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screams Obama Administration
Friday, March 11 2016
My health continued to improve, this time without the assistance of any medication (including ibuprofen). In the absence of pseudoephedrine's decongestant effects, my nose and lungs produced copious amounts of mucous, though, unlike two days ago, it was easy to expel through nose blowing and coughing.
By searching mostly on Craigslist, I found some good remote web developer jobs. One actually gave me a little MySQL and Javascript test for me to solve as part of the application. I was curious if anyone had cheated and posed them as questions on ServerFault.com, but I couldn't find them there. This made my solutions seem more satisfactory and likely to impress whoever ends up looking at them.
This evening before she drove up to Albany to pick up her childhood friend Dina, Gretchen and I watched some HGTV shows she's been recording. Five Day Flip is a favorite, and as I watched, it dawned on me that at least two new trends in kitchen/bath remodeling had emerged since the last time I'd been an HGTV fan (in the early 2000s when I was working on our house here in Hurley). This was the use of hexagonal tile in bathrooms and the use of subway tile (brick-shaped white tile in staggered rows) in kitchens and bathrooms. Both trends are in evidence in the ongoing renovation in Susan and David's basement, though the first time I'd seen hexagonal tile was in the remodel Ray and Nancy did to their bathroom (which is several years old at this point). I'll have to find out how they first learned of these trends and decided they wanted to follow them. It might look beautiful now, but I'm sure there will come a day when someone on an HGTV remodeling show takes a hammer to a gorgeous floor-to-ceiling installation of subway tile because its dated, overly-medicalized look "screams Obama Administration."
Gretchen and Dina arrived from Albany late tonight, and the first job was to put away all the groceries Gretchen had bought at the Trader Joes. Then we sat in front of the woodstove and talked as Gretchen and Dina ate a late-night meal of noodles with pesto and pan-seered kale. We'd all been heartened by the huge protest in Chicago that had shut down a Donald Trump rally. Finally, it seemed, there was counter reaction to the mouth-breathing violence and bigotry he incites and encourages.
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