I was going to mention Tampopo along with “The Big Night” - TBN made me want to cook that dish but I can’t cook something that takes so much precision.

The one on Aurora?

I had some people in to clean my apt just before the Covid hit; a friend said the glass things I make are beautiful but I have to stop making them or I will die alone - well, fuck it then, I will die alone but I will die with an house full of beautiful glass things (I usually give everything I make away but can’t…

That’s freedom per JJ.

Thanks - my retested temp has been down to 97.n so I am relaxing but I could not get to sleep until about 6am so I slept till 3pm and now my whole day is gone but I did get most of the way through my taxes - missing only the 4 months employment I had until I retired (my records are as much of a mess as my apt).

Thanks for the heads up (I just stuck a thermometer in my mouth); I am: hunkered alone but I do have a cat (well, she has me as you can tell from my handle). She is fighting a bladder infection - only 7 more days of getting clawed before she finishes her meds. I do not have more than one symptom at a time - a runny…

With no more TP available, I use handkerchiefs for anything other than wiping; I wash them nightly. I have this irritatingly tiny drip from my nose that comes and goes (probably an allergy since I’ve had it off and on for months) - I went through a lot of TP; I also bought some picnic napkins b/c no TP.

No, implying you are humorless. Go ahead and explain how funny you are.

The up-side of the wealthy all fleeing to some sterile rich-person seclusion is that at least one of them will bring the virus with them (not that I would wish that on anyone - really, really, really not anyone (sorta)).

I used to work the phones at the IRS; in my 10 years with them, I actually had people who figured their taxes such that they either owed or received $1.00 every year.

My dishwasher repairman gave me a couple of things to pay attention to:

I used to go roller-skating when I was younger - the price sign said:

I worked in a place that had been designated a emergency site - I stole a box labeled “Civil Defense Emergency Supplies - Drugs and Narcotics removed”. I lost the supplies over the last 40 years but I sometimes dream of what I missed out on.

This might sound silly at first but - rotate your stored water. Life will out which means that something will grow where ever it can. Fungus, mildew, all sorts of stuff will grow - if not in the water, on the container. I’ve had preppers tell me “water does not expire”, don’t believe it.

topologically speaking, they are!

The ‘banker’s hours’ of 10:00am to 4:00pm seems nice but without computers, it took 2 hours to get the bank financials prepared for the day and 2 hours to close (I am a banker’s brat). Dad once had to stay at the for 3 hours to track down $0.07 - there was no mercy pre-computer

But the “rising tide” that lifts all boats only raises the vessels that haven’t been riddled with the holes of racism.

I actually prefer a mix of brown, red, black and wild rice - I know, I live the high life.

Whoever tried to say that is sign language for I Love You is so effing wrong - ASL iloveyou are the letters ‘I’,’L’, and ‘Y’. Looks like little finger & index pointed up with thumb 90 degrees to side.