Hi, friends!
What’s been a success for you lately?
I got 4 random decorative squashes that sprung up in my garden. Finally! I left some decorative squashes there to be squirrel/opossum food and then *free soup* as they rotted. And then I waited and waited and waited and alas no baby squash seedlings.
Earlier this week I was doing some light weeding and saw where they’d finally grown up through the mulch that I put down a few weeks ago! Hopefully I get some awesome autumn decor out of these squashes.
Mushu!
This is going to sound silly but I was at a local plant store and really hit it off with the owner. Yay I’m still able to connect with adult strangers over something other than having kids in the same age bracket as mine! I was worried that having kids coupled with the isolation of the pandemic robbed me of my ability to socialize with new people.
I don’t think that sounds silly at all!
It’s like making a friend in your late 30s. It feels like oh fuck did I lose the ability to make friends?? And then it happens and it’s so exciting.
The only good thing about my many medical appointments is it gets me out of the apartment and has me interacting with perfect strangers. It proves to me that I can still crack wise with people 30 years my junior and make them laugh, and have not yet tipped over into one of those boorish, complaining seniors that I KNOW I am destined to be but haven’t gotten there yet. Actually, neither of my parents were, and when my mother died several of her nurses showed up at her wake and we used to get sympathy cards from them every so often, so that was nice. So maybe I’ll never reach that point. This may come as a surprise to some readers but I don’t actually suffer from dementia and it’s almost unknown in my family, so I hope I won’t be having any of those episodes where I mistake a nurse for someone or something else.
We got the last & largest beam in today on the deck I’m working on. It was the furthest out, heaviest & most scary but we got it in the second try. I’m exhausted & my back hurts but hopefully that was toughest part in the last half of this deck. They have me the next 3 days then I am gone until after the 4th so hopefully we can get a bunch done now. Ripping apart a rotting deck on a big slope while rebuilding is not fun but little victories & not getting hurt feel like big wins.
Goddamn they are lucky you’re available to help!
I finally got around to disconnecting some ugly sconces in our living room, capped the wires, closed up the boxes, and hung pictures over the box covers.
The previous owners had a thing for ugly chandeliers, not just in the dining room but in bedrooms too. Over the years I replaced all of them, and now with the sconces gone all of their awful lighting choices are history.
Ugh was it like that period from the 70s-80s where random wall sconces were thought of as fancy?
I’d guess they were added around then. It would have been a pain in the neck running wiring through the plaster and lath, I really wonder why they bothered.
I would have gone full Mar-a-Lago. The sconces would be as big as a small child and vaguely Spanish/Moorish/Art Deco. Why not. YOLO.
Rustoleum spray paint to look like they’re gold-plated, too???
YES! And fluted somehow, and maybe like hurricane lamps…the possibilities are endless when you have the design sensibilities of an heiress from the 1920s crossed with someone who has the taste of an early 1990s Kazakh oligarch.
OT, but in the draft tonight the number one pick was Victor Wembanyama.
To be honest, I’m not sure what Chicago was thinking. The Blackhawks need a center, sure, but they also needed a guy with vastly better puck handling and skating skills than Wembanyama. I get how they might be intrigued by a guy with his size and athleticism, but in today’s NHL you still want to use that top pick for someone who can start scoring goals for you ASAP.
He would be a helluva a soccer goalie, not sure you want a 7’4” guy on skates? Twins being drafted back to back is pretty awesome! Waiting for some big trades!
So we knew this sub exploded but let everyone spend millions to try to save these billionaires? WTF?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-first-detected-titan-subs-221226319.html
RIGHT
Had it been non-billionaires that sunk, it would have been like Queen Charlotte from Netflix with her uttering “Sorrows. Sorrows, prayers.” and then doing whatever else when people are grieving.
As opposed to…oh, I don’t know…just spitballing here…a ship loaded with refugees that sunk off the coast of Greece maybe?
NAILED IT
Yeah, the SOSUS network is still around.
Also, my understanding is that there is a lot of data to go through despite automation.
The main lesson is that visionary does not mean right. The CEO is pretty much the villain/cause of this disaster. Pushing the limits of a barely tested design is reckless and quite stupid. It is tragic that he had to take others with him.
The two rich guys got a lesson in poor risk assessment and that money is no insurance from 375 atmospheres of pressure.
The French naval historian found out that even a free trip to your obsession isn’t worth the price.
I have a little piece of success to report. I just wrapped up Sunday’s Celebrity Matinee. We’re going to be making a French version of macaroni and cheese and you will never guess the celebrity I managed to pin it to.
Fingers crossed it’s Coco Chanel
No, sadly, but I should do her. She had a very controversial WWII experience and her house (as in the House of Chanel) almost failed because people were so pissed off with her, but then she revived, and it almost died again, and then she hired a young guy called Karl Lagerfeld and the House was off to the races.
Nazis, cousin Matty–Coco dated a damn Nazi for *years*, and although there isn’t definitive proof, there are plenty of bits of information out there about her, that lead to the conclusion that she was *at minimum* a Nazi sympathizer…
It’s *always* Nazi shit.
She also hand-selected noteworthy asshat Karl Lagerfeld as her successor…
That shows *more* of her lack of character.
The LBD is an iconic thing…. but Cocos legacy will *forever*–And *should* forever be–tainted by the Nazi shit.
And that is your fashion minute for today!😉
Oh man, there are teasers for FYCE now?
Only when they refer to mine and I plant them. Like when Trump was President, and rather than just coming out with an announcement, he’d say, “Wednesday at 8 pm I will be announcing my decision…” as if he were teasing an episode of Jeff Zucker’s Celebrity Apprentice.