Are you near Rangeley Lakes or the Carabasset Valley? They roam more in Winter. We spend our whole summer in mid-coast Maine these days, but "vacation" on the interior lakes. The moose are not friendly, so you don't really want to see one.

We are in Stoneham which is fairly close to New Hampshire border mid state. Nothing close to us really except lots of lakes and mountains. Very pretty. The kids went to an open mic thing at the local pub last night and people were walking up and introducing themselves and super friendly.

I'm hoping that it is clear tonight because there are no population lights at all and the stars should be amazing.

Brenda, I am super jealous of you being at the convention! It looks incredible. The number of people crammed together with no masks still kinda makes me tremble though.

Awww, poor Brendon.

Amy Tan (of all people) puts out a regular notice on the dangers of falls on stairs especially as people get older, with lots of preventive tips. (I think she's had two bad falls, and her husband took a header too.)

It's a very mundane hazard that can have big, lingering, sometimes fatal consequences.

(I'm also reminded of my earliest days on the internet when I would haunt an AOL forum of grieving widows, and a high proportion had lost their husbands from falling off the roof or ladders. Again, gravity is a harsh mistress. One of the last fights I had with JZ was when she was tottering on a ladder in front of our open window.)

Yah, I always hold on to railings now. Knock wood. Which is not to Brendon-blame or -shame! Just saying it's where I am in life now.

I hope 20 or so years in the future when we say That Fuckin’ Guy young people will have no idea who we are talking about (unless they are big history nerds, I suppose)

I hope Brendon didn’t take too much damage from his tumble.

Lots of leg~ma for Brendon.

Our older dog, Freya is starting to have trouble with the stairs, at least when doing down, so sometimes I have to carry her down and that's a bit nerve-wracking because I can't see the stairs well and I need to use both arms to carry her (our other dog I can just tuck under one arm, but she's young and doesn't need any help with stairs). It also doesn't help that they wind around the bend.

Yikes! Sorry about Brendon's tumble.

My switch from third floor walkup to single level detached home seems to have come at just the right time, and alleviated most of my tendonitis pain. I never fell on the stairs, but several of my neighbors did and I took them very carefully as a result.

Matilda said goodbye to her friend Veronica this morning, the third of her close friends who have left for college this week. It's making her very sad, on top of the approaching anniversary of Jacqueline's death.

However, Emmett is coming over shortly and we'll all go to breakfast at a new creperie.

I hope Brendon heals quickly.

I'm sorry Matilda's friends are all going away but crepes sound good.

I'm at an urgent care. I hurt my shoulder at work 2 days ago. Kept thinking it would get better. But it hasn't. I reported it ..or rather mentioned it to my team lead who said it had to be reported as an incident. I didn't think it would be that bad. But the next day I work is Sunday and if it was worse on Sunday that would have made the logistics of urgent care etc worse.

Everything has to be by the book now because part of the reason why the former store manager was fired was not reporting incidents and for discouraging someone from reporting an accident. I wouldn't have felt comfortable reporting this with her.

I read RFK JR has dropped his attempt to run for President and endorsed Trump. From what I've gathered this could help Harris and hurt Trump. I hope that is true.

I have work restrictions: no lifting or carrying anything over 15 lbs, no over head lifting , no over head reaching and no repetitive movements with my left arm until the 29th when I have to go back to get re evaluated.

I have no idea what I'm going to do because that covers all the movements I do for my job. I told the dr this and she was like "they can have you scan things for inventory" which makes no sense but I'm not pushing it, maybe they will cross train me for front end (which I don't really want). However this experience is already 100% better than the workers comp experience when I got my concussion