@wtg Yes, ours are tracked too, from when they send them, to when they receive them, to when they count them. I really appreciate it. I think you have to opt in for notifications, and we do. and then you get this! [image: IMG_3317.jpeg]

@jon-nyc said: @Steve-Miller said: … and go stay somewhere else. That was always my plan. The problem is when there’s a huge power outage everyone else has that plan and the nearby hotels fill up. Once I spent a week hopping between hotels every night or two for a week. You’d believe the reports that power will be restored tomorrow, then when it isn’t, and you call to extend, they say no because the room has been rented out. So I find another hotel. Then the same thing happens again. The next month I bought the generator. We have the same problem with hurricanes. By the time you need to rent a room there are none- zero. It's a fictional option. The y say conditions in shelters (I've been told) during hurricanes aren't ideal. In the case of my acquaintance his experience included backed up toilets and no toilet paper. The authorities come through with cars with sirens and bullhorns telling us to leave. I spent Helene at a friend's house in Pasco. I stayed home for Milton. Milton was the one they thought might hit Tampa directly. It wiped out much of Ft. Meyers instead Btw, Our power is underground. The power in HI isn't underground for residential. Drilling tunnels through volcanic rock- not happening. The privatized utility charges a fortune (I mean an astronomical amount) but never keeps the lines properly maintained vis a vis trees and underbrush. Better to give the money to the shareholders. Bog stand routine there. So in a storm, the poles fall over, the broken lines start fires, and towns burn to the ground. Oh, and if there's a hurricane in HI, there's really nowhere to go. You're ****ed.

Just one?

@kluurs holy cow! That’s a crazy huge number! also sounds like fun. In the end, we only had the two groups. There are some families with kids in the neighborhood, but we are at the end of our street. And we didn’t have decorations up earlier, so those factors might be part of it. Oh, and our immediate neighbors next door have two daughters but they are away, and our across-the-street neighbors don’t have kids. So maybe I could have predicted this, but we had more last year so I wasn’t expecting our turn out to be this low. There are two places in town (not our neighborhood but along the commute to work) that do amazing Halloween displays, one with a huge selection of those massive balloon characters, very very cute, young kid-friendly. The other is the scary kind, with giant skeletons, a skeleton dinosaur, a scarecrow man that looks like its must be 10 feet tall. I wonder how many visitors those places get.

Nevada and Connecticut won't for long. Link to video We get an extra hour of sleep tonight. Yeah.

@Steve-Miller said: Absolutely not. You must have the jawline. Or be a female pop star if some rumors are to be believed. What a circus.

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I'll let someone else go there....

Also, I disagree with his his Oprah️ line... if only because Nicki Minaj showed us who she was the first time, and that was long before her transformation for lack of a better word. And, he's self-righteous. And, nevermind his own politics. Suffice it to say that he's a hypocrite.

I'd love to hear Renauda's take on this.

A bunch more: https://www.boredpanda.com/winning-images-2026-siena-drone-photo-awards/

@jon-nyc said: Just saw this right now. [image: IMG_5070.jpeg] It is difficult to buy that they believe in meritocracy when they pull this crap. Ohio had yet another constitutional amendment on the ballot to require photo ID to vote. We already have to show photo id. I voted against it as I do not believe it belongs in the state constitution.

Espresso machine, Aeropress and pour overs in this house. I have a French Press but It's stainless steel. I will use it every year or so, but I prefer the other methods.

Link to video Trump crashes out in Daytona speech @MTN It's easy to see that his cognitive decline has become more severe in only the last few months.

Link to video "Sumptuous" isn't a word you hear from an announcer every day. These clips are addictive. I need to watch a match this weekend.