Timelies all!

I'm sorry, sj.

After a couple of good days, Mr. S was awful today. (I wasn't home, but Gary told me what went on)

Mark Rober versus porch pirates. Glitterbomb 3.0 [link]

I'm a little envious of the East Coast snow. Normally I root against it, but since I don't have to deal with commuting myself or worrying about Alex's two-bus commute to his chosen alternative high school at the other end of town, it would be lovely and would break up the monotony. Plus, our quince tree barely produced any fruit this year, to the disappointment of everyone we gave quince jam to last year, and apparently it was due to the warm winter, so a little colder would be nice.

I'm sorry about your uncle and the MRI, sj. That's a real day of shit!

I am not looking forward the snow, especially because I'm afraid work snow days are cancelled forever now! I will be able to shovel tomorrow between 12-2 and then after 5, because otherwise I'm in meetings. So I'm hoping it actually does snow all day so I don't feel guilty.

I'm so sorry about your uncle, sj. And I hope you've been able to settle some since the MRI.

They canceled school for ltc earlier today.

I took a long nap when we got home as the anxiety drugs I took made me sleep. I'm feeling mostly better now, but still aggravated I can't get people to listen to me.

Several people in my family do not go by their given names, to the point when my great aunt called collect once, my brother and I did recognize the name and didn't accept the charges. The phone rang again and the operator was clearly amused when he said "collect call from Aunt Bootsie."

Im waffling about going home for Christmas. I drive, so it can be a game time decision. Theoretically, it's just a straight shot from my house to my brother's house, so should be safe. But, I'm still not speaking to my mother, and I would think that he and his family would go over there on Christmas morning. I really don't want to deal with that drama.

Vortex I'd say stay home. I think this year, of any years, is the one to just stay home.

I got a cortical steroid injection into my upper spine today, so that was fun. Hopefully this buys me some time with the herniated disc in my neck.

Heard from Gud - he's alive and well.

Separate post: Mark Rober is having the best quarantine (also I'm expecting cadaverine in v4.0)

Hopefully the cortisone will work its magic, ND.

I came *this* close to bringing home a group of teens tonight. When my son is at tae kwon do I hang out at the local Panera and try to get work done. Tonight there was a group of 4 boys about my son's age sitting in one of the booths where they've removed the table for social distancing (the few people in the place were all 20+ feet apart and mostly masked except when eating). I happened to sit at the one place that has an outlet, so one of them came over to ask if he could use it to charge his phone. Something about the whole situation pinged my spidersense so I started eavesdropping on them. They are homeless and were trying to find someplace to spend the night out of the snow, but no one was agreeing because covid. The cousin of one works at that Panera and the mgr. let them stay inside in the warm but they couldn't stay at the cousin's again. When people went to dump their dishes, the kids were asking if they could have the leftovers. Each of them chatted with me a bit as they were re-charging their phones and they were super-nice.

Ultimately they did find someone who said they could stay over. I bought them a couple pizzas. When my son showed up he said hi to the first one I met and later told me he knows him vaguely from school - they are in the same grade and Mal was like "I don't know anything about him except he's nice."

So now I'm going to worry about these kids forever. And this is probably going to get worse as the economy gets worse.