It is weird hearing about smoke and bad air and not being in it
Agree!!
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'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.
meara - Jun 07, 2023 9:35:52 am PDT #22587 of 30000
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2023 9:40:43 am PDT #22588 of 30000
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Steph L. - Jun 07, 2023 9:41:44 am PDT #22589 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Current photo of Manhattan
Holy EPA, Batman!
Jessica - Jun 07, 2023 9:55:58 am PDT #22590 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Current photo of Manhattan
Apparently NYC has the 2nd worst air quality in the world right now. (I have to assume Quebec is winning/losing that race, since it is literally on fire??)
P.M. Marc - Jun 07, 2023 10:13:44 am PDT #22591 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My sympathies. We've had at least a few weeks of that every damn summer since 2017. I would say you get used to it, but you really don't.
(Still decent air and blue skies here, though we're so much closer to some of the worst of the Canadian fires. The wind that's saving us is apparently screwing you.)
(ETA: Ah, you're getting the Quebec smoke, not the Northeast BC smoke. Gotta disambiguate the smoke. In my defense, Denver was getting the BC smoke recently.)
amyparker - Jun 07, 2023 10:24:58 am PDT #22592 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
If the budget will stretch to such and you or someone you know has a membership, Costco has the BlueAir 121 purifier on sale until the 11th; I have one and it got us through last year's round of "We're number one! In sucky air quality!" If it doesn't, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to the rescue!
P.M. Marc - Jun 07, 2023 10:28:02 am PDT #22593 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
If the budget will stretch to such and you or someone you know has a membership, Costco has the BlueAir 121 purifier on sale until the 11th; I have one and it got us through last year's round of "We're number one! In sucky air quality!"
The September Sneak Attack! I thought we were finally going to make it a summer without the hellsmoke. Nope. Nope.
Also, I guess we should get one of those.
amyparker - Jun 07, 2023 10:34:12 am PDT #22594 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Yes you should, and if the filters are on sale, grab one of those as well.
erikaj - Jun 07, 2023 10:46:21 am PDT #22595 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
The thought of all those wildfires is so horrifying. We have the forests somewhere burn almost every year, but I'm not close to all that. Um, so far, anyway. Tomorrow is going to be a big day for me...as a member of the disability issue team, I'll be meeting virtually with Grijalva's chief of staff about the SSI Restoration Act...wish me luck, especially since the Big Boss, Alan, will be there with my supervisor and me. It would be a good time to come off well.
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2023 11:16:49 am PDT #22596 of 30000
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Now they’re grounding flights due to low visibility.