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I have a crayfish and some fish from the creek, and a few from the local pet store. My oldest fish is 1 rosy red minnow from the pet store, one of the 18 cent feeder fish. My 2nd oldest fish is a female western mosquitofish I netted out the creek last summer when it was too small to ID. Meanest fish I've ever had in my life, worse than bettas. So badass she's in a tank by herself with the crayfish. The queen of my bigger tank is a lone swordtail. She's in there with some wild fathead minnows, some white cloud minnows, and a couple native darter fish I scooped out of a stream this summer.

Someone was talking about this today. They claimed they saw some green but this is a major city with crazy light pollution so I didn't totally buy it. I'll look up tonight though.

Great list. Need to revisit Roger Rabbit, haven't watched it since I was a kid. I've seen Fargo so many times and for some reason was just thinking about it this morning. The scene where Frances McDormand is meeting up with an old college friend at a bar and she asks him to sit across from her instead of beside her "so I can look at you" and he cracks and calls her a nice lady. I didn't know they made a Persepolis movie.

I applaud this decision. I hate when alcoholic drinks are full of added sugar. Though I'm definitely not touching that garbage, it sounds like they did the right thing.

OH lol I thought you meant it was your granny's bday. Well happy bday to the little crab, may he scuttle safely across the sand and sea for many more.

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Hm, that sounds like the one thing Kraken should be good at if nothing else. All those arms. I'll have to check Mammoth's tusk stats for this season, maybe I do want to go the other way here and wooly down.

Well their old name was horrible that's such a 1920s ass Mormon team name (no idea how old hockey is" but at least they did the right thing by rebranding in a pretty badass way. Mammoth is so much better than The Mammoths too. It's like they're a force of nature, emphasizing teamwork & solidarity I'm still with Kraken, but this should be the Finals matchup. I'd watch Mammoth vs Kraken for the Stanley

Well, Phil Anselmo is a Nazi so imma root against your team. I'm riding with either Mammoth or Kraken, I like those names. "Dallas" with all that emerald green reminds me of this song and the cover of the album it's on

It just sounds so generic! "Here they come, the...the Stars"

Soon. What does 8 mean?

Gonna be honest with you, these don't even sound like real teams. The...Kraken? Imma root for them.

Yeah, I was in a pretty bad mood today and put on Sunshine after seeing this thread. Instantly soothed lol

I've heard of all those except And it's such a funny name i want to check it out now. For me, it's Sunshine. A 20 year old sci fi movie about a spaceship that needs to drop a nuke into our dimming sun to reignite it so the Earth doesn't freeze. Idk why I like this movie so much but I just do. Seen it dozens of times and it's just so soothing. The setting, the soundtrack, all of it.

It's snowing here this week. I might start taking the bus so I don't have to drive in it. Plus looking out the window listening to music while being driven around by a chauffeur in a $300,000 vehicle & walking around downtown in the snow just sounds like a nicer routine than scraping my windshield every morning, dealing with rush hour traffic, and paying for parking only to have to do it all over again in the afternoon. Damn 9-5 work schedule. When I know I have to catch a bus at a certain time I have no problem getting up and out the door knowing they're not gonna wait on me. When I drive myself I lay in bed until the last possible second and often end up running late.

In my experience walking around helps with this. Street names often just don't stick for me unless I have to navigate by walking around. They don't really matter when driving, it's just "turn right at this road after this light by the Kroger" but if you walk around a few miles and spend minutes walking down each street you'll build memories and associations and connections with those places that you don't notice when driving down them for several seconds. I kinda hate my neighborhood though. So many streets have similar sounding names like Pine St, Pine Ridge St, Ridgepine Rd, Ridgepine Ave, Piney Ridge Dr, Ridgey Pine NW, etc. I'm like only barely exaggerating.

There's two Irish pubs very close to my house but I've never been to either one. I've also never seen a hockey game. Hmm. HNMMMM. This sounds so crazy I just might do it. Like a lonely old man type of birthday. Sounds perfect for me.

