So Master Chef digitally altered a crowd scenes to make it look like more people were there: [link]

Big picture - notice all the duplicates: [link]

Cats Discover Bubble Wrap

They seem rather alarmed.

Sophia, you should totally start the homebuying classes! Just so you're ready, at least.

I realize I'm just freaking out about this because the prices are so low and I'm sad about not being able to buy here....At least, not yet.

I just got an email about a Cornhole event. I swear to god, we don't have that here.

I don't think you are supposed to come to them with a house all picked out!

Eh, I wouldn't get anxious about doing the homebuying class wrong -- it's a tickybox to be checked off so that things like first-time homebuyer programs can be considered a public good. The class will be about what's the process, and advice like "don't spend a basquillion dollars you don't have" and "get an inspection" (which your bank will probably require anyway, so, like, duh). They'll give exactly zero shits if you've done anything out of order. It's also impossible to fail.

In other words, if you decide want to do it, something like a class is purely a box to be checked off, not something to stress about.

I just got an email about a Cornhole event. I swear to god, we don't have that here.

I definitely get the "urban dictionary" type meaning of cornhole in my head, rather than the game. I don't even think I have heard of the game before a couple of years ago.

I think I probably will take the classes. I am sort of in the get ready to start to think about it stage. But I also want to get in while the prices are still so cheap! I could impulse-buy a house!

In other words, if you decide want to do it, something like a class is purely a box to be checked off, not something to stress about.

And may actually provide you with good information as you head into the homebuying process. Do you need to settle w/in a certain amount of time of doing the class/getting the money? I got a grant from the city that had a time limit attached but, like you may be doing, I had a house picked out and was in the process of getting a contract on it, when I applied for the grant. I don't think that was the normal way the grant went but it worked out fine. And allowed me to buy my place even though I didn't have a lot of money available for a down payment.

Oh! Jesse! I thought of you this morning when I heard Whitey Bulger was finally captured! crazy.

I am excited that people thought of me WRT Whitey. His brother was my first favorite politician! After he spent a good while talking to me at an event when I was like 12 or something.

I just got an email about a Cornhole event. I swear to god, we don't have that here.

I seem to remember reading that it's the new big thing with hipsters in, I think it was, the Phoenix.

I had never heard of Whitey Bulger before yesterday. I'm not up on my Irish crime lords, I guess.

It's so humid outside it's like being trapped under an overturned wet bowl. Blech.

Midwestern hipsters! Fucking newcomers.