One thing about the new restaurant near me is that they don't have posole. I might write them a fan letter and see if I can get them to supply me tortillas.
Man, I want everything on that menu!
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
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.
sarameg - Jul 14, 2005 5:32:39 pm PDT #117 of 10002
Cass - Jul 14, 2005 5:33:39 pm PDT #118 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Mmmm men in skirts...
Figures the only time I am caught up in Natter is when we turned over a thread.
My work week has ended and I am doing a happy dance. Come Monday I'll be alright officially an employee after three months of contract-y status.
Also? Watching Rescue Me from the 12th and wtf is Jesus doing ? And is that Magdalene drinking vodka ? Okay, why am I watching this...
Kat - Jul 14, 2005 5:34:42 pm PDT #119 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Tis good, sara.
Cass, I missed my floating appointment today because it wasn't sunny. Am depressed now.
Jesse - Jul 14, 2005 5:37:45 pm PDT #120 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just spent WAY too long wrapping my grandmother's birthday present, especially considering what I ended up with. I have no gift-appropriate containers in my house whatsoever.
Cass - Jul 14, 2005 5:39:35 pm PDT #121 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Restaurant called Doña Rosa.Oh my... Must move so I can eat there.
No floating today? That is tragic. Where was your sun today? I want a pool. With noodles. Can you float tomorrow?
Kristen - Jul 14, 2005 5:53:38 pm PDT #122 of 10002
That seems so evil, because it's hugely enticing especially to a nominally unempowered demographic.
Hello, ROTC.
But, of course, there's no backdoor draft in this country.
Kat - Jul 14, 2005 6:02:47 pm PDT #123 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Painfully cute lunches.
Of course, god bless the Japanese.
Yeah, ROTC is what it is. But the citizenship was just sort of surprising.
Our sun was trapped in the humidity, behind the clouds. We went swimming yesterday though. And I'll go tomorrow.
Kristen - Jul 14, 2005 6:06:55 pm PDT #124 of 10002
I'm waiting for them to start handing out free flat screen tvs before I enlist.
And those lunches are cute. But I don't think I could eat one.
In unrelated news, why is there going to be a sequel to The Cutting Edge?
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 6:11:54 pm PDT #125 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
why is there going to be a sequel to The Cutting Edge?
What's it gonna be called? The Knife Sharpener?
SailAweigh - Jul 14, 2005 6:21:47 pm PDT #126 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
BUT, as a recruiting tool? That seems so evil, because it's hugely enticing especially to a nominally unempowered demographic.FWIW, I never felt unempowered when I joined the Navy. As a matter of fact, they gave me over 2 years of electronics training and paid me to learn it. When I got out of the service in 1993 I was making approximately $15 an hour as an avionics technician. I've been working for the same company now for 9 years and am still not making that much money for similar work requiring the same skills. Plus, the GI Bill helped pay my way through school, I only took out one loan the entire time I went to college.
FIL was in the Air Force for 20 years and never became a citizen. Then again, he didn't want to either.
Some do, some don't. When I was in the service the requirement was that you serve during a "time of war," that second clause about 3 years must be new. I knew a number of Filipino servicemen who were upset because they enlisted after 1975 (the end of the Vietnam War) who were coming up on 20 years and who couldn't request instant citizenship because there had been no "time of war" since then. Fortunately for them, I believe that the Gulf War was eventually designated as such and gave them the means to do so. Some of them didn't care because a military retirement was very good money where they came from, so planned on going back home when they got out.
My grandfather was one of those who took advantage of it during WWI. He'd only been in the U.S. for 5 years at that point and his English wasn't very good. One of the bonuses of getting naturalized through military service is that you don't have to tqke the citizenship test, you just get it handed to you.