'Serenity'
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.
Sparky - you friend's son is a smart cookie.
His bff from Oak Tech [link] is on the Celtics, now. So, yes -- he's been lucky to have connections and smart in using them so far.
eta: If you she gets up her courage to talk to people at some point, I'd be happy to put her in touch.
1860 sounds pretty good to me! Congratulations!
Good to hear that Teddy is doing so well. And I'm happy that you don't have to rehydrate him (is that what you call it?) every day.
Our IT group's intranet page has a link for you to "download hardcopy" of something or other.
Neat trick if they can do it, but it was my understanding that IT people laughed at people who do things like that.
Vacuum tubes!
eta: Or, you know, those tubes that suck messages through them....
Okay, so I'm trying to troubleshoot this thing? And when I try to add an order number, it says it already exists. When I try to modify the order number, it says it doesn't exist. Conundrum!
I think I shall go smoke now before I try to reach through my computer monitor and rend things with my bare hands.
t flings glitter and runs around nekkid
1860 made me raise an eyebrow too. I didn't know they changed it. I was a National Merit Scholar at 1550? 1560? 1580? Something. I had perfect on Language section and I missed either one or two on the math section.
Weather just turned nast. I'm going to see the pirate movie after work with Mr. Jane. We have a date!
Also, apparently a group of girls who mostly hang out with my best friend, but who I know well enough have decided Happy Hour at the Grapevine should be a Friday ritual. It's officially a thing as of tomorrow when my best friend won't be there. I get to hostess and get a whole new group of friends! Yay!
Can't breathe. Laughing too hard. [link]
I'd love to see a beer-can Buddha. The sacred is in every ordinary thing; what better way to demonstrate that than by creating things that reflect the sacred out of the commonest and most base objects.
There's a famous series of paintings depicting one man's development through buddhism that starts with him being a lush and wandering of to town with a wineskin slung over his shoulder. He goes through several stages of study and enlightenment which I don't really remember and end up in the last picture going off to town with a wineskin slung over his shoulder because the last step is continuing to live in the world with your enlightenment not making a big bubble around you.
Way to go K-Bug!