I liked S1 but when S2 came out I realized I had zero interest in watching any more so I've stayed away. Probably doesn't help that I watched all of TWD & the spinoff shows. That's more than enough zombie content for a lifetime. Still, good to hear it sucked glad I didn't miss out on anything.

Speaking of which, I'm taking the bus to work this morning because there's a bunch of road closure stuff going on downtown and I don't want to deal with it. Not trying to parse all these color coded maps of which streets are closed which are one way etc. Usually the weekends are better because less traffic but honestly I should just get up a little earlier and take the bus every day rather than deal with the dangerous insanity of congested interstate & downtown driving like I choose to do out of convenience.

I was going to say you should've gone anyway, but I've driven through some very stupid dangerous weather conditions for a lot less than a once in a lifetime concert and idek how bad it gets out there in the desert when it does decide to rain, so you probably did the wise thing. You probably could have taken Greyhound though. I traveled around CA that way, it was nice. Also Amtrak. You at least have options besides driving. Where I live there's nothing but the city bus & Greyhound.

It's been so many years I genuinely couldn't tell you the last movie I've seen. Straining to think about it, maybe a screening of Lost In La Mancha at the little independent cinema that shows old movies and foreign & "art house" type new releases. I think that was early 2020 right before covid, but if it was 2019 then I might have seen something else in a normal theater after it. So I guess it's been more than five years. Damn.

I liked it. Pretty predictable but still gripping. And yeah, I cried a little during the courtroom scene at the end. Good show, definitely worth watching but not the sort of story with rewatch value. Felt like the perfect length. Also FYI, I went to unsubscribe from Max last month and they responded by offering me 6 months at 50% off, which I of course accepted. So now I get commercial free for like $8/month. Might be worth trying if you want to save $50 bucks.

Pretty good sci-fi/horror. Reminds me a lot of Stephen King and I love his work. I'm not done with season two yet so no spoilers please (ok if they're marked so I can avoid) but it's been a long time since I've gotten this into a show this fast. Has anyone else seen it? What do you think? I heard S4 is out sometime next year. Are you excited, or does the excitement and quality die down by the end of S3? For those who haven't heard of it, it's on MGM+ (get a free trial and marathon it) The plot is a bunch of random people end up driving into this strange little town surrounded by woods and at night scary as shit monsters which can appear like people come out and eat you if they find you. I know that sounds kinda lame but the fun comes from the people trying to figure out not just how to survive but where they are and how they got there and how to get back to their lives in the boring real world.

Jesus I'm so sorry. From your experience it sounds like maybe the jobs really are drying up out there. I applied to 6 or 7 jobs on indeed and only 3 got back to me at all, one of which was a full week later. Where do you typically apply for jobs? Indeed, another website, individual corporate sites, in person (lol)? I have no idea what living in DC is like but my advice would be getting into service industry stuff that serves all the rich fake job-having people there. Maybe look for openings in restaurants or grocery/retail stores or bakeries or catering companies or janitorial services, low level things like that. Might sound grim starting from the bottom of a different industry than pharmacy tech but it could be a lifeline until you find something better. If you have some extra money it might be worth it to get an alcohol server license or ServSafe certification, something like that to put on your resume might get you in the door despite your lack of experience in these industries. I didn't even know Rite Aid went under that's crazy. The CVS & Walgreens near me are seemingly always hiring pharmacy workers. My friend back home is a manager at a pharmacy and he says they're always short on workers and the young 20somethings they do hire all come in reeking of weed and can't do basic math, two big-time no no's for pharmacy techs. I wish I had some better advice. Good luck out there and feel free to keep us posted with how the job hunt goes!

Oh, of course not. Well thanks. If I wanted to watch 7 hours about citizens of the former Soviet Union suffering under the fall of communism, I'd rewatch Trauma Zone