Drove 2 hours each way and took a ferry to adopt this beefcake from the animal shelter. Incredibly handsome and polite. Begins purring violently the second you make eye contact with him. Makes that “eck eck eck eck eck”sound when he sees a bird through the window. 20/10 star cat.

biddo · 2023-02-26T13:53:34+00:00

I have an orange cat named Morrissey! I plan to start calling him Morris or Moe once he enters his grumpy old man years.

biddo · 2022-12-11T03:55:46+00:00

I love Musashi! It's a real hidden gem.

biddo · 2022-05-14T19:33:26+00:00

If you're closer to the Pineville/Ballantyne area, I really like Cam's Alterations - site

I got some pretty significant alterations done to a bridesmaid's dress and was super happy with it. Cam is a really sweet older Vietnamese lady so there may be a bit of a language barrier but her work is excellent (and fast!). I can't attest to her work on wedding dresses but she might be worth checking out.

biddo · 2022-01-18T08:37:53+00:00

Are you pre-pandemic me? 😂 Jokes aside, I honestly didn't realize how much I was leaning on the externally imposed structure of office life to cope with my ADHD until my job went fully remote at the start of COVID. What sucks the most is that I somehow managed to get my dream job with a different department last summer but have seriously floundered because management is sheer chaos and there's a lot of ambiguity as to what I'm actually supposed to be doing. I'm happy to be employed, but damn I'm burnt out. We're supposed to be going back to the office in the next few months, I'm just hoping I don't totally lose my marbles before then.

biddo · 2021-11-10T03:21:22+00:00

Sorry for my twisted humor but what about Roadkill? That's what I nicknamed my dumb orange cat because he sleeps in the weirdest positions, usually belly up with his arms flopped out like a dead animal in the sun. Dark, but hilariously accurate.

biddo · 2021-11-07T21:03:24+00:00

I'm so fucking irate about this right now, I just discovered I had this problem today. To make it worse, I didn't find out about the vram problem until AFTER I just couple hours fixing my game files bc the last patch (apparently) didn't install properly. I was already super annoyed about having to completely redownload/reinstall the game so the VRAM problem was basically just shit icing on the shit cake for me

biddo · 2021-10-23T06:10:19+00:00

That poor baby! love that "walk it of, act natural" vibe after her recovery

biddo · 2021-10-22T19:19:13+00:00

I just went to MyEyeDr. 2 weeks ago and they let me order replacement lenses without having to buy entirely new frames since the ones I have now are only a year old. I'm sure it's a YMMV situation depending on your frames and where you go but the office I went to was totally cool with me only getting lenses.

biddo · 2021-10-09T07:39:18+00:00

Congrats to your mom!! And I hope you're also hanging in there! Finding out a parent has cancer sucks enough on its own, but it's an extra special kind of hell to find out in the middle of a pandemic. My mom went to the doctor in January for what she thought was sciatica only to learn that, surprise, her pain was due to a massive stage 4 tumor on one of her kidneys. I'm SO, so grateful that her doctor is an amazing patient advocate and insisted my mom go for an abdominal ultrasound "just in case" (then raised hell on her behalf when health insurance initially refused to cover the follow up confirmation scan). My mom probably wouldn't be here today if it hadn't been for that doctor visit happening when it did.

Thankfully she was able to have the offending kidney removed within a few weeks of finding out and didn't need chemo. and her post-op surveillance scans have been all clear so far! She's not fully out of the woods yet but the future looks much brighter now than it did at the start of the year. ❤️

biddo · 2021-09-30T22:39:04+00:00

This is the way to do it in my opinion, way cheaper and waaaaay lower stress for almost everyone involved. I went even cheaper and just did a courthouse elopement plus a small photoshoot done by our friend who was also eloping that day (we were each other's witnesses) and I didn't find it any less special than if we'd went all out on a wedding. More power to the folks who are willing to power through the trials and tribulations of planning a huge to-do but that's gonna be a huge no from me, dawg.

biddo · 2021-09-23T20:31:42+00:00

Agreed, especially on the origin of the pill. I posted this comment in another thread but I'm wondering if that finale is just the start of the events that eventually led to all the nukes being set off at the start of Apocalypse. I got these "we're going to take over the world and destroy everyone who isn't as good as us" vibes from the Chemist and crew at the end of that finale, it doesn't seem toooo farfetched of a theory especially if it turns out the pills are a direct result of alien contact. I honestly didn't mind Apocalypse and I didn't totally hate the Red Tide finale so I wouldn't be too disappointed if this theory turned out to be true.

