I just finished standardizing a bunch of application settings, which is about as exciting as it sounds. Then I went to get more coffee. This young man was in the kitchen, doing his best impression of Friday-afternoon-me.
And now… it’s…. 5pm! Who has weekend plans? I will be doing the usual: seeing some friends, yes, but mostly reading, writing, playing video games, and watching cartoons. Open thread!
Platonailedit
blog remembertron?
Platonailedit
Take that rocket man.
Take that Palestinians.
#totustantrums of the day.
efgoldman
Just clicked to ballgame. Sox and Rays are wearing clown suits, and playing like it.
Major Major Major Major
@Platonailedit: no, paying work ? all my blog dev energy is going towards On The Road and other add-ons.
Platonailedit
@Major Major Major Major:
other add-ons?
uh-oh.
JPL
@efgoldman: As long as they win and the f.king yanks lose, I could care less about what they wear.
Yarrow
Probably volunteering for a candidate or candidates this weekend. Not totally up for it but everyone needs to do what they can, including me.
jeffreyw
@Platonailedit:
Must be that oft rumored recipe database.
Elizabelle
I have mixed feelings about asking this, since this situation is kind of weaning me off Facebook, and that could be good. BUT:
My timeline feed is at most 2-3 items and then “more stories” which never loads. My “notifications” are for group activity, and very little about what actual humans are doing.
I am not seeing my human friends in my feed. I did not ask Fuckbook to set up my viewing experience like this.
Some articles have suggested clearing out my whole history and cookies, but that would be a pain, cuz I don’t remember my logins for my LA Times and WaPost subs.
Has Facebook been screwing around with your timeline and loading time? What to do??
Major Major Major Major
@Platonailedit: pie filter on the new theme. Threaded comments. The usual.
@Elizabelle: does this happen on all your browsers?
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Threaded comments?
Mary G
Chortling over this article in the San Diego Union Tribune about how Republicans put up a candidate to be a backstop for Duncan Hunter, but papa Hunter pitched a hissy fit and demanded no one give the other guy money, allowing Ammar Campa-Najjar to get into the general election.
Platonailedit
@Major Major Major Major:
You do know that we all have pitchforks & shovels by our side, right?
efgoldman
In other news, I feel like I’m in permanent 10,000 yard stare territory from the combination of antibiotics. “I’m flying…. ”
The wheelchair ramp installation guy came today. Steel or aluminum, sets up in a couple of hours Not covered by any insurance or medicare. They’ll cover 90% of the scooter, but not the ramp to get in or out of the house. Makes perfect sense to someone, somewhere.
Elizabelle
@Major Major Major Major: I pretty much only check FB with my laptop and Safari. Shall I try it with Firefox?
I don’t know why it changed.
Major Major Major Major
@Elizabelle: well, it doesn’t match my experience, so the first thing to check is if it’s just something with your browser.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman: I hope those antibiotics do their work, and you can be off them. Pronto.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Oh, fuck no!
JPL
@Elizabelle: Me too, cuz no one around here can do f..kem like efg.
Platonailedit
@Elizabelle:
.
Firefox has an option to see your saved logins (which won’t go away even if you clear your cache). I am sure other browsers have the same option.
