The large trash dumpsters are measured in cubic yards, often abbreviated as just yards by those who handle them. The company I work for has 10, 20, and 30 yard dumpsters. For comparison, the flip-top dumpsters you often see behind bars and restaurants are usually between 3-6 yards.

We’re the Oregon Trail Generation.

In one of the voiceovers she says that she laid in the hospital bed for weeks before returning home. I can’t remember exactly in the books, but it sends like a couple of months that Jamie spends in prison - I recall their reunion being very awkward for that reason. So I got a sense of a month or two before…

I was barely holding it together until Louise asked to hold her. Jesus. I cried reading the book, but it was definitely an ugly cry watching it on screen. Catriona is amazing.

Also, it appears that Channel One still exists. Serena Altshul was the other Channel One broadcaster I have seen elsewhere.

I’ve often wondered If Channel One was some sort of fever dream that I had in high school, because everyone looks at me like I’ve sprouted a second head when I mention it. Yes, I remember him and Lisa Ling and someone else that I think I saw on MTV a few years later.

Patience, my friend... The frilly Frenchiness will pay off eventually.

Yes, I always thought the lavender sex exorcism (Lavender Sexorcism is the name of my punk band) would be tough to adapt to the screen. I wonder if that’s why they are taking this angle?

I mean, *technically* possible. But...

It’s highly unlikely that the 6-month old was her child, but I haven’t heard any mention about the parents of either the 3yr old or the 6 month old.

When I think rural Ohio (or rural anywhere Midwest) I think meth. And the first thing I thought here was someone pissed off their dealer, and the whole family paid the price. It’s terribly sad.

Respectfully suggest Bound to Roam by The Black Lillies. Wherein the promise of sex is used to lure a man down to the river to drown him.

Bleh.

This makes much more sense!

Remind me not to have that experimental ethics committee making my end of life decisions.

Thanks for the link! I used to drive/run equipment for an excavating company in a very touristy town. I can’t count the number of times that distracted drivers caused problems for us on the roads. Thankfully I never had to make a decision like this, but locking up the brakes on a 72,000 dump truck will sure get your…

Bobby Finger, you’ll probably never see this since I’m down here in the greys, but I like the cut of your jib.

Yes! It’s in there! And you should read them anyway - the first three, for sure.

I prefer the theory laid forth in the Outlander books - there’s a time portal at the bottom of the loch and occasionally unsuspecting dinosaurs swim through it from long ago.

Before my daughter was born I was a heavy equipment operator for a small excavating company, and we did the grave digging for several small country cemeteries. One of my responsibilities was to backfill the graves (one of my co-workers was the primary grave digger). I don’t know how the larger cemeteries work, but in…