Um, CoSo news ticker? Methinks you haven't updated in a while...

RT @RDP from birdsite:
Unsolicited opinion: They should end the monarchy today. Not for any political reason, but because Elizabeth's worst is still 10x better than her dumbass son's best. "She didn't completely f*** it up" is your high note. End on it.

I *REALLY* hope Charles near-immediately abdicates. New blood is needed. Another 50+ year monarch.

JFC. Portland Timbers/Thorns owner Merritt Paulson just keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper...

https://twitter.com/ThornsFC/status/1565471910779125760

AAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Teenagers...

Graduation ceremony is tonight.

He never RSVPed for it. We emailed the coordinator asking for more invites (they limited it to 5 people per student) so they must know he's planning on going; but he never filled out any of the info.

*SIIIIIIGH*

Arrival day!

This week it’s my turn for the new vehicle.

One day. Not even 24 hours. 😱

My wife, seeing me getting ready for work after a night of basically zero sleep because I had to keep getting up to help her after her knee surgery: "How can you be awake and go to work? You must not have slept a bit, I know I didn't."
Me: "You merely adopted the insomnia. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see The Sandman until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but annoying!"

And yes, the kid isn't yet 18, and this is his *FOURTH* car.

He loved his first - hand-me-down - 2006 Subaru Outback. But it got totaled by someone T-boning him.

Bought a used 2001 Audi A4 with insurance because he wanted "zoomy". That was unreliable AF. Lasted only 8 months.

So he replaced it with a 2007 Subaru Outback. But it also has had major reliability issues. That's been 5 months.

So, combining moneys, I'm happy he's getting brand-new.

And our new Rivian R1T has arrived in our city - just waiting on the delivery center to prep it so we can take delivery. Once we sell the vehicles these are replacing, we'll have three new cars bought in 2022.

Which should last all three of us until 2032 at least.

Kid got a new car today.

We promised him our old BMW i3 as a graduation present (when we thought he wouldn't graduate,) but traded it in months ago (when we thought he wouldn't graduate.)

He did graduate. So we said we'd pay what it's worth toward a new car. Used cars have gone up a lot since we traded it in. Plus selling his current car. Plus he threw some in from his savings.

So brand new WRX.

Commissioned the wonderful Mac Beauvais (Twitter@StrangeLikeThat) to do some portraits of my pets. They came out great!

Gimli did a great job sounding the Horn of Helm Hammerhand at Helm's Deep - but people always forget about Legolas dreadful turn at the Cowbell of Calvin Clubfoot...

The teen & friends are taking our car to Reno for a concert…

Woo! Finally done with four hours of nonstop (and overlapping) meetings. :whew:

Truth. Although I'd probably have a hammer in there somewhere. "C'MON, COME LOOSE ALREADY!"