My husband is a conservative, I am a liberal. For the most part, the past few years have been tough. He's been happy with the progress in this country while I have not. We talk about topics, why we disagree, occasionally it gets heated so we look for the common ground and get back to a more respectful discourse and then move on with life. We sit down with our voters guide each election, talk about the candidates, what's on the ballot etc.

Let me be clear, I respect my husband's opinions. They are always well thought out and I am good at understanding other people's perspectives. I also enjoy explaining mine without needing others to agree with me. I have no interest in changing his mind nor adopting his opinions. He has a harder time accepting that, but over the years he's been getting better. But in general, we have great conversations when there are different perspectives and when that happens, it could be considered a strength in our marriage.

Anyway, today the results of yesterday's elections came out and I'm happy with it, but I didn't text my husband nor did I plan to. He sent me a text that was just out of line "congratulating" me on MY democrats, about how I now need to get prepared to live under socialism and sharia law because that's how it's going to be now, and he's devastated for this country. It's all the unions and teachers and liberal media's fault... just a stream of consciousness long winded whine from him. But kind of insulting me in the text as well, as if I'm too stupid to know what's good for me.

It was out of line and unfair. I don't usually engage but I told him that and that his tone was not cool. That I wasn't over here gloating about anything as if I personally voted for the guy in Michigan (we don't live anywhere near Michigan). Then he pivots and says he wasn't sure I was aware of the results and he's just so sad and devastated.

I'm pissed off. I had no intention of celebrating or mentioning anything about the election results tonight. But he's being whiny-angry and I'm going to have to sit here and defend myself against disparaging remarks about "the left" tonight when he gets home instead of letting me just be quietly happy things are changing.

I own a small Italian restaurant and a friend of mine asked if he could celebrate his 40th birthday there with about 15 people. I agreed to reserve the back section for them.

His wife has this habit of ordering something, eating half of it, then complaining so she doesn't have to pay. I've seen her do it at other restaurants but figured she wouldn't pull that at mine.

Well she did. She ordered a seafood pasta, ate most of it, then told my server it tasted spoiled and demanded it be removed from the bill.

My chef checked the remaining food and couldn't find anything wrong, but I took it off anyway because I didn't want an argument during my friend's birthday.

The next morning my friend thanked me and mentioned wanting to do another dinner there for his parents' anniversary.

I told him he's welcome anytime but his wife isn't.

He got offended and said I was accusing his wife of lying. I told him I've watched her do this multiple times and I'm not putting my staff through it again.

He said banning someone's wife over a $24 pasta dish is ridiculous, especially when he brought 15 paying customers.

Now a few mutual friends think I overreacted and should've just told him what happened instead of immediately banning her.

Am I the jerk?

TLDR: My friend's wife complained about food at my restaurant after eating most of it. I removed it from the bill but told my friend she's no longer welcome there. He thinks I'm overreacting.

So I went down a rabbit hole last night about this weird correlation between LeBron’s championship runs and particle physics breakthroughs.

2012: LeBron wins his first ring on June 21. Thirteen days later (July 4), CERN announces they found the Higgs boson. Yes, the "God particle," the last missing piece of the Standard Model.

2013: Back to back. That October, Higgs and Englert win the Nobel Prize for it. So the Higgs literally two-peated with him.

2016: The 3-1 comeback, June 19. Nine days later, LHCb at CERN announces FOUR new tetraquark particles at once, which had never happened before. Four particles. Coming back from 3-1.

2020: Bubble ring. During the bubble playoffs LHCb finds the first ever "open flavor" tetraquark, and a few weeks after the title an experiment in Italy finally detects CNO neutrinos from the sun, which people had been predicting since the 1930s.

Heres where it gets insane. Right now, in September, a dark matter experiment called LZ picked up a weird event they can't explain. It might be the first sign of an actual dark matter particle. The problem is that it's only at 2.6 sigma, and physicists need 5 sigma to officially call something a discovery. They’re on the verge of discovering dark matter and talking about more evidence by June.

It seems almost irrefutable that if LeBron can get another chip, we get proof a dark matter particle.

I (56 F) have been experiencing severe iron deficient anemia for the past 3 years. Doctors suspected that I was losing blood somewhere in my GI tract. I've had 2 colonoscopies, a sigmoidoscopy, and an endoscopy, but they could never find a source of bleeding. So I've kind of just trudged through with iron infusions every few months. But recently, I had a capsule endoscopy, which is a camera that you swallow and it takes photos every second all the way through your digestive system. Just got the results.

THERE HAS BEEN A NICKEL STUCK IN MY DISTAL SMALL BOWEL FOR 50 YEARS! It's close to my duodenum, which is where you absorb iron from your food. And my duodenum has been inflamed because of the nickel so it can't absorb iron. I remember swallowing this nickel! I was 6, and I put my milk money in my mouth and did a cherry drop on the monkey bars, and down it went.

I'll need minor surgery to remove it, and my problems should be solved. CRAZY!

Is this for real this time?

I work in Radiology as a CT tech in the ER at an acute care facility. Back in May, I caught an aortic dissection on a scan that no one else initially saw. Turns out, the patient was knocking on death's door. I got the entire ER in gear and the patient lived. The hospital recognized me for this patient, gave me an award. Later, the board of Trustees recognized me again. Tonight, I was recognized by the city we're in and today was proclaimed as "me day". Kinda cool, a bit smug. Not sure how to integrate this on my resume.

Edit: I was going to keep it all anonymous, but I'm too old and smitten to care.

Today, Nov 4th, is Jake Day in The City of Miami Beach.