: Unrelated to the delightful not-a-date the other week, I met a really cool girl Friday afternoon, and we talked for thirty hours, which is why i wasn't online yesterday. She is an astrophysicist.

: Waiting on the HVAC dude to arrive.

#WaybackMachine #people #nations #protip

#WaybackMachine #LOL @GaryPoole

#WaybackMachine #LOL #Gaetzgate @JolieSaboteuse

#WaybackMachine #CoSo

#LOL

: We took one when we elected Biden, and provided we're still allowed to vote in an election in 2028, we'll take another jumbo steamed dump. But this next time we'll flush.

2/2: ...food from their children's mouths. I mean I get the whole "I want to get paid as much as I can" thing. I am that way my own self, but if you're going to freelance, you can't really credibly fuss about refusing work that pays more than the same work you do for less for someone else.

I put the door in myself. It just took a day longer, and I cronched an index finger and stubbed TF out of a pinky toe. But the dude's still angry and complaining to folks in town about it.

1/2: Tradespeople who charge for individual jobs on their own what general contractors overcharge for the same work crack me up.

GC charges nearly $750 in labor for a front door replacement, not including the pre-hung door and all, and pays the tradespeople $150.

Tradespeople charge $750 or maybe $500 to do the same job they otherwise get paid $150 for, and they get indignant and shirty when you don't go above $300 for the job. Then when they opt not to do the work, they say you're stealing...

: Insomnia is dumb, but it's dumber when it's sudden-onset. I was sleeping just fine, and then I was not. I became awake.

#dumb #phooey

: HVAC only comes on for about 5sec., turns off, and then comes back on in a minute or four.

I called the HVAC People, and they're sending a guy out in the morning.

: the not entirely untold but certainly not widely known story of the final scene of "Blackadder"

#ProperLegend #CoSoTV #tv #BritCom

https://youtu.be/hbR9-etyN6I

: I've been paying attention to this topic, i.e., JWST, Dark Matter, MOND, and The Problem, for about a year.

#CoSoScience #CoSpPhysics #CoSoCosmology

https://youtu.be/AagyRrIm2W0

#LOL #ForSerious

: Phrazle is pretty fun stuff.

Her: Dating? What in this economy?

Me:

: Many of the Sopranos are really good, and part of what makes them so good is Paulie. He's the perfect meme figure.

#memes

: The cold arrived today once again. High temps are going to be around 47F (8.33C). Wind's still pretty harsh, same as yesterday.