My onerous task for today was finding a workaround for a bunch of damaged archival image files that were needed for books we're having reprinted more than 5 years after the fact. I managed to do this successfully in a day's time against all odds, so if you know any lepers in need of curing now would be a good time to send them my way.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 25, 2011 12:16:38 pm PST #25040 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sparky1 - Feb 25, 2011 12:18:18 pm PST #25041 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Jesse, let us know if you'll be stuck, if you need a place to crash, etc. My DH is going up to NYC tomorrow on the train.
Ginger - Feb 25, 2011 12:19:28 pm PST #25042 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think donating sperm is considered onanous, rather than onerous.
It could be onanously onerous or onerously onanous.
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2011 12:20:35 pm PST #25043 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think donating sperm is considered onanous, rather than onerous.
Heh. Good point.
Whenever I hear about Onan, I think about his spilling semen on the ground and God smiting him. Also, emergency power generators.
Huh. Apparently Onan got bought out by Cummins. So now they're Cummins Onan
Jesse - Feb 25, 2011 12:24:12 pm PST #25044 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DCA, Lisa. Thanks, Sparky! I am hoping for the best. And trying to look at Amtrak, although the wifi in here sucks, and I hope we're about to get on the plane.... Wish me luck!
Steph L. - Feb 25, 2011 12:25:01 pm PST #25045 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tep, I don't see how cookie making counts as onerous.
That's like when people put "Clean off Tivo by watching lots of shows" on their to-do list. Cheating. That's what that is.
Nah, man, it was HARROWING. There was stirring! And turning on the stove! And licking my fingers!
...well, I *did* have to fend off the dog, who loves peanut butter as much as I do, and refused to vacate the kitchen as soon as he realized I was making something with His Yummy Treat.
Eh, if it wasn't obvious that I was being facetious about baking peanut-butter cookies as onerous, too bad.
Ginger - Feb 25, 2011 12:27:33 pm PST #25046 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
We had crazy thunderstorms and a tornado warning here last night.
I just found out the large tree behind my mother's house was blown over. It hit the house, but fortunately hit the garage side. She's already gotten someone to take it away and it sounds like the roof damage isn't structural. The good news is that was a really ugly tree. I can joke because I'm not the one who just wrote a large check to the tree guy.
Sue - Feb 25, 2011 12:30:11 pm PST #25047 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I got some work done today, but it's not finished. I also went to get groceries even though it's pissing rain and blowing a gale.
Kate P. - Feb 25, 2011 12:30:19 pm PST #25048 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yikes, Ginger! So glad she wasn't hurt.
Sparky1 - Feb 25, 2011 12:30:54 pm PST #25049 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Good luck, Jesse! Insent w/ my phone #.