Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.

'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Toddson - Mar 01, 2024 8:15:25 am PST #28959 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

This may make air travel better/safer for people using wheelchairs. I don't use one, but I know it's been an issue for those that do. And they're supposed to require accessible lavatories on single-aisle planes.


erikaj - Mar 01, 2024 11:13:25 am PST #28960 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

When I was in college, my electric chair was, just, like, *massive*--one of the main reasons why I never really took to it or, quite frankly, why I don't miss it at all, even though it was Technology Designed To Improve My Life(Never fit right, either, though. Breaking in wheelchairs is apparently not a thing.) Anyway, even with the feeling that I'm driving a tank through the quad, there was always some idiot practically landing in my lap all "I'm sorry....I didn't see you there." Really?! Yeah, that thing that you stare at also moves. I miss the feeling of possibility, but I don't miss college either. If only I could have believed that they did it to get close to my lap.(Not really, TimesUp ladies, but sometimes.)


Toddson - Mar 01, 2024 11:18:57 am PST #28961 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I read something about a woman who was fed up with people grabbing the handles of her wheelchair and pushing her around so she put spikes or something on the handles and had indignant people grabbing the handles and getting indignant that they got spiked.


Atropa - Mar 01, 2024 11:39:31 am PST #28962 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I have to admit, using a cane has vastly improved strangers' behavior around me. That and the metal coffin purse.


Atropa - Mar 01, 2024 11:41:02 am PST #28963 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Speaking of purses, I'm mildly annoyed that you can only take a small clear purse to stadium events these days. Blah blah blah safety, I get it, but they're an aesthetic crime.


Toddson - Mar 01, 2024 12:03:20 pm PST #28964 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I've thought about starting to use a cane - my knees are getting worse and my balance is pretty bad.


Beverly - Mar 01, 2024 1:26:03 pm PST #28965 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yeah, it's the balance thing, for me. I'm still learning to use mine. I've used one for injuries now and then, in my right hand. But the PT people insist I need to use it in my left, and that takes a lot of practice, a bit of samurai staff moves, some windmilling--oh, sorry, didn't see you there. It doesn't make me walk faster but I am less potentially unsteady on my feet.

Also, if it matters to you, get a pretty one, it's an accessory, like jewelry.


Consuela - Mar 01, 2024 1:32:07 pm PST #28966 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Today's my day off but I just had 3 separate work calls, including a meeting with my boss and 10 other people. Joy. At least I got to the gym earlier?

There's a thing that I know about that is going to make local news and people are going to be very worked up, possibly including congressional pressure, and I'm so glad that I have only a tangential involvement with it. What I do have is the institutional memory, oy. SF-istas, you will probably know it when it hits. You'll be like, "Oh that is what Consuela was talking about!" It'll be a few weeks, I think...

I seem to be fully recovered from covid, except I really didn't exercise for the last 3 weeks. And the weather is not conducive to a nice stressful hike in the woods today. So instead I had a fried egg on avocado toast and piece of leftover cake for lunch. And I think I will sit on the couch and watch some mountain films.


amyparker - Mar 01, 2024 9:56:47 pm PST #28967 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.

'Suela, as one of the supports for a mutual friend who dealt with what may be a similar situation, I am sorry and I hope you have some good pillows to scream into.


Laura - Mar 02, 2024 1:09:13 pm PST #28968 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

We just had hundreds of cars driving up A1A beeping horns, flying flags, yelling through bullhorns, playing music, and so forth protesting the mess in Gaza.