I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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-t - Feb 25, 2026 10:56:07 am PST #11722 of 11723
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I thought it was my router or whatever but I finally got enough cell service to open the Xfinity app and got a notification that’s there’s network damage in the area, whatever that means. Well, relieved some of my guilt over not being able to do any work.

The cell service is Verizon and we’ve just always had pretty poor coverage here for whatever reason

Anyway, I had already downloaded the library book I’ve been listening to and occasionally can get through on Slack enough to cancel everything I planned to do today, so all good. Picking up A’s snow days, sort of


-t - Feb 25, 2026 12:03:16 pm PST #11723 of 11723
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Got myself all packed up to go into the office tomorrow, called into a Zoom on my phone planning on bailing on the rest of the day, and the outage is fixed. Argh.


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