Happy Birthday, Barb!
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[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.
d - Aug 25, 2009 1:30:43 pm PDT #20736 of 30000
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Hil R. - Aug 25, 2009 1:31:48 pm PDT #20737 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that I proved a really cool result today. I need to look at it some more, but I think that it even makes one of my older results much easier to prove, too.
Laga - Aug 25, 2009 1:35:37 pm PDT #20738 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
awesome, Hil!
Hil R. - Aug 25, 2009 2:20:54 pm PDT #20739 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, just sent a message directly to the rheumatologist, to see if he can see me earlier than the scheduling people say he can. If not, then I'm not sure what I'll do.
Barb - Aug 25, 2009 2:51:35 pm PDT #20740 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Oof-- thanks guys, for the birthday happies. Finally got out of my pajamas and went for barbeque at Mojo's Southern Blues Kitchen. Had Smoked Chicken Nachos as an appetizer and the chipotle barbeque smoked wings (also an appetizer) as my main.
Browsed at the bookstore, came home and had cupcakes from Three Sisters bakery- mine was a Boston Cream cupcake. Now I'm back in my jammies and tucked in bed watching the ball game. Good day.
ChiKat - Aug 25, 2009 2:56:57 pm PDT #20741 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Happy birthday, Barb! Sounds like a lovely day and now I want a Boston Cream cupcake.
meara - Aug 25, 2009 4:02:45 pm PDT #20742 of 30000
Oh, and also? Someone has to invent the alarm clock that will allow you to regret unsnoozing the snooze button, 3 seconds after you thought you're giving in and getting up
Hah! I totally need this--an alarm that after I turn it off will beep at me a few minutes later in case I fell back asleep. But I need it to be unpredictable so I don't COUNT on that as a final snooze alarm...
Am checking in briefly from the Seattle airport on my way to San Francisco. Or, Pleasanton, really, tonight. Have work that needs doing. Should be doing it. Sigh.
Should eat dinner while I'm here, but am not yet hungry, even though I haven't eaten real lunch, because I snacked like mad on the plane...
Speaking of which, can I get a ruling from Buffista parents? So, there was this toddler/baby on the row behind me (I'm guessing right around 2 years, maybe just under). Parent on either side of the aisle. And she cranked and screamed through most of the flight--shrieking during parts of it. And I was really shocked when I kept looking back and she was cranking and yelling a bit, and Dad was...reading a book. While holding her. Not jiggling her, not entertaining her...neither parent seemed to have anything to entertain her with (toys, books, cheerios), they had one sippy cup of milk, and that was it. I heard no songs, no patty-cake, maybe one attempt of walking her up and down the aisle...it's not just my un-childed state that makes me find this abnormal, correct?
DavidS - Aug 25, 2009 4:16:52 pm PDT #20743 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
it's not just my un-childed state that makes me find this abnormal, correct?
I think it's good form to make a visible attempt to try to quiet a child in that case, though it often doesn't work anyway. But you can't look nonchalant while making everybody else suffer.
meara - Aug 25, 2009 4:20:16 pm PDT #20744 of 30000
Oh, sure, I understand that often, not a lot can be done...but she hushed in the five minutes the flight attendant paid attention to her. And every time I turned a bit and looked (...it was a six hour flight, so that was many times), there was zero entertainment of the kiddo. I was pretty surprised at that. Not that I honestly expect you to spend six straight hours trying to entertain her (though at least with two of you, there's more of a chance to hand her off), but...
sj - Aug 25, 2009 4:24:16 pm PDT #20745 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Poor kid sounds like she wanted some attention.