Awesome, Connie! That's great news for you guys and must give you two a huge surge of both relief and financial ease.
So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.
Faith ,'Get It Done'
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.
DavidS - Oct 03, 2011 2:57:48 pm PDT #29812 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Connie Neil - Oct 03, 2011 2:58:04 pm PDT #29813 of 30001
brillig
Connie, are those the cards you thought had been stolen?
Yeah, they were in a binder in the garage under an alternator and some scrap metal. We are relieved not to have to peer sullenly at some of our friends any more.
Oh! And while cleaning out the garage I found a box that contains most of my genealogical research--nearly 30 years of work--and a bunch of writing that I'd been worrying about.
Cleaning the garage can be quite profitable.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2011 3:00:05 pm PDT #29814 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
whenever you have a procedure to the PTU people call you back?
No, not usually. Although I was hoping the ER would call me back today, because they did a shitload of bloodwork on me yesterday. I can only hope that means it was all normal, but if it was all normal, what explains all the stuff? I never know why all the stuff.
DavidS - Oct 03, 2011 3:00:05 pm PDT #29815 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Many here will dig the site Coilhouse dug up on Women of the Future, as seen from 1902.
meara, amych, Ple, Jilli, Tep, JZ...
Burrell - Oct 03, 2011 3:00:30 pm PDT #29816 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It's mid-60s through mid-70s, I think.
That's the dates I use.
And FTR I don't really think pretentious loser and sociopath are my only options. What would Jessica Rabbit say? I'm not bad, I'm just narrativized that way.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 3:04:58 pm PDT #29817 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
whenever you have a procedure to the PTU people call you back?
But I don't know when her surgery is, except tomorrow! GROWL.
lisah - Oct 03, 2011 3:23:05 pm PDT #29818 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Kat, that is super annoying!
It's mid-60s through mid-70s, I think.Me too. And I am definitely a Gen X-er. I'm pretty snobby about some things but I don't think I'm pretentious at all. Really not a sociopath (but do all sociopaths say that?!).
Poll!! Do you use 'a' or 'an' when before an acronym that begins with a letter that sounds like a vowel? For example, would you write "an MS Excel file" or "a MS Excel file?" (The Microsoft style guide says never use MS, always spell out Microsoft so they are no help in the argument I had with my coworker today.)
Tom Scola - Oct 03, 2011 3:28:05 pm PDT #29819 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
an
SailAweigh - Oct 03, 2011 3:29:30 pm PDT #29820 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I don't know if it's correct, but I would use 'an'. It has to sound right when spoken aloud and using an 'a' in that situation would just sound wrong to me.
-t - Oct 03, 2011 3:33:09 pm PDT #29821 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am Sail wrt indefinite article choice.
Aggravating, Kat! But yay for mom gift.
Eta: oh, but I sometimes pronounce acronyms as if they are words rather than spelling them out, so that complicates matters. But for lisah's example I would use "an".