Timelies all!
Today was a little better, if only because he was with the nanny until 6.(I had a virtual therapy session at 5) Right now he's having difficulty settling down for bed.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
Sheryl - Jan 04, 2023 5:42:10 pm PST #19815 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
askye - Jan 04, 2023 6:32:48 pm PST #19816 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I guess if the Dems could find a few GOP to flip they could have the Speaker of the House ..that is how it works right ? The person with the majority?
I don't think they could get them to flip their vote but it would be some what amusing.
Consuela - Jan 04, 2023 6:41:24 pm PST #19817 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Best of luck, Sheryl.
It's suddenly ferociously windy here: it's so loud it kind of sounds like an engine outside.
In an excess of optimism I'm going to make this tonight to have for book club tomorrow: [link]
Doesn't that look great? I'm very excited.
shrift - Jan 04, 2023 6:48:26 pm PST #19818 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I feel like I should tell Sophia that, for dinner tonight, I made an attempt at cabbage stuffed with filling that I'd layer in a lasagna. It was delicious.
Doesn't that look great?
It dooooo.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 04, 2023 7:13:09 pm PST #19819 of 30000
What is even happening?
I have never heard of this Uproot before. It sounds like a miracle.
Karl - Jan 04, 2023 7:31:47 pm PST #19820 of 30000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Walking cancelled tonight on account of inclement weather and local power outage. I'm fine -- I have candles and batteries and blankets and plenty of food and water. I'm just having a little camp-out in my apartment. Feeling very close to the spirit of my maternal grandmother, who used to weather storms like this every winter out on the Point Reyes peninsula in my youth. (Forty years ago!)
JZ - Jan 04, 2023 8:23:57 pm PST #19821 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
May it be a safe, dry and peaceful camp-out, Karl. I love the vision of your grandmother in a storm like this, maybe saying, "Wild nights are my glory."
Cass - Jan 04, 2023 10:11:12 pm PST #19822 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I don't think they could get them to flip their vote but it would be some what amusing.
One of the Never Kevins said that Jeffries was more acceptable than McCarthy. I read that yesterday and don't recall the source.
The veggie pasta bake looks yummy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2023 10:23:08 pm PST #19823 of 30000
"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
I'm fairly certain the Uproot violates the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy. There should be no way the amount of shed hair it picks up could fit inside that small a volume of fabric.
I forgot to mention that yesterday the cable technician who connected me had to spend 30 minutes with a huge power drill to make the necessary hole in an exterior brick wall, coming in panting several times to check if the drill bit had breached yet. He said that he didn't know what the bricks were made of, but they were the strongest he'd ever tried to drill through. Not a bad thing to hear as a new homeowner, and that windowless brick-enclosed front closet is now my go-to tornado shelter.
Also, I managed to insert FOUR USB cables correctly on the the first try yesterday, so I'm regretful that my cousin didn't schedule her Las Vegas wedding for January instead of October.
beekaytee - Jan 04, 2023 10:51:25 pm PST #19824 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I feel that, properly employed, the Uproot could still be the right tool for this job.Matt, you have inspired visuals in my mind that I cannot thank you for, but you aren't wrong.
I've become sort of addicted to the Uproot, I spent an hour doing three rooms tonight. And, I discovered an extra added bonus...my Fitbit registers the vigorous activity as actual exercise!
I take an unwholesome delight in the fact that I only wear one kind of short, black socks most of the time and thanks to the Uproot, for the first time, I don't have to take extra measures to de-fur them before washing. It really is the little things that make life so delightful.
I haven't been following the GOP conflagration closely but one of my clients said that it's been fun watching the Rs eat their young. I'm no stranger to schadenfreude, but I just hope the chaos is short-lived and that some sort of reason prevails.