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Alliecat

I've been thinking who I'd pick for my team, but I dunno if I'm going to get round to a photo. Too much of today evaporated in dismantling my oven because the broiler element went "foom", doing another round of "You Can't Get That Here" at the hardware store, and then spending far too long looking for an alternative to a $200+ piece of hot wire.
Oh, and then, battling another round of ant invasion. This fkn place.... Rawr!

Anywho, participants seem to be putting lots of thought into this challenge.

davidd · 9 hours ago

(Yesterday, 12:58 AM)TrueFan Wrote: You are welcome to post all the action figure photos to the Dal House Forum that you want.

And this forum seems like it is on ever rockier ground.

Perhaps, if there were an action figure section on The Dal House. I don't want to taint my doll topics with action figure images.

Yeah, Dolly Market is pretty much done for, I think. So is Figurvore. Both sites have low activity and are starting to have technical issues.

davidd · 9 hours ago

(Yesterday, 04:39 PM)Alliecat Wrote: I've been thinking who I'd pick for my team, but I dunno if I'm going to get round to a photo. Too much of today evaporated in dismantling my oven because the broiler element went "foom", doing another round of "You Can't Get That Here" at the hardware store, and then spending far too long looking for an alternative to a $200+ piece of hot wire.
Oh, and then, battling another round of ant invasion. This fkn place....
Anywho, participants seem to be putting lots of thought into this challenge.

At two-hundred for the element alone, it seems like replacing the entire appliance might be the more cost-effective solution in the long run. But I haven't checked appliance prices in a while, so maybe not.

Maybe it's time to pack up your stuff and sell the "fkn place." Just pick someplace else and move there. I was reading an interesting post on Instagram earlier today, somebody comparing the big city (Houston) where they live to rural Colorado, and talking about how soul-crushing it is to go back to the city after spending time in Colorado. A ton of people commented about how they are leaving or have left Colorado because it's being paved over almost as fast as Texas. Some of them said they're moving to Utah.

I bet those are the b*st*rds who are moving in to the new houses being built in Utah, paving over all the open space. St. George is insane, it's become nothing but tract row houses, all painted grey. Just seeing them makes me want to die. This world, this entire world, is becoming a miserable bland concrete prison.

You're not going to find a better place than your are at. But where you are at will keep getting worse. That seems to be what's happening everywhere.

I don't know if "different" is a substitute for "better." Sometimes it is. Mostly it's not. But at least "different" is a distraction.

I think about people I know - "only five minutes from Costco." But they live in a bland subdivision outside of Las Vegas with a homeowners association and every house is brown. When I visit them I find myself engulfed in despair. Then I look out my door and see pronghorns sipping from the garden pond and bluebirds nesting in the box on a wooden pole. Yeah, the subfloors are shot and the crappy vinyl plank flooring is gapped and ugly, but I can see trees and mountains and critters. I can also see a valley full of effing houses that weren't there five years ago. I want to get a bazooka and blast 'em all. The effers build the houses and then try to flip them. The effers build in "dark sky country" and then mount spotlights all over their houses and outbuildings that they point outward rather than downward and leave on all night. The effers fill up the ground with houses and barns and sheds and motorhomes and... leave, I guess. Turn on the lights and leave.

So yeah... this fkn place, that fkn place... everyplace is fkd at this point.

At least in Hawaii the geckoes would come inside and eat the ants! It was pretty funny! I miss that a lot. Gotta be a multi-millionaire to live there now.