Is there any way of finding out how many tickets were sold/how many people showed up? This felt like a genuinely, insanely overpacked show. Which makes sense, it's Kesha, but I'm so curious how many people were there. It felt like several thousand, I'd really even guess somewhere upwards of 10-12k.
(It was a great show overall but we left halfway through the setlist because we started getting scared of the exit crowds!)
I've heard so little about this movie. If you are or have ever been any level of Green Day fan, or early punk, or just want a really fucking good movie, go see this. This was 100% a love letter to punks everywhere and I genuinely teared up multiple times throughout. I can't believe how little advertising it's gotten compared to how amazing every second of it was.
I have had a migraine on and off for like a month now. I've also been unable to regulate my temperature- most of the time I'm sweating buckets, even with my ac cranked all the way down to 68 at night. Once or twice, though, I've also been shivering so violently with the indoor temp over 80 that I had to take a hot shower, and for the first time ever (🧓) had to sit down while I did it.
I've never been this badly affected by allergies or barometric pressure, which is what my doctor thinks it is. Has anyone else had this kind of reaction to weather/temp/humidity/etc in the past and is it especially bad this year or something?
National Grid showing 820 customers affected (so far) and restoration time around 7am (so far). God speed 🫡
Spotted it at an antique mall a month ago but had to leave it behind at the time. I've had at least three dreams (literally) that I went back for it and it was already gone. Today I made the hour drive back to the spot and it was still sitting there. It's 2 and a half feet tall and super heavy, I needed help boxing it up and carrying out to my car. But it's finally all mine!
I live in upstate NY, which just got the second heaviest rainfall in over 200 years. I've only been in this house since February, but we had a rough winter and there weren't any ice dams or other issues, and on other heavy rain days (that weren't historic), I've never had an issue. All to say, this was a once in a lifetime event - so far.
There was a small clog in my gutter outside, near but not at the exact point, where this stain appeared. Unfortunately I didn't go into the attic while it was raining, I was more concerned with my wet basement. I went up today as soon as I spotted the stain, but nothing up there was wet. There's old water damage up there, but we know it's from before the roof was replaced, and they just did a terrible job of cleaning everything out.
All this to say- I know I need to hire someone to look at this and at the very least patch the stain, assuming the backed up gutter just seeped back into the house. (Obviously if it's something else, that needs to be fixed before anything cosmetic is fixed.) Who is that? A general contractor? A roofer? My gutter guy? I don't want to panic but I know water is the enemy and I'm a first time owner and this is the first disaster I've had to handle.
Got a $30 digital gift card that I just attached to my account. If they scan the QR code for my RU and I'm buying concessions or a ticket that isn't covered or whatever, does the QR code fory account automatically deduct from my gift card as well? Does my account info in that QR code know what the gift card balance is?
Or do I have to pray that I remember that there a gift card, and it has a balance, and open it separately to pay for whatever?
Suuuuper easy, even for me, and that's saying something. Literally threw the bones and super fatty leftovers of a rotisserie chicken in water, boiled for 4 hours. That's it. I didn't have onions or celery so I simply....did not include them. Tastes just fine and will be going in the freezer for some hatch chili when the weather cools down. I put in a good handful of nutritional yeast just cos, didn't need it.
Per title. I saw The Odyssey and absolutely loved it and would see it again immediately, but I was having trouble making out some of the dialog at the beginning. I don't think it had anything to do with the movie itself, just my own processing. I'd like to see it a second time, with captions, but I can't figure out how to search for those showings in the app.
Just got home from this one. No spoilers, just wanted to note two things:
Movie started a little under 10 minutes after advertised start time. I had asked at concessions AND customer service if there would be the usual 20-25 minutes of ads/previews, both said yes. Luckily I went in 5 minutes after start time, anyway, and only saw one and a half trailers before the movie started.
This movie needs some serious warnings for strobe effects. If you are even a little sensitive to strobing lights, there were 2 scenes a little over halfway through that were very rough to get through and lasted about 2 minutes each.
