glad you're okay, dcp. Fender benders suck.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:43:46 pm PDT #29840 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 4:52:16 pm PDT #29841 of 30001
Because books.
Yeah, that's more than you need in one weekend, dcp. I'm glad you still got to enjoy yourself, though!
This being up at six and being home alone all day is a) tiring, b) strangely productive, and c) surprisingly lonely. When Stephen was home, it wasn't like we were sitting around canoodling all the time, of course, but I find myself opening my mouth to remark on something and telling the cats instead.
javachik - Oct 03, 2011 5:01:36 pm PDT #29842 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Amy, what is Stephen's new job? I saw you announce that he got it but I missed the details of what it was? Or did you not want to say publically?
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 5:05:00 pm PDT #29843 of 30001
Because books.
It's ad sales with a newspaper, java. In Norristown, so a little farther away than is ideal, but hey. He was looking as far out as Allentown at one point.
Allyson - Oct 03, 2011 5:07:12 pm PDT #29844 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
So the flat tire from this morning? Turned out the little air valve thing had a leak so they fixed it and I did not have to buy a new tire! With JPL discount what I thought was going to be $150 was actually $18.
Also, because JPL lost the supreme court case, I have to give over my personal history to the gov't, and allow them to snoop through my medical records and ask me if I ever smoked pot or if I am now or have ever been a communist. I have to narc out my friends, too, by giving them their addresses so they can investigate me. Fortunately, we can use another JPLer, so I called Lori to ask if she'd be my Government Narc Buddy.
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 5:09:25 pm PDT #29845 of 30001
Because books.
I don't have a Government Narc Buddy. I think I'm jealous.
Actually, I think my brother did have to give the FBI all of our names and stuff when he got to a certain intel level in the Navy.
Lee - Oct 03, 2011 5:09:42 pm PDT #29846 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I wanna be someone's government Narc Buddy
askye - Oct 03, 2011 5:12:35 pm PDT #29847 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Kat, I didn't read it on NPR but the free local weekly paper did a write up on how it's effecting local Vermonters. It featured a woman who had to postpone treatment of her Stage 4 breast cancer and then switch to a less effective medicine with more side effects.
Allyson - Oct 03, 2011 5:14:48 pm PDT #29848 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
You can be mine, Perkins. I need people who have "known me at this address" and you've totes been here, contact papering my cabinets!
dcp - Oct 03, 2011 5:15:03 pm PDT #29849 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
JPL lost the supreme court case,
Which case was this?