TRP: Free of political butthurt since 1999.

[MissThundercat]

I love being in my 40s. My body doesn't work as well as it did, but my inner child has money.

[state of hockey]

[Kepler]

So, I did a thing earlier today. There’s the actor I’m a huge fan of, have been following his career for a while. There’s a woman who runs a fan Facebook group, plus a Twitter and Instagram account that I found while trying to find out more about him. She and I have become friendly over the past couple of years and we managed to get in touch with him and he agreed to do a Q&A with us over Zoom. It was totally amazing and he was so awesome and I’m I think I may be a little more obsessed with him than I was before we started this - heh. Still a little giddy!

This is excellent, congrats!!! My wife gave me a phone call (not even video) with Douglas Hofstadtar for a birthday long, long ago. Best present I have ever received.

[Scarlet]

So, I did a thing earlier today. There’s the actor I’m a huge fan of, have been following his career for a while. There’s a woman who runs a fan Facebook group, plus a Twitter and Instagram account that I found while trying to find out more about him. She and I have become friendly over the past couple of years and we managed to get in touch with him and he agreed to do a Q&A with us over Zoom. It was totally amazing and he was so awesome and I’m I think I may be a little more obsessed with him than I was before we started this - heh. Still a little giddy!

[MissThundercat]

My birthday is in 2 weeks. Definitely celebrating because I didn't think I would make it to 30, let alone 43.

[state of hockey]

My favorite time of year is upon us.

https://www.youtube.com/live/UlbNk-l...9brrbP-TPEqEpD

Totally safe for work, btw.

(Edit: That really reads like it isn’t safe at all. But it actually is. Just a live streaming camera in the MN DNR’s fish pond at the State Fair)

[St. Clown]

TIL that a grouping of frogs is called an army. Suddenly the premise of Battletoads makes much more sense.

Also, this thread is 12 years old, started on July 31, 2012.

[MissThundercat]

Sounds about right!

The DARE officer threatened me with a good time and failed to deliver.

[Swansong]

I am 42 years old and I tried weed for the first time yesterday. Nothing really happened except a dry mouth and lights out sleep.

Sounds about right!

[MissThundercat]

I am 42 years old and I tried weed for the first time yesterday. Nothing really happened except a dry mouth and lights out sleep.

[Scarlet]

So, your thoughts....

My neighbor and friend D let me use her storage unit in the basement of our building back in 2020 when I thought I was going to sell my condo and needed it emptied out for when people would come see it (which hardly anyone did but that's not the point of this). I've left stuff in there since that time. She somehow has never needed the extra space.

Any. Way. she told me last month that her sister is going thru a divorce and selling their house and wants to let her sister use that space to store stuff but she has no idea when. She finally texted me yesterday, and again today, that her sister sold her house and is moving on August 1. She tells me I have to clean out her storage. Which, yes, of course. However, this week I will be back and forth at my mom's and the days I'm at my place I have to be in the office. I was planning to take Friday off to go to the beach so I told her I probably couldn't get to it till this weekend (didn't tell her about the beach or taking the day off). Now she tells me she's working around her nephew's schedule to help move stuff and he's only available on Saturday so please have it cleared out by Friday night. So I replied that I would start it tonight when I get home from my mother's. I know I probably should have started emptying it when she first told me, even though she said to not worry about till she knew what was happening with her sister. I kinda think she could have given me more notice or not have to focus on just one of her five nieces and nephews and that kid's very small window to help. Or maybe I'm just a terrible person. But I'm not going to get home tonight till close to 9:00pm. Tomorrow after work I'm heading back up to my mom's and will be here all day Wednesday. Gah!

[Swansong]

Finally tried Duke's mayonnaise. It's fine. Not terribly distinguishable from Hellmans. A bit fattier.

I'll stick with Hellman's.

Speaking of mayo (uhhhhh....), I recently tried kewpie mayo. I got the Japanese version (apparently there are very slight differences between the US and Japanese versions). It's... mayo? Slightly different I guess.

[dxmnkd316]

If they had kemp's monster cookie, I think I'd make a drive.

[St. Clown]

Anybody here ever go to Nelson’s Ice Cream when they’re in St. Paul or Stillwater? I’m pretty sure it’s just a more expensive way to get the flavors of Kemp’s that you can’t find in the average grocery store. Still, it’s fun to order “a double scoop” and they come back with towering stack of scoops.

[dxmnkd316]

Finally tried Duke's mayonnaise. It's fine. Not terribly distinguishable from Hellmans. A bit fattier.

I'll stick with Hellman's.