Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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 23, 2020 2:16:46 pm PDT #25217 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Text-banking for 2 orgs: Red2Blue which has you go through a training, send controlled texts at specific times in a moderated slack channel for specific areas or candidates, and reviews your texts each day. Also these lists are small because they are for a specific candidate or a county or something similar.

Then for When We All Vote, which does not give you training, does not limit how many you text, has HUGE lists of all registered voters, has no means that I can see to ask a live person questions while you are texting, and also from what I can see offers no feedback on the texts you send. For this to be Michelle Obama's group and have so little oversight is really bad.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2020 2:22:27 pm PDT #25218 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

So sorry to hear the news about JZ's dad's house.


askye - Aug 23, 2020 3:15:27 pm PDT #25219 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

I'm so sorry David. that's just.. this year just sucks.


billytea - Aug 23, 2020 3:56:29 pm PDT #25220 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I"m so sorry for JZ. On top of everything else this year, this is just too much.


sj - Aug 23, 2020 3:57:10 pm PDT #25221 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

{{{JZ and family}}}


Zenkitty - Aug 23, 2020 4:23:53 pm PDT #25222 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

JZ, David, I'm so sorry. That's heartbreaking.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 23, 2020 4:42:44 pm PDT #25223 of 30019
What is even happening?

Jacqueline, David, and family, I am so sorry this happened to you.


Calli - Aug 23, 2020 4:52:46 pm PDT #25224 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm so sorry about the fire, JZ and Hec.


DavidS - Aug 23, 2020 5:51:27 pm PDT #25225 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

JZ and her brothers just had a conference call. The insurance has good coverage for the house, surrounding property and items inside.

So they will probably just fix the roof, strip down the inside and sell the property as is. The view and surrounding property is extremely desirable (you can see SF, the entire Bay and both bridges), so some rich tech dude sitting on a pile of money will probably snap it up as a project.

Not ideal, and a headache, but maybe not a big financial loss.


Katerina Bee - Aug 23, 2020 7:28:07 pm PDT #25226 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

Let's be thankful for whatever small mercies come to us in difficult times.

Also someone might see an ideal opportunity to pick out their dream house details.

All my sympathies to the House of Zmayhem.