One repaired radios and later ran a service station, the other was a manager at IBM.

I continue to be bothered by how bad a reading of Family Matters this is.

Say what you will about Kid Rock, but I watched six seconds to see how bad the lip syncing was and every word of "Bawitdaba" flooded back into brain like it was 1999 again

This is ridiculous. Everyone knows Yellow Tail pairs best with restaurants that delivered to my college apartment in 2005. The red blend and a Nathan's pizza puff and corn dog? That's living right there.

Five classes I took in college: 1. Byzantine Empire 1025-1453 2. From Vikings to Crusaders 3. Thinking with Stories 4. American Originals: Franklin and Lincoln 5. Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean World

One for the nautical trivia fans. HMS Wellesley, launched before the end of the Napoleonic wars, was both the last British ship of the line to be sunk by enemy action and the only one ever to be sunk in an air raid.

During the work day, my husband only texts me if it's really important

Lots of respect to the elderly man with the walker who rolled up to the Taco Bell at 10am, filled a water bottle with Baja Blast, and left.

I know they mean "people who've played before," but you can't call something an "Advanced Dungeon and Dragons Camp" if you're playing 5th Edition.

At the last second, I donated money to a place that runs summer camps because it gave me the right to register early and while I kind of disagree with this in principle, I would 100% do it again.

Having a really productive day back to work* *Remembered my password on the first try

Lol

There should be a sitcom about life among the tradespeople at a living history museum, and it should be called "Hanging with Mr. Cooper"

Anglo-Catholic/Anglican memes:

After a day of pulling a cream puff out of the fridge every hours and eating it, I'm not feeling well, but I won't stop.

Merry Christmas from our house, where my kid insists on playing mancala by bullshit made up rules she says she learned at school, but I think she's lying

My kid got too many presents

My parents' dog is humping people, and my mom is convinced she learned it from bad dogs at daycare.

Having successfully subdued the catnip present, she's taking a nap

People used to listen to radio plays, it's basically the same thing

A very big day for All My Friends from My 20s

Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...

Let the cat name the baby! What's the worst that could happen?

You can always tell a text I send my husband is going to be good if I start by reminding him that his wedding vows said he couldn't get mad at me (they didn't)

My kid is currently obsessed with personality quizzes so I'm having her answer all the questions on the Daggerfall Class quiz

Thanks to my daughter, my Spotify Wrapped is basically just Wicked and the Kevin Kline/Linda Ronstadt Pirates of Penzance.

I dreamt of a Mathnet style TV show for adults called Math Bridges.

Happy Thanksgiving from Providence, where my daughter is staging a loud protest of Christmas decorations being up in November.

Introduced my daughter to "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" today. When I told her I loved her at bedtime, she answered "it doesn't seem like it, because you played that song for me."

My daughter told me yesterday that she names her Pokemon rivals after me, and I have no idea how to take that.

We're seeing Ohio relatives for Thanksgiving, so our preparation is mostly relearning euchre.

You wouldn't last an hour in the Barnes and Noble where they raised me.

Every Tuesday my daughter brings a magazine to school so she can read it aloud to one of her friends at recess. This experience is going to be so helpful if she grows up to be an eligible bachelor in an Austen novel.

Have white people been especially caring towards cows? As a cow in a crazy self-published book my college library once received said "you think you've got it bad, they are going to eat my ass"

One my little pleasures in life is sending my husband the dumbest, weirdest GIFs I can find. Today I found this. What is it? Why does it exist? It delights me.

I swear I'm not a moron, but I spent about thirty seconds trying to figure out what her doctor did.

me, sobbing: please stop, you can't just call writing the same words twice as "Pierre Menarding" @a-real-octopus.bsky.social, picking the same password twice "I Pierre Menarded that password"

Ever since she was little my kid has loved an unnecessary sequel that sucks, so it's Home Alone 3 season in our house

The county run haunted house is terrifying if your biggest fear is teens in rec department polos shouting at you

Stop by our house if you want some boxes of Sour Patch Kids that are bigger than I expected

There are 62 days left in which Christians can do hot takes on the future of Nicaea for its 700th anniversary this year so if you haven’t got one yet, it is ok, all churches councils were hashed out well after they inked the statement.

My child's friend from theater class: I can't wait for the performance! It can't come soon enough! My child: Don't you still have lines to learn?

We have a parent friend who spells the word "yeah" as "yea" and it makes every text exchange feel like I'm talking to a Shakespeare character. If I can get her to start saying "verily" and "forsooth" it'll be perfect.

I'm firmly convinced that somewhere near me there is a dude who owns a collection of Beech Bonanzas, and every morning he checks the Skycard missions, hops in the wrong model, and just flies around all day.

Sexy Jeff's Appliance Service

My kid got a personal pizza the other day, which is how we discovered that somewhere along the way she learned the tune to "Personal Jesus."