River ,'War Stories'
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.
It's gorgeous here, too. I've been sitting on my porch reading Harry Potter. I'm not sure what I'll do for the rest of the day.
I set up my university email account to automatically send suspected spam to a spam folder. Now, once a day, the system sends me an email listing the spam received that day. Usually, it's just one message. So I'm getting the same number of pointless emails as I was before.
It's pretty lovely here. I went running earlier, and the air was like champagne--all cool and fresh. I'll be shopping with amyth, then walking the cat, reading, doing laundry, going to the nursery. Ants have discovered my hummingbird feeder, so I need to get a water barrier. (I tried the petroleum jelly barrier earlier this week, and the little bastards just walk right over the stuff.)
We have Real Orb today. I'm not sure what to do with it.
I thought the a light in the basement was on, and I realized it was sun coming through the basement windows. I was seriously confused for a minute.
Liese, he didn't even call? Uggh. I hope he's just getting all his flakiness out now.
He did, but not until he was nearly there. Which means that I, who live 45 minutes away, was already on my way. And there was just no way he was going to make call if he'd left a normal time, because if he was trying to go after work, unless he left at 4:00, he couldn't get there.
It sounds like your music leader needs to learn some respect for other people's time, Liese.
Exactly this.
I hope this rehearsal was more of a hiccup than how things are going to be.
It doesn't bode well, that's for sure. And the drummer we had came up from the Valley too and I thought he was going to ride with the leader. When I asked him about it, he was all, "Well, I knew he'd be late, so I didn't want to ride with him." So it looks like it might be habitual.
Someone needs to sit down with him now. Even if yesterday was a bad day
The thing is, he's not even hired yet! Imagine what he'll be like if he knows he has the job! (At three times the salary of the guy that just quit, incidentally.)
Huh. Guess I'm not any less pissed this morning.
10 AM, and it's already warmer than it was yesterday. I may need to put on clothes and go outside.
re: the Rapture, it occurred to me that this is actually a plausible sci-fi scenario. 5000 years ago, some powerful entity finds out that something evil has nasty plans for our little planet. So he plants warnings, but he can't be too blatant else he'll trigger the event. Unfortunately, 5000 years to him is nothing, so he fails to take into account the changeableness of humanity so the message gets totally screwed up. He sends his son to try to clear up matters, but that doesn't end well, etc. etc.
I realize this sounds like the plot to Fifth Element, but it was a thought of an early Saturday morning.
The thing is, he's not even hired yet!
Seriously? Wow.
Liese, sounds like he's not going to get hired.
Steph, that was AWESOME.
Erin, I just had a major worlds-colliding moment: The first commenter on your most recent Facebook post ALSO just commented on my mother's most recent Facebook post! (She's someone my mom knows from the days when we were both on an email discussion list for fans of Dar Williams, back in the day.)
Back in the day, when I was in my early teens, I was at church youth camp. They showed a movie about the second coming (Rapture is what those weird people who spoke in tongues etc. talked about). The thing that stuck with me most in the movie was a girl my age (oh, the coincidence) who had just heard a sermon about how people would disappear, and she's going around the house trying to find her family, who are all outside, and she starts having screaming hysterics because she thinks she's been left behind. Fortunately, all her family rushes in and reassures her, and they have a touching family prayer moment to reassure her that she's a good kid and God won't forget her.
It took me a while to see that as psychological abuse, not the call to repentance and faith that it was supposed to be.
Liese, sounds like he's not going to get hired.
That's the thing. I will bet you one billions dollars he does get hired. Because 1. he's buddies with the pastors, and that's how those things work with this particular group of guys, and 2. they have no other candidates, despite knowing that they needed to hire since Februrary. If they'd started looking then, we could have had a nice working together period with the old leader. But as far as I can tell, they didn't start looking until the old leader was actually gone.