Explain to me why I can put away a sewing machine in excellent working order, and then when I pull it out again it insists that the tension is wrong wrong wrong. I am not threading it any differently than I ever did. Now to go unearth the manual.

In my experience, it is the act of attempting to fix it that solves the problem. It's a sort of propitiation of the sewing gods. Nothing actually gets fixed, the swing machine just forgives you.

@tagir_valeev That happened Tuesday at my senior citizen program, and no AI was involved. I was the only person who left the building. I wrote an angry email and the office responded that they just wanted us to know where the fire exits were.

Dear God people do not realize how FAST fire is.

@JeffGrigg EXACTLY. You hit the nail on the head.

@holypangolin He insists that there are RULES.

Though apparently he gets to change the rules whenever he feels like it.

Uncle Louie is waiting for me to leave the house to go to my art class, because then he can go upstairs and curl up on my bed. We have a routine, and expectations, dammit. #cats

@Fishercat oh, it’s personal.

Uncle Louie got a candy wrapper out of the trash to bat around just so he can annoy me into feeding him early. It won’t work, Uncle Louie. #cats

@skyfaller Also I had a friend who was first a lobbyist and then an office manager for a Congressperson, and I cannot overemphasize the way the system in DC continues to provide ambitious workers no matter what happens. She was a Democrat, and changed her registration to Republican during the first Trump administration to get the Congress job. That's why she is a former friend, but she had condo fees to pay and living in DC is expensive.

@skyfaller From all reports they are a good influence on him.

@skyfaller I generally prefer leaving a voicemail. I suspect Fetterman's staffers are overwhelmed enough already.

If I take care of annoying tasks I buy something for myself. Them’s the rules. Today I got a passport photo, shredded some old taxes, and went to the doctor with persistent vertigo that finally eased up right after I made the appointment, which is extra annoying. So I have a new quilted spring jacket.

Uncle Louie acknowledges your existence. #cats