Timelies all!

Nova is batting at a Sharpie on Gary's desk. This cannot end well.

But do people actually say that? I mean, to someone who's going through a difficult time?

Oooh, I know this one!

One of my uncles died exactly 1 month after Tim's mom did (I didn't post in Beep Me because I was just shredded; I don't need brackets, as I'm posting to make a snarky point). So I was understandably upset and grieving.

A friend said to me something along the lines of "It always happens in threes; that's what my grandmother always said to me. I'll never forget that. So just hang on to that."

I *think* he was trying to be consoling, but the takeaway message for me, who had only as yet lost TWO loved ones was that THERE'S STILL ONE MORE DEATH WAITING! Woo.

Maybe not the best thing to say to someone who lost 2 family members in 30 days.

t edit And I *am,* actually, kind of still edgy. Tim's mom died on August 4; my uncle died on September 4. So I'm counting the days until October 5, because I would goddamn well like to go more than 1 month without anyone keeling over.

Some of those reasons are just shittastic, is all.

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

DCI Tennyson vs. Cracker (for Comic Relief)

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

I always thought it was meant more along the lines of "the reason will have meaning," at some point.

Some of those reasons are just shittastic, is all.

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

I think that *is* the implication, yeah, but I like to be a smartass and reply to people's platitudes with things like "Sure, but some of the reasons are shittastic."

I don't play well with others.

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

I always think of that when I'm up before dawn, in a musing about the conditions under which it is literally true way. It's always coldest before the dawn is more often true, I suspect. Though I am assuming, in my interpretation, that "before" means "just before". It is almost always darker before dawn than after dawn, I suppose.

What's that line? Optimists believe we live in the best of all possible worlds, pessimists fear that that is so. Something like that.

When you assume, you make an ass of you and me.

Oh, that one totally makes me stabby.

One of my friends had a crazy boss who used to lecture the staff about how, "Whenever you point a finger of blame at someone else, always remember you've got four more fingers pointing at yourself." Which is simultaneously homicide-inducingly irritating, factually wrong (really? Your thumb is pointing back at you? What kind of freak are you?), and in his case incredibly hypocritical since he was also constantly flying into rages of blaming everyone on the planet but himself for his crappy business.

I always thought it was meant more along the lines of "the reason will have meaning," at some point.

Yeah, I think that's even worse. I don't think anyone ever says, "My son died, but now I understand it was to teach me {whatever, I can't even finish the sentence}..."

You know what platitude is true, though? Bacon makes everything better. Tonight's example? Half-assed corn chowder. I am so much better at half-assed soups than almost any other food category.

"Whenever you point a finger of blame at someone else, always remember you've got four more fingers pointing at yourself." Which is simultaneously homicide-inducingly irritating, factually wrong (really? Your thumb is pointing back at you? What kind of freak are you?)

Did anyone else just point their finger to see what the thumb on that hand did?