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Well I'm almost ready for Father's Day. We're having Janna's parents over. I'm grilling up a bunch of steaks, doing my "different steaks different ways" idea. It should be nice. We're having them over earlier than usual, so we can get the evening to ourselves.

So far my weekend has been I guess ok. I was fairly upset about Susie friday and probably drank a bit more than I should have. And the cat decided to drink my nightstand water glass. And summer finally arrived! Fans are in windows and the sun is shining. All of which added up to me being a bit under the weather and very dehydrated.

So yesterday I watched the US. I'm so mad at that ref I could spit. Given that he was suspended for "irregularities" you have to wonder. And that's nothing you should ever ever do about the world cup. On the other hand, I'm so proud of how the US played. We'll see what happens Thursday.

And I built Janna's computer and it's up and running. And even better, she's noticed that it's speedier and smoother! Which I'm so glad about. Since she doesn't game, I was afraid I'd build it all up and she'd be like "whatever."

Buying the grill was a trip. I have to write that up. Apparently girls don't buy grills.

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Well I'm almost ready for Father's Day. We're having Janna's parents over. I'm grilling up a bunch of steaks, doing my "different steaks different ways" idea. It should be nice. We're having them over earlier than usual, so we can get the evening to ourselves.

So far my weekend has been I guess ok. I was fairly upset about Susie friday and probably drank a bit more than I should have. And the cat decided to drink my nightstand water glass. And summer finally arrived! Fans are in windows and the sun is shining. All of which added up to me being a bit under the weather and very dehydrated.

So yesterday I watched the US. I'm so mad at that ref I could spit. Given that he was suspended for "irregularities" you have to wonder. And that's nothing you should ever ever do about the world cup. On the other hand, I'm so proud of how the US played. We'll see what happens Thursday.

And I built Janna's computer and it's up and running. And even better, she's noticed that it's speedier and smoother! Which I'm so glad about. Since she doesn't game, I was afraid I'd build it all up and she'd be like "whatever."

Buying the grill was a trip. I have to write that up. Apparently girls don't buy grills.

The Grill Thing

Ok, so the grill thing. It sounds easy. I got on the internet and figured out what grill we were interested in and a smaller cheaper backup. Both from the same company. And the local super discount place has them.

So we head down and find the two grills. We look at the smaller cheaper one and it looks, well, small and cheap. Not inexpensive. But cheap. So we decide it's worth the extra for the other one, probably. And this sales critter walks down the aisle and looks at us sort of surprised "can I help you with something?"

Well, it quickly became clear that this guy just did not want to sell us a grill. He started right in. "Is that going to fit in your car?" And I could just hear the "is that going to fit in your pathetic little girly car?" We are really unsure about this. It's not a big car (Mazda Protege), but we have fit an awful lot into it, including entire beds and sets of shelves from Ikea. So I suggest that maybe he could show us the box? He suggests we should have him go look at the car. He looks at it and right off "nah, you don't have to open up the trunk, I can tell you it's not going to fit... I'd love to see you a grill, but maybe you could get a... (and yes, there's this hesitation) someone with a bigger car or..." There was a bit more. But just the demeanor and everything else. Finally he just says well sorry! And goes back in the store. No suggestion of strapping down the trunk. No concept of maybe unpacking the box and putting the parts in. No suggestion of maybe another grill that's similar but smaller? Nope. We're girls and he's just not interested in selling us a grill.

Maybe if we came back with a... would the word you're looking for have been "man" by any chance?

We went to Home Depot and came back with a grill. It ended up being the smaller one we'd picked out and it works fine. It was a newer model than the one at the first store and looked a bit more robust. And was 20 dollars cheaper. (Which was 100 cheaper than the grill we had otherwise thought of.)

I figured we'd get patronized. It is a male gendered thing to buy. It is, after all, the only way men can cook without having their weewee shortened. But I couldn't imagine we'd actually get someone so interested in the gendering of it that they pushed us away from buying something at all.

At least I'm buying a girl car.

The Grill Thing

Ok, so the grill thing. It sounds easy. I got on the internet and figured out what grill we were interested in and a smaller cheaper backup. Both from the same company. And the local super discount place has them.

So we head down and find the two grills. We look at the smaller cheaper one and it looks, well, small and cheap. Not inexpensive. But cheap. So we decide it's worth the extra for the other one, probably. And this sales critter walks down the aisle and looks at us sort of surprised "can I help you with something?"

Well, it quickly became clear that this guy just did not want to sell us a grill. He started right in. "Is that going to fit in your car?" And I could just hear the "is that going to fit in your pathetic little girly car?" We are really unsure about this. It's not a big car (Mazda Protege), but we have fit an awful lot into it, including entire beds and sets of shelves from Ikea. So I suggest that maybe he could show us the box? He suggests we should have him go look at the car. He looks at it and right off "nah, you don't have to open up the trunk, I can tell you it's not going to fit... I'd love to see you a grill, but maybe you could get a... (and yes, there's this hesitation) someone with a bigger car or..." There was a bit more. But just the demeanor and everything else. Finally he just says well sorry! And goes back in the store. No suggestion of strapping down the trunk. No concept of maybe unpacking the box and putting the parts in. No suggestion of maybe another grill that's similar but smaller? Nope. We're girls and he's just not interested in selling us a grill.

Maybe if we came back with a... would the word you're looking for have been "man" by any chance?

We went to Home Depot and came back with a grill. It ended up being the smaller one we'd picked out and it works fine. It was a newer model than the one at the first store and looked a bit more robust. And was 20 dollars cheaper. (Which was 100 cheaper than the grill we had otherwise thought of.)

I figured we'd get patronized. It is a male gendered thing to buy. It is, after all, the only way men can cook without having their weewee shortened. But I couldn't imagine we'd actually get someone so interested in the gendering of it that they pushed us away from buying something at all.

At least I'm buying a girl car.