I can't believe how programmed I am to hit the like button/icon.
Wasn't planning on seeing a dentist this weekend. Saw one anyway. Just had a tooth pulled.
It was $600 or $3,500 for the root canal and the crown.
For $3,500, I could fly to Mexico, have the dental work done and stay for a month.
I'm still numb and probably won't post after I start my pain meds.
Tooth fairy owes me $600.
Notified the neighbor about the guy trying to look in his window in the middle of the night.
He didn't know the guy.
He was concerned, mad, and grateful that I told him.
It will be interesting to see what he does to beef up his current security measures.
They have kids.
With #Obsidian, if your search results aren't working properly, open the settings, navigate to core plugins, find the search plugin, and toggle it off and then back on again.
Try your #search again.
It fixed it for me.
Yesterday, I got called a writing angel.
Today, someone told me I know everything about documentation.
💅
150 words are not long form.
I check the doorbell camera footage regularly.
At 1:10am, it caught a man walking around the corner, pausing at my neighbor's, looking down into the cart sitting under their window and then actively tried looking through the blinds into their living room.
I'm still trying to reach the neighbor.
My first Quran in Arabic arrived in the mail today.
I scarred my kids for life when I ate the grub in front of them.
Bear Grylls did it. Why couldn't I?
It was tiny and green, and before I tried it, I skewered it with a stick and attempted to cook it over a fire.
It was like a hazelnut-flavored marshmallow with a slightly crunchy outside.
We were near a river when this happened and not too far from civilization that weekend.
I was always teaching my kids different ways of handling these things. This paper-filter thing is another good one to know.
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In my possessions, I still have a Russian ruble with the number "2" in the corners and Stalin's face squarely in the middle.
My first Russian pen pal sent it to me in the late '80s, before communism fell in the USSR. He lived in Kyiv. Kyiv was still part of Russia then and spelled Kiev on the map.
It took six months to get a letter back from a pen pal in Russia. I was told all the incoming and outgoing mail was read and checked before passing it along. We had to be careful of what we said so the letters would be allowed through.
His family didn't have money, so it was considered a great feat for him to send it to me and for it to actually reach past the icy grip of Gorbachev's communism.
At least, to my teenage mind, it was.
I keep it because it reminds me that truly evil leaders can rise to power and have no qualms about killing their own people, that others live under oppressive regimes, and because it was a sacrifice for him to send.
When I last heard from him, he was 17. He had to serve the mandatory two years in the Russian army, and I never heard from him again.
That was almost 40 years ago.
Today, we see the oppressions manifesting in other ways with those in power many are too afraid to confront or discuss.
Going against the ones responsible for your paycheck and whether your family eats this week is scary unless you're able to build a way out.
All those people in that room applauding when and how they did, to me, looked like a bunch of trained seals at a circus, like the ones from the old cartoons.
I wonder what rewards they've been promised for good behavior.
I wonder when they'll realize it was all a lie.
The woman in the red dress.
Stalin.
Stalin's red dress: agendas and lies wrapped in polyester and diplomatic laundry.
Indeed.
As an American Muslim, I'm not interested in tearing down the American flag.
My son watched me use my vacuum+mop contraption the other night.
When I explained how it worked, he said, "Mom, your vacuum is a decepticon."
#jokes #funny #family
Could someone post their last Will and Testament on Nostr and have it considered legally binding?
A person's signing key would help ensure it really was from the deceased, and therefore, it could be considered automatically #authenticated and permissible to use as #evidence. 🤔
I'm not sure what made me think of this.
#legal #document #willandtestament #usecase
The first rule about dental pain is that we don't talk about #dental pain.
I wasn't aware that Proton had to hand over meta data in the past.
That's good to know.
I'm waiting for the Excedrin to kick in.
Here we call them yellow-jackets or wasps.
These can make nests in things or underground even.
They typically get angry and aggressive during the mid-late fall right before winter hibernation.
These are not honeybees.
These are not your friends.
Do not allow them to stay.
Their stings hurt worse than honeybees.
On on the internet, there are some homemade traps you can make, but this may cause them to swarm and attract others in the vicinity.
Everyone, what are you recommendations, (outside of using a flame thrower) to safely get rid of these?
Last week on X, I muted several words and phrases used by accounts that inflame and use drama for engagement. The X-peer-ience (😂 - I make lame jokes and then laugh at them -) has improved quite a bit.
Scrolling through it all was stealing my energy. I decided I no longer wanted to give permission for that to happen.