So, I think that Insane Clown thing is something another department is putting together in the cubicles, not an actual event out in the wild.

The Insane Clowns are coming from INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!

Hey, Megyn Kelly has learned that blackface is wrong and she feels really bad and cried about it so the world has been fixed.

Oh good lord, I don't even want to know what I missed.

Normally I go for naproxen because my migraine doc told me to take it

I am taking note of this. Other OTC options haven't helped.

Oof, meara. That is a while.

naproxen

Add to the library of anecdotes:

I tried Aleve (naproxen sodium) once when I had a plantar fasciitis episode. I couldn't tell that it made any difference to the pain in my foot, but the next day I did notice a sudden onset of two numb areas on my skin -- one at the right corner of my mouth, and one on the pad of my right thumb. It was very odd, and a little scary. The numbness went away after about half a day.

The Insane Clowns are coming from INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!

Yes. And somehow that's better. Sometimes my brain makes no sense at all.

Twelve weeks is a long time, meara. I'm sorry.

msbelle, thanks for that link! I'm gonna do it. I can't go out and march or canvass, and I feel like I really need to be doing something.

meara, that sucks. They gave me 8 weeks before they put me in a boot, and the way things turned out, maybe it should've been longer. So yeah, healing is the important thing. But it still sucks. You broke your right leg, didn't you? Ugh, that'll nix driving for a long time. Sorry you have to deal with all this! Did you dislocate the ankle as well as break the leg?

Yep, right leg, (and yes, broken and dislocated) so no driving. If it were the left leg I at least wouldn't be freaking out about the cost of millions of uber rides (like whenever I start PT—can't get friends to drive me to and from there all the time, so...$$). (Also hi, greetings from "I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom but I'm in pain so can't fall back asleep. Took one of my few precious remaining opioids and am hoping to fall back asleep when that kicks in. They did give me a few more but weren't happy about it. I'm like screw you, docs, you're not the ones in pain)

I hope sound sleep happened, meara. I'm so sorry you have to deal with this.

Tramp is totally unhinged and dangerous. I wish Twitter would delete his account. Well, I have a long wish list for him, but at the moment that is at the top.

That sucks, meara. I hope you'll a) have a drastic reduction in pain soon and b) find a lower-cost transportation alternative.

In the much more fun department, I bought this big popcorn making machine to give out bags of popcorn to the kids (and adults) this Halloween. [link] We get a lot of kids and I live in a very social neighborhood. I got 200 little paper bags. The challenge will be keeping ahead of the crowd, but I'll start early. The reviews on the popcorn packs say it is really the super tasty artery clogging movie theater stuff. So, I'm excited.

So jealous, Laura! I want one of those poppers. Actually, I tried to buy a tabletop version on Nextdoor semi-recently, but was too late.

Hello, hello!!

I'm popping in to reveal an anxiety I don't like to talk about on "big" social media.

This bomb thing? Being sent to Biden in DE today?

My kid goes to the same h.s. as the Biden grandkids. There's a room for USSS at their h.s., and I am actually kind of freaked out about all this this morning. Because, as we can clearly see, people are CRAZY.