Now hopefully it will stay in the 20’s for a week or so and not melt and maybe another snowstorm and it will reset all the stone fruits and kill off some of these damned stinkbugs.
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The willow is too close to the house.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
Everybody saw this coming.
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
Bark louder, little dog.
This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory. oh, and pink furry handcuffs.
Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.
marcopolo
Hey J Cole,
Are you still playing WoW–maybe on the Horde side? If so, what server & what’s the name of your guild?
Good luck with those stink bugs
ps. feel free to email me the info if for some reason you don’t want it all out in the open and shit.
debbie
Last night was the first time a stinkbug invaded my apartment’s perimeter. I’m tempted to turn off the heat so they become uncomfortable enough to move on
jeffreyw
We got another dusting. I’m not seeing an excess of stinkbugs. We do see plenty too damn many ladybugs but those fuckers come into the house for the winter.
WaterGirl
Cole, I see that you have dutifully shoveled your walk down to the street. Of course you have!
trollhattan
Is the willow shoveling the backyard for you?
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: Cole lives across the street from the dutiful neighbor, but I am sure he will get right on it.
Yarrow
Let’s hope so. It has been so warm that my trees have been flowering and I even have some fruit on some. Super annoying.
Old Dan and Little Ann
We pay an arm and a leg for plow service each winter. 1st plowable night and our little driveway has a dumpster and trailer taking up all the space due to a kitchen remodel. Bad timing.
scav
There is somehow always one neighbor that beats even the street plows.
PsiFighter37
Think it’s raining here again in NYC. One of the unfortunate things about climate change is how much less it snows here than it used to. Growing up in the mid-late 1990s in the NYC metro area, there were many days with snow…now, even getting a minor dusting is an event.
Suzanne
The first snowflakes had just started falling and I swear I could already hear my neighbors whining about the plows not being out. My street was plowed yesterday afternoon and then again this morning, but the roads are terrible. We arranged to have a neighbor kid shovel, since I have to work. Snow is still going, was really blowy this morning.
Butch
Well, come to the Upper Peninsula and you’ll find plenty. As a bonus, Saturday morning it was minus 8 degrees and the power went out for 6 hours. Luckily we have a wood stove….
Benw
From last thread: https://bam.gallery.video/mlk2022
Great speaker talking now.
BGinCHI
@Butch: Friends of mine were up in Marquette this weekend fat biking. Reported excellent snow and trails, but cold as hell.
Comrade Colette
Monsieur Colette has Covid. Grrr.
He just has mild cold-like symptoms. Colette jeune and I are fine so far. Thank G-d our little house is configured so he can isolate, but I’m sure I’ve already been exposed. He may have been exposed when our fully vaxxed and boosted in-laws were here a week ago; their son tested negative the day before they visited but developed symptoms and then tested positive the day after. This virus is a sneaky devil – but we knew that.
Grrr.
WereBear
@Comrade Colette: may the burdens be light.
Gin & Tonic
Dog woke me extra early this morning, so I could go out in the pouring rain and 2” of slush. That was fun.
Now I’ve finished shoveling the remaining slush and that big pile of compacted wet snow at the mouth of the driveway, because it’s supposed to be below freezing the rest of the week. Wind is howling, but not a lot of branches down. High tide down along the coast was pretty bad.
Leto
@marcopolo: regarding WoW, between all the sexual assault lawsuits (including the woman who killed herself over it)/state of California formally investigating the horrid work conditions , the lack of content going on for almost a year, two horrid expansions back-to-back, and the fact that people are discovering that other MMOs have finally caught up to WoW (looking at FF14 to name a few) this might be the final nail in WoW’s coffin. They’ve shed subs faster than Trumpov sheds lackeys, and I honestly don’t know if they’re coming back. All indicators are pointing to no at this point.
Citizen Alan
So I’m in a Korean BBQ 3 blocks south of the Empire State Building trying to ask intelligent questions of the wait staff as to what I can ear now and what I have to wait for someone to cook for me. I have never felt like such a huck in my life.
Gin & Tonic
@BGinCHI: Fat biking is what I do when the road season starts in (usually) March or so.
Oh, you probably meant tires.
