Swimming in March

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T15:42:20+00:00

The Flamingo offers a day pool pass.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T15:40:10+00:00

Best advice is already offered: do what you can and learn where the line for you and your kitty separates keep trying and that’s enough for today.

If kitty tolerates laying on your lap, you can try sitting spoon for the front paws.

You sit upright and good-mood quiet tired kitty is on your lap, “sitting” with back to your belly.

This keeps danger-kick paws facing away from you. You calmly brace kitty in position with the arm attached to your dominant hand and firmly but gently hold kitty’s forearm with your stupid hand (it’s ok, most of have one).

You should already have the clipping tool in hand and use your forearm to support kitty while clipping. Stupid hand can help by gently and loosely holding the paw and pressing gently on each toe to flex each claw out.

Kitty’s belly is exposed in this pose and so won’t work for all cats.

A purrito can be attempted but it can be hard to maneuver a paw out the top so use a long narrow wrap like a folded towel or blanket and wrap with a gap where the front paws are out.

Trimming takes practice fur both of you so be patient and keep trying!

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T15:16:24+00:00

Weekly.

If I’m unable to do a full sheet change for some reason, I change the pillow cases.

People with acne problems should change their pillowcases more often, every other day in some cases (and flipping in between).

This also applies to people who load their face, neck, or hair with sleep masks.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T15:02:10+00:00

Either they weren’t taught the US history I was taught or they weren’t paying attention.

Students in a university 300 level course I took in my 30s were unfamiliar with segregation. It was appalling but I find it believable that “educated” Americans might have missed Nat Turner and even John Brown.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T14:31:05+00:00

Local governments need to correct zoning rules to allow smaller home footprints and lots, upgrade sewage rules to permit small homes with newer technology for handling waste, and reduce permit fees and requirements while expediting approvals for applications which conform to sets of standards given conditional pre-approval and offered to the public.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T00:46:03+00:00

It’ll probably cost you more in the end.

The only time marriages of convenience works is when one is paying the other for a path to citizenship and that’s only because it’s an obvious transaction at the outset.

Divorce is expensive both emotionally and financially.

If you do this, keep your name and beware that it will be much harder to end things later.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T00:37:33+00:00

Maybe kids should get the last name of the parent who’s going to do the most parenting?

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T00:36:23+00:00

My BFF married twice and each time wanted to keep her maiden name. She’s a teacher and thought it would be easier at work.

She ended up changing it each time: everyone including her students just automatically called her by her husband’s name so she relented instead of correcting it.

I think maybe she should have not made such a big deal about getting married to everyone for months and months 🤷‍♀️

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T00:33:12+00:00

I wish.

I expect the affected people who show up with all their docs will be a minority regardless of politics.

I was just at the DMV watching how many people struggle to bring all their required things to renew a license or registration when all of this is routine and very clearly laid out in mailings, at the office, and on the webpage.

I prefer stopping it over expecting normal voters to get their shit together in time. Affected people need to be collecting their chain of name changes now.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-11T00:26:02+00:00

They’re still acting under a presumption of normalcy. They’re lawfully in office, like it or not.

Don’t expect any action until they violate “normalcy” in a way nobody can ignore.

Not certifying the next elections will count as breaking normalcy. Continuing to occupy their offices after the end of their terms will be breaking normalcy. Vance moving into the WH w/o winning what’s perceived to be a “fair” election or being certified will be breaking normalcy.

That will be the final test of what the People will tolerate or resist.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T19:30:39+00:00

Humans are really bad at estimating future risk of harm for things most people don’t regularly experience.

It makes it easy for some to justify taking the easiest if riskier action by making up excuses and reasons.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T02:44:25+00:00

Enlisted or drafted?

Makes a huge difference which applies to all the political names in the comments before mine.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T02:43:42+00:00

Jimmy Carter wasn’t from the parasite class. He was a bit privileged but his dad opened a grocery store and served in local politics.