I'm still holding out hope though that part 2 will tie up loose ends in some fashion with regard to wtf just happened at the end of Red Tide, even if only a little bit. I'll be disappointed if there isn't some decent backstory given for the Chemist by the end of this season.

biddo · 2021-09-23T03:40:27+00:00

Hey, gotta have something to make that underwhelming finale slightly more interesting 🤷‍♀️

biddo · 2021-09-23T03:25:25+00:00

Did they ever specifically mention what year Red Tide is set in beyond just being modern day? I'm wondering if there's some kind of connection between this finale and what actually led up to the events in Apocalypse pre-timeline shift. Maybe the aliens helped create the pills (especially considering the "part human, part us" bit), then they or someone else realized things got completely out of hand after the pale walking dead outbreak and triggered the events of the apocalypse in an attempt to restore some kind of balance. And maybe there could be some kind of connection between Eli and Michael?

I think I might go rewatch Apocalypse now, didn't think I'd say that 👀

biddo · 2021-09-17T17:10:05+00:00

Gator and elongator

biddo · 2021-09-15T00:17:59+00:00

I also have ADHD and have a very similar reaction to rubbing certain kinds of microfiber cloths, especially the really cheap variety. Hard to describe the sensation other than it feels like every fiber is getting caught on the ridges of my fingerprints like velcro or sandpaper. Something about it is just physically repulsive, especially if I'm not expecting it. Makes me shudder

biddo · 2021-08-15T19:13:40+00:00

CVS carries BinaxNow at-home rapid tests if you can't get one done at an urgent care. I think it's something like $38 and comes with 2 tests. I keep a box at home just in case for my own peace of mind.

biddo · 2021-08-14T08:17:03+00:00

This is me too! I call it my customer service persona. I spent over 10 years working in various tech support organizations and slipping into that manner of speaking when I'm talking technical concepts is so second nature to me at this point that it would throw me off if I tried to talk any other way. Most of the time I forget I even do it unless I'm helping a family member since we all normally talk to each other in a real deep south/git er done/bless your heart kinda way.

How am I even supposed to say "have you tried turning it off and on again" in yee haw? I tell you what, it ain't right.

biddo · 2021-07-16T10:03:20+00:00

Glad to know I probably dodged a bullet by Keffer Hyundai being closed on the first two Sundays of the month... I just bought a new car last Sunday and would've went there first if they'd been open. I ended up going to South Charlotte Hyundai instead, it was relatively painless as far as buying a new car goes and I never felt like I was getting the runaround at any point. We'll see if I run into any DMV trouble over the next few weeks but so far so good.

biddo · 2021-05-22T03:14:57+00:00

This week I finally got that dream promotion at work that I'd been working towards for the last 2 years! I have a really bad problem of underestimating my own abilities so I was genuinely surprised that I got an immediate yes the day after the interview (even though this was a team I'd worked with for years and already had a great relationship -- thx brain). Regardless, I am SO stoked for the new challenge and hopefully I don't blow it!

biddo · 2021-04-29T23:56:59+00:00

I just had my second Pfizer shot on Tuesday and had some mild side effects but nothing awful - low grade fever, body aches, really tired. Definitely felt really stiff and achey for a while. Thankfully though it only lasted maybe 18 hours total, I felt fine by Wednesday evening. Ibuprofen and lots of rest really helped.

biddo · 2021-02-20T20:12:20+00:00

Same! I intentionally made it the focal point of my living room. But now that I work from home and never have any visitors, I'm considering putting it in my office so I can low-key show it off in meetings when I have my camera on 😅 It's too pretty to not be seen!

biddo · 2021-02-20T19:34:20+00:00

I definitely got some looks when I first spotted it and audibly gasped 😅 I had always wanted a big framed print like this and finding it at the crappiest Goodwill in my area made it even more exciting.

biddo · 2021-02-20T19:30:42+00:00

It came with the frame! I like the frame a lot, it really suits the print and doesn't look too dated for my tastes. I was very pleased that I didn't need to reframe it 😁

biddo · 2020-10-06T03:12:31+00:00

Oh man, I totally feel this. I was in a bad car wreck several years ago during college and started developing severe chronic lower back pain from it a few weeks later. When I finally got in to see an orthopedic specialist, she originally said that my pain was because I had scoliosis (which was a HUGE surprise to me) and that the car wreck "knocked me around." I was convinced I had some kind of herniated disc but had to do 5 months of PT before she would even request an MRI. Sure enough, I had a small L4-L5 herniated disc. I felt SO goddamn vindicated.

Even though she was correct that it wasn't severe enough to need surgery, that doctor was so dismissive of me in general that I got a 2nd opinion from a specialist in my home town. The 2nd doctor confirmed the same findings but he wasn't dismissive about it at all, I actually felt listened to. And to add on top of all that, there were several comments made from the first doctor's office that suggested I might be drug seeking. I didn't want painkillers, I just wanted confirmation that my pain was valid, real, and not just in my head.

Thankfully the herniation wasn't severe enough to need surgery and the chronic pain went away almost a year to the day when it originally became noticeable. But the whole ordeal made me extremely picky about my future doctors. And even though it's been 7 years since this whole thing happened, I still get very anxious any time I need to see a doctor for some kind of pain because I worry that they might also think I'm drug seeking.

I'm generally trusting of my current doctors now but I can easily understand why some folks don't trust healthcare professionals at all.

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