I wonder if he'd say any of those things if I dropped a cartoon anvil on his head.

No, but he might wave a little cartoon flag with them.

Note to self: Cancel order for Patriarchy-smashing mallet from Acme.

He often looks like a particularly chubby Vizzini.

Considering how many of the newborns in my family looked like Winston Churchill, take the win. May the home monitoring come about soon, because home is a very fine place for you and Arthur to be.

Somebody gave me hard time on twitter because I said I fight lack of access with my twin sledgehammers, Freedom and Responsibility. I "shouldn't even joke about that" apparently. Why not? Being serious hasn't worked!

David, emailing you what I can find while on this machine. First batch sent, second batch waiting for the interminable Zenfolio load to finish, OMG.

Looking through all the F2F pictures to find Jacqueline's pictures my heart was heavy. Too many losses in our Buffista family.

I was just thinking that too. Too many people in my pictures are gone.

I shrieked when I read this and then had to explain to Tim, whose reaction was "Awww, hooray!"

I really kind of hope the four of us get to hang out one day. Lord, he and Tim have a LOT in common, lol. I want him to meet lots of Buffistas.

how he probably had the supplies to go make me a ring at his house that moment

That's incredibly cool, BTW.

Right?! And he actually thought it through: “Let’s see, I’ve got wax and plaster, I think I’ve got a propane torch to melt the gold…” All while I was giggling and melting from competence kink.

Thanks, everyone. Y’all have been there for decades of relationship angst, so I definitely want to share the joy.

Man, a lot of my photos are on a hard drive I can’t access. And some are maybe still on Flickr? Does that still exist?

Flickr still exists. I just regained access to mine.

Holy crap there is a miracle for my cousin's son J-- has relatives that were some how out of the loop of him being taken from his mother etc. But at one point (I'm not sure , apparently mom hasn't been keeping me in the loop about this) Mom was trying to text my cousin's ex girlfriend , Jennifer, and accidentally texted his cousin, Jennifer. And Jennifer the Cousin texted back and wanted details (or second cousin, honestly I'm not sure).

Anyway, the important part is that there are 2 cousins - one in CA and one in NC who have taken a huge interest in my cousin's son and the one in NC, C the Cousin, is a children's rights attorney, and she wants to have guardianship of J and have him live with her and her family (if he wants). She and her family have been going to FL to visit several times and they have a weekly online game of some kind.

AND! C the Cousin has been doing everything she can to pass all the background checks and do everything social services need and is doing her best to make sure that J can get cleared to visit them on Labor Day weekend so C and her family and J can go to DRAGON CON! I am so hopefully this will happen. The whole thing, that he will get to live with C and go to Dragon Con and have a family connection. The cousin and her family in CA also want him to visit and want to be a larger part of his life. My aunt was J's guardian but since she passed there is going to be a question of who and I'm hoping that will make it easier for C to step into that role.

I have photos, I think on an external drive, I've been trying to lay my hands on it. And I have physical pictures I need to find and I have to figure out where they are in storage. I think the physical pictures are from the DC F2F so there should be pictures of JZ there.