P-C, wow! Just makes me wonder how my father would react if I got serious with a non-white gal. I think he'd have a heart attack if he knew I was seeing a black gal in grad school, and a Taiwanese gal a long while back. Alas, I don't tell my family about gf (the rare times I have one) since they don't last, and when I do tell, they think it's marriage time, which freaks the girl out (and me, quite frankly).

Forgot to say, Tommyrot, can I post this in my facebook?

"You know, Bin Laden wants there to be a religious war between Islam and the West. You're playing right into his hands!"

It is true genius, and right on the money!

THAT MAKES ME TWITCHY AND I AM CHANGING MY PIN ASAP.

Oh hell yeah.

"I'm not disappointed in you," she said. "I'm just upset that you don't speak to me nicely."

Ahahahahahaha!!!!! I'm SO not laughing at *you*, P-C; I'm just in awe of how oblivious she is to her own behavior.

Then she wanted him to get her a spare key to his apartment. So she could bring him food. REALLY? said my brother. "And for...the other thing." Because she's a Thing now. My brother said he couldn't do that. My mom said they were paying for the apartment. He said he couldn't give her a key; he knew how she was.

Dude, he needs to get the locks changed, and I am not even kidding. If they pay for the apartment, I can easily imagine them talking the landlord into giving them a spare key.

t edit Although if he gets the locks changed, the landlord will need to know anyway, in order to have a key for repairs and stuff, so my plan is not as good as it seemed at first. Hrm.

my brother said that he was not a bad son and he was a good person. She asked why he did this when he knew they didn't like it. He said he hadn't done anything wrong.

Well done, brother of P-C!

Oh, I forgot to mention what I came in here to say. Since I've learned of the product watching Discovery Channel covering the war, I've always been amazed of QuikClot product. It used to be a powder you sprinkle into the wound to stop the bleeding . Don't know when they updated, but now they have a gauze version of the product. [link] I think it's the coolest thing! I want to get some, just in case. But hesitant. Because the need is very very low. And I wonder if there is an expiration date.

Your brother is doing a good job, P-C. and I don't see a lot of need for you to answer the phone.

Next week is Clean All The Things week. I took a week off to clean the house. DH might take some time off, Or get some and he wants to go away , but I need most of the week to get things taken care of. This week is get ready for clean all the things week

o_a, feel free to quote that....

I meant to come here and bitch about my dad. P-C's family stories shamed my intention.

However, I might be a little bit envy in people who are actually arguing. With me and my dad (because we're too similar in how we think and do things but not in the content of those things) it's few sentences, then one of us storms off, then the other one, after chilling down, starting to get all nice to the other one without actually discussing where that niceness came from and the reason of the argument.

He's now being nice to me. Over a thing which we pretty much fighting for the past few months. Because we'll never, ever, have more than a 15 minutes of shouting at each other or actually discuss.

Once more with "getting a job and getting the hell out of here" vibe. Because I'm not gonna change him. And I don't think we'll ever agree on this.

Seems like I did bitch, in the end. Huh. And P-C? You have one amazing brother. Give him a hug for me.

No, no, you want to keep the work excuse. Plausible deniability is your friend. Just stick to that because that's a door that doesn't have to open. "I'm sorry my work schedule doesn't allow me to travel then." That's all you need to say. Repeatedly. Or just refer back to it, "As I just explained to you, my work schedule does not allow me to travel then."

I mean, what the fuck, I'm not going to actually ask my boss since I don't intend to go, and I don't want to have any actual truth to be lying about, but, seriously, we are trying to get a drug approved here. It is not out of the realm of possibility that they would want all hands on deck in December so we can finish everything by the end of the year.

Broken record seems to have been effective in the past, so I guess I will just stick with it, then.

THAT MAKES ME TWITCHY AND I AM CHANGING MY PIN ASAP.

Oh hell yeah.

I didn't even understand how she did it, and I also didn't believe I had so many until I realized that, actually, yeah, I probably did have a shitload after the Delta/Northwest merger. When I went to check, I saw that all you needed to log in was my FF number and my PIN; I didn't have a personal password. And, well, my PIN was my birthday, and she must have known that since we set this up when I was a kid. I've changed it now; I didn't think until just now that she had the ability to go and snoop on where I've been flying if she wanted to.

Dude, he needs to get the locks changed, and I am not even kidding. If they pay for the apartment, I can easily imagine them talking the landlord into giving them a spare key.

Oh, fuck yeah. Remember the time my mom tried to break my lease on my behalf? And that was when she wasn't paying for it. And as far as "paying for it," they aren't directly paying for it. My brother pays the rent from an account that my dad drops money into. So as far as the landlord is concerned, my brother is the only person involved.

Well done, brother of P-C!

There's a reason he's my role model. He's like a better version of me.

P.-C., you're planning to someday make a screenplay of your life, right?

let him get a happy ending (a wonderful geeky significant other). THEN make the movie.