Ohio Mom
@PsiFighter37: I grew up in NYC in the 1960s and remember snow days (six inches or more) and blizzards.
One Saturday during my junior high years, I ran into my cousin at the Central Park ice skating rink and decided to go home with her instead of the friends I’d come with. I was stuck at her house in Washington Heights until Tuesday, there was so much snow and no way to get back to Queens.
My aunt (from the other side of the family) would tell you that the leaves would be fully turned in early October, when my cousin was bar mitzvahed in 1973, but that in the last decade or so of her life, they were still green on that anniversary date.
It’s very alarming if you dwell on it.
Nukular Biskits
Had a bumper crop of stink bugs down here on the MS Coast last year, particularly with my blueberries.
Still had several, several gallons of them, though.
sab
17 inches. Across the street neighbor had 3 foot drifts.
Pushed the pitbull off the back porch and she disappeared under the snow (it’s over her head) and surfaced in a panic and rushed back inside. That was 7 a.m. 12:30 now and she hasn’t done anything useful outside since ( e.g. peeing.)
I spent a couple of hours digging out the street end of the driveway, and a path to the car and another path for the postal worker. Husband spent an hour digging out the car (vanished under a snowdrift.)
Hopefully the city won’t plow us all back in tonight. A kindly younger neighbor took his snowblower down to the cross street intersection to clear that out, since otherwise there is no point in getting out of the driveway.
I haven’t seen snow like this in the twenty years I have lived here.
Gin & Tonic
@Citizen Alan: Oh, yeah, there’s a major Korean area there – 33rd, maybe? Enjoy.
I recall one dinner in LA’s Koreatown, I may have been the only English-speaker in the place. Not sure what I ate, but I enjoyed it and didn’t die.
trollhattan
Speaking of this old fucking house, spring broke on one of the garage doors and my car is trapped, trapped, trapped. Checking the whole assembly out I found some bolts backing out of a bracket and discovered some were sunk into just drywall and not anchoring the assembly on one side. Guessing that misalignment is why the spring broke. Definitely NOT DIY’ing a spring replacement.
Almost Retired
I was heretofore unfamiliar with the existence of a “stink bug.” Maybe they haven’t made it to Los Angeles yet. Or maybe there’s so many other smelly things here that we don’t notice?
sab
@Citizen Alan: Are you typing on my mobile device’s keyboard?
BGinCHI
@Gin & Tonic: Ha!
Yes, like this. I love my Crestone.
jeffreyw
@Comrade Colette: Our housekeeper and her two sons came down with covid, she texted us Sunday with the news. Mrs J and I were just discussing whether we should forgo her once a week visits for fear that she was a likely vector due to her boys attending school in person. Our area is a real hot zone and the number of absences from school due to covid are alarming.
Gin & Tonic
@Ohio Mom: I grew up on Lawn Guyland, and there were years when the Great South Bay would freeze over.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Having had spicy food of many kinds in many types of restaurant, Korean spicy gets my award as hottest of the hot. Sweaty goodness (presuming it doesn’t shove your heat dial into the “I can no longer taste or think” segment).
Mike in NC
We got three inches of rain yesterday, which we badly needed.
MagdaInBlack
@Butch: Because I so love the Marquette area, I follow a couple of U.P. groups and Hooo boy the snow. But such a beautiful area and such beautiful photos.
trollhattan
@jeffreyw:
Spoke yesterday (from a distance) with a neighbor who is recovering. He picked it up at a potato convention in Anaheim and while the city/county and facility had strict masking guidelines, said almost nobody attending wore one and of course, packed the bars, being potato dudes. Proof that just wearing one, nor being vaccinated, are protection enough.
Gave it to his wife on return. He’s definitely NOT happy with his clientele (sells commercial food harvesting and processing equipment).
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: My award has to go to some Thai place, also in LA. I felt pain in areas I didn’t know had pain receptors.
Comrade Colette
@Citizen Alan: @Gin & Tonic:
I’ve been distracting myself with Kdramas and the eating scenes are driving me wild – everything looks so good, and I can’t tell what any of it is. It seems to be obligatory that at least once in each episode some character says “these noodles are delicious!” I may have to learn hangul so I can read the menus visible on the signs and walls in the restaurant scenes.
