we could talk or not talk forever, and still find things to not talk about.

As someone who relies on a rolling walker (the kind with a seat), something struck me as very odd when I first saw HW using one, besides the fact that he was suddenly using one in court. Because I’m recently disabled, I’m a bit sensitive to the idea of questioning anyone’s disability issues, BUT if he’s using a walker…

we have so much in common...we both like talking. Or not talking. 

Oh man, this hits close to home. I was taken advantage of by a man who was 14 years older than me. I was 21, in a physically abusive relationship, isolated, and he was my next door neighbor. He was kind, good-looking, and would listen to me, and one night he pushed himself on me while we were sitting out on my deck. I…

The AC quit just before dinner one hot Saturday at our place. Diners were greeted by an HVAC team on the roof replacing 4 compressors that would cost my uncle $15K apiece. Good times, good times.

Most of this is just par for the course in starting a business. Worse when you have to deal with the public.

Another issue that Bourdain noted in Kitchen Confidential is that the same friends who say you should open a restaurant are the same ones that keep dropping by and expects a bunch of comps and freebies and never pick up a check.

I live in Portland but I was raised in the midwest, and all I know is that my super cheesy dishes always completely bury all the veggie-and-hummus platters at the office potlucks. :) “What did Hester bring this time? Does it have bacon in it?”

It’s Sofia, not Sofie. And your comma after “hate” is grammatically incorrect; it should actually go after “entitled.”

This part really stood out to me:

even if she did skip it for that reason, it seems fine. i’ve definitely skipped out on work meetings that have nothing to do with me.

It’s probably super-weird vintage porn...like Soviet-era porn involving a tractor factory and sturdily-built people with rough hands who look like they ACTUALLY work on a collective farm. And, yes, it probably involves buttholes.

High grade, top shelf artisinal porn, the kind of porn you consume with an upturned pinky finger, the kind of porn which uses only the most elegant and sumptuous vulgarities, mais oui.

Very specific porns, and full length porns. Deeply horrifying porns, too probably but I try not to ask.

Ms Boël first alleged on the record that King Albert was her biological father during a 2005 interview.

It’s a little cold how the photo they used for Albert and his ‘official’ family (wife Paola, their three kids) dates to the year this woman was born. How does this affect Belgian royal succession — is Ms. Boël now 17th in line to that throne? 

The Belgian royal drama is just sad. Albert II put Delphine through so much by dragging out the case for so long. He really makes Prince Albert of Monaco look like father of the year in comparison, he at least has relationships with his kids from outside his marriage.

The Belgian story didn’t disappoint. I feel bad for the woman, how much does it suck that your dad didn't want to acknowledge you. 

Like Irina, when I have been “done”, I am done. All of my serial monogamy relationships including a 20-yr marriage were ended, on my part, in about a day. I have never backslid or wavered once it was over for me. A clean break on my part, not always on theirs, but I put up with a lot of bullshit prior to the break.…