Thanks guys. Trying not to stress, but it's hard. Especially being at a distance.
People are rude and clueless asking you all if you're grandmas.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
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.
Sue - Mar 27, 2011 6:21:17 pm PDT #596 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Kat - Mar 27, 2011 6:39:01 pm PDT #597 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sue, best wishes for your dad.
ita, the party was fun. Sort of insane, but insane in the way I make things insane. [link] is a set of pictures. I look like hell. AND I'm wearing the same tshirt I wore on the day I gave birth.
One of the moms of one of N's classmates is actually my OBs nurse. She pushed me, in a wheelchair, to the hospital on the day the kids were born.
DavidS - Mar 27, 2011 6:56:51 pm PDT #598 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow, the nuclear safety issues in Japan seem to have had a huge effect on the German elections, with Merkel's party taking big losses and the Greens making huge gains. Odd how much natural disasters can shape the electorate but Katrina completely destroyed Bush's credibility.
Interesting numbers. I didn't realize this about France:
In fact, the crisis confirmed Germans’ deep angst, exaggerated or not, regarding anything nuclear. A quarter of Germany’s electricity is generated by nuclear power, relatively small in comparison to other countries. In France, it is more than 75 percent; in Slovakia, 53 percent; in Belgium, 51 percent; and in Ukraine, 48 percent, according to the European Nuclear Society, one of the largest lobbying groups for nuclear science, research and industry in Europe.
aurelia - Mar 27, 2011 7:15:51 pm PDT #599 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Sue, heart-ma for your dad.
the highlights on the jacket look ridiculous to me. They have a golden tone. It works for consistency across the palette, barely, but this is the confusing part, where I put in information that's not part of the reference pics I'm using.
Would it look less ridiculous to you if you kept the hue, but reduced the saturation? Stepping closer to white with the highlights? Maybe closer to white with some transparency would work for you?
Ginger - Mar 27, 2011 7:20:40 pm PDT #600 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
France committed almost completely to nuclear power in the '70s, after the OPEC oil embargo, determined not to be a hostage to volatile oil prices. It reprocesses fuel and sells quite a bit of power to the rest of Europe.
Years ago, they served wine with lunch in plant restaurants.
§ ita § - Mar 27, 2011 7:34:12 pm PDT #601 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe closer to white with some transparency would work for you?
It is partially transparent (it's a chalk effect), but let me try dialing down the saturation, thanks.
beth b - Mar 27, 2011 7:40:03 pm PDT #602 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Happy Noah and Grade day !
Ma~~~ for your Dad , Sue
Cass - Mar 27, 2011 7:45:53 pm PDT #603 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Sue, my thoughts are with you and your dad. It's stressful to not be there. Not that *you* could fix things if you were, because we're mostly not medical professionals here, but it still is a tough thing.
DavidS - Mar 27, 2011 7:47:28 pm PDT #604 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
France committed almost completely to nuclear power in the '70s, after the OPEC oil embargo, determined not to be a hostage to volatile oil prices. It reprocesses fuel and sells quite a bit of power to the rest of Europe.
Do they do anything different with their plant design? Or is it just standard biz as usual in their plants and protocols?
Trudy Booth - Mar 27, 2011 7:56:02 pm PDT #605 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
On the other hand, I do always assume they're dating whoever they're standing next to.
Feel free. [link]