The scammer was using her to move around money from his other victims. It was like his full-time job.

They always have a picture of some bland-looking white guy, but the typing errors are clearly the mistakes of someone whose first language is something other than English. I had a message from a “Cardy Harkins” that was basically the same thing. Hello and practically proposed to me in the first message.

I get these bullshit messages on Facebook. I have no idea how they find me, my profile is pretty locked up. I check regularly that I’m not showing any info that I don’t want to.

I did not have a good experience with We Love Colors customer service. They flat-out lied about shipping my item and then refused to let me cancel the order - that they hadn’t shipped but claimed they had.

I did not have a good experience with We Love Colors customer service. They flat-out lied about shipping my item and…

Yeah, the bikini in the picture was from the EMP exhibit, and it’s still in the Smithsonian’s collection. There’s more than one of these bikinis out there!

If you’ve never had your thyroid checked, do it. Mine was way too high after my surgery and my nails were just constantly splitting and peeling. Too low will do it also.

I mean, if my choices were this guy and Marco Rubio ... maybe I could just write in Cthulhu or something?

I sometimes still feel a wave of panic when I hear teenagers laughing behind me. I’m 42.

They thought it was pretty hilarious, I think. It’s Capitol Hill. Everyone’s pretty chill. And probably stoned.

I generally loathe IPAs but I am slightly intrigued by “vanilla espresso”.

I just went to a cousin’s wedding and there was a bar across the street. Before the ceremony several of the wedding party popped in for shots. In their floor-length, sequined bridesmaids gowns and tuxedos, in Seattle, in the middle of the afternoon.

Especially since so much inventory is computerized now. They don’t even have to “go into the back”. Like, I’ve been in a store and asked someone “Your website said you had this in stock, but I can’t find it.” and she’ll check her little handheld and say “Hm, looks like we’re out” or “Oh, it says we have 5 let me check…

Hm, it’s true I was really only thinking in terms of what *I* would have spent on a dress. And it wouldn’t have been $4000.

My daughter actually wants me to save my dress for her, but I’ve no idea if she’s really going to want to get married in it. Or if she’ll even get married.

If it was before the wedding, then yes, I would totally have done this. After the wedding, well ... I understand the desire to hang onto your dress. I still have mine and it’s never going to fit me again.

Also I read a couple of Leckie’s short stories on Tor.com, and I think “She Commands Me And I Obey” clears up a tiny plot point that I didn’t quite understand, and makes the sex of Breq’s body clear.

The drought will be over...? Yay?

So I started re-reading it last night so I could refresh my memory of the plot before the last book gets here. I totally see what you mean now. Mostly early on, when I didn’t quite understand what was going on yet.

I totally tried to do this same thing playing SimEarth in the 80’s. Only I was trying to terraform Venus by cooling it off with a nuclear winter.

This isn’t really a terrible story, but I’ma tell it because it’s cute(??)