Gvg
I am tired and plan to do as little as possible this weekend. Work has been hard and then an adventure. The University has spent years planning a new all info integrated computer system with the pieces of it that imapact financial aid the most rolling out this fall term. Because our world revolves around academic years, there was no possible way to avoid starting up most of it between the end of summer and the beginning of fall which is hugely busy. Naturally there have been new problems that testing didn’t find. Volume is already huge. We had a way overdue nice renovation over summer and just moved back into our own offices last week. The new student contact website rolled out last December worked so well students were sending emails to us all times of day or night then again when answers weren’t instant so we were behind there. The first day of class, some large water pipe broke in the night and the whole main administration building 5 departments, arrived to inches of water flowing out of the 2nd floor down the main staircase. They had to shut down the electricity. Then we waited in the dark for power to be restored…and waited. The end of the day 4 departments had to rig help desks in a nearby library with an insufficient # of laptops. The next day we reported early and we were reassigned to other areas of campus. The front desk help stayed at the first library, the rest of my department were sent to another library where we commandeered most of the rooms students reserve for study groups. It took all day of doing nothing while we waited for our desktop computers to be brought and connections set up. It is reported the original building smells awful and maintanence wouldn’t authorize access to get our goods till all kinds of tests were run, unexplained why. So 2 days nothing useful done about correcting some major problems discovered in the new system just before the flood. Today we could mostly work. Working printers still aren’t set up right and we don’t have but 1 key for all the offices so we have to take turns staying in our borrowed offices because we have lots of confidential stuff we can’t have random students seeing. There are about 150 random students studying right outside our new doors. Hope they don’t realize who we are and try and ask questions directly because we are so far behind its not funny. Also we made the local news with video of the flood I hear. Also haven’t heard what cause was. I am really seriously goofing off this weekend.
Major Major Major Major
@Platonailedit: on Safari your saved logins usually go to your system’s Keychain software. Chrome also stores logins somewhere.
Elizabelle
@Major Major Major Major: Fascinating. it’s back to normal on Firefox. Fine by me: I don’t check FB that much. But why did the Safari program get so screwy?
FB’s “help” info is pretty worthless, because they have their whole lingo. I have a real life. I don’t need their fake one with “stories” instead of “posts.”
efgoldman
@Elizabelle:
I feel like Tim Conway’s shuffling old man character(*). I’ll get there in a month, maybe
(*) One of the funniest TV characters ever,
cmorenc
@Major Major Major Major:
Headed down to our house at Sunset Beach, NC early tomorrow morning – will be there through Labor Day weekend. I have a new SUP (Stand-Up Paddleboard) – essentially an over-sized surfboard you ride standing up and use a paddle to propel instead of swim-fashion with your arms like a regular surfboard. I plan to learn to ride it in the ocean surf on smaller-wave days, but trying to learn to stand up (and stay standing) on it in the ocean is like trying to ride a waterbed in the back of a moving pickup truck on a rutted dirt road…so I will spend some learning time on the relative flatwater of the Inland Waterway. Other than that, plenty of playing my guitar. Be by myself the first few days, but have a house-full of guests coming for Labor Day weekend itself. There will be a huge cooler full of various kinds of beer at the house (mostly good New Belgium varieties, no donkey-piss Budweiser).
Brachiator
A few random thoughts about John Lennon
I think that John was my favorite Beatle. I liked his quick wit. I think that Paul was slightly more talented musically, but hell, this was still like Mozart and Beethoven being in a band together.
A while back, I was watching a video of John and the boys performing “Dig A Pony” when it hit me again that John was dead, that he had been cruelly murdered by a piece of shit nobody.
Some years ago, I remember seeing the cover of People magazine. It featured a slew of stories about John’s killer, his life, his girlfriend. The coverage seemed obscene. I never bought a copy of People again.
I read the news today, oh boy…
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
HELL NO on threaded comments.
schrodingers_cat
@efgoldman: Hope you get well soon and don’t forget the probiotics with the antibiotics.
Platonailedit
@Major Major Major Major:
Spent too many hours tweaking & tuning FF to my liking to look at any other browsers.
Now, quitcher dodging. Where are we on the dreaded threaded comments?
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: It’s funny when you get more worked up on a subject than I do.
Major Major Major Major
@Elizabelle:
FB’s site loads all the new content with scripts, after the site has already ‘loaded’; and those scripts are sensitive to minor changes in browser environment.
Major Major Major Major
@Platonailedit: just fucking with you
efgoldman
@schrodingers_cat:
Wouldn’t dare.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: That shit’s not funny, man.
Platonailedit
@Major Major Major Major: And others too. Fucking jackals.
