Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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.


Jessica - Jul 13, 2021 6:52:37 am PDT #7762 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My town has a 68% vaccination rate but with the Delta variant and optional indoor masking cases are on the rise again after declining to almost zero.

ION, I woke up with a headache and so far have tried coffee, exercise, and ibuprofen but I STILL HAVE A FUCKING HEADACHE. Stupid human body with its stupid pain receptors and stupid sinuses that don't like the stupid weather we're having.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 13, 2021 7:00:13 am PDT #7763 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

Only 27% of my city is fully vaccinated despite it having opened up to all adults in April, and when I go out I'm often the only person I see in a mask except servers and workers required to wear them on the job. I have a strong trust that I'm surrounded by idiots and they need to keep the hell away from me.


Laura - Jul 13, 2021 7:13:57 am PDT #7764 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

My county in NY shows 54% and in Florida 50%. Do better people!


-t - Jul 13, 2021 7:52:10 am PDT #7765 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yikes, Matt


amyparker - Jul 13, 2021 7:54:34 am PDT #7766 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.

The numbers in my town are good, but I've got to go to Tacoma and then Olympia today; I may be double masking.


-t - Jul 13, 2021 8:02:38 am PDT #7767 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I just looked up my county numbers, 64%. I'm not out and about enough to know what the mask situation is like - everyone I see are wearing masks while they work with the public but I don't know what the public is up to. Oh look, my city has the lowest rate with 58%. What's that about, Suisun?

Wait, that's from the end of May. How weird that there aren't newer numbers available. Probably not good, then.


EpicTangent - Jul 13, 2021 8:48:09 am PDT #7768 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

You guys inspired me to look mine up. Looks like San Diego county is at about 70% , though the state is apparently only at 51% (*grumble, grumble* frickin' Central Valley).


Steph L. - Jul 13, 2021 9:11:17 am PDT #7769 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Statewide, Ohio is about 45% fully vaccinated, and my county is about 47%. Both of those are below the national average of 48.5%. Jesus.


sj - Jul 13, 2021 9:22:44 am PDT #7770 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Our county is at 61.9% and the state of MA is at 62.7%.


Toddson - Jul 13, 2021 9:29:24 am PDT #7771 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I may be a bad person ... the rest of the office is coming back and one, a new staff person, arrived to find that the docking station for her computer isn't there. I have it. Mine died and that one was the only one in the office that matched my old one. I'm not saying that to anyone in the office, but I figured it's safe to 'fess up here. (Also - all our computers and docking stations have locks on them ... the one I snitched we don't have the code for, but it's OK - someone previously CUT the cable securing the docking station.)