Good meeting this week with Hillary (trainer) at the gym. Busy cooking: roasted butternut squash and kale with eggs and bacon; baked haddock; smoothies; waffles; blueberry muffins; spaghetti squash.

Where were they on November 8?

“But these “what to wear” lists don’t read like dress codes, they read like the fantasies of middle-aged men who need a chorus of pretty minions to sing them to their desks.”
Nicola Thorp’s Courage

“The United States ranks at 45 for women’s equality. Behind Rwanda, Cuba, Philippines, Jamaica.

“But I get it. You don’t want to admit it. You don’t want to be a victim. …

“I get it. You want to feel empowered. You don’t want to believe you’re oppressed.”

You Are Not Equal

Visited the Falmouth Service Center Food Pantry today. Activated the new iPhone from Credo, which came packed in brown paper (good!)

Had a checkup with Dr. Boyle yesterday. Checked out Fisherman’s View on the way back.

Helped Ron get in to his UI account and requested benefits for two weeks. He’s qualified and we know the amount of his benefit; we’re still waiting for the claim to be approved.

I applied for a dev job today, haha.

Wrote a new page for the MRS Admin showing students who registered with discount codes. Only a handful last year.

We got a couple of clever tools for 39 cents at Job Lot: combo of pen, lighter and stylus. I bought a roof rake that was on special for Edgewater.

Erosion of reproductive rights, which was a major concern of yesterday’s women’s marches, is not a problem for ugly women. It’s a fear which is easily resolved, but in doing so, comes with consequences.

Women who are not “glamorous” or “beautiful” don’t have to worry about unplanned pregnancies, but on the other hand, they will not be able to find a job to support themselves or if they are hired, will be bullied mercilessly and paid less than they are worth.

I suspect that if you were to total the cost of all of the cosmetics of all of the women in yesterday’s first world rallies*, you’d have more money than the combined GDP of the poorest third of the world’s nations.

In other words, money that could have been used to build housing, schools, water treatment facilities and sewers for the most needy people on earth was spent on makeup, hair coloring, etc.

I don’t fault Donald Trump for his so-called sexist attitudes. He’s just being honest. And I call “hypocrite” on anyone who labels themselves a “progressive” and who isn’t as angry as I am about this.

*Approximately $350 billion was spent worldwide on cosmetics in 2015; the total GDP for the poorest 69 countries in the world was $340 billion in 2016.

Wandered into Hyannis Port today while I was waiting for Alpha and read for a while at charming Eugenia Fortes (East) Beach.

Finished Fall cleanup at Edgewater, finally. The rest can be done in the Spring.

Rained the last two days; mostly drizzle today. Drove Robert to and from work.

I hope Ron sits me down and pours me a whiskey on the rocks, thus cutting out the middle man.

Have given up on finding people on Cape Cod who are good but not superficially “nice”, who are open to new ideas, who do not worship wealth as an end in itself and who are not part of the “born lucky” crowd.

It is supposed to rebloom in 3-4 months.

I heat-sterilized a pair of scissors and put a cinnamon slurry on the two cut stems.

Kitty was here, resting. His first visit was around 8 this morning.

While waiting for Robert, I cut down the last of the grasses at Edgewater and brought the pile to the transfer station. Ron is on his way back to get rid of old gasoline.

He replaced the furnace filter.

Had another kitchen mess this morning, nasty batter that fused so badly to the waffle iron grids that I had to soak them for hours.

Got the “tent” around the hydrangea filled with leaves. Replaced and increased the pile on the daffs, some are starting to sprout.

We did laundry, changed sheets and did the transfer station run. Dropped off pumpkin soup at Edgewater.

Minor tweak to MRS, added a flag for online registration.

Yesterday: made chili for lunch, did some cleanup here and brought a truckload to the transfer station. Spent about 20 minutes at the gym and fed the truck at Cumby’s.

Drove Alpha to work and stopped at Shaw’s on the way back.

Kitty was here for a couple of hours.

Ron changed the filters in the water pitchers.

Today: walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes while Ron checked out the fitness center. Brought home a sandwich from Panera with the balance of the gift card from Cindy. I made pumpkin soup and created a mess on the counter in the process. Good excuse to deep clean.

Ron and I set up a burlap barrier around the purple hydrangea. I finished removing gone-bys from the back.