08:03 – I got email from Jen overnight. She and her husband ended up making two more trips to Sam’s Club with the trailer. Their basement is now populated with hundreds of #10 cans in cases of six, stacked eight cases high along one wall, atop 2×6 runners on 2×4 spacers to keep them off the floor. That, and hundreds more standard-size cans of soups, meats, etc., dozens of cases of bottled water, and a bunch of 50 pound bags of rice, flour, and sugar queued up to be repackaged later.
Kim was excited yesterday. Jasmine got a real job, one with benefits and a career path. She’d been working at Babies-R-Us as a sales clerk. She starts her real job the first of next month. Kim has already paid off as much of Jasmine’s outstanding student loan balance as she can afford, leaving Jas owing only a couple grand. I hope Jas appreciates just how big a favor Kim has done for her. Jas now gets to start life better off than about 99% of her contemporaries, with a real job and no student loans to worry about.
The more we watch of Saving Grace, the better we like it. Excellent writing. Excellent cast. It’s by far the best cop show I’ve ever seen, and that includes ones like The Shield. Holly Hunter is a genius. She not only stars in the series, she produced it. If I owned a TV production company, I’d give this woman money and tell her to go make me a TV series. Anything she wanted to make, and I wouldn’t interfere with whatever she wanted to do. She’s a lot like Joss Whedon.