Road trip to Roanoke and looking for a ~1 hour podcast episode. No politics. Lay it on me.

Edit: THANK YOU! The family carpool is blown away by the options. Especially the Tom Hanks of Trees.

Gray Rock Quiz

Exactly! And it’s why my comment said “Lie to me. Hard.”

Thank you! It was a PR type role. I’m using past tense because when asked that question, shit-you-not, I blurted out “Oh, wow, we're really going here now?!”

His cute fishing expedition isn’t going to be so cute when someone says “My boss groped me and I handled it by not reporting them because I needed a paycheck.”

I was asked the same question a zillion different ways. It was like the personality tests I taken as an applicant and reviewed when I was hiring for my team. At some point you will drop the whole “I want to be a farmer” and reveal “I actually hate animals.”

Interviewer yesterday: Describe your worst boss ever and tell me about how you handled yourself in a serious conflict with them. Lie to me. Hard.

I recently received a call from an actual debt collector that I really wanted to be fake. Welcome aboard the S. S. Deadbeat.

I was the first person to clock into work this morning. Apparently we’re closed today, but hey. I’m awake and showered!

Edited that bojangly sentence. Must be my bedtime too.

I’m just checking r/all and loving the response of people to the “news” about TikTok “spying.” Hilariously, there’s bipartisan support in congress to shut down TikTok and bipartisan yawning at the politicians’ outrage.

Oh my gosh! I wasn’t expecting everyone to be so thoughtful and kind! Humanity WTF. I was absolutely fine because I have an upstairs and downstairs heat pump. Only one shit the bed.

You speak with much wisdom. I don’t think it has electric backup, but I have 3 space heaters. I’m assuming a visit from the company that installed it is in order. It’s 53 downstairs.

Edit: Called heat pump “company” expecting to leave a VM about coming by next week. The recording said “My truck is broken. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Byeeeee!”

My new (installed in August) heat pump isn’t working. I am keeping warm with Jesus Christ’s love and my unrestrained wrath.

Is it in yet?

The more you think about it, Joe truly is legislative herpes. HSV-1 may prefer mouths, but it will move south if there’s no other option.

Y’all save some 2nd hand books for me! I’ll put them to good use.

I don’t know about Shirley, but the last time I did something similar, I just squatted and held the paper bag open.

Only Happy When It Rains

I love these questions because invariably I’m googling “What Happed to…”

Edit: Shirley Manson just said in an interview “I took a crap on a cheating boyfriend’s breakfast cereal. I’m not ashamed; I’m rather proud of it.” Respect.

Moose is a dream boat if we’re talking Reddit standards.

Joint venture, my friend.

>What’s something phenomenal in your life right now?

Contrast that prompt with the one in my sad sack journal. I can’t stop reading these prompts in the passive agressive tone that u/Tripawdcorgi nailed last week.

I definitely keep a “me” running list. It includes cafe lights for my porch, wreath supplies, and Harry Potter Illustrated books 4 & 5. I will happily buy presents for family that sends me a wish list and I do buy things during the year that scream so-and-so needs this item. But I’m not buying random shit just to surprise people with random shit.

Last year I told my family what I want: nothing but time with them. Results were mixed. This year I upped my game and responded to The Question with “I knew you were going to ask me this, so I put together a list with links for you…..”. [Commence applause.] “I‘ll send it as soon as I get your list.” To date, no one has seen my list.

I screenshotted it because I was like “Wait, this is epic. They did equal coverage of the parts on display?!?”

I really liked it. Reading the reviews afterwards, I’m in good company because 94% of Google reviewers liked it too.