A Ghost To Most
Drawing up plans for a 6′ x 10′ x 6’6″ camper pod on casters that I can load onto my offroad utility trailer. My wife is jazzed that I have figured out how to include a (small) bathroom, table, and seating for 4, plus a bed.
@cmorenc: Mmm. Fat Tire.
Amir Khalid
My plans for the weekend? A string change for Sister. (She’s the black Epi Les Paul Studio.) And supporting Liverpool in the Emnglish Premier League, at home to Brighton. I’m hoping to see their third win and third clean sheet in their third match of the season.
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: It made me chuckle. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
They deal with the chair because the companies will give them an 80% discount. The ramps are local so no way to force large discounts to the insurer so they won’t cover it. The reason it costs $15 for atylanol in the hospital is so they can tell the insurance company “For you, just $2!” They they pay a buck & leave you with a buck to pay. Most of the $2 goes to covering the added cost of dealing with the bastards. And woe betide the poor sap without insurance, he is getting socked $15 simply to prove to the insurance company they really are getting a $13 discount
I am having the exact opposite issue, will go get antibiotics tomorrow from urgent care because my permanent infection has gotten unbearable again.
Steeplejack
Hey, everybody, go see Julia, Naked. Best movie I have seen in a year. The trailer doesn’t do it justice. Makes it seem more conventional than it is.
A Ghost To Most
@Platonailedit:You should email Cole that request, in ALL CAPS.
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: Yeah, but you want the abomination.
Platonailedit
That desk must be rolling.
Platonailedit
@A Ghost To Most: Cole does love his all caps.
raven
I listed my 2002 Lexus for $3k on Craglist, put a sign on it on the street and sold it for $2500 in two hours. The dudes that bought it knew they were getting a deal!
schrodingers_cat
@efgoldman: Was not kidding, doctors usually prescribe probiotic tablets when they give you a course of antibiotics. Eating yogurt also helps.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
I’d like to see comment editing come back so I can fix my typos.
Schlemazel
@Brachiator:
It is odd, I never felt like either was half as good alone as the two were together. Each had talent but together they fed off and supported each other that made magic.
In the 60’s when the Beatles were really hot Mad magazine did a piece on “Where Are They Now?” for them in the future. They predicted Paul would die in NYC (torn to shreds by crazed fans). I always found that to be sort of spooky because none of them stayed in the US.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Sending good thoughts that you feel better soon.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
I thought it was really sweet that Paul McCartney went to the March For Our Lives because “a friend of mine was killed by gun violence.” ?
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: True, but I know it’s never going to happen here and I’m OK with that. Watching the temporary freakout was fun though. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
A Ghost To Most
@Amir Khalid: Where’s the adventure in that
raven
@efgoldman: Fuck, I wish I was close enough to help.
chris
It’s supposed to be a fine day tomorrow and the tide is right so I’m going to walk a long beach with Bert and his ball. While there I will ponder the fact that I have never seen a Special Air Quality Statement on my local Weather Network page. We’re 2500 miles from the 560(!) fires burning in British Columbia…
rikyrah
@Major Major Major Major:
No to threaded comments.
Mnemosyne
As mentioned in previous thread, I’m going to be doing a ton of cooking and freezing of meals ahead of my surgery next Friday.
Instant Pot fans, I think I can make the following recipe in the Instant Pot by sautéing the chicken in the pot and then pressure-cooking the whole shebang for 25 minutes for brown rice. Do I need to do anything else special to adapt the recipe?
https://stephanieclairmont.com/one-pot-lemon-chicken/
debbie
@Elizabelle:
There’s a setting, I think under News Feed, where you can specify up to 30 friends whose posts you will see first. You can also “sleep” groups for 30 days by clicking in the upper right corner of the post and choosing.
I did this last week, and what a difference!
If I misremembered how to do these things, I can run upstairs and check my laptop.
rikyrah
4M,
What a beautiful picture of ??
