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cafechatnoir

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Cats, Coffee, Whiskey & Writing. And Padres baseball. And the O's, too. GMU alum. I cuss a lot. She/her Anti Fascist. Mid-Atlantic, USA.

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GottaLaff, to Canada
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Ahem. Attention please.

I am now in . 🇨🇦🍁

That is all.

👏🏻💃🏼🥳💥‼️‼️‼️‼️

cafechatnoir,
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@GottaLaff
Woohoo!!

cafechatnoir, to animals
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Evening snacks acquired, tail over nose time. (With a very wee bit of side eye for taking photos.)

cafechatnoir, to random
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Yes, I am gonna brag about this.

I ran into Target today. On a holiday.

I only got the exact thing I needed.

I spent $7.

I was in and out in UNDER FOUR MINUTES. (Yes, I timed it cause I was not excited about going in there on a holiday, so I decided to make it a race, LOL.)

cafechatnoir, to random
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Oh joy, storms with possible tornadoes indicated about an hour southwest of us and heading in our general direction.

Should fizzle to just rain by the time it gets here, but Lily and I may be sleeping in the basement tonight.

(Guess who is quite terrified of tornadoes and does not like this one bit?)

cafechatnoir,
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@anathema_device

Happily the very severe bits of the storm have fizzled out and we're just getting some rain and lightning.

Just had to draw the blinds cause Lily was a bit concerned with the sky being very sparkly.

But I get very disconcerted when any weather report has "tornado" in it.

black_intellect, to random
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After ‘whites only’ job posting, Va. tech company hit with fine from the Justice Department - https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

cafechatnoir,
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@black_intellect
If that got out accidentally, imagine how shitty and racist that place must be on the inside.

cafechatnoir, to animals
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The LilyMonster took her gabapentin this morning! The last day and half we just couldn’t get “Sure, I’d love a snack!” time synced up with “special gabapentin snack time” - we have buprinex, too, and it does the job, but we don’t have a ton of it, and we have LOTS of gabapentin for her.

But this morning, she chowed down her special snack straight out of the gate, then had a whole can of gooshy food, more snacks, and is happily snoozing. Yay!

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Oh, and when I picked up some more buprinex yesterday, the vet tech and I got talking about administering meds and she said they have prozac in a transdermal gel now - just rub it on kitty’s ear and you’re good to go!

Oh my god how I wish this had been available when we still had the late great Carminator, my little Prozac Princess. We got VERY lucky that she liked pill pockets - but we did go through every flavor to find the ones she liked, and there were still those “Nah, I’ll pass” days…

GottaLaff, to Canada
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POD #2 is now full of furniture and nearly ready to lock up. I'm officially exhausted.

Your Daily Dose of dopey gifs is here, and if you click on the hashtag, it's there too.

Day. After. Tomorrow!

🇨🇦

Have a great evening, everyone!

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@GottaLaff
Very excited for you!

cafechatnoir, to random
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So, I was at the store and wanted to get some kind of ice cream treat and I saw they had little drumstick ice cream cones.

I had no idea they had little ones and it's been forever since I had one - and OMG, they are just as good as I remember, and yes, getting the box of them was an EXCELLENT idea.

And yet I still wonder why there is that bit o' squish at my waistline, LOL.

cafechatnoir, to random
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Despite the weather ranging from overcast to just gorpy - the beer festival was great. Lots of good beers to try, great chicken kebab from one of the food trucks, and I WON SOME ART!

It’s at the local arts center and they had art battles - 3 rounds where the artists had a theme & 45 minutes to create things and they made some AMAZING work. Everyone had raffle tickets to try and win what they liked, and I got lucky!

cafechatnoir,
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As I watched this piece come together, I fell in love - the photo doesn’t do justice to how vibrant it is. (I wish we had some sun today to give it better lighting.)

