meeting at the day-job today. Because of budget cut backs, there was no coffee. Not that it was tough to stay awake, or anything.

Even worse, budget cuts have affected the Employee Picnic (aka Staff Day)! There will be No Free T-shirts this year, though I'm encouraged to wear a t-shirt from a previous year, which I, um, gave away, 'cause they're ugly. I suppose this means I need to chose between my "Sell Your Soul for a Cookie" t-shirt, Girl Genius Air Ship t-shirt, Abney Park stripy t-shirt, or play it safe with the Dahlov Ipcar Black-and-White animals t-shirt. Decisions, decisions.

'nother meeting tomorrow, this one, so we're told, Federally Mandated. How to Avoid Sexual Harassment or something similar. Anybody else been to one of these? Should I take my own coffee?

I am figuring out the quarterly taxes. My head hurts. There is, of course, no correlation between these two things.

Thanks to everyone who weighed in on the "pro blog" issue. I think I'll stick with what I have for the moment; I'm comfortable here, and as someone pointed out in comments, there are the infodumps. I may try to think about a way to make them more prominent/accessible to folks who just want The News.