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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Hodgepodge, Mishmash or Smorgasbord?

Hodgepodge, Mishmash or Smorgasbord?

by WaterGirl|  April 22, 202211:15 am| 109 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

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First.  Who is this?  You get 3 guesses and the first two don’t count.  Someone is not a baby anymore!

Hodgepodge, Mishmash or Smorgasbord? 1
Someone loves their new quilt!

Second.  (in no particular order)

Next Thursday on 4/28 is the first performance of  Mustang Bobby‘s “The Sugar Ridge Rag”. You can see it live in person or online.  Tickets available.   Hopefully Mustang Bobby will get the bat signal and will tell us more about this in the comments.

Third.  We have another Ukraine auction coming on on Sunday – Joey Maloney is auctioning some of his glass pieces.  I will put up a PREVIEW of the items that are listed for auction at 5pm today. The post will contain links to his recent Artists in Our Midst post and to his gallery.  He is willing to put most of his pieces up for auction – so if you see something you like in the Artists post or if you see something you like on his gallery site – add a comment telling us which piece you like, and that can likely be added to the auction.  But please do that today or tomorrow because he won’t be around on Sunday for the auction!

Fourth.  The Join the Fight Social Media Initiative is looking for BJ peeps (or their kids) who are willing to make super-short phone videos for TikTok.  We can tell you what we want you to say or do in the video, or we can share our 6 Focus areas and you clever BJ peeps can come up with the message yourself!  We’ll have a dropbox area (like we have for the calendar pet pics) so we don’t even have to know who you are.  (Unless you use your name or your nym to upload the photos.  If you have a dropbox account, just log out of dropbox before uploading if you don’t want us to know who you are.) Speaking of clever, even Baud can make some clever 15 or 30 second videos and we’ll still never know who he really is!

Fifth.  Reminder that on Sunday on Medium Cool we have author John Lingan, with us for a live Q & A post.  He is the author of Creedence Clearwater Revival, A Song for Everyone.

Last, but not least.  We have another Angel Match for the boots-on-the-ground Michigan group!  Balloon Juice Angel #6 has offered $500 and will match any donation up to $50 for donation comments in the post, but with a special caveat.  We are at $18,400 right now, and we would LOVE to get to $20,000 today.  They have started the hiring process, and they can add the 4th fellowship position as soon as we hit $20k.  (Reminder: we are funding 5 fellowships at $5,000 each.)  So when the thermometer reaches $20,000 – no matter how we get there – this match will be complete.

Totally open thread!

Promote the Vote Michigan 2022
At $20,000 we can fund a 4th fellowship!

 

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Reader Interactions

109Comments

  1. 1.

    zhena gogolia

    April 22, 2022 at 11:46 am

    Little Psi Fighter, so cute!

  2. 2.

    oldster

    April 22, 2022 at 11:50 am

    Beautiful quilt, beautiful kid.

    This is what life on earth should look like. Not the hell that the Russians have imposed on Ukraine.

    Freedom must be better armed than tyranny. A lesson that democracies need to remember, lest they need to be reminded.

  3. 3.

    Joy in FL

    April 22, 2022 at 11:54 am

    $50 from me : )

    Thank you, matching angel : )

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:01 pm

    @Joy in FL: Thank you

    This batch of Angels all insisted on being anonymous, but I can say that this one said I could identify him as an Old, Bald Fat, White Guy who is not John Cole.

  5. 5.

    Sure Lurkalot

    April 22, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    Adorable kiddo, beautiful quilt and warm feelings about PsiFighter’s (and everyone else who participated in the lively online bidding) compassion and generosity.

  6. 6.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 22, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    This too. https://twitter.com/nadaelmikashfi/status/1517495805489422337?s=12

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:10 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: Amazing that we have raised $40,000 for Ukraine, with $5,000 that was auction-related.  I think it’s great that we have another auction coming up on Sunday.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I don’t understand the reference to 12-3.  What am I missing?

    edit: duh. There must have been a shortage on commas in Madison.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 22, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: The TERF conference is from 12-3.  The idea of the protest is to be there first.

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 22, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: Is it Steve in the WTF?

