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Today's my last day at the office and I must admit I'm feeling a bit numb. Monday's going to be profoundly weird, as is all of next week really. I'm thinking I'll create a schedule for myself of things to do so I don't end up sitting on the couch staring at the tv all day. I still want to go hiking, I've got some serious chores piling up that need seeing to, and of course job hunting to do.

On the bright side I just got contacted out of the blue by someone regarding a contract gig that might be worth pursuing. In the short-term it's a better option than nothing and would give me a little breathing space when it comes to the bills. We'll see if it pans out. But hey, at least it's something.

A big thank you to cyranocyrano and tersa for coming over to keep me company last night. It was nice not being on my own after a somewhat emotional day and it gave me the excuse I've been craving for watching "Eastern Promises". I liked it a lot, even if a good deal of it was a little more obvious than I'd have preferred. Frankly it would've been worthwhile to me just for the naked fight scene in the steam room. More of that please!

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urbaniak today posts a picture of one of the most puzzling bumper stickers anyone's ever seen. He tries to suss out a meaning from it, and his journey is well worth reading:

Now an anti-Hillary bumper sticker is one thing. But an anti-Hillary bumper sticker like this wins you a cardboard top hat and big red sash that says "MAYOR OF CRAZYTOWN." I have just one question: What the hell is this person trying to say?

If you've got any ideas I'm sure he'd love to hear them.

Update: And speaking of a Hillary presidency, The Editors comment -

I’m not Hillary’s number one fan, but I’m sure she’d be a perfectly adequate President. Secretly, I’ve always believed - and I have absolutely zero evidence to back this up, of course - that deep down Hillary has a strategic reserve of white-hot hatred for Republicans and all their works and pomps, and once elected, she would finally be free to shed the go-along-get-along act and take hilarious, schadenfreudious revenge, which would be horrible and undemocratic and everything, but also be just desserts, and so kind of awesome.

To which Brad at Sadly, No! adds-

See, that’s part of the reason why I think a Hillary presidency would, at the very least, provide us with years of comedy. For if she ever got elected to the White House, the Republicans would suddenly realize that they’d spent the past eight years endowing the executive branch with the power to conduct warrantless wiretapping on Americans, to override laws against torture and prisoner abuse and to detain American citizens indefinitely without charge. And at that point, they will rightly begin to freak the hell out.