You know what you can do, if your printer is out of paper but you don’t feel like putting in more right now because you’d have to move a bunch of stuff out of the way of the paper drawer first, but the “paper” light keeps BLINKING and BLINKING? Hit the “job cancel” button right near that blinking light. Possibly this will work for you, too, and ideally it will not be the case that someone else in your family got halfway through a print job and didn’t notice and you just canceled it for them. Because ANOTHER thing you could have done would have been to put a sheet of paper in the manual feed, just to get it over with and also not lose the print job, and someone might point this out to you in an irritable tone of voice.

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I empathize SO HARD with Marie Green’s post State of the State, about what it feels like to have a difference of opinion with a spouse about a desperately-wanted baby.

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Happy cat news: the vet said that the most we should hope for at Benchley’s follow-up appointment today was that his eye was not getting WORSE—but as it turns out, it’s even looking BETTER. He’s lucky to be a young and healthy cat, but also he’s just plain lucky his body happens to be working for him on this. I won’t detail some of the gross things the vet said could happen with eye injuries, but suffice it to say I came away from that discussion feeling like bodies were fragile and random places where the body’s own immune system could end up being a bigger problem than the original problem. Benchley goes back again in a week, but the vet said she feels very encouraged we’ll see good results and won’t have to call in The Cat Ophthalmologist. Did you know there were ophthalmologists for cats? You do now.

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I got a coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts this morning, and every time I get coffee at a restaurant I realize how weak I make my coffee at home. Because WOOOOOOOOO.