it's almost #Caturday here and I think you need to understand just how large Grandcat Gerald's feet are
I am going to miss him when he departs for the kid's new apartment but I'm not going to miss the 6" long cat hair getting into everything
honestly the surprise would be if US women of childbearing age DIDN'T want to leave
why would you want a future in a nation that wants you to die in childbirth and where your kids won't have good schools or enough to eat?
where neither political party gives even half a shit about you and your well-being or what used to be your basic rights?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx
let me know if I can hook you up with one of these, #Oregon
hahaha this is easily the best Tom Petty song released by a twentysomething Jew from New England in quite a while
(I kept going what is this, what is this... OMG it's Tom Petty, he's doing Tom Petty... this is by no means a critique, I think it's great)
IDK now that the federal government is gunning for the barred owls
part of me is like, ok sure they're rapist invasive Yankee bastards but I'm kind of rooting for them anyhow on the principle that anyone the federales hates enough to shoot probably has some good qualities
ended up on the phone today with an AI audio bot that had been trained to sound like a southern Black woman
but the cadence was just slightly off
real plantation vibes there, Hampton Inn
the writer of this piece clearly doesn't have any fix on the costs if your utility undergrounding project hits an archaeological site of even moderate complexity
also in the happy news column: kid's new apartment came through
not in time to move directly from the dorm into the new place, but I'll take it
based on my wholly scientific survey
aka "trying to find an open charger in a college town on move out day"
there are plenty of electric cars getting out there 😆
thank you Corvallis Ford for finally giving me a place to plug in
quite the CD haul at the thrift store today
highlights include a Wynton Marsalis record (always buy any Marsalis CD at the thrift store), a Sting record I didn't buy in the 90s because it was always on the radio (not any more), and a Chatham County Line disc from 2005 (bluegrass never goes out of style)
I'd like every US leftie who insisted that they had to sit out the last federal election as some sort of statement about the genocide in Gaza to sit with this news for a minute
I mean I think half of you are foreign state actors and the other half lack the reflective capacity of a mud puddle, so I doubt you will, but in an ideal world I would like people to be present with this development and then conduct themselves accordingly henceforth
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/us-secretly-deployed-paratroopers
anyhow the whole deal is working again and now I just need to clean the drawers out
there is all kinds of shit in this desk dating back to the second Bush administration
and friends I have to tell you that many things are not today as important as they were in 2007
but at the exterior corners there is not, sadly, space to make the threaded end of the bolt come down and get secured by a wing nut
so if you have lost the square nut out of one of those, you need a 1/4" square nut, which you will line up in the little box and squeeze it back shut
and then you can secure THAT with a small 1/4" stainless bolt
which is going to be a bit of a job because it's sliiiiiightly too small for the box, so prone to wiggle
but I promise it will work if you're patient
until one of the square nuts comes lose
or until America decides that 5/16" fine-threaded (24 tpi) slotted-pan-head bolts should no longer be readily available
anyhow should you ever need to reattach the pedestals to a Steelcase desk
that is the bolt you are trying to buy, is a 5/8" long 5/16 diameter FINE-threaded bolt
good luck
(I have now replaced as many as possible with 3/4" long 1/4" diameter stainless bolts with wing nuts, because I don't hate myself THAT much)
this weekend's big household progress was that I finally got my battleship Steelcase desk (formerly OHSU, formerly LCC, surplused ca. 2005) reassembled
no I didn't find the bolts which bless them @grrlpup and her wife put somewhere safe when they were helping me move, 3 years ago
it is now held together with 3 different sized fittings
because these were designed with a very clever arrangement of square nuts set into lil sheet metal boxes
which works great
a good memorial for one of the workers killed in the Longview disaster
peaceful night
went to update something on the wordpress site I have for my consulting business this morning
and found that a recent update added some kind of wacky AI plugin that I wasn't even running
deleted it and, when asked why, commented that this is a business website and I need it to have a professional appearance, which is incompatible with AI material
anyhow, if you also have a WP site somewhere you may want to go check your plugins and do some pruning
on a totally unrelated note I am stressing because Older Child turned in an apartment application and we're waiting to find out if they will get the place
it is expensive but everything is expensive, and at least this place has an updated bathroom and kitchen and big windows (that open, even) and the location's good
🤞
