Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Everybody saw this coming.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

In after Baud. Damn.

“woke” is the new caravan.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

He really is that stupid.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

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Just some fun from morning coffee tv viewing. The online search led me to the two other videos.

This is the interview from their book tour:

I do streaming on a monthly basis – I choose a streaming service and stream for a month and then move on to the next. There is so much to sample; I see no reason to be tied to one service. I have yet to do Apple, but their series may be the show to push me to that.

 

I’m feeling much under the weather today – luckily a negative covid test – probably just too much going on, and I’m run down. Really run down…but I am still sending the robot vacuum around so as not to be overwhelmed by FUR. It’s prodigious, as you can well imagine. Twice a week, Carson (my vacuum), runs around after some corner sweeping by me. I’m surprised he hasn’t gone on strike or outright just collapsed in disgust – but 10 years and going strong. Thank god.  Technology can be wonderful.

I was going to do more gardening today, but I think it needs to be a day on the couch, chilling. What’s on your docket today?

This is an open thread…

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127Comments

  1. 1.

    MisterDancer

    Today is a research day, once my Partner goes to sleep! I have a ton of books on this project I need to churn thru, and the last few months of family issues, work, and trying to settle a loan situation have been more stressful than I planned when I said “sure, I’ll work on it, it’ll be fun!”

    (Yes, I’ll do a post once I’m done on what I’m reading and researching. Some of it has an ethical dimension around the topic and project that I’m struggling with. Also, I think I have to connect with two ex-Partners who actually are far more knowledgeable on part of the topic than I, and that’s…whew. That’s a whole-assed Thing.)

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    Had a good breakfast, did some laundry, gingerly explored the news, switched to reading fiction on the Kindle. Might be time for an early siesta, since I got so little sleep last night.

  3. 3.

    FelonyGovt

    It’s too hot here- 92 right now, and me without air conditioning (you live a couple miles from the beach! they said. You don’t need air conditioning! they said.) We are going to the last concert of the summer in our local park tonight and I’m hoping for a breeze!

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    Worked a bit since classes start tomorrow. Now I’ve given up and am doing crossword puzzles in between approving (and disapproving) student schedules. I’m as ready as I’ll ever be.

  5. 5.

    Ivan X

    I have been wanting to write and perform music for my whole life and last night was my second gig doing so, and it went really well. I’m celebrating with a Bloody Mary and brunch.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    That’s a great idea, switching around to different streaming services by the month.  Of course, it only works if you don’t fall prey to inertia, which I would guess most of us do, and keep them.  “It’s less than $10/month.”  Ad infinitum.  Ka ching for the streaming services.

    Gonna read and hang around the pool.  It closes after tomorrow.  Sad about that.  Our lifeguard flies out first thing Tuesday to return to university in Jamaica.  All the best to him.

  8. 8.

    mali muso

    Pretty relaxing morning so far, just sent the kiddo off on an errand with my other half, so I may attempt to get the grocery shopping done.  Also preparing for next weekend’s departure on a one-week trip to Portugal with all three of us this time! Fingers crossed the weather and travel gods smile upon us.

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    @FelonyGovt: It’s going to get up to 102 here, and my AC died yesterday. Great timing….

    I’ve got a couple of box fans giving a cross breeze and it’s tolerable for now, but since the hot weather is forecast to last most of the week, this isn’t going to be fun.

  12. 12.

    O. Felix Culpa

    I started my morning reading BJ with the customary oatmeal and coffee, tackled another garden project (we just moved to a new place and the long-neglected garden is rife with potential), and am now catching up on BJ for a little break before vacuuming. I also need to write a two-page essay for a class I’m taking at UNM on Native American Studies. (Classes here started August 22nd.) We’ll grill a ribeye for dinner tonight or tomorrow, not sure yet when. It’ll be a treat, since we only eat red meat a couple of times a year. I might even read a book! Just finished le Carre’s Silverview, which was not Tinker, Tailor great, but still pretty good.

  13. 13.

    Wag

    As far as streaming services are concerned, I’ve become a higher fan of Apple TV.  Great shows with well drawn characters.  Love Ted Lasso.  For All Mankind is an interesting alternative history that’s very well done.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @zhena gogolia:

    Worked a bit since classes start tomorrow.

    I profoundly hope you meant “Tuesday,” not “tomorrow.” Anyhow, glad you’re up to speed on everything that needs doing!

