They kept us in the ER until 3 in the morning, but I feel a lot better than I did. I’ll look for some aloe.
Today the hurricane comes! It’s been one of those weeks 
Yeah - every once in a while I’ll start to grab something in the oven, only to realize (in the nick of time) that would be Bad.
@Dung_Beetle, I hope your hand heals well and am glad it wasn’t worse. 450º is no joke.
Your left hand typing skills are impeccable!
What was the rest of the story, what was in the pot and did it survive once your hand let it go?
i hope it heals easily, without much debridement.
Random movie gripe: When characters say “What is this place?” whenever they enter a place they’ve never seen before that introduces a key plot element. It’s the exact same line in almost every SF, fantasy, suspense or horror movie. I can usually say it at the exact same time the character does.
It’s so tired and so pointless – just a cheap screenwriting trope to convey a sense of dread and bewilderment that’s better communicated with acting, production design, music, etc.
I kind of embarrassed some folks last weekend. My gf recently got invisalign braces to tweak her teeth to perfection. We have been joking about them a lot.
She had shopping she wanted to do, but didn’t need my input, so she dropped me off at a brewery for a few hours. While there, I was talking with a group of people. One of them mentioned something his wife did that embarrassed him. I laughed and said, “You think that’s embarrassing, my gf just got braces”.
A hush fell over the group. I was about to explain more about the situation when a woman began saying that people like me disgusted her and I should be ashamed and possibly incarcerated.
As if on cue, this was when my gf walked in. I introduced her to the group and said I was just talking about her braces. In retrospect it was funny, although I do not condone that sorta thing.
Apparently, there are people ignorant that adult braces are a thing.
To be honest, I was among those individuals until my gf told me.
Did she apologise?
It’s been a thing - my sister-in-law got braces as an adult, and I currently know someone who has them - she’s in her 50s.
There seems to be some fairly extreme political shake-ups happening in NY right now.
It does not sit well with breakfast coffee.
Mayor Adams indicted?
Chief of police resigns?
Replacement for chief of police indicted?
Former prosecutor and judge commits suicide rather than be taken alive by the FBI?
Anthony D’Esposito accused of funneling money/jobs illegally to family members?
It’s a lot.
No, the group was all laughing and my gf needed a beer, which I ran to get. IMO no apology necessary when someone is set-up, and really I agree with her.
What the actual fuck?
I know in Tennessee we feel that shoulders are for wimps, but there is plenty of room on your side of the road. There is no reason for you to drive three feet over the double yellow line, especially on a narrow bridge.
If you have to do that, maybe you have no business driving a fucking dump truck!
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/skillet-rosemary-chicken-recipe-2104751
It turned out well anyway!
Whenever someone in our family has a bad experience, one of us will say, “What did we learn?” We do it in a smarmy tone of voice, but it’s an honest question. What I learned was, if you have a really hot pan sitting on the stove, just leave the pot holder draped on the handle!
Now I share this wisdom with you.
They were trying to intimidate you for a cheap laugh.
QFT
I know they raided his house, supposedly over Top Secret docs he kept from his long ago days as a federale. Was he indited for something? I didn’t see that one yet.
Gun might be jumped on that one point… but still.
I’ve recently been seeing articles from an entity called “PopularResistance .org” (don’t click it ) presented as credible news sources.
Please correct me because I thought:
Popular Resistance dot org
= Jill Stein
= Putin
Hot Pan!
Which one?
The hot one!
Visual clues are a big help!
Stopped at the post office on the way home to buy some postcard stamps. (My wife volunteered to fill out and mail some Get Out The Vote postcards.) I guess the days of vending machines where you could buy books or rolls of stamps are long gone. Now it’s all done from the all-in-one kiosk. Which is printing my 100 stamps one at a time, about ten seconds each. WTF DeJoy?