Randoms Week of 4/19

[picksthemusic]

I got put in Twitter jail the other day because I responded to Ken Jeong's Tweet about certain reps/Senators voting against the Anti Asian American Hate Crimes bill. I said, 'may they sit on a cactus'. Apparently that was me 'wishing harm or pain on another person', and was too much for Twitter. Ironic, no? LOFL.

I had the week off last week and I got a massage, my first mani-pedi in over a year (probably longer, if I'm honest), and had a nice time not going to work.

[mrsukyankee]

picksthemusic, lol. I'd take it for that comment! The self-care sounds brilliant.

We're having our dog walker take the dog for the day tomorrow so we can go out to eat breakfast, run to the recycling centre and go to Costco together. Cooper's separation anxiety has gotten worse with adolescence. We are working on it but it's a slow, slow process.

[rubytue]

We just lost another offer on a house. Six tries, six fails. I’m crying at the futility of it all.

[taratru]

rubytue I'm so sorry. The first offer we took on our house was the 12th one she had submitted. Then she walked, and I was like, good luck out there. It really is an insane market, and I'm sorry you're having so much trouble. I know something will work out for you. *hugs*

[rubytue]

taratru, I can actually see that. We’ve made a couple offers with the attitude of “what’s the worst that could happen, we win it?” And even this last one, H was very meh about. I could see him getting cold feet if we won.

[redheadbaker]

I have lost all sense of time. I started spotting today, and thought, "didn't my period just end?" Looked at my tracking app, and nope, my last cycle started 29 days ago.

[Vespasia]

They finally announced LeVar Burton as a guest hope for Jeopardy!

[wawa]

Apr 20, 2021 13:22:51 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

I have lost all sense of time. I started spotting today, and thought, "didn't my period just end?" Looked at my tracking app, and nope, my last cycle started 29 days ago.

It makes me feel better when other people are like this too.  

There are several things that happen at work monthly and I've spent this entire year being like, "HOW IS IT THAT TIME AGAIN ALREADY WHAT?" while at the exact same time thinking, "omg, I don't remember anything we talked about last time this came around.  that was so long aggoooo!"

it makes no sense. time does not exist.  

[wawa]

There was a post at some point in the past few months from somebody contemplating a big career move into management and asking for negotiating tips/suggestions. I can't find it now. Halp?

[minzy]

Apr 25, 2021 7:14:29 GMT -5 wawa said:

There was a post at some point in the past few months from somebody contemplating a big career move into management and asking for negotiating tips/suggestions. I can't find it now. Halp?

This one? liftskatemeditate
pandce.proboards.com/thread/625660/npce-professional-advice-ask

[Jalapeñomel]

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

[pierogigirl]

Apr 25, 2021 12:40:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

They are still around.  There are two in my area and they were pretty popular in the before times for kids' birthday parties.

[timorousbeastie]

This past week, I’ve been in TX to take care of my mother after surgery. Apparently their local elections are happening soon. I’ve lost track of the number of political calls I’ve gotten on my cell for people looking for my parents to persuade them to vote. My mom and I are equally confused how on earth my phone number, linked to their names, is on political call lists. I live in MI. I have always lived in MI. There is no reason for me to be on anything having to do with TX. It couldn’t even be that somehow the call lists were mined from emergency contact info somewhere, as my sister who lives near our parents is their emergency contact. I did have a nice chat with their mayor, who didn’t seem to be entirely convinced that I was not actually “Jane Doe” (of course, I failed to mention that Jane Doe was sitting right next to me).

[Jalapeñomel]

Apr 25, 2021 13:53:49 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

Apr 25, 2021 12:40:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

They are still around.  There are two in my area and they were pretty popular in the before times for kids' birthday parties.

I’d kill for a rink around here. There are tons of ice skating rinks, but no roller skating ones.

[tacokick]

Apr 25, 2021 12:40:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

Maybe it’s regional. I can get to at least 6 roller rinks within about 20 minutes from my house, 3 outdoor ice skating rinks and at least three skate parks. Roller skating lives in Baltimore lol

[Deleted]

Apr 25, 2021 15:01:18 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Apr 25, 2021 12:40:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

Maybe it’s regional. I can get to at least 6 roller rinks within about 20 minutes from my house, 3 outdoor ice skating rinks and at least three skate parks. Roller skating lives in Baltimore lol

We have one roller rink, a roller derby wreckhouse and huge roller derby scene, plus 100+ miles of amooth bike trails that are popular with both roller a d inline skaters. Skating is big here! We may be getting an ice rink, which i am super excited about. Inline races are getting harder to come by in the western US, and I'd love to try my hand at speed skating on ice!

