Your team sucks and the league provides a really shitty product and I hate myself for watching because of the concussions but Go Steelers anyway.
Home Improvement Weekend
I don’t know if you all remember, but a couple weeks after I bought the house last August I picked up a ton of antique tiles that I wanted to use for my backsplash in the kitchen. They sat in a box in the basement for a year, and yesterday and today my dad installed it. I provided moral support and not even that because as he left he yelled at me for not even having the decency to come look when he yelled (I didn’t hear him, the washer was running and I had music playing while I worked upstairs.
At any rate, it was kind of difficult because the area he was putting the tiles was the chimney behind the stove, and it was not even, and the tiles themselves are all different sizes, but I think it turned out pretty good. I think I actually kind of like that it is all not perfectly symmetrical, because none of the rest of the house is:
We’re going to do above the counters this week. Also, ABC and I picked out curtains months ago, and we never got around to hanging them and they have basically been in a pile in the foyer for six months, so Gerald came over and did the honors. Here is my home office:
And we put this valence up (it was like 10 bucks at Boscovs) in the kitchen. I’m not totally sold on it but the important part was just getting the damned rod up:
There is just soo much to do- it never stops. I have, and this is no exaggeration, 65 photos and paintings that need to be hung. The only room where there is anything hung is in the dining room and two items in my office. And I still have more shit I bought sitting around waiting to be dealt with- I bought the stuff because I wanted to use it, but I never got around to dealing with it.
Do we have any updates from Betty Cracker?
Writers Chatting: Chapter 8 – Getting Back in the Swing
I almost decided against this post today, but I thought we could use a distraction. I’m jumping right back into more serious writing questions and essays. If you’ll add any questions you have in the comments (throw my name in there somewhere so I can search for your Qs later) I’ll do my best to tailor future posts to focus on them.
And as always, if you’d like to share your experience with a short essay, email me. I think sharing our stories is a great way to focus our chats. Today we’ll jump in with an essay I received at the end of March:
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Irma Open Thread
Stopped over to the Twitter to see if Betty Cracker had check-in:
I didn't think the last-minute hurricane evacuation could get any worse. ? pic.twitter.com/4hhPavxYI8
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) September 10, 2017
Looks like they are bugging out.
The weather sucks! pic.twitter.com/6G4Fj0dGsK
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) September 10, 2017
Last I heard they were taking the chickens with them.
Open thread. If you’re impacted by Irma, check-in here if you can and let us know how you’re doing.
Site News: Hurricane
(This is a re-post from Saturday evening for those who may have missed it)
Folks,
Our hosting company, Hosting Matters, is in reach of Irma. So lines or power could go down and so could this site. They have generators, backups, all kinds of great and groovy stufff, but shit happens.
Luckily, we have a test server. Right now, it’s configured for test usage, not live site usage. So please don’t go there to check it out. But, should the main site go down, I will upgrade the memory and processers so you can use it instead. It is hosted far away from Irma (or José, for that matter!)
Even after memory and CPU upgrades, it will be much less powerful then the main server, but it will work to keep the community going.
Please consider the site a resource to help get through Irma, and whatever cruel twist of fate José might offer.
Your normal nyms should work, and it should work and look like the main site but there may be twitches – it’s a development, testing, and staging site.
The site is at https://test.balloon-juice.com
I will repost this post over the next day or so, stopping when the threat to the main site has passed.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Ozark Summer
The rest of talented photog & gardener Ozark Hillbilly‘s pics from last week…
At top: Dem Wascally Wabbits got most of the cosmos, this is one they happily missed. I do like cosmos.
.I like the foliage on the catmint and it really took off. I’m gonna add some more next spring.
.Call Him Art: I found this red cedar stump while mushroom hunting nearby. A lot of character in that face.
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Oz, if your catmint is anything like our local variety, it will spread quite happily without any help from you. Here it’s a “weed” which comes back before almost any of the other annuals every spring, and it would try to take over the entire garden if left unchecked. I don’t give it as much freedom as that, but I always leave enough blooming (as early as February!) so that the first bumblebees have something to work with…
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Apart from crossing fingers for our Floridian correspondents, what’s happening in your garden(s), this week?
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Flutterbys4: Grow it, and they will come.
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Late Night Respite Open Thread: Easy Targets
RT if you are also tired & ugly and just want to sleep pic.twitter.com/CoymvKLi8p
— Jess (@spicy_knight) August 15, 2017
Amazing how badly the Times wants this to be true, despite all evidence to the contrary pic.twitter.com/YedNTPX19z
— Justin Miller (@by_jmiller) September 9, 2017
In spirit, Pres. Trump isn't a Democrat or a Republican. He's a freewheeling, transactional pol who looks for wins. https://t.co/HAEfKyXJDT
— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 9, 2017
Oh FFS, stop it. It's like saying Jimmy Carter had bad relations w Congressional Dems so he was an independent. https://t.co/qkuZN5HRME
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 9, 2017
Trump isn't an independent. He's the racist wing of the GOP winning the internal struggle against the anti-government wing. https://t.co/Y3SZNSMdcn
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 9, 2017
Trump's record on any matter that touches on race has been viciously consistent for DECADES—but picture of a non-ideological vessel persists https://t.co/aYrB5xDDxd
— Taniel (@Taniel) September 9, 2017
He takes ONE meeting where two adults from the opposite party talk circles around him 'til he agrees to keep government running & WOAAAH
— Zed, Zedd 'n' Zeddy (@ZeddRebel) September 9, 2017
Don't have to get angry about this piece, we just have to remember it so we can laugh and laugh when Trump renders it absurd in like a week. https://t.co/weJEylUlM2
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 9, 2017
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