That sounds like a good day, Consuela. I was thinking I would head up tomorrow and buy some wine too, but I may be too lazy and just go to the Farmer's market instead.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Jun 25, 2005 1:41:04 pm PDT #4468 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kat - Jun 25, 2005 1:49:13 pm PDT #4469 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
That sounds like an EXCELLENT day, Consuela. What kind of wine?
I went shopping. Now I have fun play clothes.
Consuela - Jun 25, 2005 1:49:13 pm PDT #4470 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I was thinking I would head up tomorrow and buy some wine too
I suspect there won't be much left, frankly. The place was hopping, and we ran out of a bunch of varietals in the 2 hours I was there.
Consuela - Jun 25, 2005 1:50:34 pm PDT #4471 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
A friend is a winemaker, Kat, for the last 5 years, but he's going out of business. So he was selling off his inventory: pinots, zinfandels, a nice pinot/zin/syrah blend, syrah, and chardonnays.
I got a case each of pinot, zin, syrah, and the blend, which is lovely red table wine.
Kat - Jun 25, 2005 1:51:28 pm PDT #4472 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ooh! that sounds like a good deal of yumminess...
Lee - Jun 25, 2005 1:52:44 pm PDT #4473 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I suspect there won't be much left, frankly.
Oh well. Probably better for the pocket book that way.
Jesse - Jun 25, 2005 2:34:49 pm PDT #4474 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I heard a woman calling across the subway station to "Padme" today. I shit you not.
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2005 2:56:28 pm PDT #4475 of 10001
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I heard a woman calling across the subway station to "Padme" today
The new baby Princess of Norway is named Leah, and HRH Mom fully admits that she was named after Princess Leia (though I wonder how long it took them to talk her into a more traditional spelling).
Emily - Jun 25, 2005 3:00:11 pm PDT #4476 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Padme is apparently Sanskrit for lotus, and part of a Buddhist chant ("Om Mani Padme Hum," "the jewel is in the lotus") so I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few Padmes running around entirely unrelated to Star Wars (and by now heartily sick of it, poor things).
Jesse - Jun 25, 2005 3:09:06 pm PDT #4477 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It seems unlikely to me that this particular woman knows much Sansrit, but maybe she was calling to her friend-with-hippy-parents, not her five year old. (I didn't see who she was talking to.)