Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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.


Scrappy - Sep 07, 2005 5:39:59 pm PDT #5385 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I have worked 11 hours a day the last two days, with no lunch breaks. I am TIRED. Also worn out. And a bit peaked.


Kat - Sep 07, 2005 5:42:04 pm PDT #5386 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh, Robin! POOR YOU! Lori wanted to know if you wanted us to bring you some oven baked, tastes like fried chicken.

But, I bet you just want to sleep. Poor thing.


Scrappy - Sep 07, 2005 5:44:42 pm PDT #5387 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Thanks for the food offer, you sweetheart. But, you're right, I'm not very hungry. Luckily, I will be able to do some lazing when I am in Minneapolis next weekend.


Cass - Sep 07, 2005 5:54:40 pm PDT #5388 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.

Perkins, Here it is. It's fun.
OMG waaaaaaaant. I can't justify another dock though. I have a Bose in my bedroom right now. But I waaaaaaaaaant it.

Get some rest as soon as you can, Robin.


Lee - Sep 07, 2005 5:55:55 pm PDT #5389 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Robin, when you say next weekend, do you mean the one in 3 days, or the one in 10 days?

That looks very cool, Kat. I may have to buy one.


Jesse - Sep 07, 2005 6:07:00 pm PDT #5390 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I know it's not being discussed right this second, but I do want to say a bit on behalf of charities who aren't taking donations of clothes and stuff. It takes a shitload of resources to accept in-kind gifts, especially willy-nilly ones from well-meaning people. There has to be a place to keep the stuff, and staff to go through it to make sure it's all appropriate and clean, sort by size, all that stuff. If Froot Of The Loom wants to give a truckload of packaged t-shirts, that's a zillion times easier to deal with than a thousand neighbors dropping off their used jeans.

Also, local shelters will almost always be able to use that stuff, and have a mechanism for accepting it. This week, that mechanism may be swamped, but there will still be folks near you who need clothes next month. Especially if you live in a place with winter.

t /PSA


Cass - Sep 07, 2005 6:09:10 pm PDT #5391 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.

Very true and something that is easy to overlook. Thank you, Jesse.


Steph L. - Sep 07, 2005 6:17:43 pm PDT #5392 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I am rather sad now, since I went to TJs to see if I could get the sweet potato fries Steph was talking about the other day, and they don't carry them out here.

t does the dance of sweet-potato-fry-having, which is a dance similar to the Mashed Potato, but very unlike the Cabbage Patch


Lee - Sep 07, 2005 6:18:55 pm PDT #5393 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

t cries


dw - Sep 07, 2005 6:19:54 pm PDT #5394 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

What Jesse said. It's much easier for a charity to accept GIK than lots of individual donations of clothing and consumables. Cash donations are much more flexible and useful for charities -- if they don't need clothes right now, they can buy toothpaste.