Also, if you have the right soil and light requirements for it, they will absolutely take over wherever you put them.

The bees love my foxglove (native to the area, but which I planted). I spent maybe a minute watching them and saw half a dozen bees of different species.

Fucking bindweed. Don’t pull it out–that just makes it regrow faster. You want to snip it.

“perceived” cover-up.

…jumping worms?

I’m definitely old since, to me, “vintage” automatically means cartridge games.

I think so. And then history will rhyme and we will end up with something less centralized again.

Yeah, we don’t win at barbecue. There are a couple of decent places, though. But I wouldn’t pit them against a Texas barbecue place.

Jan T. Gross

Fair enough. I appreciate you managing it, even if I end up not attending.

I would say so, but the same imaginary figure.

They are also nice if you make them spicy.

The mayor of LA has been speaking up.

You have clearly not been to the west coast.

It’s really shocking to me that anyone in the US who isn’t a native-born citizen would risk leaving the country (with the intent to return) right now.

That is not how it works.

Well, this was predictable.

That’s my standard smile, unless I’m really smiling big.

How the fuck is ramming a person’s car a reasonable response to someone mildly taunting you? They shouldn’t have done that even if they did have the right vehicle.

Huh, I didn’t realize the population was so low.