Much Passport ~ma Susan and Alex

my generic ordinary middle aged white lady presentation that protects me outside said bubble as long as I keep my mouth shut.

I hate this. I want to use it for good, but I don't know quite how.

I too just think they have all my data. There was also a payroll data breach at work that means they also have my social security number and bank account number, so I am just screwed.

Oh yeah, since whatever federal office that does security clearances got hacked, both my and husband's info have been out there. Let alone all of the other breaches.

Passport~ma, Susan

Argh, Steph! How awful. Fully support punching.

Ooooh, link? I don't have a Costco membership but that sounds so useful.

This is the one I have. [link]

Among other things, most of the mutual aid and immigrant networks operate through FB. Between that and the neighborhood group, I can’t get comfortable cutting off those lines of information.

For as long as they last. And in the meantime building up more RL connections.

That sucks, Steph.

Passport~ma, Susan.

I’m hoping to get a condo or the like this fall, so my sister and I drove up to Port Huron today, to get a sense of the vibe and whatnot. It was ~10 F, so we didn’t walk around a lot. But we had lunch by the Blue Water bridge, which goes to Canada. We found a gaming store, where I talked to the rather cute proprietor about the geek quotient in the area ( enough for multiple weekly gaming nights, both board and role playing, and a second store devoted to just card-based gaming). Then we went two doors down to a gothy coffee shop called The Raven, which leaned hard into the Poe theme. A fair bit of anime hair in view. I saw at least one trans flag and one pride flag in town, as well as a witch store we didn’t go into. There’s a lovely neighborhood I’ll never be able to afford, but the less expensive neighborhoods looked largely well cared for. The surrounding environment is terrifyingly Trumpy, but that was true back in NC.

We’ll be checking out some other areas (New Baltimore, the riverfront area in Detroit), but Ort Huron looks promising. I’ll look forward to exploring it more when it’s a tad warmer.

My mom’s hometown is right across the river in Sarnia! There was a place in Port Huron called the London Dairy that we always used to go to for ice cream.

Aw, apparently it closed in 2001 due damage from a 2,500 gallon liquid sugar overflow. The paper referred to it as a freak accident. Pity.

I thought I had signed up for LibraryThing way back but apparently I didn't. I'm trying to read more this year so I signed up for it

I own fines to my library I need to deal with. But honestly a lot of the books I want to read they don't have. I'm foong to pay my fines and see what I can get and look make a list.

2,500 gallon liquid sugar overflow

That is…something.