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.
Ha! Boston outdid that one with an actually quite terrifying Molasses Flood, which killed a bunch of people.
Glad Biden preemptively pardoned a bunch of people that Trump has threatened. I'm purposely not reading up about the new executive actions, because I'm going to vomit if I do.
I remember reading a book as a kid about the molasses flood!
I'm purposely not reading up about the new executive actions
Don't. They will still be there when you're ready.
Teppy, a friend from high school found those same type of flyers in her neighborhood in my home town.
We have a pretty robust Mexican immigrant community in my hometown. Which, ironically, is the home of Tom Metzger (founder of WAR—White Aryan Resistance—behind the neo-Nazi resurgence in the 80s).
As the executive orders started flying, I started getting depressed.
Elon's Nazi salute was really the capper on the whole shittastic day for me.
