Lovely pictures, aurelia. They've made me homesick. I'm glad you tried the fudge. When I was a kid we used to stop for some every time we crossed the bridge to visit family.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Calli - Sep 02, 2009 3:35:25 pm PDT #6705 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Hil R. - Sep 02, 2009 3:39:52 pm PDT #6706 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Jenkins went on to tell Smith that "people should be given the opportunity to take care of themselves with a refund, or an advanceable [sic] tax credit, to go be a grown-up and go buy the insurance."
I would love to go buy insurance. Under the current system, though, I'm pretty sure no one would sell it to me. And all the proposed rules about insurance companies having to take everybody, or about them having to cover preexisting conditions, keep getting shot down by Republicans because they're limits on freedom.
sarameg - Sep 02, 2009 4:06:07 pm PDT #6707 of 30001
Corporate freedom, Hil!
I love that within a few hours of a neighbor posting plant giveaways, they're all gone, but others are chiming in in response to requests for stuff that they have to share. I love this hood.
aurelia - Sep 02, 2009 4:12:36 pm PDT #6708 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Thanks, -t and Calli. I've been working summers in MI for years so I've had the fudge in TC, but since this was my first trip to the island I figured fudge was required.
sarameg - Sep 02, 2009 4:16:57 pm PDT #6709 of 30001
BGE guy is still sitting out in his van. Um. GAS LEAK.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2009 5:24:54 pm PDT #6710 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh god. NBC is remaking Prime Suspect. Leave it alone, people. Helen Mirren already won Emmys for that, didn't she?
Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2009 5:40:08 pm PDT #6711 of 30001
brillig
re: insurance
The universe looks after me and Hubby in odd ways. This news story is about my insurance/hospital/doctor system, Intermountain Healthcare.
President Barack Obama has repeatedly singled out Intermountain, along with the Mayo and Geisinger clinics and other so-called "organized practices," for delivering high-quality care at below-average costs. They are "islands of excellence in the sea of high cost mediocrity" as one Dartmouth report puts it; standouts in a country where cost and quality can vary wildly by geographic region.
One of the big reasons I haven't seriously thought of moving out of Utah is because these folks have kept Hubby alive for over a decade, and I don't want to take him away from them.
Dana - Sep 02, 2009 5:44:54 pm PDT #6712 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How many times has Hollywood not ruined British TV? There's The Office...
sarameg - Sep 02, 2009 5:45:02 pm PDT #6713 of 30001
Oh god. NBC is remaking Prime Suspect.
NO.
Just, NO.
Sue - Sep 02, 2009 5:50:56 pm PDT #6714 of 30001
hip deep in pie
My god, who would they get to star in that? The only person I can think of is Glen Close, and she is occupied.