Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.

Willow ,'First Date'


Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

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.


Dana - Jul 07, 2008 7:07:36 am PDT #6824 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Okay, we have an official date for when the movers are coming.

Which is ten days from now. ACK.


Kathy A - Jul 07, 2008 7:09:07 am PDT #6825 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

From a bit upthread:

Champlaigne, Ill. (Champagne? it was a long time ago.)

It's actually Champaign. (Where the University of Illinois is located. And Roger Ebert's hometown. Unless he's from the sister city of Urbana--I can never remember which!)

After reading this weekend's Natter, now I want a root beer float! I still have the root beer I got at the Grumpy Troll in Mt. Horeb during the F2F and was planning on stopping at the grocery store on the way home--I think I'll be adding some vanilla ice cream to my shopping list.


Jesse - Jul 07, 2008 7:10:31 am PDT #6826 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yes, I have to type out a report for her from the stuff I have entered in quick books so she can type it into her excel spreadsheets.

Hahaha! Sorry.


Kathy A - Jul 07, 2008 7:15:20 am PDT #6827 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My dad just got back from his ninth annual fishing trip to Canada, and announced a very successful outing this time. Only one cold/rainy day (last year was never above 55 degrees and rained the whole time), he caught over 100 fish in three days and took home his allotment, and he finally got his "wall-hanger," a 38-inch Northern Pike.


hippocampus - Jul 07, 2008 7:24:51 am PDT #6828 of 10003
not your mom's socks.

yay! despite continuing annoyance from the smoke-and-mirrors woman, I are a good manager today. Just got word, after Much toe-to-toe with the rest of the financial people who work with SAM woman, that my minion is okayed for a non-standard (ie off-the calendar cycle) raise. Because she's taking on additional responsibility as I prepare to blow this insane, dada-esque taco stand.

Which will make it easier for her to ask for more money (and she should) when I do leave for reals.


tommyrot - Jul 07, 2008 7:25:44 am PDT #6829 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My dad just got back from his ninth annual fishing trip to Canada

Where in Canada does your dad go fishing? My dad's been to Canada to fish about 30 times. A few times he's driven to Red Lake, Ontario and then flown to an isolated lake via float plane. I did the fly-in fishing thing with him once - it was weird (and fun) not seeing a single human being besides our group for a week.


Kathy A - Jul 07, 2008 7:39:32 am PDT #6830 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'll have to ask him--I know it's in Ontario, and it's an hour or so north of the border. He goes with a chartered bus group from Chicagoland. The way he's described it to me is that the bus company brings groups back and forth to this camp in Canada every week throughout the summer, and he's always booked his trip for the week of the Fourth.

He's always been into fishing (not fly, just reel), and took me down to the Kankakee River a few times when I was a kid. The fishing trip that sticks out in my head, however, was the one my mom, sister, and I took when we were in Bar Harbor, Maine, and we took a group fishing trip out into the ocean. I caught the most out of the three of us--two cod, two mackeral, some ugly black spiny thing that we tossed back, and a little shark about 18 inches long that was also tossed back (it was startling seeing the teeth when I pulled it out of the water!).


Jesse - Jul 07, 2008 7:39:35 am PDT #6831 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Okay, we have an official date for when the movers are coming.

Which is ten days from now. ACK.

Yikes. Although, I figure that's about how long it actually takes to pack, regardless of your lead time. Which is why I'm rolling my eyes so hard at my friend who told me she wouldn't be "allowed" (by her partner) to hang out this weekend, since she is "behind" on her packing. They aren't moving til the end of the month. How far behind could they be??


Tamara - Jul 07, 2008 7:41:24 am PDT #6832 of 10003
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.

Sophia, your accountant is right in that the revenue should not be booked until the product is delivered (the class is taken), but that has nothing at all to do with when you charge the customer of collect the money.

You can charge upfront and the money goes into a balance sheet liability account (a temporary holding place), after the class is completed the money is then transfered to revenue on the income statement.

They are technically right about not classifying something as receivable until the product is delivered, but it has nothing to do with charging and collecting the money.

I'm sure that I have explained all this poorly.


§ ita § - Jul 07, 2008 7:41:29 am PDT #6833 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Back from doctor. I wish he had a more convincing plan. But it's not like there are any competing plans. It's just that his involves ketamine.