WTF-Beta

Lots of info about the area. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/oh/cleveland/ohio-city#overview

AOC was here yesterday. Her speech really impressed me. Grounded in the truth and heartfelt.

Could it be particular to your area? I have to book a rental property frequently in Missoula, and it seems like open dates are even scarcer, earlier, than is typical. Either reservations are booming or a lot of properties were taken off the platforms. I use both AirBnB and VRBO.

@Steve-Miller That's a great article. My history teachers never talked about this either. Thanks for posting it!

Soggy. The sump pump is getting a workout.

****. “Have not”

Something new to thank Musk for-- an exploding boat! https://www.wired2fish.com/boats-maintenance/tesla-announces-new-cyberboat-with-optional-fishing-package

@Steve-Miller - Looks like a great show. Thanks for the pics. I haven't been in years, but the Chicago Botanic Garden also has an orchid show. I loved looking at the various types of plants. I used to grow some of the more common varieties of orchids and had reasonably good luck getting them to bloom. I was even the proud owner of a plant that Mrs. @kluurs gave me when I visited their home for a piano party. I've been winnowing down my house plants little by little. The orchids were the most demanding care-wise, so I ended up selling them on craigslist probably 10 years ago. I still have offshoots of a ficus that I gave Mr wtg when we first started dating in the late 1970s. And the offspring of a clivia that I bought at Home Depot in the 90s. I grew new plants from the seeds. Speaking of which, I need to divide and repot those clivia and find them new homes...

It's been suggested to me many times by smart well meaning people I have respected a lot I skip the news entirely. One lady told me after I told her it was causing me stress-- "Turn it off!" Well, the truth is I have only so much attention to give it anyway.

I think it is fun! I would love to attend a party there. No way would I want to live there. Oh, and that blue and white check area rug goes with nothing. I am wondering if the house, stripped of all the byzantine gilded garbage, actually has good bones. Impossible to tell from the photos. Obviously they have an insane amount of money to be able to irrigate a lawn like that. I suppose it is possible they are in a less desertified area of AZ, but still.

I am!

Yeah, Jack loved it! Gave him a chance to run around hard and he slept all the way home

Roast potatoes are truly the tastiest way to eat potatoes, even better than chips. Best when the potatoes are first chopped into smaller chunks... Mrs A can do them perfectly. I usually microwave and then mash spuds, using butter and pepper. I actually leave the skin in the mash for a bit of healthy roughage.

Looks kind of like snakes. But I'll bet it's good. Is there anything the air fryer can't do?

In the rice cooker pot in the rice cooker. It doesn’t get hot enough to sear but it’s perfect for sweating vegetables.

I'm exhausted just reading this. I don't have the bandwith. The prospect of everything he's talking about feels just catastrophic.

Oh wow, thanks for posting this, @Steve-Miller ! I only watched the first 6 minutes or so, I’ll have to come back and watch the rest later. But yeah, “too perfect” is never good. That’s why I was never truly satisfied with having a digital piano, in that “too perfect” experience, the total absence of truly organic sound, there’s no magic…

Can they please buy Montana too?