Gunn: You saying popping mama threw you a beating? Lorne: Kid Vicious did the heavy lifting. Cordy just mwah-ha-ha'd at us.

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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.


Fay - Mar 17, 2009 3:12:02 am PDT #3820 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Right, cool. But cold water?

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See, my initial assumption was: deserted house = no electricity, no water, no anything, really - just a shelter. And then I wondered whether the toilet would flush, and had vague thoughts about what a septic tank was, and then I wondered whether one might still be able to have a shower (cold), and then I had some vague notion of people having generators, and wondered what they were, and whether that might mean that one could make electricity happen. I don't need electricity to happen - my story is good with candles, which was my starting assumption, but a useable toilet would be nice, and I think they'd appreciate a shower and try to have one, and I don't know whether any water would happen.


sj - Mar 17, 2009 3:12:56 am PDT #3821 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Yes, you would probably have cold water.

I don't really know anything about generators.


Fay - Mar 17, 2009 3:14:59 am PDT #3822 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Thank you!

feels slightly less clueless.


Hil R. - Mar 17, 2009 3:22:00 am PDT #3823 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The water depends on how the system is set up. Also, if it hasn't been turned on in a while, it might need to be primed, which would mean that water was possible, but turning on a faucet wouldn't actually do anything.

As for the generator, just about everywhere is hooked up to regular electricity. (Rural Electrification Act in the thirties to thank for that.) It's possible that there are some houses with their own generators, but I've never seen one outside TV and movies.

And yes, screens on doors and windows to keep out bugs. Possibly a screened-in porch, too, depending on what sort of house this is. I don't really know Alabama bugs, though. I can tell you that Louisiana had fire ants, which burn like hell if they bite you and were a huge surprise to this northerner who expected her biting insects to be flying, not crawling.


Toddson - Mar 17, 2009 3:49:32 am PDT #3824 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Fay, my father grew up on a farm in rural Tennessee (north of Alabama, but still the south), so I got to hear about the, um, joys of that life. It was an old house and never did have electricity or indoor plumbing. So, if it's an OLD house that's been deserted for a while, it probably wouldn't have any of the modern conveniences. There would probably be a pump in the kitchen for water, one outdoors, probably a well. There'd be an outhouse, rather than an indoor toilet. There might be oil or kerosene lamps and there might be some cans with the last dregs of fuel.

And it'd be hot. Also probably humid. In a deserted house - depending on how long it'd been vacant - you'd have insects, assorted wildlife would have moved in (mice, squirrels, snakes, maybe raccoons).


sj - Mar 17, 2009 3:49:34 am PDT #3825 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

Happy Anniversary to Laura and her DH!!!


Toddson - Mar 17, 2009 3:50:09 am PDT #3826 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

ooh! yes! happy annivesary!

And have people checked out Google today?


Laura - Mar 17, 2009 4:28:28 am PDT #3827 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

♣♣ Happy St. Patrick's Day! ♣♣

We went out last night. Pizza at our favorite joint, without kids.

What they said above about the water. Without electricity pumps don't run except for manual kind and they likely would need to be primed to get running if not used in a while.


Sparky1 - Mar 17, 2009 4:35:58 am PDT #3828 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

I don't know anything about old farmhouses.

Parent Hivemind: I'm talking to someone today about a nanny share arrangement - the family, not the nanny. What questions do I need to ask? (I know the basic financial arrangements [but not what they're actually paying her], basic time arrangements, vacation & sick leave, that they own two dogs [so my monster is not a problem for the child or for them]),etc.

I think the deal breaker for us would be cost issues, because I'd like to retire someday and still want to be able to send some money in that direction.


Aims - Mar 17, 2009 4:44:08 am PDT #3829 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

We very briefly looked into it in LA when we were there, but it was very brief - mainly because of cost. Plus, for me and just for me - I speak for noone else - I preferred the idea of Em being in a daycare because I felt like it made the people watching her more liable. If, God forbid, something horrible happened to her while there, I would own a daycare. (This is not based on any real application of the law.)