About to text-bank over my lunch hour. Probably the best thing I'll do all day.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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.
msbelle - Aug 21, 2020 7:01:01 am PDT #25149 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
chrismg - Aug 21, 2020 7:24:37 am PDT #25150 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Oooh, that reminds me, I did a virtual phone-bank with Actual Beto this week.
I think I prefer doing that with a smaller group and less-famous people. Particularly doing it on a Zoom call, I like the feeling of doing it with people you connect to.
Laura - Aug 21, 2020 7:56:31 am PDT #25151 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah Tropical Storm Laura is headed through my sister and brother's town shortly. The Gulf is so warm. Ugh. I hope they don't build up much.
I know many of you have voted by mail, but I never did until this summer. I finally got around to checking the county website and sure as heck they show that I voted by mail and that my vote was counted. I'm more delighted about this than I anticipated. Whee! Vote!
Jesse - Aug 21, 2020 8:37:07 am PDT #25152 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still have plenty of time before our 9/1 primary here, but I'm still going to bring my ballot to a local drop box instead of a mail box.
Going back to licking doorknobs, I just suggested to an incoming college freshman that if they can just refrain from all jamming into one room to lick each other for a week, things will probably be OK. He was like, ".... but we're college freshmen!" THIS IS THE PROBLEM!
NoiseDesign - Aug 21, 2020 8:54:41 am PDT #25153 of 30019
Our wings are not tired
That is EXACTLY the problem. I've been teaching at the college level for way too long now, and even the best intentioned college students just cannot be trusted to keep away from each other. Toddlers and college students, the two populations most likely to have their tongues in places they probably should not.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2020 9:32:35 am PDT #25154 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously.
Toddson - Aug 21, 2020 10:13:02 am PDT #25155 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
We had a staff Zoom call/meeting today (it's a weekly thing) and a few people had kids heading off to college, either living on campus or in a nearby apartment. Some of them are halfway expecting the kids to be sent home; one joked that if that happened, they'd be living in the garage for a two-week quarantine.
-t - Aug 21, 2020 10:48:51 am PDT #25156 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I added some macaroni to my leftovers and I left the box sitting by the instant pot. Just now I knocked it over, because I am a knocker over of stuff, and as I grabbed it I said out loud "No!" and once I set it down upright on the counter, a stern "That is not okay".
So, hurricanes thinking about heading towards the gulf coast and making trouble: No! That is not okay.
Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2020 11:08:31 am PDT #25157 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I also am a knocker over of stuff, and a talker to stuff.
Atropa - Aug 21, 2020 11:15:58 am PDT #25158 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I also am a knocker over of stuff, and a talker to stuff.
I talk to everything. Cats, furniture, inanimate objects, software I'm using, content repositories ...