Tell him that when hippos go splat, they make a big mess. Or maybe don't tell him...

So today I discovered that the slightly alarming whirring sound I thought my computer was making at random is in fact a sound effect my dear developers put into critical error alerts in a piece of software. It's just normally, my sound is turned way way down. When it is not turned way way down, the sound is a BLOODCURDLING YELL that repeats once for each error message.

There were a lot of error messages.

The whole hall came to investigate.

he did get taken with the other kids after lunch and not just left by himself like all of last week

All week? And here you are, not guilty of even a single tiny insignificant little manslaughter? I am in awe.

I am glad he is getting real bathtime again, at least. And pretending, and being all smarty-pants about you getting with the pretending program.

Could you keep your house and just rent it out while you lived nearer the parentals, so you'd have a real home to return to and you'd know the parentals wouldn't be permanent?

I just found MenuPages, actually. I expanded my search to Jamaican restaurants. Seems pretty good for small places that don't want to worry about branding. Wasn't able to tell right away if they provide delivery info or not yet. But that's for later.

I just don't have it in me right now to raise holy hell with these people that have my kid hours a day. I would say I caused a stink on three different occassions.

A key part of the moving thing, financially, would be the amount of money I could get from selling this place, that would allow me to possibly just work part time for a while. I could look into the rental situation though. If I could get enough to cover the monthly costs plus a little extra, it could be ideal.

Yeah, does the co-op let you rent the place out? That does seem like it could be ideal, depending on how much you could sell it for.

They have a special LA list of delivery restaurants, just by neighborhood, but it narrows it for you, anyway [link]

Jamaican recipes never deliver. Well, not the ones I find. But I can use that page to evaluate local pizza. There's no way it can all be worse than Papa John's, for days when I'm willing to talk to a human in order to get food. Thanks!

MenuPages is awesome.

Maybe use Chowhound, if you are looking for recommendations. Now it finally has a search engine meant to be used by humans, it is very useful.

For erika, in case she doesn't get the Mobtown Shank:

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Finally, some graffiti in Hampden that isn't lame!
As Shank reader Claire P. says:
"The 'Marriage Works' billboard on a side of a building on or around 34th & Chestnut now says 'Marriage Sucks.' They even took the time to spray paint the word white before they wrote over it. Classic Hampden style."

Uh, i meant Jamaican restaurants never deliver. Let me not talk shit about our recipes.

okay typing on the new phone and I have to work out how to enlarge the font. Blind now.

And Chowhpund was totally the other place i was reading.