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: Threaded comments are my bête noire.
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: @schrodingers_cat: yeah, probiotics are a good idea.
@rikyrah: thanks :)
Brachiator
@efgoldman:
You may know this already, but some of these costs may be deductible, if you itemize, or may be added to the basis of your home.
debbie
@Platonailedit:
Chrome does too.
raven
@Mnemosyne: I haven’t had a great deal of luck browning and I have a stainless and coated pot.
Spinoza Is My Co-Pilot
Weekend plans? It’s my BD weekend (60-something) which is a much bigger deal to my darling 3 year-old granddaughter than to me, so her grandmother (my best friend and wife of 40+ years) and I will be spending a lot of Saturday and Sunday hanging out and “celebrating” and having a grand time. Grandkids are the best thing on earth, which I was unaware of till about 3-1/2 years ago, but it’s true. Tonight my sweet wife and I are attending a concert at the best underground music venue in town (the Lunchbox, in Phoenix) in which a young friend — who performs dark, experimental electronic stuff — will be the opening act (along with some other local avant garde acts) for the touring headliner from Brooklyn, NY (Ariadne, a modern “sacred music” duo). Be out well past midnight, it’s my wife’s turn to be the DD, so I’ll be partaking of certain, umm, “party favors” as they say. All in all, gonna be a fantastic weekend!
Steve in the ATL
@JPL: don’t care who wins as long as the Yankees lose!
@Major Major Major Major: lol
@Elizabelle: maybe the problem is that you don’t have any friends? Zing!
Platonailedit
Fucking french reach for the fucking fainting couch over Serena’s clothes.
Mike in NC
@cmorenc: Enjoy the beach. It’ll be around 90 here all next week and no rain in the forecast.
Michael Bersin
Meanwhile, over the past two days at the Holden, Missouri fair:
“Not to put too fine a point on it, yesterday an individual dressed up as Uncle Sam set up shop with a representation of shooting gallery, complete with a toy gun, made up of photos of Democrats – this next to a republican college student group booth at the Holden, Missouri fair. Of course, either intentionally or randomly, who knows, the fair organizers had placed the Johnson County Democrats booth directly across from the republican booth.
People took pictures and then posted them on social media.”
After all the media attention (Kansas City Star and a Kansas City metro television station) the fair authorities kicked both the republican and Democratic Party booths out of the fair this evening.
You’ve just got to love mall town Missouri…
“Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into.”
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
Just wait until I get my opiates next week. G still talks about the epic temper tantrum I threw under the influence when he brought home the wrong Chex mix.
Steve in the ATL
@Platonailedit: zut alors!
Martin
Watching the Dota championship and F1 @ Spa. Go EG, go Lewis!
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Yep. I liked how McCartney didn’t shout Lennon’s name, and kept the focus on the issue of guns.
The Lodger
That is one photogenic little guy. Samwise, I mean.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Damn it! Juliet, Naked.
I’m whipped after a tough week.
Steve in the ATL
@Mnemosyne: aw yeah. Save a few for future hangovers.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Drinkable Siggo yogurt has about 100 million cultures (or whatever the unit is) per serving.
Jay
@A Ghost To Most:
Rollers, not castors. Casters will take a beating offroad and create high load spots on the bottom of the camper.
Mnemosyne
@Steve in the ATL:
Opiates make me barf, so I think taking them for a hangover would be counterproductive, to say the least.
Steeplejack
@schrodingers_cat:
Which probiotics are good? As with everything, the sheer number of choices is daunting.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Good luck with the surgery. I had my left knee done (ACL, MCL, and torn meniscus) about 19 years ago. My advice: do what physical trainer says and push to discomfort but not pain. Doing the rehab right is what makes it work.
Platonailedit
@Another Scott:
Under that nice guy disguise, you really are a radical, aren’t ya?
