Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I'm still awake.
About the time I was up and decided to take the trash out at 4 am, I noted without interest that a big old Waste Management garbage truck was parked across the street. I thought nothing much of it, and got back in the house quickly because of the cold.
Anyway, because it is so cold, apparently whoever was manning the truck decided that he had to rev it up every so often.
Just often enough to keep me from falling asleep.
Gah.
At 6:30, I called Waste Management, and they don't open until 7 am. I left an annoyed message.
Then I called the police. Enough is enough.
He seems to have stopped with the revving.
But now it's 7:15 am, I might as well have breakfast.
And.. it's -6˚F now. *sigh*
You really haven't, VW. He's said some assy things, that just is what it is. But I haven't seen you ranting or painting him as an asshole generally.
Oh Zoe. Oh Kristin. Oh Drew.
I am so fucking over 2008.
A man in Willmar, MN was tired of the last eight years of kids TPing his property at homecoming. This year he sat out with night vision goggles and saw 15-20 (!) kids rush his property with toilet paper.
So he sprayed them with diluted fox urine. One of the kids tried wrenching the supersoaker from him, and another choked him, but he got free. A finger may or may not have been broken.
Now he's charged with assault.
Somehow that doesn't seem right. Sure they will be smelly, but they were trespassing with intent.
They attacked him on HIS property after they were caught trespassing.
And he's going to take the fall? I don't think so.
I am so fucking over 2008
dcp just proposed starting up the good riddance thread for this year.
I think we should call it Goodbye and Good Riddance 2008: Ch-Ch-Changes
I'm glad TCG is stuck in. It sounds like the whole area was hit very hard, and I don't want him out there today. Our cable, phone, and internet are out, but it sounds like we're lucky to have power since many don't.
health~ma for Zoe
job~ma for Maria. Maria, I suspected the Senate Republicans were going to dig their heels in over the bailout. I watched some of the precedural votes in the House and they were drawing their line in the sand then.
vw, you've been remarkably fair to CBD. You broke up so there is going to be some level of bitching and this is a good place for that. We've got your back. I also felt like you really wanted to give those gifts. You derive great joy from what you give to other people and that is a one of the great things about you. No matter what you do, I'm sure there will be nagging feelings about the road not taken. That's natural. But do what feels best to you and don't worry about the rest.
Teppy's absence is unsettling.
coffee
It's -2 degrees here. I really don't like negative temps.
I hope the guy is going to press counter charges against the vandals.
I was planning on giving them the gifts until my dad informed me it would be inappropriate,
I meant to say this (but maybe didn't, because brain all gone this week): wonderful as your dad is, you two don't exactly live in the same world. So while you totally shouldn't kill yourself, and shouldn't feel the need to give them if you don't WANT to, it's not inappropriate at all. From what you said, the parents nice people, and I don't think it'll be particularly weird. Now, if you'd tried to kill him, rather than just having said enough to his ill-informed criticism, and THEN gave them presents, that might be inappropriate.
Which people may have said already, since I just skipped ahead.
I was really hoping for a snow day today (and I think the kids were already counting on it!), but no go. Blah.
(In an addendum: after I broke up with Good Ex of the East, I would absolutely have given his mother the tablecloth I'd been making... except a) it turned out she had, like, 15 tablecloths and b) I'm really lazy and never finished it. But his parents gave me their old Ataris, and THAT wasn't inappropriate, so there you go.)
I got a cal from the garbage truck people. Garbage truck lost air pressure and can't move.
Wonderful.
