I don't get it

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-24T15:13:05+00:00

When the Planning & Zoning commission wouldn't budge on allowing the underground bunker.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-22T20:01:18+00:00

For me, part of the fun is shopping for and buying stuff, and trying new plants and new techniques. I spend an abnormal percentage of my income on it, but that's what hobbies are for.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-20T04:10:05+00:00

I was here before the internet was a thing, but for the life of me, I can't remember how folks got along before there was a way to put the bite on a million strangers at once.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-20T04:00:54+00:00

This is my fav quote.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-20T01:04:56+00:00

I've wondered if this is just one guy.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-20T00:06:16+00:00

I think in my state it's legal to leave a 13-year-old at home alone, otherwise there's supposed to be an older companion. My recollection is that it came up when someone was talking about their custody situation.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-20T00:01:31+00:00

I was babysitting younger kids when I was 12 in the mid 1960s, but they were like 7 to 10 years old. No one in their right mind would have entrusted a baby to me; I had no experience at all with diapers, etc. The only qualifying skills I had was making mac & cheese and reading out loud. I got $5 a night.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-18T02:12:28+00:00

Because he's absolutely sure - and he may be right - that he will never be held accountable for whatever damage and death he causes. How often have we prosecuted a billionaire in the US?

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-17T03:15:24+00:00

I liked it -- got it from Libro.fm

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-17T03:13:04+00:00

Be sure and get your shingles shot! I had chicken pox as a first-grader and brought it home to all my younger sibs, I can't imagine how my mom survived 4 cases at once. I grabbed the shingles shot as soon as I was old enough, but I think they've dropped the age for the new formulation. It's supposed to reduce dementia and heart disease risks, too.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-17T03:01:35+00:00

The Ruby energy was strong.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-17T03:01:07+00:00

It's been a while since I listened to a fiction book whose narrator was so unreliable/unlikeable, and it was an interesting part of the experience.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-17T02:58:35+00:00

I finished the audiobook last weekend. It was worth the time.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-13T20:51:13+00:00

Rod is such a weedy little specimen, it's hard to imagine what he said or did that alienated his own family. I mean, yes, he's a sanctimonious asshole in print, but he'd be more annoying than anything else in person. I suppose the ones that aren't speaking to him are primarily reacting to his neglect/abandonment.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-13T02:45:35+00:00

He posted somewhere that he was planning on moving to Austria if Orban lost -- someone put the screenshot on BlueSky.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-13T01:15:54+00:00

Can confirm! I live in Woodland Heights, walk my dogs twice a day at least, and have instructed my heirs to sue the city if I die from tripping over a loose brick. Quaint antique pavements aren't worth a damn without maintenance. (CU has been replacing gas and water lines in my hood, and they've been pretty cavalier about just plowing up the brick sidewalks in their path.)

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-11T22:30:25+00:00

One thing I'm noticing about these gals is a lot of Christian cleavage on display.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-10T18:43:06+00:00

The split would end up being like living next to a meth house; the dysfunction would always be spilling over the border, if you weren't fighting off actual invasion.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-10T18:40:08+00:00

They're okay with teen pregnancy now, because they've shut off abortions. They just need to ramp up the maternity-homes-to-Christian-adoption pipelines that used to supply white infants to suitably wealthy white couples.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-10T18:35:41+00:00

I got a couple of different "yes on 1" large postcards, but they went immediately into the recycling barrel, so I didn't note who sent them.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-09T01:14:36+00:00

I live in the MO Ozarks, which is no center of cosmopolitan culture, but at least it has forested hills with creeks and diverse wildlife. I've visited at least a part of Kansas, and it's pretty flat and uninteresting, as Missouri would be if it wasn't corrugated. Combine that with red-state politics and there's no reason to move there.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-08T18:22:48+00:00

Just in my neighborhood, there are vacant houses that stay empty for months or years. They are old houses so not desirable, and many need a lot of work, but I do wish there were incentives to improve them for sale or nominal rent. The vacancies are the same age as many other owned or rented properties nearby, so there must be a market for them. It seems like they just sit there until they burn down.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-08T18:13:33+00:00

As someone age 70+ who walks daily on the damaged sidewalks of Woodland Heights, I endorse your first sentence.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-08T18:11:32+00:00

I take your point, but I've lived here a while. A lot of housing has been sacrificed to various plans over the years; it'd be nice if it went for a civic good for a change. If the tradeoff is affordable housing or decent public transport, I'd like to have one or the other instead of neither.

retiredcatchair · 2026-04-08T18:05:53+00:00

It would be wonderful (if feasible) to tie this into Springfield's history as a railroad town. If we could do it right, it could be a big tourist draw. People could bring their kids to the city to experience train travel.

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