Eating in K-town LA was the highlight of our last visit a couple of years ago.
Suzanne
So I did a bit more internet sleuthing on the dude who busted into my house. He appears to be full MAGA, with Facebook comments calling for the arrests of Gov. Wolf and Dr. Levine on posts about mask mandates. Irony. I think I told y’all I already looked up his voter registration, and he is GOP. Only the finest people. I think I already told y’all that his criminal record goes back almost 20 years and is full of low-level dumbassery like drug possession, DUI, criminal trespass, and other things like that. Lots of six-month probation stints. He’d put together a couple of years at a time out of trouble, then a few incidents in a row.
Forget masks, the dude didn’t even have pants on when he broke into my house. As such, one of the charges is indecent exposure, and because my children were present, it is apparently within the realm of possibility that he’d have to register as a sex offender.
Comrade Colette
@Gin & Tonic:
Same. I remember eating at the first Thai restaurant in DC, back in the early 80s before we were familiar with the cuisine and before they learned to dumb it down a bit for white people. I thought I could handle spicy food, but I couldn’t finish anything.
Suzanne
@Gin & Tonic: I was born on Long Island and lived there until I was nine. I remember snow taller than our dogs (Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky). Every year.
scav
@Gin & Tonic: There might be some contenders in certain Tandoori restaurants in London we stumbled into. Melted our skulls — especially with some little chicken drumsticks if memory isn’t a hallucination.
Leto
Regarding snow: we got about 4-5” last night, then it turned to rain and warmed up by about 20 degrees. So it sort of melted, then temps plunged again, and it sort of melted into this shitty half frozen slush. Snowed again this morning, nothing stuck it’s too warm, and Avalune and I went out and shoveled the walk, driveway, and the long stretch of sidewalk we have. Good exercise.
Leto
@BGinCHI: I’ve wanted a fat bike for near 20 years now. Avalune thinks I’m crazy. I think they’re amazing. I’ve followed a few fat biking adventure blogs and it doesn’t help ;)
jeffreyw
@trollhattan: I don’t have much experience with Korean food, but I learned the difference between extra peppers and extra spicy at a Hunan restaurant. I had a favorite dish that came with several dried peppers tossed in, I usually ordered extra peppers because edgy white guy. One night I ordered extra spicy. The server was willing to take the dish back when she saw me red faced, sweating, and guzzling water. I told her to just keep the ice water coming because edgy white guy. I left a nice tip despite hearing the guffaws from the kitchen when she opened the doors bringing out the second water pitcher.
debbie
@PsiFighter37:
I almost miss the snowstorms there (specifically 1993 with all the thunder snow, but also also one in the 1980s where people cross-country skied down Second Avenue), but then I come to my senses. I do miss the quiet after the snow stops, both in Central Park and on city streets. One friend was silly enough to think she’d lost her hearing when she first took her dog outside.
Anyway
@Citizen Alan:
One of my favorite cuisines. Perfect for a snowy day. Can’t go wrong with bulgogi, mandu, kalbi … the banchan are the best.
sab
@Almost Retired: They are all over Ohio. Weird looking little guys, kind of shield shaped. They have a definite strong smell, but “stink” is somewhat misleading. Very citrussy. Cockroaches smell much worse in my opinion.
debbie
@Suzanne:
There are times when the law is too lenient.
Comrade Colette
@Suzanne: I’m so sorry that happened.
And I’m starting to think our national motto shouldn’t be “e pluribus unum,” since we’ve obviously given up on that. “Rampant untreated mental illness” seems more apt.
Suzanne
@debbie: The thing that I thought of when reading his (long) history of run-ins with the law is that white men get so many chances. There were at least fifteen crimes there over close to twenty years. I get not wanting to run someone’s life over a dumb mistake. But, like…. this dude has a long and established pattern of doing shitty things.
I did not find any employer or alumni information.
debbie
@sab:
The first stinkbug I ever saw flew onto the right lens of my glasses when I was out walking. Freak out. I was surprised I didn’t toss my glasses into the street in a twitchy reflex, but this is probably why they freak me out every single time.
frosty
@Suzanne: PA pedant: I’m sure you’ve heard this by now but the correct plural for you in your side of the state is yinz not y’all.
