Of course, I almost immediately started worrying about the ethical and moral consequences of my hypothetical sock golem. Do I need to figure out how to give it free will? Will it be pissed I use electronic devices on Shabbat? Will I lose control of it and have it go on some kind of rampage because mortals shouldn't be messing with creation like that?

I am willing to test these hypotheses experimentally.

Goddamnit, I'm going to miss Brian. He tells me the buyer is nice and will be a good fit. New guy was pleased to hear his nextdoor neighbor was a football fan (not me. Poor Anna tried to watch a Super Bowl with us. We exasperated her.) And that he lit up about alley firepit.

But Brian took me to urgent care and then diner food after, to the er, gave me my bathroom sink, countless bits of nice furniture, my cats' tent...many firepit, rants, bagged leaves, dragged me out to replant the neighborhood sign, Halloween porch nights, let me take care of him & his wee dog when his foot was broke. Gawd that first winter here when I formally met him marching up his stairs with a bucket of hot water to break our ice dams across 5 houses and then we all got drunk and made pizza because his visiting boytoy had a 4 wheeler and Trinacaria was open. 2 lbs of pepperoni. We still had pepperoni a year later.

Will give new guy the full welcome.

But really gonna miss Brian. A lot.

I've offered to store/list anything he can't fit in truck/wants to sell. Partly because I can, no big, can handle it.Partly to drag him back down here.

Aw, sarameg, that's gotta be hard.

I'm sorry sarameg, changes to the neighborhood

Is it wrong to want some new major scandal to come along so we don't have to talk about Roy Moore for another month?

Is it wrong to want some new major scandal to come along so we don't have to talk about Roy Moore for another month?

Right or wrong, it's the Trump administration, so you'll probably get your wish.

Tried making ricotta gnocchi. Sounded great, unfortunately came out kind of mediocre. The roasted pork loin is good, though.

Timelies all!

Quiet day here.

Timelies!

I've been feeling really down. . . then discovered my new bottle of anti-d's unopened on my bathroom sink. Oops.

sarameg- I hope the new neighbor is even a good 50 percent as decent as your friend Brian.

Watched the 1st hour of Alias Grace the other day and then read the new Sharyn McCrumb, The Unquiet Grave and both are fictional accounts of 19th century True Crimes. True Crime: it is everywhere.

(I'm not actually trying to avoid it but - man. . . everywhere.)

Watched Eliza Wallace's head-cam of her CC run at Ocala Jockey Club, a documentary on Boyd Martin and now am watching a 4 year old episode of Gardener's World.

Youtube can be very helpful in avoiding the news.

Is it wrong to want some new major scandal to come along so we don't have to talk about Roy Moore for another month?

So you're the one who Monkey Paw'ed us into the Al Franken scandal.