You can continue to use them through extended power cuts because they don’t use electricity and won’t run out of batteries. You can even continue to use them during other forms of crises that cause cellular networks to get overwhelmed.

No weather induced reception issues with underground telephone line. You can use them through tornadoes and thunderstorms and blizzard conditions that snow you in and ice the power out.

For eight plus years, I made myself a pariah by refusing to pay ~$90 CAD per month for access to unreliable cellular service when I could get a reliable landline telephone for ~$21 CAD per month which worked 100% of the time.

Cannot help. Can only commiserate.

Brevity is not the soul of Whit either.

Oh, you would.

Here are this week's episode titles for me.

Monday: Beavers Are Not An Orchid
Tuesday: The Etymology of Butt Rock
Wednesday: Surgically Altered To Serve You Better
Thursday: If You Had Been Eavesdropping Hard Enough
Friday: A Thingy Has Components

Animorphs #12: The Reaction

Rachel takes an allergic reaction to the crocodile DNA she just absorbed. She has to purge the allergen from her system by giving birth, spinally, to a full grown clone of the adult male crocodile she acquired. It happens in the restrooms at a television studio.

You do always have to consider that nowadays, but no, this one at least is a real person from our neighbourhood.

I’d settle for one at a time.

My first roommate, a dancer from Oakville, had been training with Miriam McDonald, a dancer from Oakville, for several years. It did happen!

I can believe it. Himself, as described here, is almost the only role Don McKellar ever play.

My Dad is also being one such doomer, and he is literally sitting right beside me.

Doomers, presumably? Because we seem to be doing well in real time here. 🤷🏻‍♀️