lost all but a couple of hours sleep last night. i'm in rough shape. stepping outside i can hear blackbirds, ringing from the treetops, and for an instant that has nothing to do with all the shit in my head i can feel i'm happy i'm here.

Came back from Quebec to Vermont today. When we rolled up to the border checkpoint, the guard took a look at our license plate and walked up to the driver’s side window. He glanced at our passports, looked at me, clapped four times, and without missing a beat, I sang “deep in the heaaart of Tex-as.” He said “welcome back”, handed us our passports, and let us through.

Yes, this really happened.

i'm sick of teaching chicks how to give good blow jobs

Dave N. wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:00 pm Came back from Quebec to Vermont today. When we rolled up to the border checkpoint, the guard took a look at our license plate and walked up to the driver’s side window. He glanced at our passports, looked at me, clapped four times, and without missing a beat, I sang “deep in the heaaart of Tex-as.” He said “welcome back”, handed us our passports, and let us through.

Yes, this really happened.

Solid

Dave N. wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:00 pm Came back from Quebec to Vermont today. When we rolled up to the border checkpoint, the guard took a look at our license plate and walked up to the driver’s side window. He glanced at our passports, looked at me, clapped four times, and without missing a beat, I sang “deep in the heaaart of Tex-as.” He said “welcome back”, handed us our passports, and let us through.

Yes, this really happened.

That is fantastic.

A couple days ago a coworker told me that in a recent conversation that steered toward 311 he told the other person, "Amber Alert is the color of your energy" and I can't stop thinking about it.

only replace fluid in his lungs with fungus in his ear.

it comes up in conversation at bachelorette parties.. and i can't tell them i'm sick of telling them so i told you guys

your welcome haha

Our dog Simon was at his doggie daycare (really just a house a few blocks away from us he's been going to a few days a week since he was a puppy) last Thursday when we got a text in the afternoon that they'd heard him yelp and then he wasn't moving his hind legs. My wife got him to the ER vet right away, and then she had to drive to the complete other part of the region 30 miles north to get him to a specialist hospital. After a neurologist saw him, they got him into surgery last Friday.

We got him home Monday, and he still haven't really been able to pee on his own, so we've been having to take him to our local vet twice a day to have him on a catheter. Between that, carrying him outside to shit, giving him pills (which he hates), and our normal stuff of having a very busy 19-month old kid running around, it's been a long, draining week. We've both been barely making it past 9PM before we can barely stay awake.

Thankfully, Simon is starting to show signs of improvement, we've seen some tail wags, he pedals his back feet when he's in the sling and "walking", and when he's sleeping on our bed with us in the evening he's made some kicks, wags, and toe movements while having a chase dream. All good signs, and the specialist thinks he should be back to normal within about 3-5 weeks at this rate.

^ Rough! Sorry to hear it. My dog tore his (dog equivalent of) ACL so we had to do surgery. I know the invalid dog routine.

You didn't say what your dog's diagnosis was, I'm curious.

losthighway wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:56 am ^ Rough! Sorry to hear it. My dog tore his (dog equivalent of) ACL so we had to do surgery. I know the invalid dog routine.

You didn't say what your dog's diagnosis was, I'm curious.

IVDD (Intervertebral Disc Disease) with disc herniation at L2-L3 causing moderate spinal cord compression. Really, really glad we've got pet insurance, we'd have easily already spent $20k from surgery, the emergency room stay, and the extra visits now to empty his bladder. Also our local vet LOVES nothing more than calling the insurance and making sure this all goes under the same claim so we aren't having to keep paying the $200 deductible (it's $200 per instance/illness, unlike human insurance).