It'd be wise to get Guillermo on your side.

Nah, he just needs to recognize and fall in line.

I am taken aback. But for Atropa I can see that working.

Ooh -t's right, you know.

Sigh, AmyP, it's not just parental units. H is out mending the shed roof across the street. When he peeled back the shingles, what was going to be a quick peel and patch turned into an "Oh dear, the sheathing didn't wrap the edge, water got in and now the rafter is half rotted away. And the wet seeped, and the next two rafters are affected as well." Which is going to require removing at least half the shingling and sheathing, and since he's "not up to" totally removing and replacing the entire roof, cutting and scraping out the rot, treating the timbers and sistering in pressure treated beams, sheathing correctly this time, and reshingling that half of the roof.

This was supposed to be a two-afternoon favor for a friend. We're gonna have lemon meringue pie, bottles of Jameson and cab merlot and chocolate chip cookies for *weeks*, because H can't walk away from either a commitment or a challenge.

ETA: What whips my chicken is the shed and install were a professional job. I can see why neighbor doesn't trust them to mend the job they did badly to start with. But it does seem they should be held accountable some way.

"Whips my chicken" is entirely new to me, and entirely charming.

I'm gonna vote for all y'all.

I watched a few minutes of The Pelican Brief on my lunch break. A presidential advisor pointed out that something the president has done is obstruction of justice, and the president actually looked frightened. Weird, right?

Laugh to keep from crying.

I fully support your campaign for Queen, Pix, assuming I can be a Lady-in-Waiting (and since she's waiting anyway, the Lady reads a good book or watches some TV).

Atropa, I fully support your campaign as well, but I fear that being a minion would be a bit more labor-intensive than my ideal. No offense.

I don't know, Pix, are you going to interfere with my Sovereign Right to Fuck About Independently?

Mine will be a very lazy and hands-off reign.

Also, ladies and lords and non-binary nobles-in-waiting are always welcome so long as you believe in my mission statement. I'm a modern queen. I have a mission statement. It involves supporting right of all to fuck about, especially when the world has gone mad.

HAIL

It'd be wise to get Guillermo on your side.

Nah, he just needs to recognize and fall in line.

Look, I will absolutely turn him sooner than Nandor. Guillermo is on the turn list, not the snack list.