The zipper merge is the Esperanto of the highway code.

as long as yellow car is using their signal.

While I don’t think it’s so high as 95%, I agree that it’s unbelievably embarrassing. Just take turns, left-right, one after the other. It’s so simple.

That sounds like a good idea. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with Albertine (my cyclamen), because I don’t think it will be doable to bring her with me on the plane to my parents’ house for a month.

I do love the Victorian (or in my case, really more Edwardian) look of having lots of plants around. Currently, I only have one plant, but that’s because I’m moving in a few weeks and now is a really bad time to buy more stuff.

i want of these weird fuckers next. split rock succulents https://www.etsy.com/listing/491107934/cs-living-stones-succulentseedslots-of

I’m attempting the same thing but in a much darker, “garden” (haha) apartment with not much light. Can anyone recommend a small plant lamp they’ve had luck with? Everything I’ve find is too big/for weed growing.

I’m both happy and annoyed by the newly-trendy nature of having a zillion plants. I’ve had as many as my apartment allowed for my entire adult life, peaking at around 70 when I lived in a third floor 1bdr walk-up with great skylights about 5-ish years ago. The basement apartment years were dark times (very literally)…

I enjoyed this write up of your new hobby. What fun! Your plants are lovely and I love the little stubby legged pot for your Peperomia.

I remember the first time I was stuck in traffic behind a “choose life” license plate and thinking “something’s off when people decide a regular old bumper sticker won’t do the trick- they gotta get the RMV invovled!”

Everytime I see that elevator selfie, my eyes roll so far back into my skull that I am afraid they will disconnect from my brain.

Even the dumpsters want out of Pittsburgh.

lol nice try Bobby but my boyfriend would be on fire

I was going to be a diplomat, or work for an NGO and help people around the world. Now I work with databases in a fundraising capacity at a hospital. Not sure how that happened.

I’m actually at the phone center, so give a ring! (You can still get the GASP!)

The Ballard neighborhood in Seattle has a bunch of micro breweries and also great restaurants and bars (including the Pie Bar, which has a few savory pies but mostly just desert and fun drinks).

Woot woot, Seattle! Give a ring to Pagliacci Pizza and I’ll set you up with our Bacon Leek seasonal!

I think this is the first time I’ve ever happened to pop over to Jez just in time for SNS!

Fascinating and relevant, having just lived through the October firestorm in California. While the fires stopped about 2 miles from my house, October 8/9 were terrifying, especially after we evacuated, not knowing whether our neighborhood would be next. What’s even scarier is that the Hanley fire of 1964 burned an…

Ha. I was in Bandon last year, and we stayed at a hotel that was reasonably high above the ocean, but I still had to go walk (when we got there at night) up the hill to figure out where I would go when the tsunami warning came. I guess my anxiety isn’t quite as bad as yours, but I felt acutely aware of it the whole…