I do have a piece of good news from the weekend: I don't know how many of you play HQ, but it's this live online trivia thing, where the winners get a share of (usually) $5,000. I've won a couple of times and never got more than $.25. On Saturday, I won $11!! So that was exciting. I don't know how you get the money out of the app, but it was still pretty exciting. (PS: If you want to get the app and try it, using my referral code jh1226 will get me a free life.)
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 01, 2018 3:47:29 am PDT #208 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Oct 01, 2018 3:58:14 am PDT #209 of 30019
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
am terrified of settling into apathy due to an excessive case of the can't evens.
I defeated apathy this morning! I made it to work on time, and I even made my bed and cleaned up the dishes after breakfast!
Dana - Oct 01, 2018 4:07:36 am PDT #210 of 30019
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
That is super-adulting, Tom, especially for a Monday morning.
juliana - Oct 01, 2018 4:11:31 am PDT #211 of 30019
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I've gone all the way through BURN IT ALL DOWN to plzgivemeayurtnowthx and am terrified of settling into apathy due to an excessive case of the can't evens.
Yes. This.
lisah - Oct 01, 2018 4:47:22 am PDT #212 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
Woohoo, Jesse!! I still have only won 59 cents. I think after you have $20 in your account they will paypal it to you?
Jesse - Oct 01, 2018 4:57:02 am PDT #213 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So that day may never come, but in the meantime, I'm patting myself on the back!
Gudanov - Oct 01, 2018 5:10:12 am PDT #214 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
Everyone has been so productive. I didn't get much down around the house this weekend. I went to the grocery store, cooked a couple of dinners, did a couple loads of dishes, and washed the sheets (well, my wife started the load, I just dried and put them back on). I also did some work for my wife's business. The rest of the weekend I spent working on work. I think I've worked 40 hours since touching down at the airport Wednesday night at midnight.
I would like to get the new site finished, but I've been crazy busy. I did start watching Black Panther while I exercised and so far it's pretty great. Also indulged in an hour of woodworking and make a really nice joint. Nice for me anyhow.
Hil R. - Oct 01, 2018 5:26:19 am PDT #215 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And, my mother continues to demonstrate why I don't tell her stuff. I posted a thread of someone saying, "I was in this situation where I might have been raped, but I wasn't, because the guy that I was with wasn't a rapist," and she responded by saying that the person should have shown better judgment. Which is exactly how I'd expected she'd respond. (So I said that plenty of people would say that it was showing poor judgment to set up a tent next to two guys that you just met, at a campground in the middle of nowhere -- that's how she and my dad met.)
Sue - Oct 01, 2018 6:43:11 am PDT #216 of 30019
hip deep in pie
I think after you have $20 in your account they will paypal it to you?
I think they don't have a limit anymore. If you cash out, they send it to your Paypal.
I won 3 times in one week for a grand total of $12.94, and that seemed to be the end of my HQ luck. Lately, I've been forgetting to play.
Kat - Oct 01, 2018 6:43:33 am PDT #217 of 30019
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat, I have also been depressed and turtling, and were live 15 minutes from each other. I vote dinner and drinks soon.
YES. DEAR GOD YES. More than ever, people need to band together.
Hi Cindy! Noah and Grace are 11, so, you know, not great. Noah actually is 70% delightful and Grace is 100% a handful.
What makes me most despondent about the Kavanaugh situation is not the HIMness of it, but the banal commonness. Men are not a big part of my world and they haven't been since I've been out of college, so I forget sometimes what it's like to deal with the common version of men. In a classroom I have more authority so the male students treat me differently, but it exhausts me to consider what my daughter is going to experience.