It's now 45 minutes after I was supposed to land in Tucson, and I am about half an hour into a hour and a half to two hour shuttle ride from Phoenix to Tuscon.
Wheeeeee
Jayne: Anybody remember her comin' at me with a butcher's knife? Wash: Wacky fun.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Lee - Dec 24, 2009 8:45:53 am PST #27232 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Liese S. - Dec 24, 2009 8:46:05 am PST #27233 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We're having a super low key Christmas, just the two of us (plus Seabiscuit!) for the first time in our house! Two years ago this time we were frantically painting, and our Christmas dinner was sitting on boxes in the sunroom with the kitchen cabinetry in pieces all around us. Last year we were back east. This year, home!
Today is pie day. I have pumpkin pie intentions, but lack pecans for the crust, so am substituting macadamias, which I always seem to have. I always overestimate about pies, though, so if I end up with extra crust I'll also be doing apple. Oh, and banana bread. I need to go start that now.
Tomorrow is a high risk high reward dinner. We're doing goose again, but this time it's wild game. Dave's buffalo-hunting, ammunition-making buddy gave it to us, along with two ducks. I need to do some time on target planning today to make sure it all works out tomorrow. I already have the mashed potatoes done and frozen. Pies today.
That will mean tomorrow is goose, stuffing, sweet rolls, cranberry sauce, marinated veggies (ooh, I need to marinate tonight, too), corn casserole. What else? I could try deviled eggs, too, but I have hard-boiling issues. Ha. That sounded like a pun somehow.
Okay, not so low key in the kitchen, I guess. And it's just the two of us! Hee.
eta: Oh, Perkins, bummer. I wave futilely at you from a couple more hours east.
Lee - Dec 24, 2009 8:46:15 am PST #27234 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oops
Wheeeeee
tommyrot - Dec 24, 2009 8:47:05 am PST #27235 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Who cloned Perkins?
Dana - Dec 24, 2009 9:22:35 am PST #27236 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a virus on my goddamn PC.
Tom Scola - Dec 24, 2009 9:24:18 am PST #27237 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Calli - Dec 24, 2009 9:24:41 am PST #27238 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Mmmmmmm. I had Upper Peninsula pasties (pass-tees, not paste-ees) for lunch. I do love my occasional visits up to MI. (I'm not in the UP, but there's a store near by that caters to displaced Yoopers.)
This is my first parent-free Christmas. It's been good spending it with my sister and her gang, but it's odd not to be watching over one parent or the other. With my sis it's just a case of being not-too-difficult a guest and letting the dogs out occasionally.
tommyrot - Dec 24, 2009 9:25:29 am PST #27239 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Could be worse.
Yeah.
Shari_H - Dec 24, 2009 9:56:31 am PST #27240 of 30001
Keep breathing!
Popping in to wish a merry Christmas to those who celebrate it and a happy long weekend to everyone.
Connie Neil - Dec 24, 2009 10:13:34 am PST #27241 of 30001
brillig
I was looking at Norad's Santa Tracker. At the time I was looking, his next stop was the International Space Station. I'm glad they thought of that.