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'Dirty Girls'


Spike's Bitches 35: We Got a History  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2007 10:52:23 am PDT #2069 of 10003
What is even happening?

We're waiting with bated breath, P-C.


Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2007 10:53:51 am PDT #2070 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So a non-breaking space keeps things together rather than letting it wrap. For instance, if you have a date at the end of the line:

The subject was treated with ciprofloxacin, and the event resolved on 20
Dec 2005.

A non-breaking space will make sure it looks like this instead:

The subject was treated with ciprofloxacin, and the event resolved on
20 Dec 2005.

Now, you can put them where you can see they're needed, but if you change the margins or font size, the text is going to do different things, and things will break in new places, so you want to put them in preemptively to keep things from breaking. Mostly, you want to keep numbers with their buddies; you don't want a number hanging at the end of a line while the g/dL is on the next line.

So my first brilliant idea was to consider all the possible units I had and find-and-replace with all ten possible digits that could be before them.

Until I came up with the even MORE brilliant idea of just searching for the space before the units. This brilliance extended to the fact that I could easily non-break all my dates by searching for the spaces before and after the months, rather than using my original digits trick. It's way more efficient and elegant.


Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2007 11:09:17 am PDT #2071 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Thank you d. Glad you had a nice time!

I am so ready to leave work right now. Meeting hell all day long.

However I have 2 stories to share. At grandaddy's funeral, a big deal was made about him calling Mimi "the game warden." So, when I was at the funeral home Thursday after she died, I had to help fill out the paperwork for the death certificate since most of my family has poor eyesight and even poorer memories. (My father was not there, and I have a whole rant about that that can wait for another day). Anyway, filling out stuff like Mimi's place of birth, parents names, parish in which she resided, most of that stuff isn't a problem. The occupation blank however, stumped me. Wife and mother, cook, housekeeper all those memories of the things she was. Then my uncle cocks an eyebrow at me and says, "GAME WARDEN!"

Second, last night K and I were on the phone talking about various things being divvied up, and how her step mother wanted our great aunt's paintings for her son's church auction. Dude. No. I said something about, "She just doesn't get being a Morgan!" and Mr. Jane shouts from the other room, "NOBODY DOES!"


Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2007 11:15:40 am PDT #2072 of 10003
What is even happening?

My husband needs to work from home. Less.


Toddson - Mar 23, 2007 11:27:10 am PDT #2073 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Cindy, as the old saying has it, "give a man a fish and you feed him today; teach a man to fish and you get him out of the house for an entire weekend".


Pix - Mar 23, 2007 11:27:54 am PDT #2074 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I'M ON VACATION! WOOT SPRING BREAK! WHHHEEEEE!!!!


Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2007 11:29:14 am PDT #2075 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Yay Kristin!

Dude. If this woman does not stop walking back and forth into my office muttering to herself, I AM GOING TO FLIP OUT LIKE A MAMMAL!


vw bug - Mar 23, 2007 11:32:47 am PDT #2076 of 10003
Mostly lurking...

Daisy, those are awesome stories.

I went to pick up my shoe from the shoe repair place and ended up chatting with the owner and his best friend for about an hour. SO FUN. I love my neighborhood.


Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2007 11:36:43 am PDT #2077 of 10003
What is even happening?

Cindy, as the old saying has it, "give a man a fish and you feed him today; teach a man to fish and you get him out of the house for an entire weekend".

I'm writing that down. He's been working from home a lot lately, and the kids are getting on his nerves, but it's stuff I learned to turn a deaf ear to long ago (bickering amongst themselves, coming in and out a dozen times when they're outside playing). The kids getting on his nerves is getting on my nerves.

He just ran to the store. I told him to take his time. I don't have much of a poker face, so I expect he knew it wasn't his sanity I was trying to save.


juliana - Mar 23, 2007 11:37:10 am PDT #2078 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Dude. If this woman does not stop walking back and forth into my office muttering to herself, I AM GOING TO FLIP OUT LIKE A MAMMAL!

Yipes. Sorry, DJ, I didn't realize I was wandering into your office. At least I'm singing!

(Okay, so I'm singing Metallica, but still. There's entertainment to be had here.)

(Yes, singing keeps me calm.)