Steve in the ATL
@Steeplejack: Florastor is the Cadillac of probiotics
Major Major Major Major
@Spinoza Is My Co-Pilot:
Oh myy. Happy birthday and enjoy.
Jay
@chris:
Other than a few clear days, we’ve been living in the smoke for almost a month.
debbie
@efgoldman:
It sucks when the antibiotics make you feel worse than you did before. Hope you can push through and feel better very soon.
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
If I rcall correctly, the technical term is “little buggers”, as in
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Scooter? Are you joining the Tea Party?
Get better, damn it.
Spinoza Is My Co-Pilot
@Gvg:
Holy shit! You (and everyone else involved with you) certainly deserve to do that! I’m winded just reading your account. Was planning on hitting the gym momentarily before going out tonight, now I think I’ll just have a cold beer and relax a while before the night’s activities instead.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
???
efgoldman
@Brachiator:
Only if I make it permanent. Makes the house harder to sell.
Plan on renting, taking it down when we sell.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Steve in the ATL: and Red Wigglers are the Cadillac of worms.
I took acidophilus to counteract the unfortunate effects of some post-surgery antibiotics. My very young surgeon had never heard of people having the side-effects I did. A middle-aged pharmacist grinned and told me what to take before I finished hemming and hawing about my symptoms.
Steve in the ATL
@Jay:
On a related note, I just rewatched the classic Chappelle’s Show episode where Dave is replaced by Wayne Brady
Steeplejack
@debbie, @Steve in the ATL:
Thanks! I hope that second one is not snark.
debbie
@Brachiator:
I remember exactly what I was doing and exactly where I was when I heard about the shooting (on WNEW to be precise). I cried and cried and cried.
John was my favorite. You won’t like this, but I think Paul took credit for some of John’s stuff after he died. The crap that was Wings is proof of that.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
This may give you a hangover….
Steve in the ATL
@Steeplejack: no, serious about florastor
Spinoza Is My Co-Pilot
@Major Major Major Major: Yep, and thanks! It really is sacred music, albeit of the modern, experimental variety. They’re touring for their latest album, “Stabat Mater”. Love weird, avant garde music (all the acts tonight fit that description) and the “party favors” complement that nicely.
chris
@Jay: Isn’t climate change wonderful?
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
Linky no work. You fix.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I was once told that that phrasing was racist by someone on this blog.
MisterForkbeard
Plans? Might take the 3 year old out to a local wildlife shelter tomorrow, and have a playdate for her set up on Sunday.
Other than that, gonna finish my lego Minicooper and play some Destiny 2 and Octopath Traveler. Hopefully it’s a chill weekend.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think its an automatic sign up. You have to opt out.
I dunno’ if the Tabasco poultice is covered.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: I make my own yogurt. Can’t say which yogurt tablets are the best. I usually get supplements like that from Target or TraderJoe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Wasn’t the whole point of “how do you sleep?” that Paul took too much credit for everything they wrote together? Most of Paul’s post-Beatles stuff is pretty bad, but for some reason I’m really looking forward to his upcoming appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: I could go for some sesame chicken right now
Jay
@chris:
Yup, and the Liberal’s Climate Change Plan is to ram through a pipeline over our dead bodies to carry dilbit to tidewater.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Paul co-wrote a few good songs with Elvis Costello in the late ’80s. I think he needs an acerbic partner to balance his tendency toward saccharine.
Steve in the ATL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: seems to me that post-Beatles, John’s were damn good but most of his music sucked, and vice-versa for Paul. Though, objectively, both the music and lyrics suck when it comes to “simply having a wonderful Christmastime”
Pro tip: never spend thanksgiving in London unless you want to hear that song in every shop in Covent Garden
efgoldman
@Steeplejack: Naked link http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/HAC500.jpg
Different one:https://helpacop.us/
Platonailedit
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Or you could avoid Covent Garden.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: it was a one off. We normally stick to Brixton.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Ah, I remember your recounting of the Chex mix saga.
