My daughter has a temporary job at an apartment complex, cleaning shit up for incoming university students. Today was move-in day. It didn’t go universally well:
Exactly. It’s DEAD, lady. FFS. That’s the sign of a full-service student housing unit. ?
Open thread!
schrodingers_cat
Hey you just think its dead. Then its starts flying!
lamh36
A lil tweet to momentarily lift ya’ll spirits…
I’m not cutting onions, who’s cutting onions”!!!!
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
Why’s she screaming? She should be glad it’s not a damn palmetto bug, throw a shoe at one of those and they fly AT you, good times. I don’t miss Florida at all. The ones in Guam though are HUUUGGGGGEEE!
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
B-52s, the little roaches that aren’t.
efgoldman
Move-in day (and move-out day) in Boston are total horror shows, Inevitably a rental truck will go where it’s not supposed to, and get stuck under an overpass blocking traffic for hours. Parents are double and triple parked in front of the dorms. And it seems the date always coincides with a Red Sox game at Fenway right around the corner.
I used to have to fight my way thru to get to my 600-midnight radio shift. Glad that’s over.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36:
Gvg
You’re only supposed to scream if they move and touch you in the dark. It doesn’t make you popular if you yell at other people. We don’t like them either.
Term is about to start at UF and I have been so busy at work I didn’t even know till tonight they were removing the confederate statue downtown today. Coincidence as the descission was made a month ago. It went off without a hitch. They got the daughters of the confederacy to take it back. The original donors over a century ago. Supposedly going into a small cemetery but they are being quiet about where. Nice news.
TenguPhule
It could be worse, she could have a temporary job cleaning up after they leave.
raven
Hey Betty, this dude was a ringleader in C-Ville, he’s from Gainesville.
Meet Michael Tubbs. The former Green Beret demolitions expert, his hair grown long now, is vice chairman of the league’s Northeast Florida chapter, and he’s been photographed alongside league president Michael Hill. Tubbs is chaplain to the Florida SCV chapter and heads the SCV’s “Flags Across Florida” campaign, which seeks to line the state’s roadways with Confederate battle flags.
Gravenstone
Had a college summer job cleaning up campus after the school year, and then between summer camps. Talk about fucking slobs… I will never look down on janitorial crews after that experience.
cope
As my dear, departed mother would say to the mother yelling about the cockroach, “Not so loud, now everybody is going to want one.”
A Ghost to Most
thehill
Anyone heard of this?
Eta: no roaches, but a cricket started chirping in my workshop, so must listen to Little Feat.
raven
@Gvg: Today was the first day of classes here in Athens, the place has been a zoo for a week.
TenguPhule
@Gvg:
You’ve never been dive-bombed by a giant American or German roach in the kitchen when the lights came on, have you?
TenguPhule
@A Ghost to Most:
Yes. Waiting to see how the court rules before deciding on a reaction.
Catherine D.
Freshmen move in here on Friday. Not looking forward to it – the most dangerous time to cross a street! U-turns in bizarre places.
A Ghost to Most
@TenguPhule:
Seems like everything is in the hands of judges and justices these days.
Mike J
@A Ghost to Most: It’s a good reason to establish your log retention policy early. How long do you need log info? It’s useful to have it for at least a day so you can check into problems, and individual days can be kept if you need them for a good reason. Otherwise, just automatically nuke them after 24 hours. Don’t wait until you get a subpoena, that’s too late. They can’t make you turn over what you don’t have. Don’t keep logs you don’t need, establish a track record of deleting them.
SiubhanDuinne
Jeez, when I was a USF student, they hardly even had such a thing as student housing.
And sorry, lady, but roaches and palmetto bugs are part of the deal. Be glad it’s dead. It’s Florida, FFS.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
QFT.
Gelfling 545
@raven: Chaplain? They have a freaking chaplain?
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne:
That doesn’t make it right.
A Ghost to Most
@Mike J: Let’s hope they did.
I will be damned glad when I never have to hear’retention policy’ ever again.
PaulWartenberg
Must have been an out-of-stater. Anyone who’s lived in Florida longer than six months knows a dead cockroach is more common than lizards around here. In fact, let the lizards eat the body, no more worries alright?
Major Major Major Major
So apparently the way to get people to read your webcomic is to make cat jokes.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: absolutely…lol
Keith P.
@schrodingers_cat: Yup, was just about to mention that. Do not pitch a fit over roaches…just kill them, lest they be stirred to fly right at you.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
No, you’re not. You’d love to be back there doing that again. :)
Hey, how you feeling? Is the dialysis thing going okay?