No idea of it’s history. Kind of an ugly word if you ask me.
PS Nice sleuthing! What a creep, he ticks all the boxes.
Suzanne
@Comrade Colette: I don’t know that he has mental illness issues. I think he was on meth at the time of the incident.
germy
@Suzanne:
Did your local news team ever visit to file a story? Did you have to chase away any cameras?
Brachiator
@trollhattan:
You can put together quite a tour of the spiciest dishes and spiciest restaurants in Los Angeles and other cities.
A co-worker once took me to a little Vietnamese place in Hollywood. He suggested a favorite dish and fortunately warned me about the heat. I took a nibble and it felt like my head was on fire.
I like spicy but not fiery heat.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
They have some tiny red pepper I’m very wary of, because it’s megahot. Can definitely see the potential for cruel Thai food encounters.
OTOH curries to die for, so worth the risk.
Suzanne
@germy: No and no. I don’t want to be on TV. I want this creep to get the help he needs, and if that help has to be given to him while in prison, that’s fine with me. I want him out of this neighborhood. There are kids all over this neighborhood and he obviously can’t, at the very least, keep his bad behavior indoors.
geg6
Still snowing here, but much less. We probably have about six inches, maybe seven or eight. Waiting for our plow guy to finish up his commercial contracts. I hate this shit.
debbie
@Suzanne:
My only experience with courts is traffic court. Sitting there waiting for my turn, I heard the judge give one more chance to people without insurance or licenses, even to people who’d driven under the influence.
They’ve set up a special court for crimes where addiction is involved — intervention over incarceration — and it’s had positive results. They should do the same with drunk driving, etc.
laura
@Suzanne: Everything/everyone tfg touches turns to shit – and then they came to your house (including leo). I was glad to hear that the insurance adjuster has greenlighted replacement of all permeable materials. What a sad waste of life that shite-bag engineered. Has he been arrested yet?
trollhattan
@jeffreyw:
Heh!
Work buddy took his then 8YO son to our go-to ramen place and the kid ordered extra spicy, which for me is way too spicy. Friend said that after serving him all the kitchen staff were peering from the doorway to watch this kid dive in and eventually finish the bowl with no problem.
After that he was always welcomed as “extra-spicy boy” when they arrived, which was frequent.
opiejeanne
@Comrade Colette: Mine was a little Thai restaurant in a strip mall near Costa Mesa? Anaheim? Somewhere near the beach.
Everything was fine until the smart-aleck dating my youngest ordered the shrimp and papaya salad because it was beyond spicy and he liked to show off that way. He offered me a bite, daring me (I think that finally taught me not to take a dare) and my first reaction was, “Delicious! This isn’t hot…..!!!!!” I think I nearly went blind.
Suzanne
@laura: To the best of my knowledge, no. Apparently the warrant has been approved but the arrest has not happened. I have no idea where the guy is, and that makes me nervous. Again, there are kids all over the neighborhood.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Still waiting for it to snow here John
ETA: I was awaken by rain this morning, we’ll take it.
geg6
@Suzanne:
Haven’t been around much, but I’m so sorry this happened to you and your family. Not a normal occurrence where you live. And yes, it’s amazing what white guys get away with.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: Crossing my fingers he gets named a sex offender. That will really be a bother to him the rest of his life.
Ironically, I usually think the sex offender charge is used too often, especially for young people. But for this guy, maybe it will be the one message from the criminal justice system that finally sticks.
How’s the clean-up going?
Butch
@BGinCHI: and Madga in Black: The area from Marquette all the way up the Keweenaw to Copper Harbor has become incredibly popular with the mountain bikers…an incredibly beautiful area but can receive upwards of 20 feet of snow a year. I’m a little south of there; not 20 feet but still plenty.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: Cleanup indoors is essentially done. Cleanup outside is more difficult because the insurance adjuster didn’t come out until Friday, so we had to keep everything in place until that happened. Now the whole front porch is covered in snow and I doubt the trash pickup is going to happen tomorrow morning! I have Mr. Suzanne hunting down some sort of junk removal service for the outdoor furniture, because it is too big to put out with regular trash pickup.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Almost Retired: We’ve had stinkbugs here forever, they just don’t need to come inside.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: I think he will probably plead guilty to get the charges reduced and probably the sex offender thing will go away for him. I mean, he was caught by the cops at the scene so there is no question of his guilt. He pleaded guilty to all the other shitty things he’s done to stay out of prison in the past. Again…. white dudes, lots of chances.
laura
@Suzanne: wherever he is, it’s too close. The cortisol you and your spouse must be cranking out- ugh.
