What is "supper"?
I have:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Brunch
Snacks
What part of the country are you from that has this thing you call "supper"?

You actually don't understand what I said?

In my part of the US we don't have anything called supper when it comes to eating.

No one in the greatest state in the union uses the term Supper? I find that VERY hard to believe.

Uh what state are you in?
594/1639/gas&liqour taxes have canceled out WA's "greatest state" status.

I'm referring to Oklahoma. Isn't that what you keep saying?

Swallwell held an anti-gun rally outside NRA headquarters.

Well publicized beforehand.








18 people showed up.

And they were likely paid staffers.

...and CNN plants....

I've been to the NRA headquarters over a hundred times, it's not really conducive to protests

Read some KOMO blurb ...

"In Washington state, the number CPL holders has increased 55 percent in the past six years. In January 2013, 396,102 concealed pistol licenses were issued, compared to 612,919 in January 2019. "

The more the merrier, I say! Even though constitutional carry should be the national default.

Samuel graduated Sammamish HS last night. I cried like it wasn't a thing and yes, indiscreetly wiped my face on the inside of my brother's sportscoat. When Sam crossed the stage to receive his diploma, Trent and I stood up on the bleachers side by side and according to my former mother in law, "blocked out the sun". Fine, whatever, we're tall, you're short, may we both politely invite you to f*ck off.

Sam was accorded three awards--one for graduating with a GPA above 3.5, one for having given over 200 hours in community service (mostly ESL assistance to Spanish-speaking students), and another, which he refused to wear due to personal reasons, from the National Honour Society. His (fairly) new girlfriend, the daughter of a state representative, graduated with the same awards--although she wore her NHS cord.

They connected when both were tutouring ESL students--Sam with the aforementioned Spanish speaking ESL students, M. with Spanish speaking and Viet speaking ESL students.

Did I mention that Sam took off his robe and mortarboard and rocked right the hell out with three other graduating students, as part of the scheduled events, Sam playing the electric bass for a rendition of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now"? He did. It was awesome.

Sam crossed the stage carrying the pocket Bible his great-great-grandfather carried into battle in the Great War. Truman, Old Papa, who died when I was around 8, gave it to me prior to his death and asked that if I ever had a son, that the Bible be carried during that son's HS graduation. Truman, my Old Papa, never finished high school, never crossed the stage. Now he has--in the form of a 102 year old cloth bound pocket Bible marked with 100 plus year old bloodstains.

Another token he carried in his shirt pocket when he crossed the stage was a tiny 19kt (the British were weird with gold) Cross of Lorraine, worn by his great grandmother during the British liberation of Bergen-Belsen, when she--at age 17 1/2, just a bit younger than Sam--was tasked, with other Canadian nurses hastily attached to the British regiment, with the duty of recording the condition of surviving victims of the camp.

Grammie wrote Sam a letter in 2004, to be opened on his HS graduation day--ten pages, handwritten front and back, with her life story and her expectations of Sam, along with the Cross and her request that he carry it at his graduation. Good thing I throw substantial offspring, otherwise he would've been a little top heavy.

Sam will be attending the University of British Columbia come fall; his gf is off to Mt. Holyoke, one of the Ivy League's "seven sisters". I am exhausted and elated and feel a thousand years older today.

I should note that Sam missed his entire eighth grade year and most of his freshman year with crippling anxiety and depression. Like, he couldn't leave the house anxiety. No one expected him to graduate on time, certainly not with honours and definitely not with enough college credits--earned with AP tests--to enter university with sophomore standing. And he did. He did it all. Never, never ever never, give up on your kids.

That is all.

Flat out awesome! Congratulations to Sam and job well done, mom!

Well Jen it has to be said....

Spoiler: show

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That is soooooo cool GG.

Waking up to a belated "Happy Birthday" message from a friend in another Time zone.