I fucking hate 420. It's the worst day in San Francisco.
You're not wrong.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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.
shrift - Apr 20, 2023 12:08:03 pm PDT #21808 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
JZ - Apr 20, 2023 1:18:15 pm PDT #21809 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.
How long ago was his myeloma diagnosis, and, because I cannot remember, was it smoldering or symptomatic at the time of diagnosis? (Asking, literally, for a close friend with it looking for real-life outcomes.)
I'm pretty sure it was over the 2019-20 holidays, and it was symptomatic. It had been smoldering for several years but he hadn't told any of us. He got excellent care at a hospital in NYC whose name I cannot now recall, and he's currently in a state known as "we don't use the word remission in this kind of cancer but if we did we would be using it for you."
Or it might have been 2018-19. I don't know. I do know that he was very sick and bald and weak during the worst of it, but kept all of us at arms' length. Which was easy enough what with the lockdowns, but as a consequence none of us have any real idea of what it was like for him (his husband took tremendously good care of him and shared well-written but personally spare updates with all of us, but nobody ever saw him until the not-remission.
JZ - Apr 20, 2023 1:19:03 pm PDT #21810 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.
You're not wrong.
You're right on the park. It's got to be pure misery!
Tom Scola - Apr 20, 2023 1:37:26 pm PDT #21811 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
He got excellent care at a hospital in NYC whose name I cannot now recall
A strong likelihood it's Sloan-Kettering.
JZ - Apr 20, 2023 1:39:11 pm PDT #21812 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.
Very likely! But your city really has an embarrassment of medical riches, so I don't want to say for sure.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2023 1:59:48 pm PDT #21813 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Went down to Borderlands to distract myself and offer support to my friend, Eleanor, who works there.
Gunfire broke out on Haight Street.
Nobody hit as far as I can tell but people were scampering in one direction and seven police were headed towards it looking grim, and I could hear over their radios the suspect was running down Page street (which runs parallel to Haight).
-t - Apr 20, 2023 2:11:01 pm PDT #21814 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes!
shrift - Apr 20, 2023 2:58:45 pm PDT #21815 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
You're right on the park. It's got to be pure misery!
I've learned to practice strategic avoidance. I work from home to avoid running into the hordes of stoners and the terrible traffic. If I want to go out, east of my apartment doesn't exist and I don't know her. I went west into the Sunset this afternoon and it was pretty quiet.
Gunfire broke out on Haight Street.
😬
Jesse - Apr 20, 2023 2:59:22 pm PDT #21816 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I thought weed was supposed to be chill???
flea - Apr 20, 2023 3:05:04 pm PDT #21817 of 30000
information libertarian
Right before we closed one of our regulars came in on a very stinky wave of 420 fumes, asked if he could use the copier (it was broken), asked if he could have a couple of pieces of paper (yes) and then wandered out again.