I have great sympathy for our mentally ill friends family and neighbors, and the lack of adequate care is a shame for our nation. But meth users/abusers just puts a hard stop to that sympathy. In my prior career working at Safeway, I had a stalker in Guerneville who would just stare and grind his jaw and clench and unclench his hands until I felt faint. It was a factor on my going back to school. I hope that this resolves quickly for your family and community.
LivinginExile
John – We have had temperatures.down to zero, and I still have stink bugs in my shop but not in the house. I’m in Illinois.
LivinginExile
Duplicate
Suzanne
@laura: His address indicates that he lives directly behind me, which means he can see into my windows. This is part of why I am not thrilled about putting the trash out in the alley. I don’t know if he is actually there or not, though. One of my neighbors thinks he may be staying away (and possibly left a cat without food, but that is another thing we are trying to get figured out with the landlord).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Suzanne:
So, you’re saying it was Baud?
Geminid
@debbie: I read that stinkbugs come from Manchuria. Back home they crawl into cliff crevices to ride out the terrible winters. If you turn your heat off they’ll probably just hunker down and wonder at your endurance.
Ksmiami
@Suzanne: Am I a bad person to hope the creep contracted some blood borne infection? Jfc most Magas are worthless
Suzanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That genuinely made me LOL.
No name
@Ohio Mom: Thank you for your kind comments and suggestions last night. It’s funny you posted your stranded in the snow story above; I thought you had mentioned at some point that you grew up in NYC but wasn’t sure if I was remembering correctly.
HinTN
@Comrade Colette: We had an “early adopter” Thai community here in middle Tennessee in the 80s. Yes, their restaurants served the real deal and boy howdy did I learn that my capacity for heat had some growing to do.
Suzanne
I made Thai curry for SuzMom once, with the little chilies. I couldn’t touch my face for three days after chopping them up.
HinTN
@sab: You have clearly not gotten crosswise with one of those little buggers. Citrusy it ain’t (to my nose).
Suzanne
Kyrsten Sinema posted some soulless nonsense in “honor” of Dr. King just now on her social media and I just cannot even. Fuck.
?BillinGlendaleCA
The only time I’ve had a problem with spicey Korean food was at a restaurant in Jejudo, they had fresh garlic that brought tears to my eyes. The Koreans we were dining with chalked it up to me being a white boy, then they tried it. It was some very strong garlic.
HinTN
@Suzanne: The best thing we could do to her is deprive her of the audience she clearly craves.
germy
@Suzanne:
Lots of people here dislike twitter, but I sort of enjoy it when someone named “Grumpy Demo” can speak truth and reply directly to someone like Rubio.
The peanut gallery has a voice.
mrmoshpotato
@sab:
Hot. Dog.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Suzanne:
I’m surprised that he’s registered to vote.
MagdaInBlack
@germy: I always enjoy the responses calling bs.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hehe
Aldi’s roasted garlic Alfredo sauce is offensively garlicky. And I love me some garlic.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: It’s nice that Twitter lets everyday people call Rethuglican politicians out on their shit immediately.
germy
@MagdaInBlack:
Like this one:
MagdaInBlack
@germy: ????
Yes, exactly like that.
Geminid
@germy: There are some really strong Democratic voices on Twitter. I’ve been following Mangy Jay for a while, and lately I’ve been checking out Black Professor (WonderKing82) and Kenneth House of Pfizer. I was introduced to these and others (like Xeni Jardin) through Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha). Another commenter cited Rugged Amethyst this morning, and he’s really good too. I learn a lot from all these folks.
germy
@Geminid:
Kyle Griffin
Roy Edroso
DennisBHooper
Judd Legum
I read their tweets, but I don’t have a twitter account. I don’t follow anyone, I’m just a tweet reader.
