Newness

 Long day of work -- meetings, discussions, follow ups, etc.  You know what?  I didn't mind.  I skipped the gym, sadly, but it was good -- caught up on the back episodes of J! I saved -- and if I can get some paperwork done tonight (50/50) it might have been worth it.  More to the point, today reminded me a lot of what I used to at TFG -- problem solving and question handling -- without the craptasticness of everything.  That, I think, is good.  I also discovered my weekend might have a lot of less stuff to do, which would be good as well, as I can do some stuff like read or get through the backlog of films/links/articles.  I am behind on the reading goal, alas.  I often joke that the book like expands exponentially and the read list does so geometrically, but it should be glacially, and that is not so good.

‘They’re Just Over It’: How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration Into a Movement - POLITICO
I do find these articles interesting, mainly because the reporters who cover them seem to be only barely obvious as to why these things are.  I just hope it pans out on Election Day...

Inside Trump’s Sleepless, Exhausting Mad Dash to Election Day
Dare I say this is the way it should be?  I mean, on the one hand, I am impressed, the guy is 78 years old, and doesn't exactly seem to (or eat) in the healthiest way possible, but here he is giving 110% on the campaign trail.  Again, I hope it pans out on Election Day, but then you see/hear stuff like this, and you realize what it really means.  Then you see stuff like the McDonald's thing, and you have to laugh; this stage of the campaign, and this is what he is doing?  Is he trying to rake in all the chips?  But...PA is this close, and is the electoral prize, and this sort of thing is free publicity (important, given how cash-strapped we are, which boggles my mind), a free troll job, and, dare I say...something that brought out the crowd and maybe swayed a few voters?  If you don't have to win by a lot, just win...

I have this ingrown hair on my neck, sort of on the center of it.  Ok, I think it is still there; I pulled out a couple today -- if I cannot be Dr. Pimple Popper, I settle for this -- and while I got something (and even drew out some fluid), there is still something that I can feel when running my hand along it.  I don't want to poke too much with the tweezers and tear it up, but it is annoying.  I think there is something in my genetics that does not allow me to let things be...