  16. 16.

    Damned at Random

    Has anyone seen Chelsea’s daughter lately? Or has she been harvested for adrenochrome?

  17. 17.

    Josie

    I finished my final edit on my historical novel yesterday and ordered my book cover. Now I need to turn it over to my serious editor – my middle son – so he can pick it apart. I’m getting kind of excited about getting it done.

    TaMara – I guarantee you, you have not seen FUR until you have lived with a corgi.

  23. 23.

    germy shoemangler

    OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.

    — April Henry (@aprilhenrybooks) September 4, 2022

  24. 24.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    She could have been our president :(

    It’s gonna be illegally hot here in Northern CA today and tomorrow, but I don’t leave my apartment ever anyway, so I’ll be indoors reading with the AC. Got a terrific book going now that I’ll probably finish today, and then I don’t know what to pick up next, because it’s a hard decision when you need a utility cart for your physical TBR. Sometimes I line a few up on the floor and see which one the cat sniffs first.

  26. 26.

    the pollyanna from hell

    I am in Gainesville today, had no luck finding places to rent in small town NW Georgia. Finally sat down and activated my hotspot, so email works, but little time for the web. The news looks so empowering and hopeful today, sorry I can’t stay. WaterGirl will give Georgia jackals my contact info. If you can send me real hot tips or advice, text first so scammers don’t find me answering the phone.

    Still haven’t found a surface really good for my optical mouse. After 45 years in Colorado I get culture shock to find zero onstreet parking, and many many houses without street numbers. Go Abrams and Warnock!

  29. 29.

    TaMara

    @Josie: Not alone. I think I’m stalled on the third book in my TJ trilogy because I’m not ready to say goodbye to her.

    The series I’m working on now has no real end-arc, so I look forward to visiting those characters often.

    But still, the end of a book is an end to the life I’ve been living for quite a while and it takes quite a bit to feel the same about the new work.

    And congratulations!!! You’ll need to contact Watergirl for your shot at an author post! I look forward to it.

  31. 31.

    Josie

    @TaMara: ​
     I will probably not be putting it on Amazon until after the first of next year. Since my son is my editor and he has a demanding job other than that (imagine–a job IRL), his part will take time. But I will definitely contact WaterGirl when it is time.
    I am already thinking about a sequel. Just can’t stop now that I’ve started. ;-)

  32. 32.

    Cameron

    2:00 phone meeting with an old friend to help her put together an agenda for the meeting she’s holding next week on creating a public transit system for where she lives in South Carolina.  Hey, I ride the bus here – doesn’t that make me a transit expert?

  33. 33.

    Ohio Mom

    In half an hour, our guests are due for our ice cream social in honor of Ohio Son graduating community college.

    I hope our guests, from wildly different parts of our lives, get along and enjoy one another. And I bought way too much food, I think some of it will go home with guests.

  36. 36.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    @O. Felix Culpa: Sistersong by Lucy Holland. Historical fantasy set in 535 AD. The synopsis:

    In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, and the curl of the grass. King Cador knew this once, but now the land has turned from him, calling instead to his three children. Riva can cure others, but can’t seem to heal her own deep scars. Keyne battles to be accepted for who he truly is—the king’s son. And Sinne dreams of seeing the world, of finding adventure.

    All three fear a life of confinement within the walls of the hold, their people’s last bastion of strength against the invading Saxons. However, change comes on the day ash falls from the sky. It brings with it Myrdhin, meddler and magician. And Tristan, a warrior whose secrets will tear them apart.

    Riva, Keyne and Sinne—three siblings entangled in a web of treachery and heartbreak, who must fight to forge their own paths.

    Their story will shape the destiny of Britain.

  37. 37.

    mali muso

    @Ohio Mom: Congrats!  That’s a great accomplishment worth celebrating with all of the family and friends who can be there. :)

    My husband is paranoid about not having an overabundance of food on offer whenever we host guests, so we inevitably end up with either a fridge full of leftovers and/or lots of take-home plates.

  38. 38.

    Kevin

    It’s rainy today so I decided to finally make bagels. It’s been on my “someday maybe” list for awhile. Doing a half batch (4) to test the recipe.

    Our robot vacuum finally died recently. I thought it was the battery but even swapping that didn’t help. It’s prob for the best though. I always had to empty it at least 2-3 times per run because of all the dog hair.

  39. 39.

