All my Angeleno friends are trying to explain the protests are confined to very local areas and not LA at large.
Like Portland in 2020, where the protests basically involved one city block.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Consuela - Jun 09, 2025 7:47:35 pm PDT #7623 of 7637
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
aurelia - Jun 09, 2025 7:51:02 pm PDT #7624 of 7637
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Where would I have put my safety goggles? They're not in the big tool box where I thought they'd be.
meara - Jun 09, 2025 9:08:54 pm PDT #7625 of 7637
Or Seattle in 2020–it was about two blocks worth. I could drive down the street one block parallel to it and not realize anything was happening. It SOUNDED scary to say “I live six blocks away from the police station that got taken over!” But seriously other than a few times when there was helicopters low flying for too long, you wouldn’t know.
brenda m - Jun 10, 2025 6:32:37 am PDT #7626 of 7637
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
There are people who seriously still believe that Seattle and Minneapolis were burned to the ground.
Laura - Jun 10, 2025 11:16:55 am PDT #7627 of 7637
Our wings are not tired.
Working out the details of my return to NY for the summer. Brendon is going to fly up with the cat on the 18th and fly back here on the 25th. He likes to go up before me to get the water turned on and do whatever prep is needed for me. We are assuming that a 3-hour flight under the seat will be easier on her than three full days in the car. My sister is flying to Florida on the 21st, and we will road trip starting on the west coast of Florida, stopping in Enon, Ohio, to visit family for a couple of days. Skinner will ride with us because he loves riding in the car and wouldn't fit under a plane seat anyway.
The route is a new one for me, going through Atlanta, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Lexington, and Cincinnati before we get to Enon to visit with the cousins. Then, through Cleveland and Buffalo, before landing in Otter Lake. I like a road trip, and my sister, so this should be fun.
meara - Jun 10, 2025 11:20:06 am PDT #7628 of 7637
Sisterly road trip sounds fun!
I am so bad at getting work done when I don’t have as much to do. If I’ve got tons to do I’m powering through it but if there’s nothing urgent it’s hard to make myself do any of it.
Plumber is supposed to be here between noon and 2–hoping it is what I think, and not anything more complicated/expensive. Though I do need a new hot water heater any day now.
Laura - Jun 10, 2025 11:41:31 am PDT #7629 of 7637
Our wings are not tired.
If a tankless water heater is an option, I love ours.
bennett - Jun 10, 2025 11:46:38 am PDT #7630 of 7637
Laura - Have you flown with a cat before? TSA may ask you to take the cat out of the carrier which can be "interesting" in a crowded, noisy airport.
Trudy Booth - Jun 10, 2025 12:03:11 pm PDT #7631 of 7637
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Deploying Marines on civilians. Greaaaaaat.
Anyone else got the I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die rag in their head?
That and Right Hand Man... Thirty-two thousand troops in New York Harbor...
Laura - Jun 10, 2025 12:22:07 pm PDT #7632 of 7637
Our wings are not tired.
This will be a first for Scully! There won't be anything else in her carrying case. I'll have a harness on her and have a kitty leash, but hopefully they will do the inspection in a privacy room, which would be easier than having her out with a zillion people. A new experience, but I have to think easier than the road trip with about 30 hours in the car.