Perhaps preemptively coat them in olive oil.
They're hard enough to catch as it is, you don't want to make them slippery.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 28, 2010 5:09:58 pm PDT #26081 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
sarameg - Apr 28, 2010 5:12:35 pm PDT #26082 of 30001
Enough gum, something will stick.
Barb - Apr 28, 2010 5:12:38 pm PDT #26083 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Barb, not a one. My address is still the same, the one in my profile.
ARGH. I was afraid of that. My freakin' email has been SO unreliable lately in terms of sending and I can't tell you why.
sarameg - Apr 28, 2010 5:15:44 pm PDT #26084 of 30001
Loki's got himself into the narrow windows, after a bug (I guess.) He's so big, he can't turn around in them, fallshas to jump down. OK, now he's spreadeagle on his hind legs covering one of them. It's rather funny.
Vortex - Apr 28, 2010 5:31:39 pm PDT #26085 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
China stripped of Olympic bronze medal in gymnastics from the 2000 Olympics, because one of their gymnasts was underage
I remember the same kind of drama after the summer olympics in 08.
Amy - Apr 28, 2010 5:33:19 pm PDT #26086 of 30001
Because books.
Anyone watching Happy Town? (Amy Acker is in it.) I think it's one of the limited run mystery/thrillers like Harper's Island, and it's not too bad so far.
-t - Apr 28, 2010 5:34:31 pm PDT #26087 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm planning on watching it, hoping it is Harper's Islandesque.
Hil R. - Apr 28, 2010 5:34:37 pm PDT #26088 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I remember the same kind of drama after the summer olympics in 08.
Yeah, but it was ruled then that they had enough documentation saying that they were sixteen, and so they were eligible, even though there was also a bunch of documentation saying they were fourteen. (The requirement is something like three forms of government-issued ID, which they were able to provide. There was lots of speculation that those IDs were forged, since there were a bunch of listings from earlier competitions where their birth dates were listed as 1994, not 1992.)
Sue - Apr 28, 2010 5:34:58 pm PDT #26089 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I remember the same kind of drama after the summer olympics in 08.
I assumed that this rescinded medal was from Beijing since there was so much chatter about the age of a couple of their gymnasts.
brenda m - Apr 28, 2010 5:36:08 pm PDT #26090 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Listen, my last recruiter had no idea what salary I made at previous job. She knew my skillset and she priced me accordingly. Current company did not need to know they effectively gave me a 40% raise.
So much this. I was pretty careful about not stating my salary at my last job change, because when I took that initial job I was trying to break back in and felt reasonably sure I was being underpaid. The offer I got was considerably higher (though not 50%!). That was also the first one where I actually negotiated, because at my prior two or three positions I'd always felt like I screwed myself not having the confidence to do that.
And the thing is, anything more you get upfront is like compound interest. The extra 5k I got then is an extra 5k I get every year, and any new increases are based on that higher number. (Especially nice since a couple of years later we weren't getting raises at all.)