I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.

Angel ,'Chosen'


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.


Lee - Sep 05, 2005 9:50:55 am PDT #4718 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Ack, Consuela. I'm glad your mother is okay, and hope the trip in October isn't too bad.

I was going to do 10 zillion loads of laundry today, but since my complex only has 3 machines, I told myself I'd stop whenever I knew someone else wanted the machines. That happened after only 4 loads, so now I have all the essentials washed, and I get to stop, at least for now. Yay!


flea - Sep 05, 2005 9:55:04 am PDT #4719 of 10002
information libertarian

Suela, is there financial need for them to sell the vacation house? Would they consider putting it in trust for you and your sibs to inherit? Alternately, if you joined forces with your sibs, would you collectively be able to buy it?

signed, very sentimental about houses as some of you know


dw - Sep 05, 2005 10:07:41 am PDT #4720 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

And they gave me trippy dreams...

I had extremely vivid dreams from meflaquin. In one, an axe murderer was attacking my family.

Paludrine I think was responsible for me not getting a sunburn -- or a tan -- after eight weeks in the African sun.


le nubian - Sep 05, 2005 10:09:44 am PDT #4721 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Has anyone heard anything about the following?

The reason why the levee broke in NO was because barges slammed into it?


§ ita § - Sep 05, 2005 10:14:11 am PDT #4722 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't need to start malaria meds (malarone) until I leave. So right now it's just the annoying every-other-day of the typhoid meds. Hard to remember, and because of the empty stomach thing, it's not like I can take them as soon as I remember.

Jesse, once you've recorded them they stay, no matter what you can receive.


DavidS - Sep 05, 2005 10:15:20 am PDT #4723 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The reason why the levee broke in NO was because barges slammed into it?

I've heard that the surge went over the flood wall and then undermined the base, which gave out. It was not unexpected that a Category 4 storm could take out a floodwall designed to only withstand a Cat 3 storm.

But maybe I'm missing some recent news.


Kat - Sep 05, 2005 10:19:35 am PDT #4724 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, Lori is using your pre-travel med experiences as a justification for why we shouldn't go someplace really exotic (which I'm arguing for) January and February.


Jesse - Sep 05, 2005 10:20:28 am PDT #4725 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse, once you've recorded them they stay, no matter what you can receive.

Nice. I figured, but would have been very sad if they were all gone tomorrow.

Don't get typhoid, ita!!!


§ ita § - Sep 05, 2005 10:28:11 am PDT #4726 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Lori is using your pre-travel med experiences as a justification for why we shouldn't go someplace really exotic

Because I can't remember to take meds every two days? She needs better ammo than my lame memory. Everything else is fine -- I haven't fallen ill due to any of the shots (I managed to get a slight case of chicken pox from that inoculation a few years back, so I live in pessimism on that count). Other than that -- a course of malaria pills I haven't started, and some anti-diarrhea pills I may never need.


Consuela - Sep 05, 2005 10:29:30 am PDT #4727 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Suela, is there financial need for them to sell the vacation house? Would they consider putting it in trust for you and your sibs to inherit? Alternately, if you joined forces with your sibs, would you collectively be able to buy it?

We probably could, expect we're in Chicago, Boston (soon to relocate to DC), Beijing, and Oakland. It wouldn't get much (any) use in the near future, and it would need to be maintained and looked after (even if it's used as rental property).

Besides, they probably could use the cash: they paid $25K for it in 1974, and they'll probably get over $250K for it now. Which is rather nice; Dad lost a fair amount during the stock crash. I'm really not in a position to tell them they shouldn't.