I can vaguely remember spending Saturdays at my dad's office while he backed up the last week's worth of data on the computer system, which entailed transmitting everything onto a gigantic reel of magnetic tape that would then get carefully labeled and stuck in a cool, dark closet with all the previous weeks' gigantic reels. It took 3-4 hours and sometimes the tape would get snarled and he'd have to unwind it and start over. Good times!
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
JZ - Oct 21, 2011 2:21:24 pm PDT #1459 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 2:35:27 pm PDT #1460 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
he backed up the last week's worth of data on the computer system
Uh, I did this at my first job. How young are you anyway?
Connie Neil - Oct 21, 2011 2:56:58 pm PDT #1461 of 30001
brillig
Deena posted on the Drollerie Press LJ that she was shutting down the press due to her ill health. Apparently she's lucky to manage an hour out of bed a day, and with the kids and everything she's got far more important things to cope with than Drollerie.
God, I was so hoping she was getting better. Her LJ post said she'd be unable to answer any emails. I hope she can get disability of something.
brenda m - Oct 21, 2011 2:59:28 pm PDT #1462 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh no.
JZ - Oct 21, 2011 3:00:14 pm PDT #1463 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm older than you, I'm pretty sure. This was something like '76-80. Sometime very soon after that he switched to something that either didn't involve the magnetic tape reel or that did but did it somewhat faster.
JZ - Oct 21, 2011 3:01:00 pm PDT #1464 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
And, oh, God, Deena. That's deeply awful.
amyth - Oct 21, 2011 3:06:58 pm PDT #1465 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Oh no, Deena! I'm so sorry to hear that.
Anne W. - Oct 21, 2011 3:07:04 pm PDT #1466 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Oh, no. Poor Deena. I knew I hadn't seen her around in eons, but I had no idea...
Ginger - Oct 21, 2011 3:08:43 pm PDT #1467 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's terrible about Deena. Is there anything we can do?
Liese S. - Oct 21, 2011 3:11:23 pm PDT #1468 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, I didn't realize it was that bad. Poor Deena.