I also live in frost-free California, and I’ve had decent luck with cherry tomatoes. They seem more tolerant of our cooler-than-optimal weather. They have to be blight resistant, though...lot of heirloom varieties just fall over and die right as they reach maturity.

Around here, it’s “Bring your vision!” - meaning the same. The unimaginative buyer might only see the house as it currently exists, which is usually both exceptionally “cozy” and about three termites short of a complete write-off, but a VISIONARY sees the awesome house that will exist once the old one is torn down and…

True. It’s easy to grow, and tasty. FWIW, it also gets large (mine was in a 5-gal fabric pot and grew to 3' tall / wide), and the leaves are sharp, such that when I had to move the pot I usually ended up with little paper-cuts on my arms. Wouldn’t recommend unless you can give it space.

“...take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?”

California has a strict cap on how much your property taxes go up every year, but if you’ve just bought in, you’re the sucker who gets stuck with the bill. My Gen-X brother had the sense to keep our grandparents’ house, so his starting value is from 1950; he pays less than a tenth of what I do in taxes, even though…

I agree that such restaurants exist, but did the shutdowns actually clear them out? As I understand it, such places are owned by people who are already rich and simply looking for an investment, with upsides of getting to act like you own the place (because you do) and/or having an easy way to launder cash that may…

My husband does that too. He’s got a clean clothes pile, because I’m not folding his clothes and neither is he. I do fold my own, but only the shirts; the pants and PJs go on a hook, and the smalls go in a bin.

As a 6' lady with a 5'3" husband, I think I’ve in fact made a very wise decision with regard to emergency planning. Suppose there’s a fire, the husband is hurt or whatever, so I’ve got to carry him and two pissed-off cats down the stairs to safety? NBD I’ve got this. I’m not that buff; if he was a foot taller and…

Speaking as someone who’s in the market for a first house, there are few things I hate more than a remodel that’s clearly been done as cheaply as possible in an attempt to boost the sale price. I don’t need gold-plated toilets, but if I’m going to be interacting with these floors / appliances / etc every single day,…

I agree with you - it’s easy to fall back into old habits, but you already know where those old habits will take you. And you weren’t happy there, which is why you tried something else, right?

I’ve been on weight-maintenance “lazy keto” for several years, and I can switch between metabolic systems easily (and I’m a desk jockey of only modest athleticism). If you’re a life-long carb-muncher, your body has very limited capacity to run in fat-burning mode, and you’ll probably have to spend a month or two in…

I have a theory: most of the problem is recreational eating, and most of the solution is finding some sort of identity commitment that prevents it.

Agreed. If you're worried about eating too much leafy vegetables, you're doing it wrong...the best thing about keto is being able to descend on a salad bar like you're a plague of locusts and still be 100% on plan with your diet.

I’m a 6' woman with a 5'3" husband, and you aren’t wrong. I think about it like Moneyball; fact is, my dude would be way out of my league if he was 6'. But he's not, so...I win?

My suspicion: the sort of asshole who enjoys tormenting retail workers is also the sort of asshole who believes that asking them to mildly inconvenience themselves for public health is oppression, so they're out in force while the rest of us stay home. They were there before, but now there's no respite, that's just…

It’s no better (or worse) than a stadium full of screaming ball-sport fans. If people are willing to put up with the travel, expenses, and disease risk to share the experience IRL, even though it’s honestly easier to follow what’s happening if you’re watching the coverage at home - and governments are willing to let…

You know how butterflies (and other small things eaten by not-so-smart predators) often have big circles on their butts to give the impression that these circles are the eyes of a much bigger creature? That’s what those Kardashian leggings look like.

I don’t know how much vodka it would take to bribe me to sit through the HOA meeting where that was decided, but I’m pretty sure my liver doesn’t want to find out.

Correct. Someone got infected with a bat and a pangolin coronavirus at the same time, and the two viruses loved each other very much and made COVID-19. There’s a good chance that this happened in Wuhan, either directly or indirectly because some provincials got the parent viruses and were sick enough to be sent to the…

The potential for shaking down friends and family for baby stuff is exactly why I wouldn’t tell them what sex the baby is. If you tell people what you’re having, they will feel obliged to buy the most aggressively gendered baby items they can find. Your house will look like a gender reveal party threw up in it. That,…