    Eunicecycle

    @mali muso: my husband is the opposite. He says if you run out of food people will quit eating! But he lets me have as much food as I think we need. And deals with the leftovers.

  41. 41.

    Josie

    @Ohio Mom: Congratulations to you and to your son. I know how proud of him you must be.
    You may not remember giving me valuable advice on my granddaughter, who was diagnosed a year ago. She is now 4 years old and has progressed more than we could have hoped for. After this last year in a therapeutic environment, she has been accepted to an early childhood program at the private school her older sister attends. So far she is doing beautifully and loves her new school. So thanks for being there when I needed the advice.​

  42. 42.

    Scout211

    @Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: It’s gonna be illegally hot here in Northern CA today and tomorrow,

    Yes, illegally hot here in NorCal. We are located on the edge between the Central Valley and the foothills. I just checked the forecast and starting today our highs will be: 108, 113, 116, 109, 111, 109.  I just hope our NorCal power grids can handle this “excessive heat” stretch.  🥵

  43. 43.

    Almost Retired

    @FelonyGovt:   Yup, as you know I’m not far from you, and we don’t have air-conditioning either.  “You don’t need AC at the beach” said the lying sack-of-shit realtor when we were considering a different property.  Harumph.  To be fair, by objective standards, it isn’t that bad, but I am really, really whiny about heat and the slightest hint of humidity.

    As to the concert in Polliwog Park that you are attending, friends invited us to meet them there tonight with a picnic.  My initial (internal) response was ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME WITH HEAT STROKE?!?  But, tamping down the drama, I suggested perhaps another time…

    I am lying in front of the fan with the pit bull.  Both of us are panting. My wife, who is made of heartier stock, is rolling her eyes.

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Ohio Mom:

    A big, big accomplishment for the entire OhioFamily! Congratulations to all!

    And I love 💕 the idea of celebrating with ice cream! 🍦🍨

  45. 45.

    UncleEbeneezer

    If you do Apple, make sure you binge For All Mankind and Dickinson.  Three seasons each.  And two of the best series’ of the past few years, imo.  Severance is also really great and Ted Lasso is good though fairly overrated, imo (it’s a bit too precious for my taste and the comedy doesn’t usually make me laugh out loud, but the serious/dramatic parts make up for that and are really superb.)

  46. 46.

    Scout211

    @trollhattan: When we lived in Stockton, the temp one summer day reached 119 and that was awful, but as usual, the temps were back just under 100 a few days later.  This current “excessive heat” stretch is just so long and so relentless . . .

  47. 47.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Heading to a pool party in Van Nuys where I’m playing music for the first time since Covid.  It’s gonna be a bajillion degrees, but hey…pool.

  48. 48.

    zhena gogolia

    @SiubhanDuinne: No, for many reasons that I have heard rehearsed in many 3-hour committee meetings, the only way we can satisfy faculty (who want to start as late as possible), students (who want to end as early as possible), and the reaccreditation authorities (who mandate a certain number of Monday classes) is to start ON Labor Day. Since we don’t teach all summer, it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. (Non-teaching staff are on holiday.)

  50. 50.

    CaseyL

    Kudos to the Authors in Our Midst, and to folks graduating/birthdaying and celebrating other milestones!

    Lazy day for me.  I’m devoting the weekend to cleaning.  Yesterday I got the floor in the kitchen and upstairs bathroom done, plus “utility laundry” (i.e., floormats, steamer cleaner pads).  Today will be vacuuming, if the vacuum decides it wants to work.  I may also tackle some surfaces.  Who knows?

    Jeannie continues to improve.  She is eating normally, if still not very much.

  51. 51.

    persistentillusion

    @Josie: Josie, neither you nor TaMara know FUR until you have either a Red or Blue Heeler.  My current Heeler, Phoebe wants to make Shedding All The Time an Olympic event so she can medal.

  53. 53.

    JoyceH

    Argh, writing! My last completed book was published in 2019! I have four in the series, and I always said that I’d keep writing them as long as people keep reading them, but… People leave messages on my author page asking if I’m still writing the Mary series. I’ve completed about 1/4 of book 5, with very little notion of where I’m going with it.

    Oh well, for today’s task, I’m going to assemble the rowing machine that’s sitting here in a big box.

  54. 54.

    Suzanne

    I feel for y’all dealing with heat. That is one crazy train that I am very pleased to have escaped. It is rainy and overcast and 76 degrees right now here in PGH. Apparently it might rain for the parade tomorrow. Oh well, we’ll get wet.

