I used to be a multi sneezer. Like five or six times. Now it rarely happens. Who knows? Like I said, humans are weird.

My mother sneezes whenever she’s done with eating

That’s so bizarre. Humans are weird.

This is a big part of it for sure. I have a 21 year old nephew who refuses to get his license. He just says yeah I’ve got lots of friends that drive me where I need to go. It’s not always going to be like that, kid.

I got my learner’s permit the day I turned 15 and my license the day I turned 16. Couldn’t wait to get away from my family.

May be cleaner to burn but we’re getting it by fracking which is terrible.

We have a blanket textured just like that for the big boy when he wants to knead. He leaves it very wet because he suckles it.

The first hour or so of Spore was great. I played that three times and then never touched it again.

I’ll beeeee gooooone

beeeean gone- gotta commit.

Grow Grow Tussin

We had a Lucy. Her name was Lucifer before I met her but bible belt made us call her Lucy at the vet. Solid black, fat. She went from being a very mean cat to friendlyish. Once she got some roommates she hated she calmed. Then she was one of the biggest love babies ever. She lost weight as she aged but would start purring if you looked at her the last few years. Made it to age 18.

I remember it because I’m old and was into computers before the internet. Local drive was backslash "" as a directory separator and online it was slash “/”.

This is only tangentially related but I’ve noticed an increase in people saying backslash instead of slash when speaking an internet address aloud. I think many more people struggle with / vs \ than > vs <.

Math is my worst subject by far. This was incomprehensible to me at first, but I read it a few times and I started to kind of get it, so thank you for that.

In my mind, boolean operators meant things like AND/OR in internet searches. This functionality and using quotation marks to mean “these exact words” seem to no longer work on Google anyway.

Does anyone know how to make these work the way they used to? I used to be quite the “google-fu” master, but search has gone to total shit.

We have a BB! I named her Bastet then we found out she was a boy. My wife protested and said we should name him Bast after a cool demon in a book we both read. I argued that she was trans and would call her Bastet.

Well that all got shortened to B or more often BB.

BB has the unusual “snowshoe” pattern. He’s also below average intelligence as confirmed by the vet. I don’t really want to say what I call him. He’s a clumsy menace rather than lithe and graceful like his brother. We love him very much. He walks around with his mouth open and only closes it to sleep so he’s obsessed with water. We give him ice cold filtered water and he loves it so much.

Who did Perfect Dark?

Love RTJ, never seen this, thanks.

If only the 4th one was in there. He’s the brother of the huge orange boy but he’s a dwarf. Looks exactly like an orange Maine Coone but he only weighs 7 pounds. He doesn’t snuggle with the other 3. So he’s 7 pounds and his brother is 23!

The cats? Yeah everyday.

Get another one from the shelter! They have much richer lives if they have another cat to interact with, even if they don’t like each other.

Plus having two cats is getting yourself twice the cute and love for very little extra work.

Edit - doesn’t this look great?

Covert cat distribution network, working as intended.

In my opinion cats should never be kept as singles. They need social interaction with another cat, even if they don’t like each other. It’s not as bad as guinea pigs who will literally die from depression if kept alone, but it’s similar.

There’s been a little baby girl coming around here, underweight, some kind of skin problem. She has always been an outside cat and belonged to my neighbor who died. My wife says we already have four so we can’t bring a street cat in that’s going to fight them.

She’s right, but sometimes little girl comes up when I’m smoking and gets warm laying in my lap and I want to keep her so much.