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I need a sign that says "Do not touch me" for when I'm on the bus because people here clearly do not understand what headphones and looking down at your phone mean. It means 'I don't want to talk' for anyone who was uncertain. It doesn't mean keep tapping me on the shoulder until I give up what I'm doing to talk to you to get you to leave me alone. Why do people think that just because they're okay with being touched by strangers that everyone else is?

Oh my god. Have you ever had something happen at a restaurant that you just knew you'd never be able to show your face in there again, or you'd just risk melting into the floor?

Somehow when I was ordering my food with my hands nowhere near my drink, I hit something that moved the glass and sent iced coffee splattering all over the table, the floor, and the poor poor waitress. By the time I even realized it was happening, it was too late to try to catch it to stop it.

She was so, so nice about it and was trying to keep me from being embarrassed. While she was covered in iced coffee. And to make the matter worst of all? I was her last table of her shift. That's the note I ended her day on. I made sure to tip her before she left and the new server took over. I still feel so awful, though.

Okay, I come to everyone with yet another new science fact for the day that's actually pretty cool in more than one way. A new species of dinosaur has been discovered in an opal mine Australia. The bones were discovered about thirty years ago in an opal mine, but weren't able to be scientifically studied until the past couple years.

Now, the fascinating thing here is that not only did they find remains of a single dinosaurs from a previously unknown species, but they found an entire herd consisting of multiple species of dinosaurs! Finding dinosaur fossils in this number is almost unheard of. Also because the fossils were found in an opal mine, some of them have become opalized, and the skeleton that they've been able to piece together for the new species of dinosaur is the most complete opalized dinosaur skeleton in the world. I really want to see this skeleton because I'm certain it's beyond beautiful to see in person. Also, new dinosaur!

And for those curious, the new dinosaur was an herbivore.

I know this is like the millionth post I've made regarding dinosaurs, but I'm not going to apologize for being a huge dinosaur geek. I loved them when I was a kid, and the books, and later movies, of Jurassic Park are what inspired me to go into the sciences in the first place.

I swear it’s like dealing with small children at my office with my assistant out. The temporary one from the Agency we use is utterly worthless. Or just incompetent. I’m not sure which. She doesn’t have even the most basic understanding of what the hell a closed door means. It means no one comes in because I’m busy. I don’t care that there was no one else in my office. It’s called a phone conference. I tend to have several of them a day because sometimes things happen that the client needs dealt with immediately not later when they’ve been able to drive to the office.

I wonder if there isn’t some way I can tell the Agency not to send her again. I’d rather do it myself than deal with her again.

Well, fuck

Pretty sure I left my phone charger along with my swimming trunks in Singapore

It's not like I can get them Fed-ex'ed

Guess that means I gotta brave the mall after all

Ugh

So not only did my dad's metal dog, K-9, apparently write a song about his thoughts and feelings, but also he found a program to....record it.

Then he sent it to me.

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Not going to lie, kinda confused. And not sure if this is his attempt at saying he wants to stay with me here instead of travelling the universe with my dad or what.