Gelfling 545
@raven: Grandkid’s move in day is Saturday. I keep getting teary. I have a hard time remembering not to grab her hand when we cross a street!
alhutch
@A Ghost to Most: My web host, DreamHost, is fighting the DOJ request for IP addresses of everyone who visited an anti-Trump website they host.
https://wp.me/peeH4-7h4
lamh36
Proof #1.999.999.999 that James Woods is AN IDIOT!
Mofo tweeted out this, with a picf of…THE IWO JIMA MEMORIAL!!!
smh…
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/897274782391177220
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: “Go to bed, James. You’re drunk.”
NotMax
Things I’d do with lottery money, #14,817.
Provide every person standing in protest outside of Trump Tower with one of these.
Just imagine.
Major Major Major Major
@lamh36: wow.
lamh36
More LOL…via Twitter…this time involving a timely note on a basket of Tiki Torches!
https://twitter.com/nunyabiz22/status/897229800808615937
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Eek! Clown!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
No. It makes it Florida.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: One of the few states I have never visited.
efgoldman
@Felonius Monk:
Theoretically, sure. For all ~20 years I was on the air I kept saying “some day I have to get a real job.”
But not at that station, not ever. A horrible place to work. Also I am decades past working evenings or, especially, overnites.
Dialysis at home is going well. SO much better than going to the center 3x week, regardless of the date or weather. Takes about 45-50 minutes, 4x a day, but rigid schedule isn’t important. Very, very slowly getting better.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
New state ad campaign, or tag line for Carl Hiassen’s next novel: “It ain’t right. It’s Florida”
@lamh36: Somewhere in a SoCal IHop, Sean Young is checking twitter on her break screaming “I fucking told you he was the crazy one!”
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Can you be cranky on Balloon Juice while doing it?
Major Major Major Major
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Hard to tell the difference sometimes
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That’s ice cold.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@lamh36: A monument of US soldiers raising the American flag after victory against the Imperial Japanese vs a shitty statue of a no-name traitor that crumpled when toppled. Totally the same thing, James.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@A Ghost to Most:
Why would the DOJ want IP info on largely peaceful protesters organizing against Trump? I thought Rosenstein was at least better than Sessions.
Felonius Monk
@lamh36: James must be off his meds again. So sad.
Kay
@NotMax:
He hates to be laughed at. He’ll be angrily Tweeting at someone tomorrow! The Under Armour CEO, I bet.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I love that!
ETA: @Omnes Omnibus: I was curious, so I went to IMDB and Sean Young is pretty busy. The only credit I recognized was an ER guest shot ten years ago, but a lot of titles. I’m such a bleeding heart I’m somehow relieved for her sake.
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Neither Sessions nor Rosenstein specifically sign off on off every DOJ action.
lamh36
Just like there is a tweet for every stupid think Trump says or does, Pete Souza post a pic of Obama to use to combat Trumps hypocrisy
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6b5dfda2638ac3af92802c246e6c8089b2e6d1f3048b62679a94ab1ad0f538a.jpg
Old Dan and Little Anne
Our local anchor lady from the news is running for mayor. She put up a fb post denouncing drumph and the Nazis. The comments are so fucking depressing. So many assholes. I know, don’t get out of the boat and all that.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Rosenstein is not mentioned in that article and does not run the department of justice…
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Why isn’t he wearing a suit? //
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I seriously doubt I’ve given Sean Young more than two seconds’ thought any time in the past 30 years.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Omnes Omnibus:
Rosenstein at least needs to get out in front of this. Condemn it if he can. This is suppression of the right to assemble and petition the government.
NotMax
@Kay
Needs better sloganeering.
“Hey, hey, DJT! How many hookers you paid to pee?”
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Good to hear. Slow and steady win the race.
NotMax
Comment poofed. Please to liberate.
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Oddly enough, I do know that.
lamh36
Interview: How Corey Long Fought White Supremacy With Fire via @TheRoot
Read more about Cory at the link…
chris
@Major Major Major Major: Yes! LOL
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Omnes Omnibus:
Any lawyer worth their salt should. ?
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: No Way Out and Wall Street both came out in 1987, so 30 years sounds right.
Ohio Mom
@efgoldman: There is something so nice about being home — I become more of a homebody with every passing year.
I can imagine that regularly schlepping to a dyalysis clinic would get very old, and the required small talk would get to me.
But I did not realize what a huge time commitment home dialysis is. It must make travel a challenge.
randy khan
@A Ghost to Most:
I haven’t heard of this, but I am struck by how unresponsive the Assistant U.S. Attorney was. You’d think there would be at least a little effort to cooperate with the ISP; it’s not like there was any real risk the data would go away.
