Mrs Whiggins

We've been harvesting lettuce and spinach lately and this weekend I sowed some more seeds for succession plantings. The beets have been growing nicely as well as the carrots and I finally got some radish seeds in the ground. The tomato that I mentioned previously I ended up trimming down to just enough branches to leave some leaves for photosynthesis and lo and behold it produced some fruit that has been going along quite nicely in a race against the cooler weather. Sometimes you just have to put the fear of death into a plant before it finally gets down to business I guess. I am in a battle with several squirrels right now and they absolutely love that the nice lady that turns over the earth until it is soft and easy to dig. Just perfect for taking all the pecans off the neighbor's tree and burying. NOT. I rigged up bird netting over all the seedlings because those little critters can ruin a planting in the blink of an eye. I have a few more flowers grown from seed that will go out soon as it's getting close to frost time, but so far so good considering summer was a bit of a disaster.

Are you looking local to where you are or is online acceptable? I've gotten emails from this company (likely due to seed companies selling my info: https://www.designtoscano.com/search?utf8=✓&q=st+francis&button=search&authenticity_token=EI56qqffqyKFaOJ7%2BGWUoWGSJAtuVWuM2fYnXKwg1FsonVM4zwT39grlzWv84XoizGpiWNn8D8OP%2BKCI6Qd%2Bhg%3D%3D

Solving problems is just what a libtard would do doncha know and that's socialism.

Since we all contracted Omicron variant just prior to the booster being available, we're holding off per CDC guidelines and will go in another month-and-a-half but we all received the flu shot in October as we do every year.

I'm moving this quote to CR because I'm going to take it political and don't want to mess up that thread. The discussion was related to the verification (blue check) and mostly centered around the money involved and the math around that money based on users, etc. My inclination is less about Elon and losing money and more about national security and with whom he is friendly with respect to his business dealings. I referenced Saudi Arabia above, but I suspect this man has enough hubris to believe he can handle it all w/o compromising this country or rising democracies in other countries or perhaps he doesn't give a shit. Regardless, I care less about Twitter as a whole (no account, etc) and more about the uneasiness that we are being distracted by a shiny object when there is a serious threat lurking behind the curtain. Saudi has paid 2 Billion to Kushner, and is wheeling and dealing with TFG thru the LIV golf tourneys (part of TFGs revenge motive regarding the PGA), and they've been invested in Twitter for over a decade. Who else might be interested in helping out the guy who champions free speech while financial backers slice up their political dissenters?

Actually it did, and at the risk of going CR, it's a problem with the changeover but perhaps in a different way. The entities who were charged (per FBI/USA v Abouammo, et al) with placing a mole/moles inside Twitter (circa 2015) one of whom used his role as a site reliability engineer to hand over the info used in the verification process are now tied to the company. Even if SA doesn't use the info (which includes email addresses, telephone numbers, last log-in time, etc) there are likely plenty of foreign parties interested in paying for that information to quell dissent, track down individuals wherever they reside, etc and perhaps pay enough to make eight bucks look like a decoy. Musk has ties globally to various countries that might like the new loosey goosey staff he has coming in and it all seems a bit sketch to be paying attention to the celebrity stuff when the data mining stuff seems more of a concern. I don't know that Musk and Thiel ever made up and became besties again, but for all their innovation, they have the shady aura of (tech) wizards gone bad.

That dumbass is my rep and when he ran after the district was redrawn his first mailer card had a photo of two men, one of which was supposed to be him. I guess. It wasn't labeled. Someone must have finally pointed it out to him because he came out with new mailers eventually. I mean how stupid is it to assume that when a percentage of your district didn't have you as a rep and you (and the old rep) were never around anyway that we would know who you are? Oh, I guess we're supposed to see 'R' vote 'R'. Nope. Nope. Nope. This isn't the vote for Homecoming Court, honeybun, and you have no platform that I support.

Which unironically, is one of the main reasons the man with the money bought Twitter. It didn't work so well for the other socials that formed after they found servers that would host them because the nucleus of those users were no longer allowed on Twitter and thus had no field on which to fight. Advertising $$ notwithstanding, it both monetizes the outrage (to get in on the same grift pie that pols and hangers on were eating) and it perpetuates the simultaneous dopamine hit of the cult alongside the poor victim status. Just in time for certain events that are for another and more appropriate forum so I'll stop there.

