Notices by Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ (gamehawk@mastodon.social), page 14

(Yes, yes, Europeans, Wichitans:Philly::Americans:Europe.)

The history stuff is straight-up the weirdest part of living in South Jersey slash Philadelphia, after spending so much time in Wichita (founded 1871). https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/2018/07/15/revolutionary-war-new-jersey-battlefield-marquis-de-lafayette-haddon-lake-park/781108002/

@jjg Call of Cthulhu!

@kevie I still haven't found that around me. 😔

I got the sewing machine out to hem the curtains and so far I have made son a do-rag and cut out a bunch of Sew Desu Ne mew-nicorns and started tracing out the pieces for an upholstery-velvet dragon and the curtains are lying on the floor with the cats sleeping in them, pinned but not hemmed while I go through 15-year-old picture archives looking for my patterns.

#adhdlyfe

(Those were commissioned, BTW, not something I wore myself. I did wear a wolf tail/ears at Halloween to hand out candy though, and explained that I was a werewolf but it was only a quarter moon so this was the best I could do.)

Past Karen did some wacky stuff, y'all.

<opens birdfeed after being out of the house all afternoon>
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I only follow a double handful of people there... and some news accounts.

Friday news dump was an absolute unit today, huh?

... we had a conversion camper-van that apparently I toured all of the desert Southwest with my parents in until that cross-country trip with my sister. I have pictures of me in a pack-n-play next to the van on a dry lakebed in the Anza-Borrego because I was apparently a great traveler. That all ended before I was old enough to remember any of it, when my sister was born. THANKS SIS 😆

(There are exceptions. Back in the 60's my folks were stopped at a checkpoint coming into California from Nevada because it was illegal to bring fruit across the border because of a pest problem. My then-baby sister had been horrifically carsick all the way home from Pennsylvania and they rolled down the window, the inspector caught a whiff, blanched, and waved us through. Later my parents realized they had a whole crate of illicit fruit on board that my uncle in Palm Desert had given them...)

@Angle Yabbut there's a lot of that between USAn states too. The New York/New Jersey rivalry is *legendary*.

Suddenly having the Pi hooked up to the ~40" tv at home seems insufficiently ambitious.

Did not realize (though it makes sense in hindsight): Jersey lets you register to vote at 17, so son is now officially an Unaffiliated Voter as part of getting his non-driving state ID.

(He can't vote until 18, but that will happen next week, well before the next election.)

Update: failed to get into a position to see whether he had cowboy boots on, and if so whether they were work or dress boots (hat was definitely not a work hat).

I grant you, while most of New Jersey's horse situation is racing or English, there *is* a certain amount of western saddle and even rodeo in South Jersey. But not in the DMV.

(I should clarify: the pistol grip was not a full-on faux gun type thing, just a utilitarian-looking angled grip for, I guess, holding your phone in landscape?)

Dude in the DMV here has a cowboy hat on and a pistol grip on his phone.

what

Miss Olivia the Cat would like to register a complaint: the wrapper on this ream of printer paper sounds exactly like a bag of kitty treats.

(Apparently.)