Timelies all!
Gary's out of town this week, so his mom took me out to dinner tonight. whee.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
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.
Sheryl - May 17, 2011 2:24:00 pm PDT #8587 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Consuela - May 17, 2011 2:36:56 pm PDT #8588 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay Dana!
My meeting this morning went very well. I'm so pleased.
Frankenbuddha - May 17, 2011 3:23:14 pm PDT #8589 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My stainless Chicago cutlery has a sharpener in the knife block. Set so that I can't really do it particularly wrong.
Per Alton Brown, those kind of things mostly re-straighten knives, rather than actually sharpen them.
Beverly - May 17, 2011 3:39:59 pm PDT #8590 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Well, a lot of times what feels like a dull edge is really a thin edge that's curled to one side or the other, so a "sharpener" that straightens out that edge can make the knife "sharper" and function better.
Liese S. - May 17, 2011 3:52:56 pm PDT #8591 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I hmphed at Alton Brown and went to see what the internet said, and huh. There are a lot of people who spend a lot of time sharpening knives. I did not know this.
Anyway, I am apparently content with the level of sharp my implements are. I suppose we should have them sharpened.
Cashmere - May 17, 2011 4:18:07 pm PDT #8592 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Honing is different than sharpening but it makes knives last longer between sharpening.
Amy - May 17, 2011 4:21:59 pm PDT #8593 of 30001
Because books.
S. just uses one of those round metal stick ... things.
Jesse - May 17, 2011 4:35:41 pm PDT #8594 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's honing, Amy.
YAY good-news people!
sarameg - May 17, 2011 4:41:31 pm PDT #8595 of 30001
Oh day.
I didn't get home for good until 9.
Though a really crazy series of miscommunication, turns out MK's been on the wrong (not bad wrong, just not as effective wrong, not what they wanted him on wrong) insulin. It's a combo of misunderstandings/telephone-game/misplaced sheet at checkout at the clinic and me not pushing back because I thought I understood. ANYWAY, upshot is MK is on a newer!better! insulin and they didn't charge me for the insulin or the bloodwork, since they were part of the error. And one of my favorite techs (lisah: Kendall) offered to drop by my house to deliver the insulin (made more sense for me to wait for him at the vets' since he was coming from the westside, vet is central and I'm east, but it was appreciated.) Honestly, I see how it happened, and I was a part of it.
And now I'm laundering towels. MK peed on the first one at the vet, then pooped on the one the tech gave me a BLOCK from the vet's. Classic.
I've been up since 5fucking30. And the last half of the workday was a total clusterfuck.
le nubian - May 17, 2011 4:42:00 pm PDT #8596 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
honing? divining?