I’m enjoying the hell out of that flip right now! I’ll turn 43 on Sunday, and while my brother, who spent a lot of the time I was raising my son traveling and enjoying life, is dealing with two toddlers, I have a 20-year-old who helps out with dishes, cooking, and contributes to the household income. I was jealous as…

Only if both parent and child are white and attractive enough for FOX News to pick up on the story...

I’ll cop to being a bit of a purist and I still hated that goddamn game. Mistakes everywhere were bad enough, but they lost me forever with the refusal to try to convert on that last Patriots run. Overly conservative play, just like overly conservative politics, is my cue to run the fuck away. If the Patriots…

You know, I never thought about looking at call center metric-tracking in that light before. It makes me feel a lot better about it, that’s for damn sure!

Congratulations! I highly recommend the Girlfriend’s Guide series - there’s a book for pregnancy, the first year, and the toddler years, and while I found it after Kidlet was past that age, I’ve given them as gifts for every baby shower. They have some real, practical advice about dealing with all the crap that goes…

Ugh, I hear you there! FINALLY recovering from a fucking month spent hacking and sleeping days at a time away. Hopefully you have some decent meds, get rest and fluids, and feel better soon!

Yay, Cat! That’s awesome news - so glad to hear that your surgery went well and your little one’s getting on the move. 

Hey, y’all! I’m working on getting back on track - the last few months were pretty sucky, what with the whole dog-getting-attacked and me slowly descending into first depression and then a fucking MONTH of the flu. But I’m finally back on my feet and starting to get some traction.

“Shut up, Siri! I do not want to call STEVE! Just because STEVE lives at the fucking GYM does not mean -”

What’s important right now is to remember that there’s some fine people, some really good people, on both sides, here. I mean, I personally spoke to Ponchus Pilot, and he says that he didn’t have a thing to do with it. So in the end, are you going to listen to this really very unbalanced book or are you going to go…

The fuck?!?!? My 71-year-old father and 39-year-old brother, both white men, watch Empire. My dad in particular loves Jussie Smollett’s character. And only a tone-deaf white man can say that ANYONE doesn’t know or care about lynchings. A noose sends a very specific message, one that pretty much everyone in America…

I’m totally with you on muzzles being useful tools. That’s exactly why he was muzzle-trained soon after he came home. I think muzzles are great! Like you said, they provide safety and peace of mind, and I know when he did get hurt, it helped to be able to tell the vet that he was muzzle-trained (although the bite had…

Hey y’all! Well, Joss got his stitches out last week - he had the Cone of Shame on for the better part of this week, just to keep him from licking/scratching/biting etc. And he’s done really well - it’s healing beautifully. Buuuuut.... he’s (hopefully temporarily!) retired from service work.

The Girlfriends’ Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood by Vicki Iovine - Her series didn’t come out until Kidlet was too old for them (when I needed something about teenagers!) but I read it for kicks to see if it would help and friend and sooooo much of it was stuff that had me going WHERE WAS THIS SHIT…

I’m so very sorry for your loss

Here’s Joss, who got to take his Cone off this week!

Oh, trust me, I had them on the line before I even left the store. They had me email them a pic and then later follow up with details about what had to be done to his leg, so they’re not going to just let it drop.

I called animal control as soon as it became apparent that all the store cared about was covering its ass and making a report for its insurance company. Our local animal control doesn’t fuck around - when I told them they’d probably have to subpoena the owner’s info, they basically asked me to send a pic of his injury…

The store wouldn’t give me contact info for the other owner (who left with EMTs due to her falling) but they passed on my name and number, but we both know how likely it is that she’ll offer to do the right thing and pay the bill. I will be taking it up with the store’s insurance company, as the store said they’d be…

Thanks! I agree that they SHOULD, but I have no info for them - the store wouldn’t give me their info, just agreed to pass my name and number on, but I doubt they’re going to volunteer to do the right thing.