One thing I’ve learned from these mutual break ups that are totally mutual is that there’s no hard feelings on either side.

Ha ha motherfuckers, welcome to my life every summer (I live on the main highway to Santa Cruz. We have signs on our private roads reading “This way to San Jose AND STAY THERE”).

Is it me, or is it weird he named his kid after his imaginary spokesman?

It’s so encouraging to hear that other people recognize this. It’s not even so much ‘left’ or ‘right’ bias as which corporation owns (or sponsors) the news. The example I always give is, despite the fact that the vast majority of viewers are workers, there’s Business news segments but no Labor news - unless it somehow…

The majority of posters on PSN are exactly the kind of person I vowed not to grow up to be. I’m not patting myself on the back for any special WhiteWokeness™ but just for not being so ... generic Pleasant Valley Sunday. That, and their cool story, bro adventure tales are terrible on so many levels.

I cheered. Whether it was the BOB bug or just Sarah’s grief-blackened soul, she’s been through enough. Reminded of me of back in the day when I had a horrible, nasty boss and someone tried to mug me on my way home - I broke his arm and shattered his cheekbone. I had a lot of hostility looking for an outlet.

I totally missed that. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking, that blackness had eaten her soul.

I’m in Los Gatos. I thought the same thing. And that I’d be perfect. Except I’m sterilized and also 100% Lethal™

Driving distance for me! Too bad I’ve been sterilized so many times, but my Real Surname is a real, no-shit Pagan name.

Super white, super old, love this show.

Not only that (and billions and billions of stars to you both for actually reading the book!), it’s a parable about Old Europe (Humbert) and New America (Loloita). I think the well-written creepiness of the surface story overwhelms the parable personally, but anyone who thinks it’s about a “sexy child” has plainly…

I’d have probably ended up seeing this because MrMaidenForm loves war movies, but Nolan and Murphy? I’m IN.

I have a lot of infections and stones, too so at least one person takes your sister seriously! If she hasn’t already, she should switch to drinking reverse osmosis water (a home system is pretty cheap); even good tap water is risky for people like us. Since I switched to nothing but “clean” water, I have fewer…

I’m planning on getting a fistula (vs catheter) and my own hemodialysis unit do I can dialysize daily. And thanks!

This one was The Wooooorst. I asked if I should quit taking one of my meds because if a known dangerous complication that is common in patients with severely compromised renal function and low blood pressure (unlike most people with ESRD, my blood pressure remains 90/60). Instead of answering me, she told me that low…

Yeah, my mother’s birthday is 7/17; my father died 7/18. Which is also my FIL’s birthday (he’s alive and about a zillion years old).

Monday would be my mother’s 82 birthday if she hadn’t died four years ago so I feel ya. Except my father died 23 years ago Tuesday so I don’t have him sending any gravesite photos, because she doesn’t have one and they were divorced anyway. So yeah. Fun.

I found out a few weeks ago that I’m in end-stage renal failure; that is, very very close to needing dialysis. Even though I have three(!) kidney diseases, none of them seem to be active enough to explain why my function just suddenly tanked. And I’ve been having to explain to the few people I’ve told that a) I won’t…

At least with my hair, the white is color-resistant so special fixers had to be used to get it dark. Bleach was used - lots of it - but it lifted it to various shades of pale strawberry blonde to pale titian red. I did a lot of research, and there’s pretty much two ways to lift the color, but neither would “restore”…

I know she’s off the week of 8/2 and I’m pretty sure she has weekend appointments. It’s a cute salon and doesn’t smell horrible like a lot of them do, and it’s conveniently located next to an independent coffee shop (and the salon will give you as much tea as you can hold). They don’t push product sales though they do…