[fernweh]

Apr 25, 2021 12:40:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

I have one maybe a mile from my house and pre-covid it was always packed. Even since reopening there are always a ton of cars in the lot. It never fails to surprise me that it’s still around.

[Jalapeñomel]

I’m gonna need someone to build one here. However, last time I was on roller skates, I discovered I had compartment syndrome. BUT, I had fasciotomies on both legs, so maybe I’d be golden now!

Also, the Oscars are on tonight, and I used to be such an Oscar junkie. This year, I couldn’t care less.

[silva]

Apr 25, 2021 12:40:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are all these TiKTok videos of people roller skating, and I’m like where are these rinks? I haven’t seen a roller skating rink in forever!

We have one near by us!

[silva]

Apr 25, 2021 19:49:35 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I’m gonna need someone to build one here. However, last time I was on roller skates, I discovered I had compartment syndrome. BUT, I had fasciotomies on both legs, so maybe I’d be golden now!

Also, the Oscars are on tonight, and I used to be such an Oscar junkie. This year, I couldn’t care less.

I’m half watching the oscars partly because my dearest friends would make this night a girls night to watch and one of them, a dear dear friend, lost her battle to cancer in October. So I have mixed feelings.

[basilosaurus]

I'm not normally think of the children type, but I just got off a 2 hour ferry where the movie they were playing was john wick. Wtf? Violent r rated. I don't even want to watch that violence, and of course there are people of all ages and background.

Additionally it was so extremely loud I put headphones in (forget listening to anything) and it still hurt my ears. I've been to quieter clubs!

This was before coffee.

They'll probably play the same in my return trip. Kill me now. Oh, and it's ramadan, so out of respect for those fasting (the cast majority) I didn't even get to eat breakfast I bought at the terminal. I'm fucking cranky.

[basilosaurus]

Apr 25, 2021 14:56:39 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Apr 25, 2021 13:53:49 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

They are still around.  There are two in my area and they were pretty popular in the before times for kids' birthday parties.

I’d kill for a rink around here. There are tons of ice skating rinks, but no roller skating ones.

I just schlepped a bag a mile in wicked heat with no food and no sleep. I'd kill for any place I can sit that's cool. Doesn't even need to be air con. A good fan in the shade is fine.

[4speedy]

Apr 25, 2021 14:43:05 GMT -5 timorousbeastie said:

This past week, I’ve been in TX to take care of my mother after surgery. Apparently their local elections are happening soon. I’ve lost track of the number of political calls I’ve gotten on my cell for people looking for my parents to persuade them to vote. My mom and I are equally confused how on earth my phone number, linked to their names, is on political call lists. I live in MI. I have always lived in MI. There is no reason for me to be on anything having to do with TX. It couldn’t even be that somehow the call lists were mined from emergency contact info somewhere, as my sister who lives near our parents is their emergency contact. I did have a nice chat with their mayor, who didn’t seem to be entirely convinced that I was not actually “Jane Doe” (of course, I failed to mention that Jane Doe was sitting right next to me).

Is it for Republican candidates?  A journalist did a story about this around the time of the 2020 election.  He bought a burner phone and created a fake email address to log into the Trump election app.  It took 4 days to connect the burner phone/email combo to all of his real contact info.  Now he can;t get off of their email and phone spam lists.

[timorousbeastie]

Apr 26, 2021 6:39:17 GMT -5 4speedy said:

Apr 25, 2021 14:43:05 GMT -5 timorousbeastie said:

This past week, I’ve been in TX to take care of my mother after surgery. Apparently their local elections are happening soon. I’ve lost track of the number of political calls I’ve gotten on my cell for people looking for my parents to persuade them to vote. My mom and I are equally confused how on earth my phone number, linked to their names, is on political call lists. I live in MI. I have always lived in MI. There is no reason for me to be on anything having to do with TX. It couldn’t even be that somehow the call lists were mined from emergency contact info somewhere, as my sister who lives near our parents is their emergency contact. I did have a nice chat with their mayor, who didn’t seem to be entirely convinced that I was not actually “Jane Doe” (of course, I failed to mention that Jane Doe was sitting right next to me).

Is it for Republican candidates?  A journalist did a story about this around the time of the 2020 election.  He bought a burner phone and created a fake email address to log into the Trump election app.  It took 4 days to connect the burner phone/email combo to all of his real contact info.  Now he can;t get off of their email and phone spam lists.

Yep, all Republican. It’s crazy how they are able to dig up information!