In what is surely this season's best display of advanced executive function skills, I have successfully edited the Chewy order before it shipped.

I have been saying this very thing

Going to start just flat out accusing NextDoor Karens of racism because that's what it smells like when the worst of these types mount their keyboard soapboxes and start complaining. Generally I love it here but there's a subset of the pop. that really shouldn't be allowed internet access.

The constant screaming is "wE nEEd aFfoRdaBle HoUSing" even though the city's facilitated several apartment developments plus Habitat For Humanity projects to do exactly that and when an income restricted apartment building goes up people scream, "WHY DO WE NEED MORE APARTMENTS OMG"

I've taken to dropping Wiki links to "the law of supply and demand" into NextDoor ragethreads about how "awful" it is that our community is planning ~5000 additional housing units over the next 20 years. My favorite complaint: "why do we need new housing our pop. has been stable for 10 yrs."

i hear if you drive it backwards it makes its own hydrogen and fills its tank back up

ah, yes! that classic American regional food prep method: throwing unhealthy things at a skillet until the smoke alarm goes off.

I feel like you can tell what states have the best State Fair food by looking at this map, too. FRIED BUTTER MY FRIENDS.

I get theological-ish.

Two weeks with appointments nearly every day and three of the days were chemo days, too. Tomorrow we have a Scary Procedure at the local hospital, but then we (probably?) have a few days free. Except I have to pack up our Cancer Circus for three days of radiation therapy an hour away.

Don't knock the beer cheese soup till you've tried it.

@fodder650.bsky.social @smuuthbrane.bsky.social I vote we make him our AI.

Today was the single shittiest day I've ever spent cleaning up snow, and that includes the time I had to squeegee 2" of slush off the front sidewalk because the neighbor's gutter system was dumping onto our property.

I wrote about Kat.

Trinity Sunday is coming.

Today was supposed to be a rest day because we have high-stakes, exhausting appointments all the rest of the week. But I've spent the day dealing with the blizzard. March is the month of lies.

Literally as I was typing, I got a text saying the crew from the municipal band that husband plays trombone w/ are on their way over to dig us out. If there's any money left in our lives at all after cancer takes its cut, we're buying a modern snowblower w/ electric start that Jenny can operate.

How the rest of the world should reply to Rubio & Trump regarding help opening the Straits of Hormuz

MKX upgrades Winter Weather Advisory to Blizzard Warning for Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine [WI] till Mar 16, 4:00 PM CDT at Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:21:23 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

Exciting days on the Great Lakes.

That sound you hear is the bones of Tsar Nicholas II screaming from the grave, "No, no, no! Never start a land war in Asia! And don't go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

Maybe I'll just repost this face now and then.

dis ackshully howe desine proncess werk : find an porblem an solff it.

::looks at the news:: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/...

My current favorite game is abusing this idiom for comedic purposes. I referred to the SecDef (oh, sorry, ~SecWar~ ) as "a turd or two short of a full manure load for spring planting" yesterday.

Flakiness on the part of a long-time friend of mine finally eroded our friendship to no-contact stasis. Answer texts. Manage your email so you see notes from friends. Reach out now and then without prompting. Help. Be there. If you can't do that much, maybe you don't deserve friends?

This made my day. This look.

Our COBRA paperwork didn't make it clear that the insurance wouldn't be reinstated until the payment cleared. It just said "you have 45 days to pay the premium." I'm explaining over and over on the phone that yes, we do have insurance, it's just not showing up in the system for a few more days.

Arab states, most of human history: "It'd sure be nice if we didn't have to deal with Persia." Arab states, 2026: "Wait, no. Not like that."

Tuxie toe beans for happy vibes.

How to Win Friends and Influence People, DJT edition.

He Saved Big Money at Menards and so he can try-hard with his cars all he wants.

Last chemo. 5 hrs at the cancer clinic and then home with a stupid pump for two more days. We're not actually done-done until Thursday around 1pm. But then we're done with Folfirinox.

Last chemo today. We think. Sometimes stuff changes fast. Radiation begins March 23.😱

This is the dumbest war.

filling my weekly pill organizer with articles of impeachment

I figured out why my cat is so fast, guise.

::shakes violently in O2 sensor faults::

It was a bad time for our Chevy Volt to kick the bucket. The Buick gets 24 mpg. 😑

I did an hour of wild and random spring clean-up tasks at 55°F in the backyard and I think it's the first time my back hasn't hurt in a month.

That sinking feeling when you forgot to check where your order is shipping from, and there was that ominous note on the shipping notification, "buyer responsible for all customs duties."

It's true. The unwise sheeple hoomans are changing their clocks tonight.

Third owner syndrome on a 90k-mile Porsche Cayenne could be a five-digit repair bill, but on a 10-year-old Buick, it's just laughter and digging around in the toolbox for a magnet. open.substack.com/pub/elephant...

made peanut butter cookies instead

Dear friends of my parents from decades ago in West Africa, reaching out through the years to be kind and pray for my husband and me. 💗 #TCK #MKs

That's enough adulting for a Saturday. I could use a donut now.

Seconded. It might also help keep stupid Americans from getting Iraq and Iran mixed up although I have zero hope of most of America ever registering that Iranians don't (generally) speak Arabic.

#proudmom So my kid (age 23) is now 1) a certified electrical worker (she knows enough OSHA regs to probably not get herself killed working around high voltage) and 2) is a certified technician for one of these multi-million dollar dohickeys. youtu.be/Iu73Ekn-cL0?...

I do love Wisconsin.