HOW WAS YOUR DAY

[Silversong]

When the neighbor gets in the shower after I'm in the shower, it makes my water cold and cuts the water pressure by like a third. We need to drill a hole in the floor and have a flag system or something, so we don't shower at the same time.

[Upthorn]

I spent like 20 minutes today trying to puzzle out what a rat with a toy piano has to do with Homestuck.

Now people are trying to gaslight me into believing that posting this rat picture is an annual tradition dating back 17 years or something!

[Sharkey]

So I was just talking with my dad, an old engineer, about the drivetrain on a bus I was looking to buy. Now that I'm done with the day and playing a stupid videogame my next quest is to talk with Cid, who in this incarnation is also an engineer and dead ringer for my dad, about the drivetrain on this fuckin magitek armor and I I know how coincidence works and how our brains are pattern seeking engines or whatever but hell if I don't feel like the universe is fucking with me again today.

Also I'm getting a bus to bumblefuck around the continent with for a while. Last few years in Portland were too much.

[Mongrel]

Step 1:



Step 2:

[Mongrel]

Went out for a bit, saw a dude wearing a shirt that said - and I am not putting you on here - "We're not here to fuck the spiders."

Buddy...

[Yoji]

"Monster fucking's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it."

"Um, nobody's actually asking you to--"

(belligerently unzips pants) "SOMEONE'S GOTTA DO IT"

[Silversong]

Last night we went for a walk around the block, and at about the opposite side of said block were some kids in their yard putting on a show in a cardboard curtain'd theatre for a few adults. We walked by at just the right moment to overhear:

"Now for Act 2!

This one's about who can scream the loudest."

As we walked away laughing, the screams began. We could still hear them in our house.

What a good play.

[Friday]

My friends kids used to put on plays for me, they were, without exception, A+ tier.

Like you'd think at least a few of them would be boring kid shit but no, they are all amazing. My favorite was when my older niece told my younger niece that she was fired for "talking to the audience" and as the younger left the stage in tears, the older explained to me "It's for the best, she wasn't a very good actor. Oh no. Now I'm fired too" and then just went inside.

[Silversong]

Woman in the checkout line behind me, as I cash out with my culinary lilacs:

"Excuse me did you just say "I love to eat flowers"? "

[Büge]

"Excuse me did you just say "I love to eat flowers"? "

Salt & Straw literally has an "Eat Your Flowers" flavour series this month. The rhubarb crumble with toasted aniseed is divine.

[Silversong]

Oh noooooo nationwide delivery??
I cannot possibly justify $75 worth of ice cream. ;__;
Why would you do this to meeeeeeeeee

[Mongrel]

So, is this as true elsewhere as it is here, that not only is the level of politics that attracts the most cranks is municipal, but that also there is no greater political clown car than a mayoral race?

I mean, in a city, obviously, not some town so small where someone's aunt is being acclaimed as mayor for the fifth time in a row. You get crazy shit in small towns too sometimes, but nothing compared to the sorts of 100-plus-person mayoral races you see in big burgs.

[KingRoyal]

Made a joke about landlords being to housing what highwaymen are to roads only to slowly realize that people don't actually know what a highwayman is

Not sure if this means I'm too old or just consume too much pre-20th century media

[Mongrel]

Or they aren't big enough fantasy nerds.

[Friday]

yeah but unlike highwaymen landlords don't use armed murderous thugs to break into your dwelling and kill you if you resist

wait

[Büge]

and most of them aren't even your fiancée in disguise

[Mongrel]

With no prompting whatsoever and no previous relationship other than recognizing each other as "guy who works here" and "regular customer", the guy doing checkout at the grocery store and I spontaneously started memeing Back to the Future lines at each other.

I know that that sounds lame as fuck, but it was one of those goofy moments where you're just perfectly on someone else's brainwave for a moment and you both just have fun with it.

[Büge]

Great Scott!

[atog]

yeah watching this going on while an old lady dithered and fumbled with her debit card was somewhat entertaining and a bit of a relief, since the old lady in question was not me, for a change

[Silversong]

Was getting ice cream and saw this headline. They're on to us, hide the rubber noses.