Platonailedit
M4, while you are at it, may be you could also check why the bog standard html codes for line breaks and para breaks of tweets don’t work here?
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hey, it always got a laugh out of AsianGrrlMN.
Brachiator
@debbie:
They both gave contradictory interviews over the years confounding the issue. I think that some of John’s interviews belittling his own work are more unfair than analytical. Ultimately some of this is of more interest to musicologists than to fans. The recent analysis which “proved” who wrote what with respect to “A Day in the Life,” struck me as love me do about nothing. And in the end, it was what happened when the four lads came together and played that matters.
ETA. I watched a bit of a Beatles documentary on YouTube recently. It was funny that in the early days, Lennon and Mc Cartney thought that they might have a longer career writing songs for other, bigger artists.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: My London is sort of Soho to Notting Hill to Camden
J R in WV
@Elizabelle:
Elizabell, you seem to have the mistaken belief that Facebook is in business to serve you information about your interests and friends.
Facebook is in business to sell your face to buyers for big money… they could care less about your wants and needs as long as they get to count you as a user when selling their services to their buyers, like the Russian mob, Stormfront, Republican national Committee etc, etc.
Sorry, but there it is, they don’t care about you because you aren’t paying them a penny. All Zuckerburg cares about is money!
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s exactly why Lennon-McCartney was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: racist bastard.
Gelfling 545
I’ll be making one of the party taking my granddaughter back to college tomorrow. I wouldn’t usually but more hands will be needed as she fractured her ankle ( actually refractured, they say) today and will be useless for carting and hauling.
Steeplejack
@Gelfling 545:
Well played by the little malingerer.
Major Major Major Major
@Platonailedit: WordPress strips out most html, as is explained in the comment instructions below the comment box.
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I get the impression that Paul kinda took over when it came to arranging and producing some of the songs. He and George Martin seemed to have a good rapport. I think that Martin worked with Paul on the music to the Bond film, Live and Let Die.
NotMax
Survival.
And NO THANKS to threaded comments. Death knell to lively (pardon the expression) intercourse.
Amir Khalid
@J R in WV:
This. All should remember this maxim about social media: If you’re not paying for it, you are the product.
Dan B
@chris: The smoke blew away yesterday and is coming back this evening. It’s so insidious and at times like being in an Outer Limits episode where things are lurking in a poisonous smog. Is the heat in the East generating much talk?
At least we don’t live in Spokane! If it gets any worse there it will be like Beijing at its worst.
Major Major Major Major
@J R in WV: Facebook won’t make much money from her if she doesn’t use it.
Dan B
@Jay: Over dead Orcas!
That seems nice…..
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: They both needed the other to say “NO”. John came up with some real crap, as did Paul. Paul’s just had a longer opportunity to put out both good stuff and crap.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Madame sent me a pic of the kid and her new car, it’s a Lexus.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
We got through it, but it was a relationship low point that lives on in myth and legend. Honestly, I barely remember it because I was the one on drugs, but poor G was traumatized.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Did she buy raven’s Lexus? Big mistake. Big.
chris
@Jay: Yeah, I still haven’t figured that one out. Here nobody talks about closing down coal-fired electricity and they’re quite pleased that a Chinese group has reopened a Cape Breton coal mine.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Dang, I always heard that nurses make good money. Make sure she pays next time you go out to dinner. ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: No, she bought a new one.
Omnes Omnibus
@chris: Do you live in Canada’s West Virginia?
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Just checking.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Most of the nurses at the hospital she’s at drive Lexus’s. She was still driving the doughy Kia*.
h/t: Steep.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: much of Canada is very white with all that it entails. There are many parts that act…… very white.
Jay
@Dan B:
Yup. I don’t think it’s gonna get built though.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Actually we’re going out for dinner tomorrow, our friend and I are paying since it’s Madame’s and the kid’s b-day dinner.
