Nats left field just robbed the game tying home run from the Mets and the reaction shots from the stands are hilarious
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Nats left field just robbed the game tying home run from the Mets and the reaction shots from the stands are hilarious
“Gosh, I’m tired from sewing. I should take a break for lunch. And then I should take the trash out, vacuum out my car, and wrestle the seat cover back in after washing. That will be relaxing.”
Had that at a neighborhood shindig this weekend and actually finished the whole thing. I am not much of a beer drinker so that’s definitely a compliment!
The storm triggered spook was completely legit in horse context
No, no, it’s the perfectly nice riding horses as instruments of torture (and possibly grave danger) but mostly just riding related ow.
The other commenter also has you dead to rights on the horse thing
He DIDN’T barf those.
It’s definitely better than the cicada incident!
Based on a second eruption at home, he ate a LOT of grass at the orchard as well as everything else. Usually he just digests it (like a weirdo) and is extremely reticent to barf, but I think it was all too much.
And he managed to miss the seat cover! 😭 however, not too bad of a mess and I’ve got a good cleaning spray. I’ll vacuum the car tomorrow.
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Cost savings
Update: he barfed in the car.
At a winery and Meatball has become a fearsome lantern fly hunter. Given he gorged on apples earlier, J and I will be dealing with some fun dog digestion tonight.
Cevent maybe? IDEK what their pricing looks like for small events like that though. I've only ever looked at it as an add-on for IMIS.
Aw, music from some guys in space!
Once again I am asking small business owners, artists and artisans, and anyone else who purchases packaging to do it anywhere but Uline
This article is pre ai slop and gels with everything I’ve read for dogs. For milk chocolate: “toxic doses of each for a typical 5kg cat would be 66g or 2.3 ounces of milk chocolate” which is a bit smaller than a king sized Hershey’s Bar (2.6 oz via image search) cats.com/chocolate-po...
If you want hard numbers, I have them but hopefully we have reassured you! I have done the “stand in the dark and frantically google” thing after Penny ate an antihistamine I dropped at 2 am so I feel you. (She was fine. Turns out it’s used as a dog sedative. Great night’s sleep eventually 😅)
Oh no, that hardly has any real chocolate in it. No worries there at all.
She’s fine. Maaaaybe the runs at the outside if it was very dark but nah, even little dogs have to hit the “ate a bar” range to get very sick.
Okay. Tighten up your settings. That will help. I see you’re into DC (me too!) and there’s a bunch of comics writers and artists on here that have a bunch of followers and aren’t going to mind someone else lurking. Spread out from there.
Also, tighten up your settings to hide all adult and suggestive content. You have options that don’t require stomping on other people.
God, why? I mean, you use social media however you want but like why not make friends?
Have you considered unfollowing people? Or are you still using the discover feed? If the second, stop.
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
Also I managed to break the handle off my ancient IKEA set of drawers and I’m very annoyed about it.
I’ve got like four more sections of paper to sew fabric to and then I’d be done but my back is tired and I’m out of audio content at the moment so I’m deciding to not push it even though I’m soclose to being done (with this part).
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I can't remember if you drink, but if you've ever had a kir royal or anything with Crème de cassis, you've had black currant.
Deeply fucking cursed.
Back and forth between them and insurance and I’m like “I don’t understand why this is so difficult this time?” Finally I get to a point where they tell me “oh, you can just pay the retail of $200”. I go to the manufacturer website and find a coupon for $75, which is what they did the first time. 🧐
I have a device that the first time I filled it, the cashier said “insurance doesn’t cover this but I’ll slap a coupon on to make it $75.” Cool, I said. Then, my rx had to be changed because the device was discontinued and suddenly CVS was giving me this entire song and dance. ????
I did not get my coupons the last time I was there which is annoying.
Just finished listening to To Clutch A Razor and I enjoyed it as much as the first book. share.libbyapp.com/title/11588749
I replaced my gas stove with gas before the "gas stoves are horrible for the home air" became a widely known thing but it's new enough that I can't justify doing it again. :/ Luckily I cook a lot less these days? :D?
So we won't be able to completely cover our annual usage with solar but a) there probably is ways to reduce that anyway that we should be exploring and b) it's better than nothing!
Penny had a good and sweet encounter with one of the neighborhood puppies and I am so proud of her! She decided to be gentle and not barky and there were playbows!
ah tis the season; youtube reccing me art videos of "a new way to prepare for inktober!" Here's a new way to prepare for inktober: by doing literally anything else with your autumn than bringing more brand rec to a plagiarist bigot who trademarked something collectively built.
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LOLOL Turns out fail!guy ALSO lied to me about the number of panels we could install by a good amount. New guy is much more on the ball and has won back my confidence.
And why are the bobbin cases so expensive??? Like $80
YEP. That was the issue for mine. How can a needle ding make it SO loud I have no idea
Huh. I didn't know a tool like that existed! Very cool.
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Also, check municipalities around you to see who has reciprocal lending with the area you live in. You may be able to get cards in multiple cities/counties and have access to that much more. Virginia residents, I’ve got a list of libraries that don’t require you to roll up with ID too.
And I said:
Another little creb 😊
Fuck fascists. Here’s some goslings
This book I’m reading is pretty decent but I am going “what on earth were you thinking” at the author for a) naming a teenage demonic character “Lezebel” and b) further shortening it to “Lezzie”.
Lol the guy at the solar company that was fucking up my project appears to have been fired.