  11. 11.

    lowtechcyclist

    April 22, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    From noon to 3pm?

    ETA: Beaten to it by Omnes, of course.

    The way things are these days, it’s not unreasonable to start seeing juxtapositions of numbers as codes for something or other.  What a weird timeline we’re in.

  12. 12.

    lowtechcyclist

    April 22, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    Just tossed in $50 for Promote the Vote.  Let’s get that fourth fellowship funded!

    ETA: Seeing that quilt enjoyed like that is a very happy thing.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    April 22, 2022 at 12:22 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    The TERFs are from the town of 12-3, Wisconsin.  Home of the Fightin’ Niners!

  14. 14.

    H.E.Wolf

    April 22, 2022 at 12:22 pm

    Three cheers for Anonymous Angel #6! This place is amazing.

  15. 15.

    banditqueen

    April 22, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    Thank you WaterGirl and Angel: $5.00–for Michigan, the USA, & the little lady on the quilt.

  16. 16.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    A wow moment from NASA: solar eclipse filmed from the Martian surface by Perseverance.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    April 22, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    @trollhattan:

    That’s cool.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: @lowtechcyclist:  Duh.  I suppose the missing comma is the result of supply chain issues in Madison.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Is it Steve in the WTF?

    Thanks for the laugh.  Nicely done!

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    @lowtechcyclist: Thank you for your contribution to get the 4th fellowship funded ASAP.  I love the idea that people from 4 disenfranchised groups could be on the ground in MI in just a couple of weeks.

    Hard to go wrong with a beautiful hand-made quilt and your very own bag of Annie’s cheddar bunnies.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    @Baud: hahahahaha

    @banditqueen: Thank you!

  22. 22.

    Anyway

    April 22, 2022 at 12:43 pm

    Cute! Thank for sharing.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:43 pm

    I haven’t watched the video clip yet, but the tweet with it was great:

    nice to see liz cheney carrying on the family tradition of shooting a man right in the face

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:47 pm

    … comes back 3 minutes later. okay, that was good enough to post the whole tweet. does anyone know where that recording came from? The New York Times.

    Amazing. They were seriously talking about the 25th amendment on Jan 10, 2021. And now they can’t get enough of T****.

    nice to see liz cheney carrying on the family tradition of shooting a man right in the face https://t.co/BWrgHpq9G6

    — kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 22, 2022

  25. 25.

    VeniceRiley

    April 22, 2022 at 12:56 pm

    Playing with matches is fun!
    Order #AB219766183
    $50.00

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    @VeniceRiley: Thank you so much!

  27. 27.

    UncleEbeneezer

    April 22, 2022 at 1:02 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Related:

    So they are against upgrading the TSA machines so they no longer flag transgender people in the body scanners because of gender presentation. Like… their bigotry is so strong they’ll deny literally making machines smarter to purposefully inconvenience trans people more.

    https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1517547144546291718

  28. 28.

    West of the Rockies

    April 22, 2022 at 1:08 pm

    We have so many nice, decent, talented people here!  Thank you, John, and all the FPers for your exemplary work every, every day.

    Cute urchin on the Ukraine quilt!

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    In for $50. ?

  30. 30.

    thruppence

    April 22, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    Okay, another $50. Thanks to our union for getting a newer, fairer (more fair?) contract

  31. 31.

    oatler

    April 22, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    POTPOURRI Read the Women’s Section people!

  32. 32.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    should we have a thread on the MTG hearings?

    from what I am gleaning… it’s not going well for her.

  33. 33.

    Jackie

    April 22, 2022 at 1:52 pm

    @piratedan: The judge ruled she’s a hostile witness – surprise!

  34. 34.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    @Jackie: lost count of the number of times she’s already perjured herself……

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    @Jackie: Hostile to the English language, just for starters.

  36. 36.

    Jackie

    April 22, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    @piratedan: I don’t hold much hope she’ll be disqualified from running for office; Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger gets to decide on whether Greene should be disqualified.

