Thousand Oaks, I bet. I figured she lives here, because why else?

My first car was a manual Mercury Bobcat (Pinto), which I drove around for my first job in hilly downtown Seattle. I’ve had both types of transmissions in the 40 years since, and currently DD a manual FR-S, but I am not super happy with my shifting performance, esp. in low gears. When my dad was teaching me, he would…

She was awesome in the “Case Against 8" (re the anti-same sex marriage proposition in CA) documentary. IIRC, she was in SF and one of the couples was in Los Angeles at the clerk’s office to get a license the day of the Supreme Court decision. The clerk wouldn’t issue it because they hadn’t heard yet from their…

My CPA is very qualified. My Federal withholding was set at 4, as recommended (as I have carryover losses from a rental property going back two years). What my accountant does with my taxes almost a year later has nothing to do with what taxes are taken out at the point of issuance of a bonus check.

I just got my yearly bonus for 2016 and received 52% of it after taxes. I paid almost double the rate Cheeto Jesus paid. And I don’t make $400K. Or $200K. And that 48% would mean a whole lot more to me than the 75% he had to struggle to live on.

My oven/range died (was in the house when I bought it), and I went to Sears to pick out a new one. I got a little confused at first, honestly couldn’t remember if I had a white or a black one, then I saw one that was BOTH. It had a black top and a white front, or the other way around — this was years ago -- and I…

And not just that one.

I was behind a guy in the line at the rental car place at SeaTac, and the counter person asked what he was in town for. He said: “I’m hear to smoke some weed and go to a lesbian wedding.” This was before the Supreme Court decision, obviously.

Thank you for listing Kaeding first. San Diego had a moment, and he ended it. And then he did it again the next year. And they never had another one.

All I want is my own, dedicated workspace and a monitor. Instead I will soon have to play musical chairs in a NEXT GEN office, with space for about 65% of the people attempting to work in the “neighborhood”, and only a third of the stations will monitors. Super! But there’s a shuffleboard table so, I guess it’s…

Yah, I saw that too. So, staying in SD and being a billionaire is just too much of a burden? My heart breaks for you...oh wait, no, the other thing — go fuck yourself.

I have three kids. They fight over everything.

Manpris.

Senor Doble.

Whenever I read anything about GRRM and his destined-to-be-completed-by-someone-else sequels, I’m reminded of this from Wonder Boys:

AND don’t forget that taxpayers had paid out quite a lot not very many years earlier to upgrade Key Arena, with a promise that it would keep the Sonics around. It was half measures and would never have worked, but that still stung, and if I recall correctly, Safeco Field was funded despite a statewide vote against it…

I got the best Christmas present in years this year. Those of you who grew up in Seattle in the sixties and seventies know what I’m talking about!

My mom was born ten days before women had the right to vote. She’s in very poor health and won’t see another election — I get a little teary when I consider she got to live long enough to see this. When you consider all the changes on the planet that have occurred in the course of her 96 years on it, I think this is…

Well, Aegon III and Arianne Martell, for one example. Clearly that plot isn’t making it into the show at this point, but it remains a pretty big part of where things left off with the books. As far as I can remember, which probably isn’t as clearly as everyone else commenting on this thread....

I think the TV show killed any chance of getting the books. The show has shown how much of the book plot/characters are red herrings, and I can’t imagine Martin is super motivated to keep going with all of them, hundreds of pages of what amounts to filler for spoiled readers. If I were his age and had his money, I…