You pay to renew your vehicle registration. At which time you may also have to get smog tested, it’s not every year.

Sadly, not anymore. They changed the rules over 100 years ago.

And its partner the hemiclitoris…

I appreciate how filled your time is, and I struggled with consistency myself (still do but my kids are grown, thank goodness). If possible, set a specific Silent Reading Time and sit down with them and your own book. Make it 15 minutes rather than 30, and paper not screens just so you don’t have to keep checking. Don’t have anything planned for the 30 minutes after, so any of you who wants can continue reading longer. Pre-bedtime is one option, unless you’re already reading aloud to them because that’s even better.

By the way, they’re old enough for some of the Terry Pratchett books, like Equal Rites or Maurice and His Amazing Rodents. And you might find a little relief from reality with a Discworld book yourself. When you have to get up and go deal with the dishes or whatever, leave your book open in case one of them is intrigued.

One reason assholes got mad about you doing that was probably because they wanted your attention on them in that moment. Everyone zones out and stares at nothing sometimes but some people are faster at snapping out of it. If the default position for your social engagement switch is “Ignore,” you have a delay while you switch it to “Engage.” Or they’re better at hiding the fact that they’re bored with the person who’s been talking to them. Meanwhile the asshole is already all focused on “Me! Me!”

Gazing at the bridge of their nose might help

This link is to the CalFire Incident Map, which lets you see all current wildfires, with evacuation zones, plus the aircraft fighting them. The defense against the Sandy Fire isn’t being run by CalFire but it’s still shown.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

But then I’d have to pay for shipping it from Germany, and probably a tariff on top of that

Ahoy, Thirsty Aspiring Sword Lesbians!

It’s not just the loss of public funding. It’s also AI enshittification.

“The way major tech companies, especially Google, have integrated AI into search engines and apps means people are presented with AI-synthesized information before individual search results. This has led to a sharp drop in referrals to NPR’s website; in some cases they have all but vanished.”

At least there’s hope for a white shirt once you get where you can really clean it. A solid light color is doomed. (You’ll probably never get it all out of a striped or dark shirt either but the demarcation line will be somewhat camouflaged.)

Remember to start with cold-water washes and repeat them without drying until you’ve tried all the different surfactants. Heat will only set the stain in harder.

So much good cheap wine is available in France I think there’s something else going on. A global wine glut has been in the news here in California as well. There’s a whiskey glut as well (might be distilled spirits in general). Could it be because cannabis is more available? Or perhaps more people are on meds that limit their intake of alcohol?

Just be careful to use (at least) the same amount of kindness and consideration you would use for a co-worker or a friend.

Naoero if the referendum passes

Does it smell nice when you drive over it? Does it allow rainwater to percolate? Can your vehicle get sufficient grip and support?

I guess maybe you’re worried it will dislodge the rocks and make the surface uneven? Because otherwise it seems like a non-problem. If you make a point of squashing the tallest bits each time you won’t even have to cut it.

Yes, police have been known to use the Waymo camera footage for reconnaissance.

At least with the bag, it’s a reminder to tired parents not to let the child put the bag on its head, to tell the child about the danger, and not to leave the child alone with the bag because they’ll test it.

If they leave the child alone with the bag and a cat, the child will learn 2 3 lessons: fur helps prevent plastic bag suffocation, and claws/teeth can penetrate both the bag and human skin. Also cats prefer to choose whether and where to be enclosed.

70s moreso

And seems to me it ought to be extra effective if the immune reaction is centered near the usual source of the infection. Unless you have a bad reaction to the vaccine of course

He got a bad case of COVID-19, was in a coma, and is permanently paralyzed. Looks like he’s got a GoFundMe for medical transport from Florida to Texas, where he’d have better support and hopefully be able to do voice work.

Given who he works for it’s more understandable he bragged about it than they fired him over it. Maybe he tried to hire a trans person or read his kids a book with a gay character.