a well-spent Saturday afternoon

I went to pick some stuff up at elspethdemina's yesterday afternoon and ended up spending the next three hours learning more than I ever thought it was possible to know about sex toys. The Cliff's Notes version:

• Phthalates are evil. They smell like new air mattress, and they're in a lot of the cheaper sex toys out there. How can this be?
• Because the quality of sex toys is completely unregulated, worldwide.
• Stainless steel, glass, medical- or food-grade silicone, and appropriately coated wood are your friends. They're non-porous, and they don't sweat phthalates.
• How can you tell that a cheap sex toy claiming to be "silicone" isn't? It burns real good.

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Used a headset to talk to motherofangels while driving back from zappy for the first time. Yet another sign that I've joined the 21st century. Tacoma to the Kirkland PCC was just about the perfect length.

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Re-bar had a little 80's night last night, wherein I got to swoon at intrepid_reason and snark with a much younger woman. The staff & owners are probably delighted at how much that crowd drinks, i.e. much more than the hippies & house heads. Pity cupcake_goth and her Stunt Husband couldn't join us.