Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2011 6:25:15 am PDT #22969 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wow, breakfast potatoes. I love breakfast potatoes.

I'm on call Labour Day weekend, and I don't know how to fix anything. I don't even know how to supervise fixing anything. I don't know who fixes anything. I'm not sure what they think they're achieving by doing this. But there are only two of us reachable by phone, apparently, that weekend.


Kathy A - Aug 30, 2011 6:30:13 am PDT #22970 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I woke up early and finally did my laundry this morning. While hanging a few shirts and lightweight sweaters on the drying rack, I realized how strange, but nice, it is that my shirts are no longer the same width as the drying rack. I now have room to hang my bras to dry on the same rack as my shirt!


sarameg - Aug 30, 2011 6:33:55 am PDT #22971 of 30001

They seem to be doing a pretty good job of keeping it updated.

Fat lot of good when sitting in a house with no power. I'm not mad at the crews. I'm mad at the company. They admitted on radio yesterday that sometimes? Their updates are flat wrong.


Consuela - Aug 30, 2011 6:36:19 am PDT #22972 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Kathy, that's awesome. Gotta love the little things.

Well, I just sent a cranky email to the transit agency, because my bus was three minutes early this morning and when it blew past me as I was walking to the stop, and I waved at it, pointing at my watch, the driver just waved me off as if the schedule didn't matter at all. So I missed my bus.

If they have decided to change the schedules, they should change the schedules, and not have the drivers unilaterally change them.

Time to finish the blunt and demanding email I started drafting to My Nemesis last night. "Great, you're talking to X? Please CC me on your correspondence with them, and I want to sit in on the meeting." Argh.


Jesse - Aug 30, 2011 6:39:01 am PDT #22973 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wow, breakfast potatoes. I love breakfast potatoes.

This is why I sometimes give in and wait the interminable amount of time for Thursday omelets in our cafeteria. The potatoes are GREAT. I wonder if I could just get a side of them. Hmmmmm.


Toddson - Aug 30, 2011 6:40:51 am PDT #22974 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

There's a New York yoga studio that does Buddha Belly yoga ... they turn away people who're thin.

I do believe the day will come when we look back and say, "Can you believe we used to treat cancer by giving people poison and hoping it killed the cancer before it killed the patient?" However, that day is not here, and just because it's an imperfect system does not mean that the answer is to turn yourself over to a Mexican clinic that prescribes juiced raw carrots and liver.

And leeches are making a comeback.

In regard to floods, my mother lived through the 1935? 1937? flood in Louisville - she remembers them delivering mail and supplies by rowboat.

eta: is Yvonne the cow replacing Heidi the cross-eyed possum as Germany's new animal star?


JenP - Aug 30, 2011 6:44:13 am PDT #22975 of 30001

That's neat, Kathy. Things you don't even realize beforehand that will change.

Can't believe the bus driver didn't stop.

I am shopping for a dress for my nephew's wedding today, which will pretty much make it impossible to keep ignoring the 15 lbs. I've put back on in the past few months. Blergh.


Scrappy - Aug 30, 2011 6:47:57 am PDT #22976 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

"Please CC me on your correspondence with them, and I want to sit in on the meeting."

I would take yourself out of it. "The project requires that I am cc'ed on emails and sit in on the meeting." It isn't something YOU want, it's something that is good for the company.


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2011 6:48:47 am PDT #22977 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

they turn away people who're thin

You're allowed to do that?


Consuela - Aug 30, 2011 6:49:50 am PDT #22978 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

It isn't something YOU want, it's something that is good for the company.

Oh, good call, Scrappy, thanks.