An angle he never imagined

My sense of justice is quite tickled today.

If you watch the news, you may have seen that an arrest has finally been made in a murder case from 1964. Two black teenagers were beaten and then tied to an engive block and thrown into the river to drown. The suspect, now 71, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Today he stood before a judge and was formally charged with the crime.

The judge is a black woman.

I am amused, and pleased.

domesticicicicity

Household appliances make me ridiculously happy.

I got a countertop dishwasher off CraigsList a couple of weeks ago for $100. Dishes have always been my least-favorite household chore, so I would let them sit in the sink and then they got really nasty which made it even less fun. But now I have sparkly glasses and silverware that isn't sticky, I can regularly see the bottom of my sink, and all without having to actually touch any grossness. I had to replace some light bulbs today so I even popped the globes into there - who knows how many years of crud came off but it's a lot brighter in my kitchen and bedroom now. I even did a little dance in my kitchen today to the rhythm of the wash cycle - while Pepper stared at me like I was insane.

Then I cleaned her litterbox, swept out her cage, and then let the Roomba deal with all the little crumbly bits while I went into the other room and read my mail. Not only do I not have to breathe in all the little dust-flecks, but it even sings a happy little song when it's done.

Yeah, I'm a dork, but a dork with a clean kitchen!