Gem City Expat
@gemcityexpat
STR 10, DEX 8, CON 12, INT 15, WIS 14, CHA 13. Opinions my own.
My 5yo daughter's favorite boardgame right now is "Chess, but nobody actually fights because the horsies are in love with each other and kiss all the time." I dunno if that's really your genre, though.
It appears that my ancient "ARMY" PT shorts are now just "MY" PT shorts, and presumably soon to just be "Y" shorts. (The answer to "Y?" being "because I'm too cheap to throw out a drawer of perfectly good swim trunks just because it's 'cringey vetbro' coded to wear them a decade post-DD214.")
In my day, the library reading challenge just gave out stickers and candy but the kids got free aquarium tickets from theirs so...here's another 90% crap sturgeon picture. At least they're reading...
Me: Both of the Dems running for county sheriff namechecked their dogs in interviews. One has a Shih Tzu. 💜 (nuzzling Cabby the Jerkbird): Do either of them have Quaker Parrots? Me: None that they mentioned. 💜: So neither one is autistic, then. Me: ...is that a stereotype? 💜: Oh yes, very much.
Another trip to the aquarium with the kids means other "90% Crap Sturgeon Photo". I fully realize that nobody but me thinks that this joke gets funnier every time.
💜: Pigeon is gaining weight! ME: That's good right? 💜: I mean when I took him to the vet they said he was basically dead. ME: He'd passed on? He was no more? He'd ceased to be? He was an EX-PARROT? 💜: ... 💜: Yes.
Now and then the pipes in my house make a sound that is exactly like the quick meow/sigh that my childhood cat would make right before he'd jump up on the couch next to us. And every time it happens I look over and wait just in case.
Several times each year I am forced by my children and their mother to tour the aquarium. When this happens, I console myself by taking the crappiest pictures I possibly can of the pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus). I get it adequately wrong about 90% of the time.
Here's something fun you can deploy when MAGA shitstains make gross MAGA comments under local news stories, in your family's Thanksgiving planning group-chat, etc. Probably extra-useful against female MAGAs (for obvious reasons) but there's no reason it can't be used on the male variety as well.
The guy in the background of this shot seems to have it figured out.
Took the kids to the aquarium. Stumbled upon a meeting of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
I swear 99% of my sturgeon pictures are crap. It's like a LAW or something.
My daughter's grandmother got her these AWESOME socks. We try so hard to raise the kids right in this crazy world but ya'll know how it is, sometimes they still ask for Goldfish instead of Cheez-its and you find yourself wondering if you should be doing more. It's nice to have a village.
This is Pigeon. He hates all humans with a fiery passion WHICH IS VALID but he's very friendly with other parrots.
He has a history of supporting government reforms that upset exploitive capitalists...
ACTUALLY "Boss's Day" celebrates the awesomeness of the legendary 1969 Ford BOSS 302 Mustang, and of the small-block V8 engine from which it got its name.
It seems to me that using the TARDIS to go back in time and change the trolley system is too big of a risk. We should just use our sonic screwdrivers to fix the track.
This simplistic ignorant shit pisses me off. Country has ALWAYS had both "Fuck the system" AND "God bless 'Merica". "This is true love!" AND "We hate and cheat on each other". "Everything sucks" AND "I'm here to party!" People are complicated. Their music reflects that.
The 502s are fun as hell and I didn't stop grinning once during their show tonight. Not surprising since "singalong folk-rock with banjos and saxophones and occasionally a melodica" is basically the most "me" genre possible.