  37. 37.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2022 at 2:08 pm

    @Jackie: true, but for use as a cudgel to explain who these people are and to use it just like GOP does, it’s priceless.  In a way, I hope he does allow her on the ballot, it just further illustrates that they refuse to hold themselves accountable even when its shown that they will lie under oath in order to stay in power, I mean hey, she attempted to overthrow the government, sorry there’s no lines that the GOP will honor in regards to what is acceptable.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    @Steeplejack: @thruppence:

    Thank you!  Thank you!

    If one more person had donated, I would sound like President Biden:  thank you, thank you, thank you :-)

  39. 39.

    JeanneT

    April 22, 2022 at 2:11 pm

    $25 more for Promote the Vote.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    @piratedan: This is an open thread; we can talk about it here.

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    @piratedan: Somebody catch me up on the Marge hearings, please. :-)

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    @JeanneT: Thank you so much!

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    I hope Marge is having a no good, horrible, terrible day.

  44. 44.

    Benw

    April 22, 2022 at 2:20 pm

    @WaterGirl: and that she moves to Australia (sorry, Aussies)

  45. 45.

    Jackie

    April 22, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    @piratedan: He’s damned either way. I hope if it’s proven beyond doubt, he has the moral courage to disqualify her.

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:24 pm

    @Benw: Are we expecting a result from this hearing today?

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    @piratedan:

    Jennifer Taub is live-tweeting it in a usefully connected thread. Starts here. Other tweeters seem to be making random, unconnected comments.

  48. 48.

    Jackie

    April 22, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    @WaterGirl: She “can’t remember,” and back talks A LOT. She’s trying hard to keep a smile on to look sincere, but she just looks insincere and smarmy.

  49. 49.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    @WaterGirl: from what I am gathering via twitter feeds, the prosecution brings up statements that she made regarding supporting the overthrow of the nation…. MTG then claims to not remember said statements, then said statements with the video and audio clips of her making those very statements are then read into the record.

    stuff like that.. to the lay person looks damning as hell, but since this is “the law”, there’s always the possibility that it may be “Montoyed” with a “you keep using these words but they may not mean what you think they mean”.  Would allow any of our jurisprudence inclined jackals to split those legal hares/hairs, as it were

  50. 50.

    dexwood

    April 22, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    @Jackie: I fear Marjorie Terrorist Greene will skate on this and come back stronger and bolder than ever. I truly  hope I’m wrong.

  51. 51.

    Jackie

    April 22, 2022 at 2:28 pm

    @dexwood: She’ll replace McCarthy as Leader.

  52. 52.

    Mrs Ragbag

    April 22, 2022 at 2:28 pm

    In for $50.

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:30 pm

    @Jackie: If she can’t recall “liking” tweets promoting or condoning violence, perhaps she can recall the consequences she dished out for that bad behavior – to whoever might have had handling her social media account!

  54. 54.

    dexwood

    April 22, 2022 at 2:30 pm

    @Jackie: Another nightmare added to the list.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:33 pm

    @Mrs Ragbag: thank you so much!

  56. 56.

    MazeDancer

    April 22, 2022 at 2:41 pm

    Greene is doing the legalese, Trumpian “I can’t recall”. Her safest bet.

    She was arrogant, smirky, and combative in the bit I saw. Like she knew this judge is in the bag and she could fund raise off of every evasive answer.

    She was wearing a very simple, plain dress, sleeveless, of course. In a nice pale blue that actually helped her coloring and toned down her hair. And a gold cross, which, so far, has not burst into flames.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    @MazeDancer: Yet.

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2022 at 2:45 pm

    @MazeDancer:

    The hearing is being shown on C-SPAN, but I have not personally checked that.

  59. 59.

    Embra

    April 22, 2022 at 2:45 pm

    In for $50 ’cause it’s so nifty.

  60. 60.

    Benw

    April 22, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    @WaterGirl: I dunno!

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    @Embra: thank you!!!

  62. 62.

    Caphilldcne

    April 22, 2022 at 3:04 pm

    $50 for Michigan. Go Blue!

