That all sounds great, Matt! I’m so glad you were able to pull off such a treat for your mom!
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
Buffy ,'Him'
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.
-t - Apr 11, 2026 9:50:27 pm PDT #12276 of 12473
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laura - Apr 12, 2026 6:19:30 am PDT #12277 of 12473
Our wings are not tired.
That sounds absolutely wonderful! It's a delight to see you having such a perfect trip.
I finished my personal tax return and filed it this morning. Woe is me. I am going to have to plan much better this year, but it may be too late already.
meara - Apr 12, 2026 9:12:01 am PDT #12278 of 12473
That sounds nice Matt!!
We had a dance (two step and line) last night but one of the folks convinced me and some others we should go out to the club afterward. Which I hadn’t done in forever and it was packed, but fun. I think I left around 1230am? Which I guess isn’t actually all that late but it felt very late. But then for some reason my body felt it important to wake up at 730am. Tried to doze but mostly failed. Supposed to do playground and lunch with my friend and her 4 year old later…maybe this afternoon will be nap time.
erikaj - Apr 12, 2026 12:49:30 pm PDT #12279 of 12473
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Orban lost in Hungary, it looks like. Not going to pretend I know about who or what comes next, but since he seemed to want a Putin-style stranglehold on the country, that feels like a healthy sign.(Also, commentators are saying Vance's intervention was a fricking disaster and I can't get enough of reading that, personally. Your schadenfreude may vary.)
-t - Apr 12, 2026 1:25:44 pm PDT #12280 of 12473
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Better than him winning, surely. I don’t know what comes next for Hungary but I am rooting for them
And I hope it’s a bad sign for authoritarians everywhere
JenP - Apr 12, 2026 1:39:44 pm PDT #12281 of 12473
From your pixels to the universe's earballs, -t.
Laura - Apr 12, 2026 2:07:10 pm PDT #12282 of 12473
Our wings are not tired.
Gee, after a personal visit from JD and a phone endorsement to the populace from the orange Don.
erikaj - Apr 12, 2026 2:48:53 pm PDT #12283 of 12473
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
T. is becoming the opposite of a kingmaker.
Steph L. - Apr 12, 2026 5:01:03 pm PDT #12284 of 12473
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We had a delightful afternoon at the symphony, and my hip let me walk about 1/2 a mile to the restaurant afterward (that is very seriously so much more than I've been able to walk at one time in about a year -- maybe my hip is improving!), and we had excellent tacos, including a life-changing huitlacoche taco.
And then I had to come home and file our tax return. Rude awakening indeed. (We got a refund; the problem is that the H&R Block program kept giving me a glitch because I auto-downloaded Tim's W-2, but it seems the program didn't like the auto-downloaded W-2. Ultimately I had to delete his W-2 and then key all the info in by hand, which I would have done from the start if I had known that auto-downloading the W-2 would be a problem. I'm going to blame this one on H&R Block. But at least it's finished!)
-t - Apr 12, 2026 8:23:56 pm PDT #12285 of 12473
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I had that problem one year, Tep. Has not recurred, this year downloading my docs was fine