'First Date'
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.
lisah? Have any recs?
Do they love coffee, possibly? I'd say a Zeke's gift cert if so. If not, I don't know if Hamilton Tavern does gift certs but that's a good option if they do. Yummy and reasonably priced and in your hood, basically.
Do they work over near where you do? If so, Charmingtons!
I've decided to take some vacation which I haven't done in... quite a while.
I need to do some cleaning, replace the dishwasher, build a trebuchet, build a DVR, change the oil in the cars, and hopefully get in some writing.
Perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Absolutely. And shared.
Vacation good, Gud!
It's slowly dawning on me that I as a full-time employee with have stuff like paid vacations and holidays. Less free time, of course, and boring work at best, but Actual Benefits included.
(I start training as a supermarket cashier tomorrow night. I probably have repeated that too many times already, but it looms large in my life at the minute.)
I can't believe they're reporting a local story about Prospect Park in the Guardian: [link]
That's a great piece. I especially enjoyed this bit:
Among these disaffected residents is, by coincidence, Sadik-Khan's predecessor as the city's transportation commissioner, Iris Weinshall, whose tenure is not recalled for its visionary overhaul of city planning and traffic management. Weinshall happens to be married to Charles (Chuck) E Schumer, Democratic senator for New York.
ION, I feel like I could use a day off, but it's just because there were so few full workweeks in December and January, and now it's been several in a row! WTF, five days of working??
Fuuuuuck. There is so much wrong with my car (and I was right: snapped clutch cable. That's the cheap part.) I have not attained quite Kristen's repair bill, but close. And it probably won't be ready for ANOTHER day.
build a trebuchet
Always fun.
five days of working??
Yeah, it doesn't seem right.
Ugh, sara. Sorry to hear about all the car woes.
I have a spoiler question: when is a spoiler no longer a spoiler? How long after a movie is in general release do you figure it's okay to talk about who killed who or whatever without using the word "spoiler" to warn people away? I'm fuzzy on the deets, but I figure after 1 year, it's on me to not click on links about movies I don't want to know plot details about, at the outside.