    My puppeh — who is an old girl — is not doing well and I am in some hardcore denial about it.

  56. 56.

    Ivan X

    @WaterGirl: I always end up answering this question differently each time! So today I’ll say experimental electronic punk, much of it in one-minute songs. If you don’t mind feeding the Zuckhive you can hear them and see their accompanying videos on Instagram at @ivanxnyc .

  57. 57.

    Citizen Alan

    @germy shoemangler:

    Wow. I’ve sold over a 100 copies of strangers in Boston without any significant advertising on my part beyond a blurb at the top of each new chapter of a fan fiction story I write.

  62. 62.

    Ivan X

    @WaterGirl: Alas, I think not. I also have a small handful of videos on YouTube and TikTok, the links are on my website at https://ivanx.nyc — there’s also a video of the first live show. Or you can listen to the songs (without videos) on SoundCloud, link is also on the website.

    ETA: Thank you to all for the congratulations!

  63. 63.

    HinTN

    Picked up the granddaughter and fed her the requested seafood (shrimp). We’re now chillin’ (i.e. zombified phone scrollers) until it’s time to drive to the big city to attend Shakespeare (Cymbeline) outdoors, where there’s a threat of thunderstorms. Oh yes, there will be the opportunity for more, professionally prepared seafood (pasta) before the play. Happy Labor Day holiday weekend, jackals.

  67. 67.

    Soprano2

    @Josie: Try two Siberian Huskies! They’re beautiful dogs but I’ll never have another one it’s too hot for them here. They shed dust bunnies!

  68. 68.

    trollhattan

    @Scout211: We’ve schlepped through June-Aug with no extended heatwave but it’s caught up to us and lord knows how bad this one will get–when it just gets to the 70s overnight nothing really cools down.

    “Luckily” it wraps around a holiday weekend, but Tuesday when folks are back at work and the demand spikes, the grid will be groaning.

    Did eight years in Stockton. ‘Nuff said.

  69. 69.

    Josie

    @Soprano2: I can’t imagine two of Duncan (the corgi). He’s a wonderful dog–smart, empathetic, well behaved. Everything you could want in a dog, but, Lord have mercy, the fur. I dry mop almost every day and still have it sitting around. I have given up having a carpet or rug on the floor.

  70. 70.

    mrmoshpotato

    We’re on a Labor Day weekend family vacation.  There was breakfast, there’s been hot tubbing, there’s tennis watching.

  71. 71.

    grandmaBear

    @JoyceH: I assembled my new rowing machine last night and am planning a session on it later today. Italian lesson first, though.

  72. 72.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, …

    Intelligence: Intercepted call sheds light on poor conditions faced by Russian troops in Ukraine. In a conversation intercepted by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Department, a Russian soldier says new Russian recruits were not properly equipped. According to the soldier, they were not given their own uniforms or sleeping bags and the weapon he was handed did not operate properly.

    [ womp, womp ]

    Original link at the KyivIndependent News Feed is to a Telegram post in Ukrainian.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  73. 73.

    narya

    Just did a long walk, with a side trip to Penzey’s–they’re having their “$50 gift cards for $35” sale. I like to give them as gifts to my team, but I also occasionally use one myself. Dinner is going to be venison and a bunch of vegetables (I have many choices) and mushrooms cooked w/ wine. Maybe some baguette and burrata and tomatoes, too. Yesterday was Chore Day–baked lots of cookies to send off to my parents (dad’s 92nd birthday is coming up); did the laundry. Then watch the F1 race and the IndyCar race.

  76. 76.

    JoyceH

    @grandmaBear:

    I assembled my new rowing machine last night

    Did you find it difficult? The one I bought had a lot of reviews that mentioned ease of assembly, and there was a video that makes it look simple. Several reviews said the hardest part was getting it out of the box, so I just dismantled the box around it. So now I have all the pieces unboxed and am working on getting up the ambition to get down on the floor and get going.

  77. 77.

    EmanG

    Also, congrats to Paul McBeth! 6 world championships ain’t nothing to sneeze at. Any other jackals who play the disc golf?