  63. 63.

    cain

    April 22, 2022 at 3:08 pm

    It is a happy day today – my divorce papers was signed by the judge – ending an almost 2 year struggle to get this thing done. We actually already did all the legal stuff, but we had to get the courts to recognize it and that was the struggle. Never do online divorce stuff people – not worth it.
    Today I’m also applying for a marriage license – I got married last year (it’s on youtube if anybody wants to see it, send me a PM – it is a modified more woman friendly hindu wedding) but it wasn’t official cuz I was not divorced officially. So by next wednesday everything will be complete!

    I had the ex and her partner over the other day, just 2 couples having a lot of fun. So happy that we were able to split but still maintain our love and friendship for each other even though we both have different partners.

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 3:08 pm

    @Caphilldcne: Michigan thanks you!

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 3:09 pm

    @cain: That’s really nice, a happy ending, even if non-traditional!

    Happy for all of you, really!

  66. 66.

    Another Scott

    April 22, 2022 at 3:17 pm

    @MazeDancer: Yeah, she’s shameless. Not responsible for anything at all on her FB page. She has no idea how anything appeared there, and stayed there for 15 months, or got taken down. It’s a mystery!

    C-Span.org has a live feed.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  67. 67.

    Brachiator

    April 22, 2022 at 3:20 pm

    @cain:

    Sounds like quite a struggle and quite an adventure.

    Congratulations and best wishes.

  68. 68.

    Old School

    April 22, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    @cain: Congrats and Best Wishes!

  69. 69.

    laura

    April 22, 2022 at 3:28 pm

    @cain: sometimes the best part of a failed relationship is how it prepares you for subsequent relationships. Your ability to maintain a civil and warm relationship with a prior partner is a gift, a joy and shows real character- of all four of you. Best wishes in your marriage.

  70. 70.

    Steve in the ATL

    April 22, 2022 at 3:33 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: why how dare you, and suh! Ah demand, ah say, ah demand satisfaction!

  71. 71.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2022 at 3:43 pm

    @cain: *ahem*

    MAZEL TOV YA CRAZY KIDS!!!

  72. 72.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: ​Senator Kennedy! Is that you? ?

  73. 73.

    Ruckus ??

    April 22, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I tried several lines about satisfaction and can’t seem to come up with anything……..

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 3:46 pm

    Marge does indeed appear to be having a very bad day.  Consequences, at least in this moment. This makes me happy.

  75. 75.

    cain

    April 22, 2022 at 3:51 pm

    @WaterGirl: It’s the same with her ex – pretty much all one big extended family. My wife’s kids love it – they got more people to love them. :D

  76. 76.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 3:53 pm

    @cain: Everybody wins.

  77. 77.

    NotMax

    April 22, 2022 at 3:55 pm

    Open thread?

    Square in the slap forehead, why didn’t I find these doodads years ago category.

    USB ports on front of the PC tower and also on the power strip face upwards vertically. Now dust, grit, whatever which can collect inside ports not in permanent use is banished.

  78. 78.

    cain

    April 22, 2022 at 3:57 pm

    @laura: It truly is a gift. I’ve been blessed with attracting the best of people. I’m in good with all my ex gfs too. :-)

    If there is one thing I learned about my 6 years of separation is that women are AMAZING. The traumas they go through, the injustice – my heart breaks for them. Yet, their resilience inspires me.

    It’s also help me understand what my ex-wife went through with me. I’m a much better person now than I was.

  79. 79.

    cain

    April 22, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    Thank you everyone – I will update next wednesday when you can congratulate me on my marriage.  :-)

  80. 80.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    I am not impressed with Marge’s lawyer.  Attorneys, what say you?  You are surely a better judge of that than I am.

  81. 81.

    cain

    April 22, 2022 at 3:59 pm

    @WaterGirl: When Marge has a bad day, we all win. To quote you earlier. :D

  82. 82.

    cain

    April 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    @Brachiator: Indeed – it was. But all in the past now :D

  83. 83.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    @WaterGirl: She smart enough to realize it? Have my doubts.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 4:10 pm

    @trollhattan: I am willing to have her be surprised by consequences!  As long as there are consequences.

  85. 85.

    Gravenstone

    April 22, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: Well, that only describes a good quarter of the posters here…

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    @Gravenstone: Yeah, I figured I wasn’t giving much away!

  87. 87.

