Just don't be eating any of those jerky treats when he does.
Angel: Just admit it: you think you're gonna ride in, save the day, and sweep Buffy off her--Spike: Like you're not thinking the same thing. Angel: I'm already seeing somebody. Spike: What, dog girl?
'The Girl in Question'
Natter 61*
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 05, 2008 2:18:01 pm PDT #2681 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
shrift - Oct 05, 2008 2:33:20 pm PDT #2682 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am going to make blueberry pie this evening. Finally.
Theodosia - Oct 05, 2008 2:39:23 pm PDT #2683 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"
I ate all my pudding. Okay, so it was more like a milkshake. I used this new stuff "Oat Dream" made by the same people who make Rice Dream, which unfortunately doesn't do a good job jelling up the pudding mix, but hey, it's the closest thing to a vanilla milkshake I've had in the past 15 years or so.
quester - Oct 05, 2008 3:14:01 pm PDT #2684 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Sheryl - Oct 05, 2008 3:48:40 pm PDT #2685 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Back from the Getaway. It was fun. Didn't stay up very late either night, but am still tired. Ugh.
Cashmere - Oct 05, 2008 3:55:44 pm PDT #2686 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm so glad to be home this evening. DH & the kids drove down to Chicago to pick me up.
I'm just hoping the estimates on fixing the truck aren't too bad. Replacing a clutch on a 2001 chevy s-10 can't run any higher than $1K or so, right?
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2008 3:59:09 pm PDT #2687 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.
Replacing a clutch on a 2001 chevy s-10 can't run any higher than $1K or so, right?
Dunno.
Somewhere there is a website that lets you enter the make, model and year of your vehicle, select what needs to be repaired and it will give you the price range for the repairs for the area you live in. I don't remember the URL, but I think I posted it to Natter a few months (or half a year) back....
eta: Ah, here it is: [link]
Gadget_Girl - Oct 05, 2008 4:00:41 pm PDT #2688 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Replacing a clutch on a 2001 chevy s-10 can't run any higher than $1K or so, right?
Parts and labor shouldn't run any more than $500. I asked Hub what he thought and he was sure the parts would only run $150-$200 and the job should be able to be done in 8 hours.
Cashmere - Oct 05, 2008 4:15:04 pm PDT #2689 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
The guy sounded honest. He said he couldn't give me an estimate until he saw what needed to be replaced but gave me a realy rough estimate ranging from $400-$1100, depending on parts. The high end included the hydrolics or something.
I got to look around his shop when we dropped it off. He didn't sound like he wanted to screw me over and his shop was full of other vehicles, decent looking vehicles. It wasn't in too ratty of a neighborhood, just blue collar. It wasn't the AAA shop that was recommended, but that one was pretty far from my breakdown and I would have been a big tow bill. The tow driver knew the shop owner and the towing place was nearby.
If I don't feel comfortable with the estimate, we'll get a trailer and run down and bring the truck up here and have it fixed.
JZ - Oct 05, 2008 4:32:56 pm PDT #2690 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.
Interesting visit with Matilda at my dad's place today. Next week we will be dropping by for a short visit, then driving him to the airport, as he's hopping to Denver for a brief business meeting.
Which doesn't sound that interesting, except...the meeting is a "succession planning" meeting between my dad, some other managers and owners in the company of which he owns two franchises, and some tax people. They're meeting because he'd been planning to sell the business and retire in the next couple of years, except now their collective belief as businesspeople is that he needs to make a new plan because it seems increasingly likely that Obama will be the next President and the subsequent increase in capital gains taxes will make outright sale of the business impractical for my dad.
He didn't indicate to me that he felt one way or the other about it (he's still one of those rare mythic undecided voters, with savage disdain for the current incarnation of the Republican party but not yet convinced of Obama's foreign policy chops), just that it was the likely outcome and therefore a change in retirement plan was necessary.
Interesting.