Damn, it’s been a busy and long week. Mom and dad left home to snowbird in South Carolina, so the last few days has been hectic.
How are all of you doing?
BTW- I AM SO GLAD JOHN FETTERMAN AND GISELE ARE GETTING SOME LOVE!
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Damn, it’s been a busy and long week. Mom and dad left home to snowbird in South Carolina, so the last few days has been hectic.
How are all of you doing?
BTW- I AM SO GLAD JOHN FETTERMAN AND GISELE ARE GETTING SOME LOVE!
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NotMax
Anon in NC
My father-in-law died of complications from COVID tonight.
mvr
OK, so far. Hope you are doing well. And you came across as the same down to earth person you seem to be in your (cranky) online personality in our Zoom calls this past week. Happy to know you. And always grateful for the space you’ve made for a bunch of jackals. FWIW.
Major Major Major Major
I got No Man’s Sky during last week’s Steam sale (half off!). I’d been waiting to play it for forever, since they hadn’t, you know, actually finished it yet for some reason. Man! What a great game, absolutely perfect for me specifically. I’m about ten hours in, a fair bit of that is just screwing around.
Tonight I’m going to start reading Hogfather for the book club! (Meeting 12/19 afternoon, but I’ll post something more specific soonish.)
Ruckus
@Anon in NC:
Sorry you lost him. Sorry that he had to suffer.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Anon in NC:
Sorry to hear it. My condolences.
Emma from FL
@Anon in NC: Condolences to you and your family.
Major Major Major Major
@Anon in NC: oh, how terrible. Hang in there you two.
Adam L Silverman
@Anon in NC: I am very sorry to read that. My sincerest condolences for you and your family.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
@Anon in NC: goddamn.
HumboldtBlue
@Anon in NC:
Have some love from the Lost Coast.
And seriously, fuck 2020.
Kayla Rudbek
@Anon in NC: I’m sorry for your loss.
Leto
@Anon in NC: I’m so sorry for your loss.
Kayla Rudbek
In the field of making bad decisions, why did I decide to knit a bottom-up shawl with the lace sections in dark green? To switch the colors, I’m going to have to pull everything out and cast on 486 stitches in dark green so that I can have the lace sections in red instead. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/martinmas-shawl for those jackals who are knitters.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Better agita-wise to have exercised patience. Initial rollout was … rocky.
;)
glc
For your reading pleasure:
A memorable editor’s note (and added footnotes) noted by Amy Maxmen:
https://twitter.com/mslopatto/status/1334539466271203330
Does not quite reach the level of Atlantic Monthly’s recent contribution:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/
And one can always go on to Retraction Watch:
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/12/04/bad-medicine-journal-publishes-doubly-brutal-retraction-notice/#more-120978
westyny
@Anon in NC: So sorry for your loss. And I hate this year. The mother of my partner’s SIL is in grave condition from kidney failure from a previous condition complicated, of course, by COVID, which she caught from the driver sent by the hospital to bring her in for said previous condition. The whole thing sucks.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: yeah I almost never buy something when it comes out. And this rollout was so bad I honestly thought the game was dead until like, March.
CaseyL
@Anon in NC: I am so sorry. 2020 has been like an ongoing war against a civilian population.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
You also might like Astroneer if haven’t already tried it.
Haven’t been to Steam since January. Really should finish the last third of a game I was enjoying then; just haven’t felt motivation for gaming.
Middlelee
@Anon in NC: I’m so sorry for his passing. My condolences to your family.
mrmoshpotato
@Anon in NC: I’m sorry. My condolences to you and your family.
rikyrah
@Anon in NC:
so sorry for your loss????
Aleta
@Anon in NC: I’m very sorry for such a terrible loss.
Mary G
@Anon in NC: My condolences to you, your spouse and the whole family. May his memory be a blessing.
Amir Khalid
How am I doing today? Not so great, I have to admit.
@Anon in NC:
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Anon in NC:
My condolences to you and your family for your loss. Thanks to the Orange Asshole and his Republican cult, every 30 seconds or so we are losing someone to Covid and it’s only going to get worse. I heard that Covid beat out heart attacks for the #1 cause of deaths in America this week.
Republican built this…
gbbalto
@Anon in NC: My condolences to you, your wife, and family
Nancy
@Anon in NC:
Saddened to read this. I don’t know you but will be thinking of you.
StringOnAStick
@Anon in NC: I am sorry for your loss and the pain brought to your family. It makes it even harder to know it didn’t have to be like this, but we have evil people charge who care for nothing but power and money.
A very close friend lost an uncle to Covid yesterday. As the infection continues to spread at wildfire rates, more families will feel it’s icy touch. My oldest sister’s husband and his brother are positive and showing symptoms, and I’ll bet she is too. She takes care of our elderly father but felt that going to her Southern Baptist services several times a week is more important.
SWMBO
@Anon in NC: @StringOnAStick:
Labor Day my mom was diagnosed with Glioblastoma (cancerous tumor above and behind her right eye). She finished up her cancer treatment on October 28 and was getting ready to start the next phase of treatment when she was diagnosed with Covid on October 29. She was hospitalized on November 4 with difficulty breathing. She went on a ventilator November 7 and died November 18. Fuck Cancer, Fuck Covid. And fuck everyone who says this is a hoax and no worse than the flu.
Peace and comfort to all who are facing this horror.
Anon in NC
Thank you all for your kind support <3. Yesterday I was sad; today I'm also angry because it didn't have to be this way, not just for us but for so many families around the US. Anti-maskers taking stupid risks with other people's lives – what an indictment on our society.
Anon in NC
@SWMBO: Jesus. Fuck COVID.
Olivia
@Kayla Rudbek:
That is really beautiful. I haven’t knitted since I was a kid but I might have to learn how again.
brantl
@Anon in NC: Sorry to hear that, bud.
mvr
@Anon in NC:
I’m sorry to hear that, My condolences on your loss.
mvr
@SWMBO:
I’m sorry to hear that. My condolences. It’s always hard to lose a parent.