And... my dad's in the hospital, for a lingering infection that has lingered for the last three months, and I just found out from his girlfriend that he's actually had and been using a home O2 tank periodically for the last month and didn't tell anyone but her. January can super go shit in its hat and wear it.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'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.
JZ - Jan 30, 2019 1:17:00 pm PST #4612 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Theodosia - Jan 30, 2019 1:24:14 pm PST #4613 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
JZ, I'm so sorry -- what a sad way to die that is, from something so correctable and really quite minor. What a loss for everyone.
I'm on Day Three of a bad Cold, the kind I used to get all the time as a kid, where my sinuses block off the tear duct drainage so that I get watery eyes and sinus-headache from Hell. And none of the OTC drugs I have on hand seem to be doing much at all. Tonight it seems to be backing off a bit.
It does help that The Roommate has finally given me a check for the past two months, so even if I get back to driving Lyft tomorrow (dubious) it'll be a short week paywise, but I'll be able to make the mortgage and the homestead will be saved once again.
dcp - Jan 30, 2019 1:30:00 pm PST #4614 of 30019
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Upward-falling snow at work this afternoon: [link]
-t - Jan 30, 2019 2:09:10 pm PST #4615 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, man, JZ. I hope he gets better soon and maybe tells you what's going on a little more in the future. NO MORE NASTY SURPRISES FOR JZ UNIVERSE
Glad to hear that, Theo!
aurelia - Jan 30, 2019 2:41:56 pm PST #4616 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Oh, JZ. I hope the hospital is able to get that under control quickly.
Jesse - Jan 30, 2019 3:11:29 pm PST #4617 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, JZ. Like you needed something else. Best thoughts to your dad!
All day, I felt like I had been peer pressured by the news elsewhere into wearing my puffy coat today, because it wasn't actually that cold. But then I had to walk home through a surprise blizzard! So that worked out. By blizzard, I mean probably not that much snow, but it was super windy.
Tom Scola - Jan 30, 2019 3:13:40 pm PST #4618 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
We got the mini-blizzard in NYC, too: [link]
Jesse - Jan 30, 2019 3:40:58 pm PST #4619 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's hilarious.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 30, 2019 3:59:59 pm PST #4620 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
It's in the comparatively balmy high teens here, but when I came home for dinner the sodas in my refrigerator felt warmer than my hands.
Laura - Jan 30, 2019 4:25:29 pm PST #4621 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
And... my dad's in the hospital
Parents! Sending healing ~ma in his direction. I'm sorry that this has added to your stress.