Bless the Northwest and it's abundant rain that provides nourishment to the farms in our area that feed the people and to the rivers that provide a place for fish to transit to and from the ocean... but honestly, I'm ready to head out. The SAD is just too much for me. 😔
12 years is a pretty good run in one spot. I came up here for a job and that job evaporated with acquisition coupled with the pandemic, and I couldn't find employment in the area here when I got cashiered last year, so I am ready to say goodbye.
@mckern we're lucky in that we have a house that appreciated a lot in 5 years. I contemplated the upper MW and the east but we're going to Vegas. While I recognize the problems with water and population in the SW, I'm just a westerner at heart and think I always will be. Plus there is a lot more home building that we can jump into eventually there, I don't think PDX metro can't do much in that area with how the green belt has it restricted.
Three days in a row I haven’t faced the anxiety of #Wordle . Feels pretty good actually, I may have hit my limit. I’m also proud I ran with LIGER as my starting word for many months and even got some solved puzzles on the second guess with it.
@Axomamma trying to get away with the game obsession actually, been on the wordle train since it was a couple weeks old, and I play that as well as 4 other similar games daily with some friends in our Slack instance (NYT Strands and Connections, Worldle, and Framed, with NYT Flashback on the weekend). My problem is as soon as the clock strikes midnight I try to knock em all off before bed. I need just stop for awhile.
Weird, I'm blocked on my mobile browser, I can edit on my laptop. Logged out of mobile Safari, cleaned cookies, logged back in and still blocked, sharing the same IP address as my desktop browser. This is an outrage! I am contacting Jiminy Whales ASAP.
"In a short statement to KOIN 6 News, PGE officials said they “will continue to be fully engaged in the rate review process administered by the Oregon Public Utility Commission.“'
Utter horseshit. The freezes we had this winter coupled with the existing hikes was a budgeting disaster here when the bills came around.
Mark Knopfler has a song on his new album called Tunnel 13 which is an ode to a train robbery attempt in Oregon in 1923 in which 4 innocent railway workers were killed. #oregon#OregonHistory
FatCat & SkinnyCat, 1995, in my Vancouver Washington duplex rental. I got them as kittens in San Jose, 1986. Lost SkinnyCat to lymphoma cancer, 1999, 13 years; FatCat in 2004 at 18 years. Rare female orange tabbies, they are usually male. I can trace the lineage of my pets who knew each other back to these two, there was never a break of no pets. Simba was the link from FatCat (who I got in 2001) all the way to Beanie, current dog- I lost Simba in 2021.
@moucri that's a perfect connection then! And even when they aren't that's ok of course. Every time I have gotten a young pet I think "Do I want to do this again? Don't I need a break?" and I usually need it, but I give in anyway.
@HannahHowe earliest was listening to my bro or sis’ Beatles records, the first two US LPs from 64, though it was probably 1967 or 68 when I was playing them**. First record I bought with my own money was the Magical Mystery Tour LP (US, I know it came out as an EP in the UK). That was probably 1975 or 76.
**I had a dream in 1967 that the Fabs were in my bedroom closet. Not the psychedelic look that year but how I knew them, in their matching suits. 😂