Notices by Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ (gamehawk@mastodon.social), page 20

@RAnthony Yeah, I mostly think these indictments were a sort of insurance: hopefully it will be harder to interfere with the investigation if it's plainly about Russian interference.

@RAnthony Yeah, we didn't move to the AC area until 2015, so hadn't really paid attention. Playing catchup on *that* whole charlie-foxtrot was very educational too.

still laughing about "WHAT ARE THOOOOSE?!"

@RAnthony I was listening to that one *after* the last indictments came down and thinking it felt outdated already. Must be "fun" as a podcaster trying to keep up with things like this.

The earlier episodes were actually more interesting to me: some deep dives into his pre-campaign business stuff. I honestly hadn't paid a lick of attention to The Apprentice, for instance.

@Gargron wat

@amylsacks I gave that one the side-eye too.

Ahhhhhh, shaddap.

Heading into the worst flu season in the US since 2009's H1N1 epidemic and we're shutting down the CDC.

Cool, cool.

@Gargron You should invite the journalist to sign up and ask the community.

Passing 38 of 39 tests. Five days since my last commit, but in my defense I've had a cold and I have a hard deadline on a soft project: https://mastodon.art/@silverseams/99379452809697623

Mom came up negative for influenza, so it's "just" rhinovirus (aka common cold). Woot, relatively.

Can you order cough drops on Grubhub? Asking for a household.

@Jo @theoutrider @Fidgetcetera https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/764/why-is-peggy-the-nickname-for-margaret/

"Use of uninitialized value in print at Object.pm line 462 during global destruction."

Whoa. Dial it back there, Perl, I'm not trying to blow up the world here.

Update: Sis made mom an appointment tomorrow. Mom says she "should be" mad at us but I think that means she knows we're not wrong.

TFW your 80yo mother is 1500 miles away and insists she totally doesn't have the flu even while she's telling you about her "cold" and also what the hospital told her friend about Type A with exactly the same symptoms. 😬

She lives with my sister, so I told her to call her doctor and not to make me tell sis to call the doc for her.

Oh, and also we have a cold going around *our* house, 7 days before Carl is supposed to go visit his immune-compromised mother. 😷

#thisisfine

@zatnosk I keep meaning to do that, only framed more as a "hey, follower X has stopped posting for a few days/weeks/whatever, maybe you should see if something is wrong?"

Because it's super-easy for someone to fall off your radar and then you find out weeks later they died and you missed your chance to contact them in the hospital or whatever.

I kind of love when there's snow that's just... snow. No giant winter storm, decent roads, just an inch or less. The winter equivalent of getting a little rain.

It got cold enough for this in Kansas but it was almost always too dry, so winters were always brown (helped along by the tendency for Bermudagrass lawns, which turn pale brown when they go dormant).