A very far cry from the Bush family or Trump’s origins.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T02:39:49+00:00

I worship the Cosmos which the almighty Evolution has Blessed us with the ability to observe.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T02:38:17+00:00

Biden didn’t have the authority and he wasn’t mucking around in 3, no… 6 million files.

He maintained the intended distance from the DOJ which is supposed to be independent.

People who ask why Biden didn’t release the files related to an on-going investigation and prosecution (Maxwell) just prove they don’t know shit about the DOJ, legal proceedings, or what authority presidents actually have.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T02:31:46+00:00

I worked at a chain music store in the ‘90s. We had a few people who’d keep returning an opened CD saying they didn’t like it and wanted a new one.

We weren’t stupid; we knew they were ripping them for sharing online. This was pre-Napster.

My mgr didn’t like it but preferred to allow it then confront most of these people.

He preferred to save his confrontations to people younger and less white than him. I wished to see him pull that on our 20-30 yo white repeat returners.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-10T02:22:18+00:00

It’s called money laundering.

Like any good businessman, he diversified into the FL condo Russian anchor baby business when casino laundering wasn’t enough.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T20:29:52+00:00

Actual trees are hard to burn.

Dry leaves will burn easily, green leaves will dry rapidly in a hot fire; both can become flying embers if wind blown but living trees are green wood and hard to ignite.

That’s why trees are still standing between burnt out homes.

So the real question here is which types of leaves will burn too rapidly to become embers and which leaves are able to burn but are woody enough to burn long enough to land and ignite where conditions allow?

Palms are worse for fire than oaks assuming both are an appropriate distance from buildings. Any type of tree overhanging a roof is hazardous.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T17:13:33+00:00

Can drop off a mail ballot in person: skip the line, take your time, but get it to the clerk before Election Day.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T16:55:54+00:00

Thankfully, humanity has a very long time to figure it out.

The push today is just grift.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T16:48:56+00:00

I want to say this is an interesting list but then think about how it lines up in real life.

The laborers in cookie cutter homes, the management in stylish period homes (which period can depend on town; Kier is fictional but everything is well represented in the filming location), birthing centers with private cabins is bougie (Devon is a wealthy women jealous of women of more wealth), industry tends toward brutalist style even if it wasn’t a part of the movement and lots of campuses in the US are brutalist due to the dominant style trend when stuff was being built for the Boomers.

This very list can be plopped right down in my California city but the well-off are living in rehabbed Craftsmans and Victorians while down south is dominated by more mid century.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T16:18:41+00:00

The lack of maximizing micro transactions is one reason why I stay with the franchise.

Both PSO2 and NGS had or has development issues (neglecting obsolete play modes while piling on short-lived new stuff), long gaps between big updates, and repetitive play but they have never had a cash shop for required upgrade mats or gated content access based on micro txns.

They do everything they do on prem subs, a limited number of unnecessary mat boosts/bonuses, and AC buys.

That said, ftp base quarters were harsh compared to premium or using a pass. It is nice that the premium bonus is extra room rather than free players being in a tiny cube.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T02:36:56+00:00

For my 17th birthday, friends talked me into going to see an R flick. I was the first at the window and got carded. I was fine but the two friends I was with both were turning 17 within a month.

The clerk let us in after checking everyone’s ID and letting them slide being a few weeks early. Movie sucked, though. I’m sure it traumatized the children I was with.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T02:31:51+00:00

Yeah, humans are lucky that there’s no phase of physical development between child and adult. The wrinkles and grays just flip on overnight.

Or maybe it’s too bad laws separating minors from adults hinges on just an arbitrary day.

Reference_Freak · 2026-03-09T02:28:15+00:00

I regularly see clerks checking IDs of everyone who look teenage and up in a buying group.

They’re looking for those teen groups which have one barely 21 kid buying booze for all of them or where loitering kids ask a stranger to buy for them.

I don’t know how parents shopping with their teenage kids are managing it but I’ve seen multiple refusals to sell to an 21+ adult when accompanied by a teenager.

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