    Ruckus ??

    April 22, 2022 at 4:42 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    What if you are only 3 out of 4?

  88. 88.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 4:48 pm

    @Ruckus ??: Then you’re no angel!  Or at least you’re not this one. :-)

  89. 89.

    Ruckus ??

    April 22, 2022 at 4:58 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Then you’re no angel!

    Hell, I knew that going in….

  90. 90.

    Raoul Paste

    April 22, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    The MTG hearing sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit that writes itself.  Cold open

  91. 91.

    debbie

    April 22, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    @Raoul Paste:

    “I would never do that.” Oh, please.

  92. 92.

    debbie

    April 22, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    @cain:

    It’s all about the journey. Congratulations!

  93. 93.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 5:25 pm

    @Raoul Paste: No kidding.

    Marge:  I have never said that about Nancy Pelosi.

    Attorney:  Can we roll the tape?

    Marge:  Oh, wait!  I didn’t mean what I just said.

    If she was this bad after witness prep, I can only imagine how bad she was before prep.

  94. 94.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2022 at 5:33 pm

    @Raoul Paste: A lot of Tina Fey’s Palin bits were verbatim quotes, done so effectively the written portion (“I can see Russia from my porch”) are taken as actual quotes now.

  95. 95.

    Ken

    April 22, 2022 at 5:34 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Marge:  I have never say that about Nancy Pelosi.

    Attorney:  Can we roll the tape?

    Kevin McCarthy has the same problem. It’s like they picked up the idea that this can work from 1984, but don’t realize they need a Ministry of Truth destroying all evidence that contradicts the party’s story.

  96. 96.

    Sure Lurkalot

    April 22, 2022 at 5:53 pm

    I haven’t watched any of Mange’s testimony save a couple of vids in tweets and her smug grins after denying remembering anything she’s said for months on end are particularly maddening. I’m hoping that in the slow drip of revelations, there is a flood of physical and indisputable evidence of her complicity.

  97. 97.

    There go two miscreants

    April 22, 2022 at 5:59 pm

    In for $100.

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2022 at 6:02 pm

    I see London, I see France…

    April 22, 2022 at 5:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    Photographs obtained by Politico “appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.”

    “Cawthorn was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity.”

  99. 99.

    debbie

    April 22, 2022 at 6:08 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Oh, good grief. He can’t even wear a bra right.

  100. 100.

    Ken

    April 22, 2022 at 6:20 pm

    @trollhattan: The usual deflection technique is to blame this on his political enemies, in the hopes that people won’t ask “and how did they get you into that costume?”

  101. 101.

    MisterForkbeard

    April 22, 2022 at 6:51 pm

    @debbie: To be fair, most dudes his age can’t take them off properly, let alone put one on. :)

  102. 102.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 6:57 pm

    @There go two miscreants: Oh, thank you!

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    $70 to go on this Angel match #6!

  104. 104.

    Another Scott

    April 22, 2022 at 7:30 pm

    TGIF, and it was a pretty good day.

    Michigan is exceedingly important for the path of the country.

    Added $350. Let’s get it done.

    Thanks WG and everyone for your efforts.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    @Another Scott: Wow, Scott, thank you so much!

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 7:44 pm

    Balloon Juice Angel #6 is about to add his $500 match to the thermometer.

    Right now it’s at $19,255.  With his $500, we’ll be at $19,755.  Just $245 more and we’ll have our 4th fellowship ready for hiring.  

    Thanks everybody, you are amazing.  I really think we are going to make a difference in this cycle with our strategic efforts.  Fingers crossed.

  107. 107.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    Angel match #6 has been added, and we are at $19,830!

    Just $170 more and we’ll be at the magic $20,000!

    edit: On Monday, we will start the last match we have in our pocket – Angel match #7 for $1,000!

  108. 108.

    Leslie

    April 22, 2022 at 9:42 pm

    I will keep a lookout on Monday, then, so I can get that sweet sweet match money.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    April 23, 2022 at 11:49 am

    @Leslie: Great to hear!

    We are now at the magic $20,000!  Just $5,000 to go.

    We’ll be up with a new angel match on Monday

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