RBOC

• PG&E is throwing regular dividends again.  We got $15.32 this quarter.  (“We’re rich!” DH quipped.)
• DH solved his moka problem by buying a fancy new moka pot.  Problem:  It is small and only makes a little moka.  Potential Solution:  Buy all three sizes?
• DH has not had success ordering from Proper Cloth so far.  The first time the cut was just weird– narrow around the neck and back.  The second time there were weird poofs in the love handle area, and more noticeably, between the top and second buttons, as if there was just more fabric on one side than the other.  He gets a third and final redo.  I think he should just get more lands end shirts and use a local tailor, but if Proper Cloth gets his measurements correct then he could just order perfect shirts from there.  So far a big “if.”
• Jeff Denning has a new paper out that suggests FGA is correct and expanded federal loans DID expand the prices of professional graduate degrees.
• Jetpens videos sometimes make me want to start journaling, but then I remember I have a blog.  I think I prefer blogging to journaling.  It’s more interactive.  AND when I have a question that I need help on, I have a built in base to ask! #grumpynation
• I undripped all of PG&E.  I should never have dripped it to begin with, but I dunno, we didn’t need the cash and it was easy to do.  I’m not sure I would have invested the dividends so maybe it was an ok thing to do.  But now I feel like I really do need to get away from owning single stocks.  It’s easier to reinvest when it’s worth a lot than when it’s worth not that much, which is silly since you’re supposed to buy low sell high.  But what can you do?  (It looks like I undripped it back in 2011 because I knew I shouldn’t have dripped it in the first place, but at some point I re-dripped half of it.  Now it’s all undripped again.)
• I’ve had to stop reading one of the blogs I used to read regularly.  One of the commenters is a bigot who is always “what about the mens” and various things about DEI being bad etc.  Lots of very cheerful trolling on his part.  That wouldn’t be a problem, except that the blogger in question thanked everyone for being so civil in their disagreements, reposting a post where the guy was full-on bigoted and people were being polite to him as the example.  Except the bigot’s attacks, while phrased politely, were not actually polite– they were attacks.  But oh, free speech, what would you have me do.  (Be more like John Scalzi!  As they say, once you let a Nazi stay, you have a Nazi bar.  Not that this guy was a full-on Nazi– he’s likely pro-Israel, though I usually skip his comments so I don’t know for sure.)  Anyhow, the guy does this dramatic I’m being cancelled and leaving forever, and instead of saying bye bye don’t let the door hit you on the way out, the blogger said no don’t go, and then had several followup posts asking for the guy to come back and comment — he is looking forward to the “discussion.”  Like, WTF?  So, there goes that.  I don’t know how to explain that being treated as a thought exercise is not actually polite discourse when you’re part of a marginalized group, and really kind of sucks for other people reading as well.
• When you’re living in a red state and these things aren’t theoretical anymore (unlike, say, Minnesota), bigoted discourse is even more irritating.
• DC2 took The Man Who Has it All (amazon affiliate link meaning we get a tiny bit of money if you purchase through this link– support local bookstores instead!) to school and read through half of it before zie realized the joke.  Then zie read bits aloud on the bus and everyone thought it was hilarious.  But also they were like, wait what?  (Also, we have the British version of the book because there wasn’t a US one when I got it, but there is now!)
• I think one of the other core professors this year isn’t doing as good a job as the people who usually teach the course (which is sometimes me, but not this year– I’m doing the other core this year) because my students are gushing over how wonderful I am and I’m not really doing anything different from my usual.  (Usually people think I’m a great teacher, maybe a little bit hard, but this past week has been absurd amounts of praise for my teaching.  I’m like, put it in the course evals.)  Also they didn’t learn some really key things that are supposed to be taught in that other course.