Did they give you a new room, Suzi??

No the hotel is full. I'm in a mini-suite and there is a detector in the "living room" in addition to the one in the bedroom. But you can bet I'll be talking with a manager in the morning. I should just start packing spare 9Vs with me but then again, I shouldn't have to.

Irish bakeoff?? Ooh. Is this on YouTube or some piratical site, or what?

I found it on a piratical site, yes. Could be on Youtube, too, I suppose.

Wait, they just left you in a room with a beeping smoke detector??? No. someone's ass can go buy a battery. Fuck that.

Yeah, Pix, I was not mentioning the name on purpose, because privacy; I'm sure the details are abhorrent, but I'm repulsed enough with just the info readily available publicly.

I'm all grotty from cleaning, so I want a shower, but if I'm going to shower, I should just dye my hair. So naturally, I'm just lying here paralyzed with inbreeding.

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Just going to leave that weird autocorrect here so other can enjoy.

I meant "indecision."

So naturally, I'm just lying here paralyzed with inbreeding.

Ha! Thanks for leaving it. I need a chuckle.

In project sell the house DH bought a bunch of smoke detectors for any rooms that didn't have them. We had an inspection ($450!!!) to get a brutal list of every single little thing that could be found. I think there was 96 things on the list. Mostly silly stuff, and it is down to like 30 I think. Focusing on something other is pretty much essential.

Also, going ahead and having people for Thanksgiving. It is tricky.

We are kind of dreading the inauguration. The city will be full of his supporters, and they will feel empowered to be assholes to the locals.

They will still be here when the march happens, so I expect violence. My son wants to go to the march and I said no; when people start running, kids get knocked down and trampled.

No beeping...took the bad battery out. Hell no to all night chirping. I just think that taking the battery out is just as bad a move. Health and safety and all that. I'm about to take my stuff down stairs and talk to the manager.

My eye sight has been great but my face feels so strange without glasses. Like I'm missing something essential. There is air on my eyeballs.

Y'all! I just ran outside to tell my next door neighbor about my promotion (and bring her some cocoa dusted truffles) and she volunteered to help with winterizing the yard at the house I work at! What a sweetie!

It's not unbreakable, but using encryption makes it more difficult for government/police to spy on its citizens.

One could also set up a Slack-like service with private hosting and TLS and keep all the data encrypted. Hypothetically.

You know what? If no one will ever give me their availability upfront, meetings are going to get moved, and everyone can fuck right off. I know that one person is "important," but she's totally outside of the chain of command, and only responds to every fifth message, and I don't have time for this bullshit. Fuuuucccckkkk offffff.