It’s by Serina Chowdhury - so glad she signed it because I was so excited that I won it that I forgot to ask her name, but I could at least look her up this morning. 😳 But she definitely got the message that the weird lady REALLY liked the pink tigers!

https://www.artbyserina.com/about

cafechatnoir,
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The other wild thing about being an adult is when you realize you don’t have to be a lottery winner to get awesome original art - the artist is Helena O’Neill - and I got this piece yesterday. I have another piece she did from last year’s festival and that is when we found out that we know her daughter! She was the featured artist this year and her art is almost all nature themed, which is my jam, and I’d buy all of it if I could.

https://www.archesgallery.com/helena-oneill

cafechatnoir, to random
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So, I’m on NextDoor, because IDK, good place for “bear on my porch” videos, but I’m there.

Someone posts that a no-signal intersection out of a busy shopping center is right turn only now.

My hand to god, 10% of the responses were “yeah, lots of left turn accidents there, good idea.”

The rest were split between, “Well, actually it was the state not the county that did that” and “People shouldn’t be allowed to drive rather than fixing an accident laden intersection.”

cafechatnoir, to random
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So, my vet's office is closed one Saturday a month - very good thing in my mind, they all work insanely hard and it's good to have a little extra time off. It's announced well in advance every month, so it's not a surprise to anyone. (Plus we have excellent emergency vets in the area.)

The day off is this Saturday.

The local beer festival is also this Saturday.

Coincidence? I think not.

cafechatnoir, to random
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So, just very aggressively praised a coworker in a meeting for doing an amazing job in the face of some absolute bullshit, cause the folks above us need to know what I see every day.

Fuck if I didn't make her cry.

Managers - don't just assume your folks know they're doing a good job. (They had.) TELL THEM OUT LOUD.

sundogplanets, to random
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Oh shit I'm in Toronto. Why did I agree to go to Toronto?? I better make a lot of people angry about satellites.

cafechatnoir,
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@sundogplanets
I'm in the US and you've made me mad about satellites - you'll do great!

cafechatnoir, to random
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I love all your aurora pictures!!!

Keep posting them! 🥰

GottaLaff, to random
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⚠️Yet another :

Planters nuts sold in 5 states recalled due to listeria fears

The recalled products were shipped to Dollar Tree distribution centers in Georgia and South Carolina, and Publix distribution warehouses in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planters-nuts-recall-listeria/

cafechatnoir,
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@GottaLaff
I am seriously side-eyeing the jar of peanuts I got not too long ago...

cafechatnoir, to random
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It's grey and rainy and gross out there, but I have a farmers market haul, so it's a great day to stay inside, watch TV and nosh all day. 🥰

cafechatnoir, to Bloomscrolling
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So, the office where I get my acupuncture has this interior courtyard and these azaleas are easily 10 feet high and just gorgeous this time of year.

cafechatnoir, to animals
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Kitty in a tent!

We've had this for easily 10+ years - she gets in it maybe twice a year, LOL. And as soon as I took the pic, she left. 😹

cafechatnoir, to random
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Fuck.

Just found out a dear friend passed away last night. Fell asleep and just didn't wake up.

A hale and hearty Fuck You to everyone that contributed to the Long Covid that took him.

cafechatnoir, to random
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Oh happy day, it is Friday, and it is a half day, and it has been A WEEK.

A summary:

Management: Test this feature THOROUGHLY.
QC: Of course, that is what we do. Also, it’s gonna take a while, cause we can do it fast, or do it well, and we’re gonna do it well - and it came in kinda late and has already needed a few fixes.
Management: LOL, no, make tests go BRRRR.

cafechatnoir, to random
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Other than laundry, the to-do list for the day is cleared and in record time, cause I went 100MPH on it and half-assed a lot of it. 🤣 But things are cleaner than when I started, so, mission accomplished.

Also got some yoga in and I have got to stop falling off that wagon - it's nice, I enjoy it, it's good for me.

And I even made myself a salad for lunch - I'm just adulting all over the place here.

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I even made dinner!!!! Sure, it was a Chef Rana pasta kit, but it counts!

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