Eel fact: this eel is cute
“And afterwards you get a lollipop”
ok im taking constructive criticism but you have to be nice bc i am ✨illiterate✨
Kat, I want you to be well rested but please also stop
Okay but why doesn't the ice cream truck come around when I want it at adult times of the evening instead of at 5:30 pm.
“A conservative is someone who may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say something they do agree with instead.”
I got that one too recently. And at some point last year I got asked if I was writing in Korean when I like used an emoji? It was weird. And it’s super weird there’s no way to close the prompt.
If you went to a barber vs a stylist you’d probably end up with more thicker human hair since less of it would be chemically treated.
You’d probably need to get dog top coat, not undercoat, since that’s where your thicker strands are. Undercoat is usually very fine. BUT that would probably mean a dog groomer would be an option since all of the doodles are getting top coat buzzed off.
It would probably be way easier nowadays to get cattle hair for related reasons.
Especially for actualfax delivery notifications. Like tracking on the way may be borked but usually delivery notifications are accurate to both time and location (mailbox vs porch).
No! My shit is usually really accurate! But I also have a really good mailman and shit gets weird when he’s on vacation. Which is why this is so confusing because he’s not on vacation I think?
horse slaughter isn’t allowed in the states anymore so you can’t look in that supply chain domestically. Probably ask a horse barn for clippings/shed hair in spring?
I once got the former owner’s antidepressants delivery.
The package that was supposedly delivered yesterday was on the porch today. Two packages that are supposed to be delivered tomorrow were in the mailbox today. I have received no updated shipping notifications. What is happening.
Didn’t they just have a breech where they had to force everyone to change their passwords? Seems like a bad time to fuck with their users more.
Do you get baptisias out there? Those tend to have a really deep taproot and could be good interspersed.
Sadly it's set by your library! I've got cards at couple of different systems and some only let you place 5 holds, others 20.
Like, I get it from a management and complexity of programming standpoint but fuck the kind of changes that completely change an element of a program.
Yep. Just changed like an hour ago. It was not in there this morning when I got up. It's rearranged my whole hold list.
Because they’re hoping you’ll just pay it. Yet another reason they should all be [redacted]
Goddamnit. Libby completely changed how they handle suspended holds and you can’t schedule them for a specific date anymore. You can only have it suspended or not.
Has anyone used a custom Braille printing service they can vouch for? We normally do farewell posters for rotational officers leaving my work team and I'd like to print one in Braille, but I'm nervous about just ordering one from some random outfit online since I can't verify it's right.
South Carolina and adjacent folks: OP has lost her both parents and needs to find homes for their cats. More info downthread.
That doesn't work for me. I just get "this user has been blocked by [list]" and no unblock options.
That sounds way more interesting than hurting and fatigue.
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South Carolina and adjacent folks: OP has lost her both parents and needs to find homes for their cats. More info downthread.
“You haven’t . . . declared them all . . . dead.” She’s right. I can’t declare Mr. Olmstead dead when he’s still having so much fun melting into a gooey puddle with all his friends. —Of Monsters and Mainframes is a fucking delight, y’all. share.libbyapp.com/title/11025012
Okay so local coyote has decided to start singing along with the fire engines when they did not previously. This would be hilarious and joyful except my dogs feel the need to heckle loudly and at the top of their barks. You could just sing along, you assholes.
“We need to turn off the radiation shields. It’s the only way.” “The radiation shields stop you from dying,” I explain. “No. Radiation only kills the impure of spirit.” “It appears you have drastically misunderstood the nature of radiation.”
Once again a Windows update appears to have broken my ability to turn off the mousepad on my ancient laptop in favor or my separate mouse which means occasionally my cursor goes wandering around the screen while I type.
Mine weirdly hasn't been lately when it had been earlier this summer which makes me wonder if someone poisoned the nearest yellowjacket nest.
Well, the top anyway. The main part of it. Once that part's done I'll have to decide on borders etc.
Probably going to get a massive paper pieced quilt done this week!
I’m still playing 2048 because I don’t change. But that’s more meditative than distracting I think. I’m an audiobooks and sewing gal.
YES. I still have a half bottle I’m hoarding. The brand was resurrected a little while back (not sure if it still is?) but they never brought that flavor back.
Yeah, there’s a non zero number of people who react to artificial sweeteners the same or worse to natural sugars.
The number of people at different companies who ask me to fix THEIR IT problems is more than zero and this boggles me.
In this case it’s just a vanilla syrup and if I cared deeply I could just add vanilla extract to my whatever but like this also signals that anything else they make in this line is going to be useless to me.
I’m not proper allergic but it makes my mouth burn the same way other OAS triggers do so I can’t eat it. And the rest of them just taste nasty.
Long before the current fuckery there was a brand of liqueurs that made an unsweetened root beer variety that was weird when you first tried it but that lack of sweetness allowed you to make really interesting drinks with it with much more adjustment room for sweet tooth. LOVED that stuff.
Damn, I would have lost a dollar. But it’s monkfruit extract instead! Why. Can’t. Stuff. Just. Not. Be. Sweet???? Also the ingredients aren’t in the text anywhere in the product description, just in one of the item images.
You are correct! Ick.
Company I buy flavored syrups from just sent an email about their first sugar-free product! No artificial junk! Who wants to bet me a dollar it’s sweetened with stevia??
Noooooooo!!
Love to get a delivery notification when it’s pissing down only to go out and find no package. It’s not at my door as claimed. It’s not in my mailbox. It’s not on a neighbor’s porch. I haven’t ordered anything so I don’t know if this is just a delayed notification or a lie.