  78. 78.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    @JoyceH: Thanks for the tantalizing update. I have really enjoyed your Mary Bennet books and also your Regency Romance ones that Amazon recommended after I finished the Mary series the first time. Reading well written books like yours unrelated to current events is one of the most important things that has saved my sanity over the last few years,

  79. 79.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @germy shoemangler:

    Damn.  I’ve been feeling bad about how badly my current book release went.  By my standards, pretty awful, like I think my best sales day was 40 copies, which is pathetic.  And now I see this and I’m not sure if I’m comforted or not.

  80. 80.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    @JoyceH: Thanks for the tantalizing update. I have really enjoyed your Mary Bennet books and also your Regency Romance ones that Amazon recommended after I finished the Mary series the first time. Reading well written books like yours unrelated to current events is one of the most important things that has saved my sanity over the last few years,

  81. 81.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Almost Retired: “You don’t need AC at the beach” said the lying sack-of-shit realtor when we were considering a different property.

    We refer to a day spent reading inside with the A/C, which it’s bright and sunny (and hot) outside, as a “beach house day”. Because we’ve spent so many days at the beach doing exactly that.

    You need AC at the beach.

    We just had our 2nd in a row. Yesterday we told ourselves we’d get out of the house on Sunday and do museums. That ambition evaporated pretty early.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JoyceH:
    Joyce, I love the interconnected universe of characters you created in the Regency Romance/Regency Charade series, and it would be fun to meet up with those people again — but I really would love to see more books in the Passatonnack Winery mystery series! Any plans, or at least dim thoughts, about returning to those books someday?

  83. 83.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    @the pollyanna from hell:  I  use a small hardback book with some patterns on the cover (not dust jacket) . It has to be a stiff, board-like cover, not a slightly flexible one. I have a copy of The 39 Steps that is about 4 x 8″ that works great for me even though it is almost plain gray, the weave of the cloth on the boards works great with my optical mouse.

    p.s. I’m not quite sure how my earlier comment to Joyce H. got doubled and spaced later like that. The 2nd one had no edit window for me to remove it, or at least delete the contents.

  85. 85.

    Sure Lurkalot

    This hot weather (low to mid 90’s to extend until Friday, a 2-week spread) is a bummer for me. 65 to 75 degrees is my sweet spot and by 1 pm or so, I have no desire to be outside for anything. And it’s much worse in many other places, my sympathies. I guess it was a good time to sprain my ankle as it will be probably another week or so before it’s healed enough to do anything fun.

    I bought my first home in 1984 and like Almost Retired, was told that air conditioning was not necessary in Colorado. Didn’t take that advice then or ever. My current home gets a lot of shade and everything except the upstairs master bedroom stays pretty cool. I set the a/c at 75 which would be unbearably hot for some but it works for this house.

    Congratulations to the book writers and musicians on their work product and gigs!

  87. 87.

    Almost Retired

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:  We honestly really didn’t need air conditioning until about ten years ago.   As much as I would like to attribute my current need for AC to global warming, I expect the fact that I’m older and softer may also play a part…

  88. 88.

    FelonyGovt

    @Almost Retired: Too bad you’re not going, we could’ve had a mini Manhattan Beach meet up! I’m thinking shady spaces will be at a premium so we’d better get there early.

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @dmsilev:

    I live in Covina and it was 104 here yesterday. It’s currently 108. And we are under a power use restriction for electricity, as every human with AC wants to run it 100% of the time. My buddy, who lives at the west end of the 210 said it was 110 there yesterday. Low tonight here is supposed to be 78.

  91. 91.

    J R in WV

    I too have been reading a wide variety of fiction over the past 2 years of covid hermitage. Space Opera, Travis McGee and Spenser mysteries, Elvish adventures, stuff as far from reality as possible.

    Half of published books sell only 12 copies? Seems impossible, how could professional publishers fail at sensing marketability so dramatically?? Could be the subject of a long novel exploring that repeated failure!!

    ETA: Here in the tree covered hollow with cliffs we rarely hit 90, and the AC is set on 75 and doesn’t come on til mid afternoon. I have actually run the heat a little late at night when it got into the 50s late at night with windows open. Please don’t hate us, it’s the woods and hillsides and shade.

  92. 92.

    gwangung

    I’m about to do a video on demand on my play, She Devil of the China Seas, that I’ve been making noises about…we did well, even though we had to cut off two performances because Covid hit our two stage manager during tech. As soon as the ticket link goes up, I’ll announce it to folks….

    But we did get a decent review in the Seattle Times….

