With any luck, the house won't burn down.

Hah--just changed out a bum light switch in our closet & it works & didn't even electrocute myself. Sure it took 2 trips to home depot & I had to re-set four clocks, but now I can see my socks!

I am finding it very difficult to subscribe to my local newspaper. The web form claims they don't deliver to my area (which can't be true) and the customer service chat says they can't upgrade us from digital-only to print--I have to call.

Looking on the website, I'm starting to worry that they don't produce enough stories to support a print edition...

Interesting.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/mexican-researchers-say-they-created-facemask-that-neutralizes-covid-19-2021-08-27/

https://twitter.com/AliciaSmith987/status/1431930070051000320

LOL! From the birdsite:

Trying out a new thing this afternoon--helping w/a texting campaign for https://couragecalifornia.org/

Easier than phone-banking I think. The tech is better.

Watching King Of The Hill on Hulu and i really want to hear the story of the person responsible for Boomhaur's subtitles

Smash-cut to Roy, holding up the screen material and gesticulating wildly toward a visibly disheveled cat, and yelling IT SAYS RIGHT HERE--PET. RESISTANT.

The lesson I'm taking is that aluminum screening is evil--brittle & inflexible.

Unless the cat claws through the supposed "pet resistent" plastic screening that was easier to work with.

In that case the whole enterprise of screens is a plot by the lizard people and Chinese Communist Party to drive patriotic Americans like myself completely insane.

Okay, I don't want to jinx it, but I *think* I have successfully repaired that screen that thwarted me last weekend.

Please, Lort--let it be so. 🤞

really digging this:

https://youtu.be/Qh1t8bFYRcw

#CoSoMusic

Yup
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431381390889680898.html

So many grifts, so little time
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1791

Eldest just got back from her first day on the job at wal*mart.

Me: how was it honey?
Her: I want to die.
Me: yep--that sounds like a job alright.

Having an issue w/my home router where the 2.3 megahertz band (or whatever the frequency really is) loses connectivity to the internets, but the 5.0 gigawhatever does *not*.

That's crazy, right? It's just a single machine, connected to the cable modem via a single ethernet whatchamajiggy.

Lort please don't let him do any plandemic-style videos... 🙏🙏🙏