Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


Kat - Jan 07, 2010 9:17:53 am PST #29891 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

That's cool! Is that your fave?

Nope. But a friend had extra tickets and we bought those. Tickets for hockey were over $400/each. Tickets for speed skating and curling were over $300. Tickets for luge? $50!

What area are you staying in?

okay, this shows we are insane. We are flying into Seattle (our tickets were $90 RT each) and we are staying with friends in Gig Harbor. We are going up to Vancouver on the AM of 2/15 (and not even crack of dawn AM!) taking the bus out to Whistler for a 5:00 PM event then back to Vancouver on the bus and back to Gig Harbor. Our tickets are on president's day which we have off and we are flying to Seattle on Saturday and back on Tuesday so we only miss one day of work.

Nifty! Though potentially majorly stressy. Or not.

I think the big stress is we are staying with J and G (and we have tickets for them but it might not work) and they have a 7 year old, and twin 2 year olds and we have Noah. That's a bad kid to adult ratio.


Vortex - Jan 07, 2010 9:21:56 am PST #29892 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

That's a bad kid to adult ratio.

Ooh, bad. You can't let them outnumber you.


Kat - Jan 07, 2010 9:23:24 am PST #29893 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Yeah. They outnumber us. And if Grace were up to travel it would be even worse.


Kat - Jan 07, 2010 9:25:32 am PST #29894 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I feel like I'm having the budget olympic experience.


Abby - Jan 07, 2010 9:26:56 am PST #29895 of 30001

Sounds fun, Kat! Maybe a little crazy, but fun!


Liese S. - Jan 07, 2010 9:34:41 am PST #29896 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Budget Olympic is the best!

Dudes, I am so bumming right now. It looks like my company account got hit with a fraudulent charge. When I called in the first guy said it was so weird because this was the second call today for the exact same charge. So, definitely fraud.

Anyway, I had to talk to three people and have my card shut down. Sucks! But I only got hit for $113, so I guess count my lucky stars? But what I really want to know is, what did they buy from Empirestyle in Berlin?


Burrell - Jan 07, 2010 9:34:48 am PST #29897 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oo, but going to the Olympics is always fun!

I am STARVING and need to go find a lunch quick. Or I'll never get to work. (Oh wait! I spent the morning getting admin work done. Yay for my lack of total slacking!)


Gudanov - Jan 07, 2010 9:49:28 am PST #29898 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

For the heck of it I Googled my open source project 'Giplet' that I haven't done anything with in years. It has had several new versions and features and been translated into French and German. Kinda cool, though it's now more a product of others.


Connie Neil - Jan 07, 2010 9:53:10 am PST #29899 of 30001
brillig

When the Olympics were here in Salt Lake, we didn't go to any events, but it was wonderful fun to see everyone who was visiting. Hubby was having lunch in his favorite Chinese buffet place and ended up playing tour guide for the Lithuanian hockey team (the hockey practice place was just down the road). He ended up helping out a lot of large, young, Slavic people and their coaches. Apparently they found a largish, friendly, Slavic-looking local who could find his way around Germanic languages very comforting.

And riding the train in Salt Lake was great fun, listening to all the different nationalities.

Then there was the Great Beer Riot from the last Sunday night. Hubby had been invited to the Germany pavilion--an odd story involving a science fiction convention at Brigham Young University, an elevator ride with the Bavarian Trade Minister, and the unexpected presence of Dick Cheney--and at the end of the night the Germans ran out of beer.


megan walker - Jan 07, 2010 9:57:05 am PST #29900 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

And riding the train in Salt Lake was great fun, listening to all the different nationalities.

I didn't go to any games, but being in Paris for the '98 World Cup was amazing. The atmosphere was just so invigorating. Of course, it was summer.