Yep, was holding it together until then. Dam is broken.

Yeah. Friend of mine worked at a company that made the sight/scope (I don’t know the difference) the jackass used. To be fair she was unemployed as heck before she got that job and took it with reluctance, but still said with sincere naivety “my supervisor said he had one but didn’t use it in Vegas”.

My better half is a baker. Damn good at his job.

Non profit and artisan food here. Non profit better pay and benefits and less “wow you must LOVE it here!” because Artisan Food Business has a rep of treating employees well. Yep, get paid over minimum, but work like hell, raises are laughably small, insurance copays higher and coverage worse than at non profit,…

I care about my grandma’s China cabinet but mostly because it’s one of the few furniture pieces that wasn’t stored in the detached garage that was lit on fire (damnit, Detroit). Her dining table did too, both of em bought for the house my grandpa built and used until she couldn’t live at home on her own anymore.…

The smarter ones will shut up for a bit, wait for the fervor to die down, and pick it back up.

“Flint doesn’t need your bottles of water they just need the water fixed. Wait that’s not for today... let me find the mass shooting reaction... pipelines, environment, North Korea, Russian god damnit I swear I put this in my “comment dujour” folder.”

Miniature American flags for others.

Please don’t give them ideas.

Or bear attacks.

My school had multiple exits but we all had to enter through the same front door post Columbine for some stupid reason. Which of course inevitably had a stupid long line with hundreds of kids trying to get in.

My Dad’s Dad fled Germany just prior to WWII (trade unionist, got out as things got dicey). My Dad had a plethora of books about WWII and Nazism specifically I was free to read as I wished which I did along with info from anti-racist punk shows about things like the white power music movement and how it recruited…

I had friends who quietly gave the cash strapped friends the registry heads up a bit early (with a “no big if you can’t” heads up). Kinda silly but as one of said cash strapped friends it was nice to be able to bring a gift I knew they needed in my price range, and other folks gifted wedding photography, bottles of…

Preach.

I was broke as sin and spent a month knitting a baby blanket for the first kid to be born in my extended family in my adult life. It was a design that would work for the kid from an infant til middle schoolish and then be a good lap blanket or small pillow (had a pocket knitted into it, hard to describe). Worked…

Isn’t a home down payment registry basically asking for money anyway? Cause when my significant other and I eventually get married, it’s either so we don’t have to testify against each other in court* or to get money to help with that. And celebrate love etc. But getting close to buying a house, raising a kid, and/or…

Oh most definitely.

Good/smart doggie.

Oh you magnificent bastard.