Jessica - we're having similarly magnificent Labor Day Weekend weather.
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
sumi - Sep 02, 2007 5:47:37 am PDT #8122 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
JZ - Sep 02, 2007 5:51:55 am PDT #8123 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Tomorrow the Cyclones are playing the SI Yankees and the theme of the game is "baby's first ballgame"
My first too-early-to-process-language read of this informed me that the Cylons were playing the Yanks, which would have been quite a game indeed.
Everyone falls with the baby at least once. Usually just once, because it's so horrible that your body stays in low-level panic mode forever after. I can't even talk about the time I fell with Matilda, but I can be damn fucking certain I will never, ever do so again.
Hec called me last night with a woeful update: not only did Emmett's team lose their morning game (though they won the afternoon game), but (a) it was 104° in Manteca, (b) the air conditioning in the car works but the fan has been coming and going and yesterday it went, and (c) when they retreated to a mall to escape the heat for a couple of hours, their only movie option was Balls of Fury. Oh, the humanity!
In the meantime, I've grocery shopped, vacuumed, swept, fixed one of the string light strings in the living room (and figured out that the problem with the other is not the bulbs, but the fuses; I just need to get at the fusebox inside the plug, which is in a tricky corner of the room, but it'll get done before Tuesday).
And Matilda has taken some incredibly cool leaps in the past few days. She's started pointing (not straight pointing, but with the pointy arm held up over her head and the hand pointing like a little gun -- Hec says it's the same point rock stars use at stadium shows when they're screaming, "BACK ROW! YOU ROCK!"); when you hold your hand up and tell her "Gimme five," she does; and she's started consistently using "Mumumum" and "Dadadada" as her distress cries when the corresponding parent is around. Not actually calling us by name, but she definitely knows which cry gets the appropriate parent to come running to help.
To sum up: I just love her so-oh-oh much! t /Raising Arizona
msbelle - Sep 02, 2007 5:53:47 am PDT #8124 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
It's good that the minor leagues are encouraging familes to come out, because the majors are trying to price them out all together.
after being out all day yesterday, mac and I are wasting the nice weather today by staying inside all day.
sumi - Sep 02, 2007 5:56:34 am PDT #8125 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It's lovely to get morning Matilda stories.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 02, 2007 5:57:47 am PDT #8126 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
We've pretty much got the same perfect weather going up here in Greater Boston. It's been in the 70s all weekend. It MAY get up to the mid-80s tomorrow, but dry. So nice. Also, I defeated the snot-monster (apart from one ear that's still clogged) so I'm actually ENJOYING the weather. My bad ankle has decided it's going to give me grief, though, which is disappointing, but I'm not taking much guff from it.
Nilly - Sep 02, 2007 5:59:31 am PDT #8127 of 10001
Swouncing
Matilda has taken some incredibly cool leaps
I've skipped to the exactly right post, haven't I?
lori - Sep 02, 2007 6:10:10 am PDT #8128 of 10001
Hi Nilly! For your additional Buffista-baby enjoyment, more picspam of Grace and Noah. Little dude likes his mom.
These are pre-extra-bouncy-car-seat-ride, but he's really none the worse for wear since then. Kat's shin, on the other hand...
Theodosia - Sep 02, 2007 6:10:29 am PDT #8129 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
In exciting weekend holiday news, I've fixed the patio umbrella with some WD40, so that it tilts readily once again, and I can move it to block the sunbeams through the afternoon so I can do my homework, et cetera, at the patio table.
May not sound like much, but it makes for a much more enjoyable day, really.
tommyrot - Sep 02, 2007 6:18:21 am PDT #8130 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Love the Matilda stories!
the air conditioning in the car works but the fan has been coming and going and yesterday it went
On the positive side of things, hopefully this won't be too expensive. If it is expensive, perhaps you can find a used fan motor at a junkyard or eBay or something....
tommyrot - Sep 02, 2007 6:22:49 am PDT #8131 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I guess there's a downside to making up stories about Ninjas and posting them on the internet....
Shaolin monks wage internet war against ninja trolls
Overseers of the 1500-year-old Shaolin Monastery in Beijing, where Buddhist practice and martial arts have long been one, are demanding a public apology from some internet dude who claimed online that a Japanese ninja once whupped the asses of the kung fu monks of Shaolin in a showdown.
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If the ninja propagandist refuses to apologize, the wushu masters say they may sue him. OR WORSE. And that's what I call real ultimate power.