Home endoscopy sounds …challenging.

I’d like to be able to borrow one of those tools that rolls the cord into the grooves to hold window screening. Because mine’s coming loose, and I’m unlikely to need it again for another several years.

Leftovers often feature cheese

You and millions of other Americans eating leftovers for breakfast. Since the Mayflower for sure, and probably for centuries before that. Although they probably didn’t have the Breakfast of Champions, cold leftover pizza.

As the guy said on NPR, people have phones. The reporters can still do their jobs without being physically present in the building.

Shocked, shocked!

You need a baby and a toddler! You’ll wake up the same number of times but at least you’ll have company and something to do.

Maybe you should just hire a person to lie on you when you travel? Hotel concierge could probably find one.

I’m hoping against hope it’s a patterned sock.

Agreed, and set it to NPR. If you make it a clock radio, you could set it to turn itself on for a couple of hours every morning to help her re-establish some sense of time, which is very difficult in hospital-type situations. And then a nurse can push the on/off button if she wants more. Tape the tuning dial so it doesn’t get turned to a right-wing talk station.

As an old mom myself, I’d even suggest your mom bring her own old clock radio she’s probably got, because she knows how to set it up already. Then you get her a new one she can puzzle out when there’s no pressure.

(Edited to add a couple of things)

I wouldn’t know, but probably something like “I ain’t payin’ for putting out someone else’s fire! And I sure as hell ain’t payin’ a buncha guys to sit around the firehouse when nuthin’ is burnin’!”

Meanwhile a lot of the work our firefighters do throughout the year is clearing brush, creating and maintaining pre-emptive fire lines so they’ll have places to make a stand when wildfires do erupt, and making sure buildings are less likely to burn in the first place.

Oh that reminds me, I should probably add, “Ain’t nobody gonna tell me what I can do on my property!”

It depends what state/county/city you live in. For instance, battling the Palisades Fire we had the city LAFD, the LA County Fire Department, and CalFire all coordinating resources, including some of the incarcerated firefighters who just got a raise from $1.00/hr to $7.25/hr and are starting to be able to apply for regular firefighter certification when they get out. And yes, our taxes pay for this, one of the most-supported uses of that money. They also do fast-water rescue when we have enough rain to flood the streams and rivers, help extract crash victims and put out flaming vehicles on the highways, and rescue hikers and mountain bikers on the local trails…

Whereas if you live in a rural red area, there may only be volunteers, because there’s not voter support for a professional fire department.

Yeah that makes sense too. My phone is set up for LAFD pings and every couple days they’re out rescuing hikers or bikers in the canyons.

Many years ago our car died in traffic on a hot day and I got out to put up the hood and wave the car behind us to go around, and it sparked to life for an instant and locked me out. Windows closed, 107°F, our toddler and infant secured in car seats, and my quadriplegic husband. Pre-cellphones. I sprinted down the road to the gas station to call 911 and borrow a crowbar. Luckily the fire station was near, and the oncoming lane was clear so the fire engine was there almost as soon as I sprinted back, and they popped open a door. After that we set the toddler’s seatbelts just loose enough they could “Houdini” out in an emergency, since they were trustworthy. And I learned my lesson about doors.

My spouse is quadriplegic and medically fragile in multiple ways. So we live on the edge every day.

They were the simple round elastic ones, wrist-size. I was just so glad they didn’t kill her. I actually have a pixie cut, and my long-haired children have grown up and moved out, so she must have found an old stash overnight. They used to be her absolute favorite toy, batting and chasing and pouncing, but apparently they’re also too fun to bite and eat as well. So I banned them instead of her.

Utmost respect for my local firefighters. To tell all the times they’ve saved members of my family and our friends would dox me but they are super. Also always professional and treat people with respect, and solve problems rather than escalate them.

Does this mean the others meekly submitted? Or just that they’re still running their options through their lawyers

I like it. After all, dying is one of the things lemmings do best. Take the leap!

The vet endoscoped 30 ponytail holders out of my cat’s stomach several months ago, and if I hadn’t banned them from the house she’d eat more. I bring in sprigs of crabgrass to appease her chompiness, they go through safely and keep her regular.

In most states it’s illegal to drive with both ears covered/plugged with headphones/earbuds. You professionally breaking the law?

And what do you think they’re listening to? They’re probably less distracted than the rest of us.