Lists and Big Sticks

It's a holiday! Woo-hoo! (That's faux enthusiasm, actually, because I work from home and therefore do not get any special feeling from staying home today. Again.) Last week I was on vacation (or a stay-cation, more accurately) so both posts that went up last week were actually written the week before. Now that I'm back in this space it feels a smidge weird, because I haven't done this in