Salon post: September 14

Welcome to this week's salon post!

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Topic of the week
What are your favourite coping mechanisms when you're dealing with a situation that is not horrible, but is definitely cranky-making.

(We have a researcher visiting at work this week, and I am definitely on the cranky side with him. Today is his last day, fortunately.)

What I've been up to
I am currently rather distracted by the news reports on the gas explosions in northern Massachusetts. (I have good friends in one of the affected towns: they're fine and there were no gas lines in their neighborhood, but no idea yet when they'll have power again.)

Tomorrow, I am going to wander our Town Day with a friend, which will both be amusing and exercise.

(Um, for people where this might not be a thing, basically it's a town-focused street festival. Some vendors, some information booths, library book sale, etc. My town library has beehives on the third floor balcony, and if you buy books at the sale, you also get an entry in the raffle for honey. Performances. You get the idea.)

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