Aw, thank you! I really hope so, too. We probably won’t know until Monday, but fingers crossed.

Thank you! So do I. (She just turned 66, and, needless to say, is sick to death of the constant job shuffling, but still can’t afford to retire.)

Hopefully I’m not too late this week?

This explains so much.

Your kitty is the closest in coloring to the first cat I had that I think I’ve ever seen! (Our guy had blue-green eyes and was an even lighter cream, though, but he had all those tabby stripes and markings, plus some siamese mixed in.) What a cutie. Give him extra belly rubs from me!

SO DAPPER.

Yup.

I was so happy to catch this and just see Macaulay looking well. He comes into my shop now and then and is always super nice and a bit quirky, but I hadn’t seen him in a bit. He deserves to just be able to chill. 

Christopher McQuarrie is a damn delight. All else can likely gtfo, though.

Good to know! And the whole thing with having mods sounds nice! (What a concept!) I already poked my head into a book-related post (lol of course), and it’s been good, so I think I will keep checking. Thank you again for the heads up. :)

I simply do not trust the public to judge service because they’re often the problem. Be nice to your server and they’ll usually be nice to you. Respect must go two ways.

They both have their pros and cons, because people are the worst.

Yeah, Yelp is the only place where I’ve witnessed customers straight up publicly LIE about the services we provide, and about the most inane and petty shit. Like, are you just that needy for attention to the point where you’ll write fiction on a business review site, or are you completely delusional? Can it be both…

ETA: Didn’t realize how it worked, but I’m not sure how much traction I’ll get in yet another part of the site where I’m still gray... but I’ll give it a try!

I might! I don’t think I’d ever be inclined to make my own full posts here (I barely blog on my own personal/private blogs as it is anymore), but it would be nice to be able to find something more interactive than SNS has been lately!

True! Though I’ve also noticed just not as much conversation going on (not that I’d claim to be someone who posts much of interest, other than cat photos, lol), so it rarely does for me, really, even when I was more active here on Saturdays.

I love y’all, but with SNS posting earlier and earlier every week, I think I’m just going to have to sort of semi-permanently bow out. 2:30PM is just not doable for those of us who actually work on weekends.

I grew up in San Diego — which is not the laid-back surfer town everyone outside it assumes it is, but is actually a rather conservative military town — and one year, on the 4th, they screened Captain America: The First Avenger on the deck of one of the retired aircraft carriers, the USS Midway.

Probably the best advice I’ve seen on here. Pretty much essential for survival if you’re living in a big city, a total introvert, or — as in my own case — both.

exceptions are made solely to keep the peace in romantic relationships, but oh dear gods do I bitch about it.