What's everyone up to right now?

[*Deidre*]

Someone talk me down.

Please, I need a decent person to talk me down because right now I'm legit crying because I can't stand the people I'm related to. They are so close minded, so racist, so horrible.

Just this morning they have trash talked gay people, talked about taxes being a scam, and now are siding with the fucking neo nazis and kkk against black lives matter because you know... Black lives matter are racists thugs. They can be racist because "they hate us too" the ghettos are all black and it's their own fault. The prisons are all black because they are all thugs.

I had to walk away. I can't stand this. I get laughed at by them because I'm getting emotional. It's a "good debate and I'm a quitter"

How am I not supposed to be upset when my own family says such horrible things?

It’s hard when your own family disappoints. Take the high road and don’t engage. You can try to enlighten them but some people are set in their ways. (((Hug)))

[ignoramus]

Mooney, do you make a direct corellation between your family's "attitudes" and their Jesus beliefs?
Are they straight out proud racists or do they hide justify it from the bible?

Good luck...

[Astreja]

Finally got my stereo speakers mounted on the living room wall, and then played side 1 of Crime of the Century by Supertramp.  Not as impressed as I was when I bought my first copy of the album in 1975, but I still "Hide In Your Shell."

[The Valkyrie]

Solo: 8.5 out of ten.

Again it seems that the "filler" movies are better than eps 7 and 8...

[Whateverist]

Solo: 8.5 out of ten.

Again it seems that the "filler" movies are better than eps 7 and 8...

Then there is hope.  I must get me to a theatre.

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I just need to be in this community so I remember I'm not the bad guy here. I'm right to not be racist, to not hate others. Everyone around me is telling me it's my generation and it's our fault for being too "everyone gets a trophy" but that's not true. You guys agree with me. You guys, this community, is how I know that just because I'm the black sheep here physically doesn't mean I'm alone or wrong.

Sounds like you've met my sister and oldest brother.  My oldest brother is easier to take now that he has gone to meet his maker. To be precise, since he converted to mormonism, I suppose what he has really done is gone to become a maker.  Of course his intentions are entirely moot at this point.    

Something about that bubble they get into.  They all learn the rejoinders for each objection and proudly repeat each one as if it were something shiny they just thought of.  Sadly they are relevance-blind and don't see the disconnects.  Must be something wrong with us since we don't respond the way everyone in the bubble does.

They suck.  You don't.  

You care, prolly more than they deserve.  They don't but why should you change your game for them?

[Astreja]

Band practice tonight, and then picked up ingredients for a recipe.  Had a mini-hissyfit when I went to a grocery store I used to frequent, only to discover that their hours have changed.  Again.  I thought it was weird when they started closing at ten, but they're now closing at 9:00 on a weeknight (kind of useless when band practice never ends earlier than 9:00), and 6:00 on Saturday and Sunday.  WTF, people?  Are you trying to go bankrupt?

Did get the ingredients at another grocery store nearby and started cooking as soon as I got home.  Waiting for the results of the cooking to cool down a bit more so that I can put them in the fridge and get to bed.  (Phyllo spirals stuffed with spinach, leeks, pine nuts, dill, eggs and feta cheese are involved.)

[The Valkyrie]

Band practice tonight, and then picked up ingredients for a recipe.  Had a mini-hissyfit when I went to a grocery store I used to frequent, only to discover that their hours have changed.  Again.  I thought it was weird when they started closing at ten, but they're now closing at 9:00 on a weeknight (kind of useless when band practice never ends earlier than 9:00), and 6:00 on Saturday and Sunday.  WTF, people?  Are you trying to go bankrupt?

Did get the ingredients at another grocery store nearby and started cooking as soon as I got home.  Waiting for the results of the cooking to cool down a bit more so that I can put them in the fridge and get to bed.  (Phyllo spirals stuffed with spinach, leeks, pine nuts, dill, eggs and feta cheese are involved.)

I'm on my way over.

[KevinM1]

Feeling pretty beat up after a day on the road. Rods in back + plates in hips + pressure sores on butt make for a pretty shitty experience on torn up city roads.

[Astreja]

Spent some quality time at the hairdresser this evening, getting a colour touch-up and trim. Took a huge pad of paper with me to doodle on while waiting for the mysterious hair chemicals to do their thing. Wound up with a to-do list, a bunch of renovation drawings, some story notes, and a sketch of a water bottle that happened to be sitting on a table nearby.

Got home in the early stages of a wild thunderstorm that came roaring in from the west, and because it was unwise to power up the computer I cooked a couple of items from my to-do list. Came upstairs and did three other items from the list. When it finally stopped thundering, I wrote a blog post (making a grand total of six check marks).

(checks list) Oh, good -- For tomorrow, the main item is "Go to the Jazz Festival."

[Jackalope]

Stoned because dammit, I need it.

Shithead serial mooch step-son is finally out of my life. After giving him 30 days to vacate his chattel property that I have allowed him to store for a year, today he came to do so. I wasn't there or he never would have got away with leaving 5 trash bags and a laundry basker full of junk goodwill would pass on, and absolutely filled the trash bin, which is partucularly shitty seeings how they don't pick up trash til the middle of next week. Oh and a lot of it is e-waste all of which means there is a trip to the transfer station in my future and I'll have to pay probably $35 to get rid of his shit.

I'd file a small claims case against him purely out of spite but he's judgment proof, so why bother.

I was gracious to the shithead up until the point where it was crystal clear he wasn't going to live up to his end of our agreement on another related manner.

He uses people, including his own mother. He's a parasite.

He's now permanently persona non gratis. MAYBE I'll reconsider that if he manages to get his shit together.

He is no son-in-law of mine.