This blindsided me. I expected conflict and ugliness around the election, and even though it was maddening at times, I was prepared. But all of the extreme pro-gun posts (arm all the teachers! There's no way that could end badly!) have caught me totally off-guard.
It kind of blindsided me too. The real life people I can cut off and insist that we just agree to disagree, but the Facebook thing is harder since so much of it is just posting graphics that spout things like how guns killed Bin Laden.
I was bad and just went and posted my thoughts on the subject. Chances are this means I have to take a Facebook break now, or start hiding people's posts. Or do some serious friend trimming. Oh well.
eta: love you guys
The Southern and Hawaiian sweet onions are all varieties of the the F1 Hybrid Yellow Granex. The key is growing them in low-sulfur soil. If people can tolerate sweet onions better, I suspect low sulfur is the answer. Walla Walla sweets might grow better in San Francisco, although I confess that the San Francisco climate baffles me.
(I've written a lot about Vidalia onions.)
smonster, every one of those shirts is gorgeous!
I'm kind of in love with this one.
I sympathize with everyone dealing with car issues. I just dropped 2600+ on mine. I got a lot of stuff done, and it really was the first serious money I've put into it since I bought it. It drives like a dream again, but oy the sticker shock.
Rantycakes! Get your rantycakes right here! Not only have I not found my holiday spirit yet, I'm still a little confused that's it's December already.
I am also cranky about event organizers thinking FB messages are the best way to communicate important details like hotel reservation numbers. And irrationally cranky (I know it's irrational, trust me) about multiple strangers asking me yesterday if I was steampunk. Top hats DO NOT equal steampunk, and we Neo-Victorian goths are getting really cranky about it.
On the plus side, I'm going holiday shopping with Dad today. That will be nice.
I'm having this debate with Bobby's car. It is a 2002 with 136k miles. Most of the broken stuff is internal body work like window buttons and sun roof, etc. hate to put a bunch of money in an old car , but it is a cool car. Gear box might need some work too. Ugh. Cars are money pits for sure.
smonster, tons of anti-anxiety~ma for you.
Jilli, sorry about the cranky. I hope you have fun shopping with your dad.
Not only have I not found my holiday spirit yet, I'm still a little confused that's it's December already.
Not to make it worse but I realized today that it's past mid-December already.
Ack!
Not to make it worse but I realized today that it's past mid-December already.
In one week exactly, I will be getting drunk as hell with my family and opening presents. (We do Christmas Eve with my family -- lunch with dad, dinner with mom and stepdad -- and Christmas Day with Tim's family. Mine is the family that busts out the wine and gets loaded.)
Had lunch with co-worker and grad student today. Me, left leaning centerist. Student, mild Libertarian. Co-Worker, mainstream Libertarian. We were talking about a lot of issues, many related to the shootings on Friday. Mostly agreeing that no one solution will solve the problem, and going into the various rabbit holes of why such and such legislation wouldn't work, and why that is the way it is, and the consequences of x vs y. Yadda yadda yadda. As we were getting up to leave, the young mother in the next booth stopped us, and said (paraphrase) "I apologize for eavesdropping, and I hope your not offended. But I've been listening to a lot of what you guys have been saying, and I really wish you ran the country! I swear I wasn't intentionally eavesdropping, and I hope you're not offended".
Offended? Heck no. Are ya rich? Wanna head up our super pac?
