Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
tommyrot, I've got a DC-area story that belongs with that one.
I once lived in the Vienna-Reston area. Someone sent me a letter from Springfield, another suburb maybe -- maybe -- 15 miles away. It didn't take six weeks to get to me. But it was postmarked in Oklahoma City.
I also saw it this morning but forgot about it until now. I always wondered what happened during the pre-taped segments and when he got sleep. NOW I KNOW! We love you Pat Kiernan!
Who is the Buffista who lives on a boat.
Yup that's us. tommy, it's really not less expensive to live on a boat (at least in Marina del Rey) when you take into account bottom cleaning, pump out, slip fees, engine maintenance and fuel. It is really nice to not have to pack anything if we decide to head to Catalina or Malibu. Drunken idiots boating over the summer is the downside.
We don't worry about theft very much because it's a huge pain in the ass to try and climb over the gates and you need a key in and out of them. Plus there are always people on the docks.
The only time we've experienced it being really cold was in January of this year when, due to construction, our dock power was cut off for 24 hours. We rely on space heaters for the most part and even when the dock was frozen, we weren't that cold. Even in our 50 ft. boat, it warms up pretty fast once the heaters kick in.
Nutty, my husband once had an octopus climb up between the boat and the dock while he was filling the water tank. Just might be the octopus army advanced guards.
How many people do you have in your boat? Is it power or sail?
Last night on the news they reported a couple of cities where they are switching their civil servants to the 4-day work week (not just for summer) to money. I searched on google news and found a bunch of stories of different communities doing the same thing.
Dawn, we had the baby and were paddling in MDR and I kept thinking of you!
Okay, I LOVED this part about the subway boys.
When your child cries in public, it is usually an uncomfortable situation. Once, we needed to get home quickly from Chambers Street, and I told Gustav that we had to take whichever blue train came next. The A train pulled in, and Gustav (who had been hoping for the C) started throwing a fit. However, the other passengers in the car gave me warm smiles. I guess they hadn’t seen that many 3-year-olds sobbing, “Local…I want the local.”
4 people (two teens and the hubby and me), it's a 50 ft. power boat so we've got plenty of room. 3 staterooms, 3 bathrooms, washer/dryer, dishwasher. The drawbacks are storage is sometimes tricky to get to (I gotta crawl under the dining table to get to my pots/pans) and no one is allowed to flush any of the heads when someone is in the shower. I'm going to miss it when we move off later this year (the DH's mom has Alzheimer's and we need to move in with her).
Dawn, we had the baby and were paddling in MDR and I kept thinking of you!
You totally should have stopped by! He could have terroized the cats!
My personal best for crappy mail deliveries was when I lived near the university in Jonesboro. While my junk mail was delivered fine, anything that looked like personal mail or that gave no clue of its contents would arrive late with signs of having been opened. The last straw was when the first attempt to deliver a gift I sent meara was returned and my mail carrier bent the package around the mailbox rather than set it in front of my door, leave it at the manager's office, or return it to the post office and leave me a delivery notice.
Buttons for Buffistas! Snarky McF*ckButtons - Wear What You’re *Really* Thinking
My fave is "stop practicing radical entitlement" or maybe "there's always room for bacon".