Agree. After the quick release on Twitter I frequently end up spending just as much time checking the accuracy (especially due to the source), seeing what is out of context or edited, and such that other than quickly alerting me to something that was likely going to spread through other means results in me doing the journos job all over again. I cannot imagine a world in which someone somewhere is not racing to be first with the news/tea, however. Telephone, telegraph, (don't you dare say tell-a-woman as football recruiting message boards are a quick refute that it is wholly gender based) lot of people want that thrill of being the bearer of good or bad news. But I don't have Twitter and use it as a lurker so we'll see how long that lasts with new ownership. It has broadened my scope of who is out there for good reads and words on a variety of topics and that is a positive. But the spread of lies and hate is such an awful counterweight that I will gladly trade social media for going on a knowledge quest of my own. Sometimes, a little more work yields more satisfactory results.

I was listening to a music video on YouTube and this vid popped up in the suggestions. I like learning about the prep that goes into what appears on screen and this video discusses the big scene from Ep 10. I also love that the two men (mid video) were literally playing with toys. Stepping on my soapbox for a moment--underscores the importance of real and physical play (away from the screen) in relation to developing a chlld's mind and how that grows into adulthood. I don't care if you call them dolls or action figures (the latter is somehow more acceptable to certain parents apparently) but they are such a wonderful gift to the imagination.

We voted yesterday, no wait but it was a steady stream of people as we entered and when we left.

Pos rep for your earlier post regarding player safety, etc. Players are people first, and despite what Bumfrick/Baumflock/Boomfuck twitterfan says, opponents are not 'enemies' they are opponents and that is all. The hyperbolic rhetortic in sports disgusts me at times. I don't care if a fan has $5000 riding on the game or sleeps with a team plushy football pillow but some fans need to have some self-respect and compassion and that goes for the coaches first and foremost--as you stated, Jimbo has a responsibility to the athletes and if the fans and the AD don't like it, then they need to get over it. If he needs to be fired, they can do that--it's crazy stupid to pay that much money in that manner anyway. I love to watch a good football game, especially with players that have that 'it' factor when they play--Ewers has that potential it appears and there have been a lot of players throughout the history of the game that are just plain fun to watch excel at the position they play, from lineman to dback to wide receiver, no matter the team. I get it, this is a football message board, first and foremost, but I am glad to see that most folks see the human underneath the helmet (unless as you stated, the player is a jerk/commits crimes). I checked out their roster, and they have about four more quarterbacks they can run through if that's their thing, although when I looked at their remaining games, the highlight will likely be squeaking a win over UMass.

Total Wine had Bombay Sapphire on special cheap cheap and a lovely Gibson...okay make that plural...was the result. Here's to Friday!

This thread absolutely delivers. Every year, every time. I can visualize a decade from now, the Prepuce household being a destination spot for Halloween rather like the World's Largest Ball of String is for summer road trippers.

I have at my disposal all of the above plus a mattock, a mallet, a pruning saw, and an axe among other things. Call me Squishmael.

That is why the Austin Powers fight scenes were humorous; they got a lot of play out of things like what you're talking about. ---- The little details like ironing or sometimes cooking/baking where it is apparent the actor is not familiar with how it's done. That's usually younger actors that haven't perhaps picked up the skills yet because they've been...working on their acting. I don't know why it bothers me, it's not the point of the scene, but it jars the senses nonetheless.

Have you ever seen The Painted Veil--Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones et al? Loved her in that, although the movie itself makes me very weepy. Always thought it was under-rated.

Another perspective to consider is that circumstances of birth outside of one's control (gender and birth order in this instance) throughout history have been given precedence over other considerations. One could say 'thems the breaks,' but Martin adeptly shows how awry that can go. That, to me, is one of the themes he illustrates but to say the action is wholly due to the above mentioned group (and they do play major parts in plot movement) does disservice to the two female lead characters. W/respect to the birthing scenes, I thought it interesting that in the four depictions (3 episodes because one episode had two) the directors were male and save one episode, male writers. The episode with Vaemond's beheading was written and directed by women.

He is, but he is graduating in December and wants to do post-grad work elsewhere. (One of my kids knows him from when he played travel soccer)

Who is the "they" to which you refer?

I get it, but I am/was sympathetic to utxmike's wife wanting to prolong the illusion.

I make a little crib sheet prior to voting, especially if there are a lot of props, bonds, and like you said, judges or other positions that don't get as much airtime. I read the text on the sample ballot beforehand and then do a quick check in the booth to make sure nothing's changed but it saves a lot of time.

I know, I know. I had a hard time believing it myself because Lucerys was so small and trying so hard. But no parachutes in Westeros I'm afraid and even if he fell in the water, survived and led a Laenor-like existence far away from Driftmark, he's not coming back-- for the purpose of the show, he's a plot lamb. Apparently HBO had really good numbers, even with the finale leak.

I liked The Guest, but it's probably considered more thriller than horror. I tend to stay away from the really creepy stuff.