J R in WV
This week has been really nice here in WV. The AC hasn’t come on, we’ve opened some windows for the bedroom at night. Yesterday was cool all day. Today was a little warm outside, but is going to be cool tonight.
Tomorrow it’s going to start warming back up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@J R in WV: The building in the pic I posted earlier is Google’s building in Venice, CA.
chris
@Dan B: I’ve seen the pictures and can’t imagine living in it.
The heat was the main topic of conversation all summer. That and air conditioning. People don’t have them and never thought they would need them. Kind of a climate change wakeup call.
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Doughty, not doughy. Unless her Kia is unusually soft anf fluffy.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Ah, my mistake. Of course, she no longer has the Kia. There was an Asian porn star who went my the name Kia back in the 1990’s
frosty
Dry sorta sunny weekend on the way, which has been rare this summer. Planning to canvass for George Scott tomorrow, first step in ridding South PA of Teahadi Scott Perry, I hope. Then the usual lawnmowing and yard work etc etc. And a bike ride on the Northern Central Rail Trail.
efgoldman
We may have our grandson ten days earlier than scheduled/planned. Baby doesn’t give a shit what your schedule is.
Daughter and SIL on their way to the ER.
Don’t ask me. That’s all the info I have.
YOU FIX THE FUCKING NYMS, PLS
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: …went by the name…
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: I used to live in Maine and Canada is whiter than Maine, both in terms of winter and the people. I visited 3 provinces so far.
Steeplejack
@J R in WV:
Very nice in NoVA today. Sunny, low humidity (for here—65%), temps in the mid-80s. Actually pleasant to be out and about. Supposed to be only 82° tomorrow.
Platonailedit
Forget squalor pit that is NE, where were the other ‘respected’ media on these?
chris
@Omnes Omnibus: Haha no. There’s only one other coal mine still open and it’s going to close next year.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Platonailedit:
…but her emails!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Up until 2016, relegating him to the entertainment section and looking for second sources, I’d imagine.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
10 days can just be the doctor getting the due date wrong — as I understand it, it’s usually an educated guess anyway. I hope the little dude arrives safely and everyone is well!
TomatoQueen
Weekend. Drown in paperwork. Footy, particularly the Chel$ea rout on Sunday (sigh). That cat is gorgeous.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Platonailedit: Lawrence O’Donnell just teased a story on what Pecker was covering up for the trumps on MSNBC
chris
@schrodingers_cat: You’ve not been to Nova Scotia? The first race riots in North America happened here in 1784 and still echo down the years.
schrodingers_cat
@chris: Not yet.
Steeplejack
@TomatoQueen:
Chelski, please.
Platonailedit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
At this point, even the old dead girl/live boy meme won’t work on the base.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: he’s really making you wanna go though huh
Amir Khalid
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
This is why we need comment editing back.
chris
@Major Major Major Major: We just want our American visitors to feel at home.
TomatoQueen
@Steeplejack: Chel$ki too, still gonna be a rout.
*saving my nym, Fireyfox is. Nice work.*
Ruckus
@Elizabelle:
That was how mine was last time I checked. But then I hadn’t gone on FB for about a month so I figured that maybe they were phasing me out. And that was over 2 weeks ago.
Steeplejack
@TomatoQueen:
Saving your nym—enjoy it until it disappears after half of hour without a comment from you.
Miss Bianca
Samwise! Kitty-boo!
I am up at oh-dark-Husky tomorrow morning to take a road trip to Wyoming. Dropping off two horses for the University of Wyoming equestrian team, and picking up another one to bring back to Colorado. Yee-haw!
Steeplejack
@TomatoQueen:
Just checked the EPL schedule. Are you a Newcastle fan? They’re my team!
TomatoQueen
@Steeplejack: For my sins, I am also a TOON supporter. Howay the Lads!
*fume. yes it’s in autofill but I was so enjoying the functionality.*
Wyatt Derp
Yes. “Revolt”. If by revolt you mean a couple dozen doughy white boys with tiki torches.