@sfleetucker It's so much easier here than IRL. Here, use the tools and @th3j35t3r takes out the garbage.

IRL, I'm the one who ends up taking out the garbage.

Fortunately, I don't have to do that often, but when I do... as George Takei says, "Oh, my."

😉

@CinnamonGirlE I figure: someone eventually wins.

If you live in a state that doesn't protect identities you STILL need an estate lawyer to do the work with the lottery and the tax folks. Then have everything go into pour over trusts. If everything is tied up it makes you less of a target.

You could legit go sealed-records name change (danger to life) and relocate to Canada or something.

Lawyers know many things. A good estate planning lawyer is the ticket.

@ianthealy #taxes. Thankfully, my best friend in law school is my tax accountant and I send everything to her all year long and she does everything for me.

Enjoy your end of year receipt round up. Quarterlies, I take it?

#RandomThoughts

Since no one won the gigantic lottery last night I will make the sacrifice of going to the corner store to get a ticket for my sister. I'll get one too while I'm there. Why not?

IF we were to win (more of a chance of getting struck by lightning) at least we live in a state where we can keep our identities secret.

@SJSciarra #TwitterRefugee #request

Sure. Do I need to say it is for him or only do it with him in mind? My life is full of small (or large) kindnesses.

May his memory be a blessing.

@ianthealy #LitRPG #WritingCommunity #Cosobooks

I found LitRPG a couple years ago. Most is quite enjoyable. Prefer audiobooks to ebooks because I don't care to read the game prompts that much.

My favorite so far is Alaron Kong, M.D. who writes The Land Series. He's taking a bit of time off. I think COVID took a lot out of him in terms of his medical practice.

@kel Yeah, I have enough of my own heavy stuff to deal with right up through today. I'm avoiding the "year in review" stuff.

With the exception of what I suggested to the writers group - to remember everything they did, no matter how small, to move forward in their skills. Books read, seminars attended, words written, risk taking sharing in critique, and more.

I think we'd all do well to remember everything we've done this year to help us beat imposter syndrome.

😀

@danielbsmith #politics Probably not. Bottom line is when I disarticulate things she doesn't want to talk about it. The expectation is I'll read this book written by a conservative hitman and see she's been right all along. So far, it's all far-fetched and without any form of fact-finding.

Emotions rather that reality hold much more sway with many people.

Thanks for the god thing, but yours isn't in my pantheon. :)

#politics #conspiracytheories she literally can’t get the difference between someone saying I passed law school in the top 10% of my class when it was the bottom 10% of their class vs the guy that says I went to college and a master’s when he didn’t go at all.

Grade inflation, and résumé padding is a constant problem but it’s a huge difference then saying I got a law degree and never having going to law school.

She is… well everybody does it, so I don’t care and I’m going, but I do

#politics #conspiracytheories. My sister gave me a rather thick book to read, which is going to educate me about all the corruption in politics. I’ve known there’s been corruption in politics since well before Ralph Nader.

She keeps saying things, and I keep asking where’s the beef. So she wants me to read this book by a conservative operative.

I will eventually read the whole damn thing and tell her those were wasted hours that I will never get back.

@Desmblake @Render she was convicted and given probation, because she really wasn’t involved in anything except doing her job as a secretary.

This will probably be one of the last people tried, because most of them are dead now.

#dogsofcoso I feel a bit giddy. We were supposed to have severe thunder and lightning storms for the last 2 hours. But I got in 2 walks in with my thunder and lightning aversive dog with no storms!

It wasn’t all gravy. This morning didn’t call for rain on our morning walk, but a block from home when the skies opened up on us.

We are home for the evening so it can storm the rest of the night.

@TXPamInOH @Marlowe2 #BetoORourke #Texas

I have been living in east Texas since 2015 and the majority of the politicians here are absolutely abysmal and they care nothing about the voting public. They are supported by the oligarchy of Texas, all the billionaires buy them with very few exceptions. Beto being one of those exceptions.

@CLManussier

Consider learning: thank you, welcome, help, and nice meet you.

Help - you can ask if someone needs help or they can tell you they need help.

Thank you/Welcome is always good

nice meet you is both polite and welcoming

One of the people at PATH at the mall realized I couldn't hear and was able to do some basic sign with me and I donated to their program. Not Merry Xmas - nice meet you, thank you, welcome

Best of luck to you

Good morning CoSoNauts

@thedisasterautist @BrianHjelleVirologist

There is also a question as to whether he's an American citizen.

This is like watching a soap opera about a glittery psychopath.

@BrianHjelleVirologist Yeah, I know he's on the lam from Brazil where he's wanted for elder abuse and fraud.

@BrianHjelleVirologist there appears to be some question as to whether he was born here. He might be a Brazilian national. 🤷‍♀️

@CLManussier life print works better on desktop. It is a massive site that is run by professors who teach ASL. It’s very well-known for people who want to learn sign language, and rather than learning some thing like happy new year which you won’t use except for once a year you can learn some basic sign fairly quickly. There’s fingerspelling practice and there’s practice so learning how to sign numbers because it’s kind of important to know.

@CLManussier try ASL University http://lifeprint.com/

It’s free.

#deaf #hardofhearing