Thanks for all the good wishes for my mother--she came home early today, rested, and is feeling much better.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2009 8:25:20 pm PDT #14030 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - Oct 15, 2009 8:26:50 pm PDT #14031 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm glad ita.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2009 8:36:10 pm PDT #14032 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hope it wasn't a TIA. Whatever it was, the fact that it left no damage to detect is a good thing--I'm holding onto that.
-t - Oct 15, 2009 9:37:29 pm PDT #14033 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No damage is good. I hope it doesn't happen again.
javachik - Oct 15, 2009 10:55:52 pm PDT #14034 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
ita, I think the family was planning to send the balloon thingy into the eye of a storm or something to measure something or other. I don't think it was planned to be a vehicle for humans.
And that family is whack.
Barb - Oct 16, 2009 4:07:09 am PDT #14035 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
That's great that your mom is home and not feeling any aftereffects, ita. May it continue that way.
And yes, that family certainly comes across as nuts. Apparently the father wanted to do his storm chasing thing into Katrina and take the kids along for the experience.
Laura - Oct 16, 2009 4:11:58 am PDT #14036 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
And that family is whack.
This. Apparently they were on all the morning shows and the kid threw up on 2 of them. Publicity seeking idiots.
My mom broke her nose yesterday. First time in 88 years she ever broke anything. She fell when she lost her balance reaching for something on a high shelf and hit her nose on a step. Ouch. They took x-rays and released her from the ER so I am pretty confident they don't think there was any other issue.
sarameg - Oct 16, 2009 4:22:27 am PDT #14037 of 30001
Moms! Behave!
So apparently I need to learn that just because I can, maybe I shouldn't. Way overdid the pool yesterday and woah, feeling it this morning.
Miracleman - Oct 16, 2009 4:31:40 am PDT #14038 of 30001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Re: Balloon Kid.
1) FALCON?! Really? Jesus fucking Christ.
2) Wow, is this like the "kid in the well" from 12 Monkeys or what?
3) Here's my real bitch: Had my Bus. Management class last night and the (probably an android) teacher does a thing about "What's in the news?" every session. Somebody brought up Balloon Kid. Now, at the time nobody in class knew that he'd been found or whatever (and I hadn't even heard the story, I'm such a hermit), so the prevailing opinion was: The kid fell out of the fucking balloon and is (insert landing place) pizza out there somewhere.
So, the teach asks (this being a Business class and all) "So, is there a financial angle?"
DUDE! There's a kid out there possibly splattered on someone's roof, or a highway, or impaled on a fucking pine tree and you're asking what the money factor is?
Eat a radioactive dick, fuckface. Swallow it whole and either choke to death or die slowly over the course of hours from radiation poisoning.
Preferably the latter.
Laura - Oct 16, 2009 4:36:58 am PDT #14039 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
"So, is there a financial angle?"
Channeling the kid's parents attitude.