This is a child who was raised properly. Bravo.

And the day that my office installed the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) patch onto Lotus 1-2-3, it was a magical day. Not according the the Help Desk, but the rest of us were having a grand old time changing fonts on our TPS reports or whatever the heck we were doing. (I don’t remember. It was 25 years and two…

Yes. Yes it was. :)

You kids today and your special fonts. We had courier and one of those eraser pencils with a fan at the top. White out was still new when I was getting to know Mavis Bacon. You’re all going to go to helvetica.

Don’t white women with disposable income stand to lose the most? /s

Thank you for this, Bobby. This washes the stink of Jeff Sessions out of my eyeballs. Love will win.

You took a risk, it didn’t work out, and I’m sorry that you feel awkward. At least you should be able to avoid him. Don’t let your lack of experience cloud your judgement. If you don’t feel OK, it’s not.

Stop trying to cloud this story with facts! A newborn at 50 - more power to her. I felt like I was hit by a bus after giving birth for the first time and I was 24.

That stinks - being that low and realizing your friend really wasn’t a friend. I’ve had cancer twice before I was 30, so I completely understand that I was dealing with adult shit when my peers were still living off Mom and Dad. But it doesn’t make it hurt less. This time around, I knew who I could call and help me…

I think we’d be a force to be reckoned with.

I’m usually medicated and have a remedy for just about any gastrointestinal emergency including a change of pants. You really never know. I also carry sharpened #3 pencils in case I have to stab someone.

I was ill on a flight from London to NY and the attendants were very kind. Probably relieved when all the ativan I took finally knocked me out. I spent the next two weeks in the hospital, followed by another 6 week extended stay where I left with a feeding tube. I was lucky to have escaped a colostomy - barely. Better…

The fact that they still have to remind people not to smoke on the plane cracks me up. Like the airport subtracts IQ points and manners.

I would lift my shirt and show off my big G/J tube. Sometimes I had to attach a drainage bag to the “G” part of the tube to get rid of the vomit and my caloric intake would be 0 despite a constant tube feed rate. I begged the doctor to pull it after my second infection in two months. Luckily, I was able to tolerate…

Our folding shovel is very pointy. Don’t think I can open a can with it, but I’ve got one of those too. You are absolutely right about starting with the basics. We’ve been doing this since the late 90s and I’ve only shot a gun a few times since the election. I feel as if my kids are old enough to be useful so I can…

Jennifer Foehner Wells’ newest book has a black woman protagonist. _The Druid Gene_ is a good read.

Thanks for the recommendations - I just downloaded a Connie Willis anthology. Might I recommend Clifford Simak (not exactly disaster but he does examine the end of the humanity in interesting ways. Start with “City”.

I figure I’d be able to barter my medical skills. But I too am betting on my husband’s badassery to get me through. We’re pretty fortified here and can bug out in under 20 minutes with enough to start us off. I’m a lousy shot, but my bag of medical supplies also contains a crowbar. My dog is about the same size as me,…

There is a lid for every pot.

Yes! Old FTW. I found that I got more negative body attention when I was losing weight due to a GI issue. I needed a feeding tube and I swear that there were some women that were jealous. Literally dying and my mother’s friends are all asking me for my “secret” to getting thin.