My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Natter .38 Special  

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.


Cass - Aug 29, 2005 11:27:48 pm PDT #2417 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.

I think I'm going to turn on the TV and try to fall asleep on the couch.
This, when I can't make my mind quiet, is often what I try. And it works a lot of the time. I actually slept with the news on last night and through my naps earlier today.

I sort of skimmed past earlier Natter posts, but I hope you're feeling better. I would personally not mind a little flexeril myself right now
My back is actually getting a lot better. I might even go back to work tomorrow. Friday freaked me out as I felt better from the meds and managed to just make a mess of things, muscularly. I just hate when something doesn't fix Right Now once I address it.

If you were nearby, I would share the flex. One. I'm giving but not crazy. Especially if you get the vera vera sleepy side-effect.

Get some rest, Dana...


Volans - Aug 29, 2005 11:50:41 pm PDT #2418 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Board games! Anyone played a good one lately?

I've gotten my butt kicked at War of the Ring repeatedly, but I like the game. Also, we just taught Yahtzee to a Moldovan.

Re: floodplain management. This is why California keeps trying to stop development in the Sacramento floodplain. It'll be extra bad when it goes. There are just some places that people shouldn't live, unless they expect to be wiped out periodically.

Which doesn't mean I'm unsympathetic to NOLA. Do we know the status of Fauborg Marigny? My friends there evacuated, but I worry about their homes (although one of them said "Well, it's only my pied-a-terre," so I learned that that phrase is specific to a second home).


Sue - Aug 30, 2005 3:09:35 am PDT #2419 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Is anyone else having problems with Google and Gmail?


billytea - Aug 30, 2005 3:18:23 am PDT #2420 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I've gotten my butt kicked at War of the Ring repeatedly, but I like the game. Also, we just taught Yahtzee to a Moldovan.

Ah, I bought War of the Ring a couple of months ago on the back of some rave reviews on boardgamegeek. Haven't had the chance to play it yet, though. I like the idea of twin tracks to victory for both sides, so you can simultaneously be on the brink of victory and the verge of defeat.

Have you tried Puerto Rico? That's currently their top-rated game, and this one I can vouch for personally


Sheryl - Aug 30, 2005 3:41:07 am PDT #2421 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Apropos of games, there is a new Munchkin varient out: Super Munchkin. This time the theme is superheroes. I need to play this soon...


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 3:45:03 am PDT #2422 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I woke up in the middle of a dream hissy fit. So now I have residual anger that has nowhere to go. It's not a nice feeling. But at least I get to run this morning.


Jesse - Aug 30, 2005 3:46:38 am PDT #2423 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had the most realistic boring dream ever last night, and I hardly ever remember my dreams, so it's extra disappointing. In the dream I was telling a friend how I like all the piano-based pop music right now. WTF?


Hil R. - Aug 30, 2005 3:52:22 am PDT #2424 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I had a dream that I got in a car accident because I couldn't figure out how to press the brake rather than the accelerator, and I was falling asleep at the wheel. I had another dream that there was some kind of buffista get-together, and there was a whole table of food out, and everything there had brie.

My subconscious is odd.


Tom Scola - Aug 30, 2005 3:55:36 am PDT #2425 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I had a dream that there was a Buffista F2F, but we couldn't use the hospitality suite because another group was using it to display food sculpted out of avacados.


Kat - Aug 30, 2005 3:59:08 am PDT #2426 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

tom, that's the best dream EVER.

I'm feeling unenthused today. That's a bad sign for day two. I think it's the early wake up that does it.