Ken
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce the next GOP representative from Pennsylvania.
opiejeanne
@HinTN: I’ve decided that today is a great day to start a short vacation from Twitter. I just don’t have the energy nor patience today, and it’s not just Sinema.
Geminid
@germy: Virginia Senate Majority Leader L. Louise Lucas is also being retweeted a lot by the people I follow, @L. Louise Lucas. As leader of the 21-19 Democratic State Senate majority, Lucas has become a voice of the anti-Youngkin Resistance.
opiejeanne
@germy: Yes, I love Twitter most days because of the people who I follow, although a few of them are still following Jeet Heer.
Today, though, there are a lot of things popping up that I would have to research to find out what they are before I could even have an opinion, and even then I most likely wouldn’t post it.
Another Scott
@Geminid: https://twitter.com/SenLouiseLucas
Indeed, she’s very good.
Forward!
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
debbie
@Geminid:
They’re definitely tougher than I am.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic: She’s, like, my favorite human. I first saw her playing for Portland Thorns and only later learned her history. She’s also a fantastic interview (can swear like a sailor in something like a gazillion languages) and tied with Mel Brooks as the person I’d most like to have a beer with (or falafels or whatevs).
J R in WV
@trollhattan:
@Gin & Tonic:
My hottest meal was Lamb Vindaloo, Indian hot at a local joint in Charleston. The cooks were peeking out of the kitchen door to watch me sweat, it was dripping off my earlobes. I ate all I could hold, asked for extra napkins, had an extra beer. I don’t order anything Indian Hot anymore. It was good, tho…
Our weather, been in the 20s since last night, snow stuck to the wet branches, so the woods are impenetrable visually, beautiful outside.
trollhattan
@trollhattan:
Found a pic of Nadia from 2016, she’s red #9 playing with Allie Long, Lindsey Horan and Amandine Henry, World Cup players all.
Instant NWSL fan after that night.
lowtechcyclist
You’re at the wrong end of West By God Virginia, Cole. My friend in Beckley who is in administration at the community college says they got a shitload of snow, and will be opening late tomorrow if they open at all.
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne has been hauling out the contaminated furniture to the alley to be picked up, and I am filled with just monstrous rage right now watching him do it (in the snow, on a holiday). And the kids’ dollhouse, and the rug we bought just last year. And Spawn’s stroller. Like, that was nice furniture, that I saved money to buy, and I maintained and kept in good shape, and spent money to move across the country. The dollhouse was a gift from neighbors. The rug was close to new. And the stroller was a thing I would have given to a friend or neighbor. And it’s all going to a goddamn landfill, when I try really hard not to do that…. because some dumbfuck methhead Republican — but I repeat myself — had to destroy it.
Geminid
@germy: Even the calm Mangy Jay can be exasperated by Twitter, though:
Suzanne
@Ken:
Still not as garbagey as Sean Parnell.
jnfr
@Leto:
I think our DailyKOS WOW guild has almost all moved over to FF, or just moved on to other things like I did. The news coming out of Blizzard has been horrible for a long while now.
Brantl
@jeffreyw:Milk, not water, the fats cool down the flavor.
jnfr
@Suzanne:
I can’t even imagine how furious you must be. I am so sorry.
Suzanne
@jnfr: It feels like a fucken metaphor. We spend years saving money and trying to make a nice space that we are happy to share with friends and neighbors, and some POS Republican destroys it.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Could insurance cover anything like that? Guessing no, but hoping yes.
WaterGirl
@Brantl: Beer, also!
I think that water just spreads the heat and makes it worse, but I may be wrong about that.
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: They will. It’s just a process. And again, it feels like such a waste.
Ol Froth
My youngest and I made the paper’s website! Winter weather photos: Jan. 17, 2022 – Pittsburgh: In Focus (post-gazette.com)
pluky
@Suzanne: Vent while you must. Breathe deeply when you can. But above all, strive to let this go, for your own sake. Simmering rancor will eat you up long-term.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: It feels like that because it is a waste. I’m really sorry this happened to you, especially with your mom and your kids in the house. You guys are really strong and you are handling it better than most of us might, but it’s still really hard.
And it’s not just an event that happened and now it’s over, because you still have to deal with all this shit. Hugs.
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
I wonder if doing meth is a form of less than reasonable mental health…