  97. 97.

    gwangung

    @CaseyL: Well, we note…though in this case, our lead character was on stage 95% of the time and in 99% of the combat scenes, so I’m not sure where he’s thinking the story should go next time…

  101. 101.

    Suzanne

    @zhena gogolia: I only had the sore throat. It did feel different from strep or post-nasal drip or sinus infection. I found that the Zarbees honey cough soothers for mucus helped a lot.

  102. 102.

    Calouste

    @EmanG: I saw a woman with one of those “Not today Satan” T-shirts, and I was thinking about walking up to her and asking “How about tomorrow?”

  103. 103.

    Suzanne

    I am making Ina Garten’s Engagement Chicken recipe. It is not worth changing one’s relationship status, but it is my favorite way to roast a chicken.

  105. 105.

    MomSense

    @Ivan X:

    YAY!! That’s fantastic!!

    I was invited to go upta camp but I’m exhausted this weekend.  Yesterday was middle kid’s birthday but he was busy so today we are meeting up at his place for dinner.
    FaceTimed youngest and he is soooo happy.  I miss that kid!

  113. 113.

    kalakal

    @J R in WV:

    Half of published books sell only 12 copies? Seems impossible, how could professional publishers fail at sensing marketability so dramatically?? Could be  the subject of a long novel exploring that repeated failure!!

    As a triumph of perseverance over failure the crime/thriller writer John Creasy would be hard to beat. He had something like 750  rejections before getting a book published. He went on to get over 600 published, churning ’em out at up to 30 books a year under about 30 pseudonyms and about as many publishers. In his spare time he founded the Crime Writers Association. I’m not a fan but I have to admire his determination

  116. 116.

    Bunter

    @JoyceH: I bought a NordicTrac rower last year and it was very easy to put together. I did have help because the flywheel was heavy but for mine getting it out of the box WAS the hardest bit.

  118. 118.

    eddie blake

    @Madeleine:  oh, it’s gone now. i just have the foul paxlovid flavor in my mouth. it’s a pretty nasty side-effect, but i’m just glad to have a treatment and as a result of it, a relatively mild experience.

  119. 119.

    Geminid

    Evidently Ron DeSantis thinks he has a lead to sit on. He declined to debate Chalie Crist in a debate that would have been broadcast statewide on October 20.

          The “Before You Vote” debate series is the longest running in Florida, and this years [was] expected to draw national attention. DeSantis participated in the same debate in 2018.

    Florida Politics

    In a statement, Crist denounced DeSantis’ decision:

      “DeSantis can’t defend his record of banning abortion and ignoring Florida’s affordability crisis. DeSantis wants people to think he’s tough, but you can’t dress up like a fighter pilot and then chicken out of debates. These are the actions of a wannabe dictator. It’s weak. Floridians see though it, and that’s why we’re going to defeat him.

    DeSantis will still debate Crist October 12 on south Florida’s CBS-12, owned by the Sinclair network.

    A poll taken after the primary by Impact Research showed DeSantis leading by 51-46%, within the 3.5% margin of error. A poll taken more recently by Clarity Campaign lab showed DeSantis leading Crist 48-45%.

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    lowtechcyclist

    @dmsilev: ​
     

    It’s going to get up to 102 here, and my AC died yesterday. Great timing….

    Chances are you’re halfway across the country from me, but if anyone in the DC/Baltimore area ever loses their A/C, I’ve still got the window A/C units and a portable that we used to keep cool when our HVAC died earlier this summer. Now that we’ve got a new system, they’re available as loaners.

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    WaterGirl

    @Geminid:

    DeSantis wants people to think he’s tough, but you can’t dress up like a fighter pilot and then chicken out of debates. These are the actions of a wannabe dictator.

    Charlie Crist is really bringing it!  I do believe that Charlie Crist intends to win this.

    It seems like Charlie Crist is not your father’s Oldsmobile Charlie Crist.

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    Ohio Mom

    @Josie: you are welcome but I must admit I have no memory of giving you any advice. But you are not the only one who has thanked me for autism advice I don’t remember giving.

    Anyway, glad to hear your granddaughter is doing well. Keep up the good work!

    And to everyone who congratulated my little family, thanks, I appreciate it.

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    apieceofpeace

    @gwangung: Congrats!  Positive review for you, the writer; criticism of director’s direction for not ‘translating’ your work as well as it should have been done for the production.

    You must feel very good about that!

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