Gloomcookie, read, responded, backflung.
Today is like Monday. But midweek, so even more distressing.
I fell down and got confused. Willow fixed me. She's gay.
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Kat - Apr 02, 2008 8:20:51 am PDT #8918 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
bon bon - Apr 02, 2008 8:21:52 am PDT #8919 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Ha! I'm sorry. I've been trained out of trying to speak intelligently about morality. I figure it's Not My Problem.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 8:28:49 am PDT #8920 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where's bon bon????
No shit.
The show I was watching was conflating cooperation with sentience, and marking chimps down one because they'd only cooperate if there was something in it for them. We're all moralled up because sometimes we'll just help, apparently. Maybe we're just playing a longer game than the chimp.
Kristen - Apr 02, 2008 8:56:28 am PDT #8921 of 10001
A co-worked of DH's figured out that he needs to claim 9 to exactly owe nothing and get nothing back on his tax return. I think it took him years to figure it out.
I think this is a little known fact but the IRS has a calculator on their website. You enter information from your most recent paycheck, estimate what your deductions should be (based on last year's tax return) and they tell you how much you should expect to owe/get at the end of the year. Then they tell how to change your W-4 if you want to not be owed a bunch of money at tax time.
ETA: IRS Withholding Calculator
msbelle - Apr 02, 2008 9:10:56 am PDT #8922 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I should do that calculator at home when I have my stuff, but the reality is, I will just make a stab in the dark if this guy calls me back with my current number. I think I might be at 3 now and should go up to 5.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2008 9:20:56 am PDT #8923 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Bah -- I just accepted a meeting for Friday. So much for my day off!
JZ - Apr 02, 2008 9:26:47 am PDT #8924 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.
Ignoring the evil plotty children, because I just can't cope with that right now.
Minor, first world grumpus of the morning: We are now on Day 4 of no hot showers. The gas main guy has an "all day appointment" to come by and try to figure out why the pilot light on our water heater gutters out after 90 seconds. I had been settled in, expecting a long, long wait until, say, three or so, when suddenly my phone rang at just about 10; it was the gas guy, saying he'd be here in "a few minutes." At 10:30 he called again, to say he'd been circling the block and there was no parking, so he was going to see someone else first and come back here. It's now 11:30, and no further word from him. I'd be less grumpy if he hadn't faked me out and had just refrained from calling until he was actually at the door.
Gudanov - Apr 02, 2008 9:29:27 am PDT #8925 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Sounds like you need to hire a pack of third graders to capture the gas guy.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2008 9:30:33 am PDT #8926 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Four days of no hot showers seems like a pretty decent first-world problem, actually. I mean, isn't hot and cold running water one of the basic things you get in the first world??
JZ - Apr 02, 2008 9:32:42 am PDT #8927 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.
Well, the water heater that goes to the kitchen is fine, so we've at least got clean dishes, Hec is able to shave, and if Matilda had a horrible blowout we could always pop her in the sink for a small tub. If he doesn't show up today, the shower situation gets dire, but right now it's just a PITA.