I have many thoughts about the movie itself but I'll wait for another post to share them lol
I'm starting to think I've tapped the local economy dry. I VERY specifically only collect Zip, the tuxedo cat beanie baby (and the Zip teenie beanie, the McDonald's happy meal version). I regularly check both Goodwills, Broadalbin Antique Mall, Schoolhouse Treasures (also in Broadalbin), and the Fuller and Schenectady ReStores (never once seen beanies there but you never know!). I haven't found a Zip in the wild in over a year.
Does anyone know any thrift/antique/secondhand shops that usually have beanie babies on hand for perusing? Also if anyone has a lead on a Zip, I'm all ears.
Please enjoy my big Zip and her little Zips
Well it's been a fun couple of days and my house made it all the way down to 73. Open windows with a gentle, slightly cool breeze, maybe we'll see you again sometime before October. 🫡
Who knows, maybe this shitty warning about Redburn/Stratus will be the one that finally warns people away from renting with them.
Yes, your cable is included in your "all in living" utilities bundle when you move into a Redburn/Stratus apartment. When I moved in, I didn't have cable or wi-fi for almost a month until Redburn/Stratus could scramble enough braincells together to call DirectTV to make the appointment. This is basically besides the point of this post, but another strike against them.
I moved in February. In March I started receiving a bill, to my new address, with the service address of my old apartment. I tried to reach out to Redburn/Stratus about the bill but, surprising no one, I was never actually able to speak to a human person. During my time at the apartment I had probably 15-20 different numbers in my phone as "X at Redburn?" because they'd changed their number every few weeks. I left multiple messages at multiple of these numbers over the last 4+ months begging for a call back or for them to just cancel the bill. I think only one number had an actual voicemail identifying it as a Redburn/Stratus number, the rest all go directly to either an automated voicemail with no identifying info, or a voicemail inbox with no message at all.
Sidenote, I have no idea how DirectTV got my new address. It wasn't a forwarded bill, it was billed directly to my new address, with the service address being the old apartment address.
Today I finally called DirectTV myself. After being on hold less than 10 minutes, I spoke to 2 reps who laughed and asked why I had to be the one to fix management's mistake. Second rep fixed the issue in less than 60 seconds.
So just yet another warning about Redburn/Stratus when we get the weekly post about renting from them and OP is told to search the sub. TL;DR you will continue to be billed for your utilities long after you've moved out.
I always always ALWAYS forget to check earlier in the episode, until the exact cut scene where Teddy calls him Wobbles, and you can clearly see his custom shoes.
This seems like something that would be consistent, especially since we see Francis' grave much, much later. Are there any other episodes where Mike is in full view and you can see (if) he's still wearing custom shoes?
I had the most amazing potatoes on my crab leg plate a few days ago. I did the crab your own way with the old bay and butter sauce. I asked the waiter to leave off the potatoes cos I never eat them- he insisted I keep them.
They were the most amazing potatoes I think I've ever had. I'd like to make them for a BBQ this weekend. Is there a recipe for these somewhere? I'm sure it would be easy enough to just roast some potatoes with butter and old bay but they got the temp and crispiness and amount of sauce absolutely perfect.
Is this exact recipe available somewhere?
The petition that's been going around has surpassed the required amount of signatures to get RCV on the ballot in November. If you're available, please join RCV Albany in front of city hall tomorrow for a press conference. Feel free to bring a sign to show your support!
I didn't know we had a local cookie delivery business. I wanted to get a cookie basket delivery as a gift for a neighbor. I did this a few times in my last place (Texas) and they were such a huge hit, when I was just racking my brain for something similar I immediately thought "Surely with all the cookie shops, we must have fresh, local cookie delivery in Albany???" This was the only place that came up in a search.
But their social media has been dead for almost a year. Their website doesn't have an order form, and their latest "drop" for pick up at Stuyvesant (delivery in Guilderland for $10) is from October.
I've never heard of them and looks like they're dead in the water. Has anyone used them recently?