I was 100% serious when I said on his original forum post that we had just started discussing moving up there. I'm sad he's gone and hopeful someone can persuade him to come back. I didn't see the thread but when I heard about it and saw the original Maine post was gone my heart sunk.

@hotrudderedbum January 6th.

I can't read it. *punchesair*

I'm planning on moving, just unsure where. It has to be somewhere where I can rent a place better than a box under a bridge.

@didmyresearch3xvaxxed my current favorite genre is nonfiction, but memoirs. David Sedaris is the greatest living writer, IMO, but there are so many other amazing memoirs to devour. Toss in biting sarcasm and quick wit and I'm sold.

I love this question because I get to tell anyone who will listen about my favorite modern book (that is not written by David Sedaris or Stephen King). City of Thieves by David Benioff To quote a reviewer of the book, it's, "unputdownable". It's been my favorite for years and years. I had no idea he was the show runner for GOT until it was off the air so that has no bearing on my adoration of this book. He wrote it before GOT came out. It's just...great. Fantastic book.

@Thanks I Hate It we're so fortunate to have one of the world's best children's hospitals (ranked 3rd in the US) basically at our back door. (Not everything in Texas sucks.) I know they are miracle workers but I guess I expect them to be magicians, as well. I do often think how fortunate she is to be 10 in 2022. She's so young and technology advances by leaps and bounds daily.

Favorite band: Tool Favorite album: Ten by Pearl Jam Favorite concert: A Day To Remember (best live band...ever)

@WeepsforHumanity I also come here to feel less alone even though we're veritable strangers. I doom scroll Twitter when I'm not at work (I doom scroll there, too, just on the sly) and need this respite. I don't have the capacity *not* to doom scroll. I'm just built that way. So SAV to the rescue.

I wish I had a super deep, intellectual answer to this question, but it's pretty simple. I happened upon this site during the NFL season. I'm mildly obsessed with football, and I'm OK with that, and when an Intentional Grounding penalty was called during a game while I was simultaneously on this site I thought, "That tracks." So, that's the name I chose.