Yes, do all that stuff - it’s really important. I have family in Estes Park, Colorado and they’ve had mandatory evacuation orders several times (three in a twelve-month period a few years ago). They always returned to an undamaged house; sadly, one of my best friends lived just north of Santa Rosa, California. His…

That is the media take, especially if the medium in question is listing to starboard. If you have any street-smarts at all, you’ll be fine.

The Chicago Police operate their own fleet of tow trucks, and if you’re being towed for a parking violation, it is one of their trucks that will show up. Since “wrecker detail” is considered punishment by the cops, when the truck arrives to haul your car away, the driver will be pissed off and packing a gun. Don’t try…

My wife is the oldest in a family where they had three kids in 38 months (wheee!!!) and then a youngest five years after that. It seems to have worked out for them. My mother-in-law was 18, barely-20 and barely-22 when her first three were born, so she had the energy to keep up with them.

This is off-topic here, but I have no way to send you a PM, so.... I completely got the reference when I saw your name, even before I saw the avatar image. You have great musical taste.

I just bought a new iPhone SE for about $135, including tax. That’s less than I paid for my Moto G5+ earlier this year. Yes, I’m an inhabitant of both ecosystems (my lawyer has advised me to not reveal why ;) ).

The library at the university near my house lends jumper cables.

Yes, it still sucks. The worst is when it tries to update itself but can’t. That may lead to a long sequence of desperate measures if you’re not techy. Even if you are, it’s a PITA.

There’s nothing wrong with sweaty art school types - my spouse was one when we met!

If you use oral contraceptives as directed, you still have normal periods (actually, very regular ones - that may or may not be normal for you or me). If you only take the hormone-laden ones and do so every day, you won’t have periods at all.

In the Ozarks, a camo truck marks you as a weed grower. Just sayin’.

The real reason is the ubiquity of the high-potency hybrids created by The Seed Bank. This would have happened earlier but TSB was forced to stop shipping to US addresses. Still, almost everything you find in a dispensary or an illegal grow is descended from the “old school” hybrids developed there in the 70s and 80s.

Yeah, once again the DEA spokesman is the one who doesn’t have a clue. *le sigh*

I too hope it survived; however, there are more than two bioluminescent bays. In fact, there are three in Puerto Rico.

That’s the cause of similar flashes due to tornadoes, but probably not these ones.

Indeed, I have!

It’s very reminiscent of the Dan Ryan and the Edens in Chicago. Nope, just kidding. I drive in Chicagoland regularly, and was on those roads yesterday, but it’s been almost three years since I drove to Seward and Homer. My favorite Kenai peninsula thing is wilderness camping across the bay from Homer. This is a great…

I’m pretty sure that the main reason that people buy premium pet food, especially for cats, is that they have a lower ash content than non-premium foods, thus limiting wear on your pet’s kidneys. Kidney disease is a major factor in feline mortality (not just house cats, either). Although I did actually analyze pet…

I have a 70-pound dog with an always-wagging tail at just the wrong height. My kids had nothing on my dog.