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Of course, but my point was that I know it as well.
justawriter
I have to stop arguing with right wing assholes on the internet. I was trying to point out that protecting racist cops encourages racist civilians (using James Byrd dragging murder as an example) and the next thing I know, I get “I heard one of the defendants was railroaded.” Pardon me while I go watch baby kitty videos.
TaMara (HFG)
@efgoldman: This sounds so much better than I was picturing for you. Glad it’s going well.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: IKR…and it BETTA NOT be tan!!!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@A Ghost to Most: @randy khan: wait till small gov’t libertarians like Rand Paul and Mike Lee hear about this!
lamh36
Damn… RIH!
@DianneG
Rest In Peace, Paratroopers
Sgt Allen Stigler Jr., 22, of Arlington, TX
Sgt Roshain Brooks, 30, of Brooklyn, NY
Killed Aug 13 in Iraq
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
I can be cranky on Balloon Juice in a boat
I can be cranky on Balloon Juice wearing a coat
I can be cranky on Balloon Juice while I eat
I can be cranky on Balloon Juice with a beat….
randy khan
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Not in defense of the warrant, but this looks like it’s potentially related to the Black Block protests on Inauguration Day. It doesn’t appear to be related to the Women’s March.
My working assumption is that they’re trying to prove a conspiracy case, and want to show pre-Inauguration communications between some or all of the participants via this site, but that’s just a guess. Regardless, they’re casting a very wide net. I’m kind of surprised that the warrant wasn’t limited to communications involving the people they arrested.
efgoldman
@Ohio Mom:
It is by far the least challenging option. Everything I need can fit in the trunk or a large suitcase. Very heavy, though.
Way better than dying of kidney failure, which is where i was headed.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I was asking because if you can, it would give you something to do.
@lamh36: RIP. And to be really shallow for a second, shaping those berets so they look perfect is a pain in the ass. SGT Brooks did a fantastic job.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Omnes Omnibus:
Just thought it should be said out loud
NotMax
@efgoldman
A favorite Italian proverb comes to mind.
Chi va piano va sano e va lontano
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Less well known than “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
Patricia Kayden
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Fascism. Nothing but.
sukabi
@lamh36: that’s so messed up. Sounds like the city has a bit of a history…and it puts the lie to their claims that the cops were trying to prevent gun violence.
It’s a miracle that no one was actually shot.
Ohio Mom
@efgoldman: As long as you can get down to Virginia every now and then…
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: “the cops stood around and did nothing”. Yep. Sounds about right.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Flash from the past.
“What’re you in for?”
“Fake clown alert.”
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Souza appears to have really loved President Obama. So looking forward to buys by his photo book on the Obamas.
Suzanne
@efgoldman:
Yay, Definitely appreciate good news today.
Kay
There goes another one!
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: You are a bad person.
sukabi
@Kay: Under Armour CEO out too.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
gonna post this down here because Florida
NorthLeft12
@efgoldman: I recall moving my youngest daughter from Ottawa back home [seven hours drive away] and showing up at the U Haul in Ottawa to pick up my “reserved” trailer. Note the quotes on reserved. Of course it was not there. We pretty much did the entire routine from that Seinfeld episode with me in the starring role. Not getting any satisfaction there, and holding up a line of about fifty other soon to be disappointed customers, I went out in the lot, found a trailer that I could use, asked the kid in the lot if it was good to go, he said yes and got some paperwork, helped me hook it up, and I drove off handing the kid a ten dollar tip for his outstanding service. It was not the trailer I wanted, but it worked out fine.
My wife and daughter were pretty impressed with me, after they stopped laughing of course.
NorthLeft12
@Kay: I know that Deadbeat Donald is your president, but what could possess these CEOs to debase themselves and provide support for that loser. You would think people at that level would have more self respect than that.
It must be humiliating to have Trump represent all rich and powerful people the way he does. SAD!
SFBayAreaGal
@Omnes Omnibus: Sean Young was also in Blade Runner
Omnes Omnibus
@SFBayAreaGal: I know that. That was 1982.
J R in WV
@NorthLeft12:
NOT MY PRESIDENT!!
I think I can speak for many here this evening.
Omnes Omnibus
@J R in WV: No, he is our president. To our shame.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
I tried making a similar point about some shameful thing President Trump did in these threads not long ago. The just-about-unanimous response from American Juicers was “No, I don’t feel ashamed. I didn’t vote for him.”